The use of red ochre in burial contexts is documented at archaeological sites across a wide geographic and temporal range of human prehistory.

It was clearly symbolically significant to the Clovis people of the Anzick site, though the specific meanings attributed to it by those ancient people cannot be recovered.

The artifacts were the element that immediately distinguished the Anzick burial from other early American discoveries.

More than 100 pieces of worked stone were found in association with the child’s remains.

They included finished Clovis projectile points — the distinctive fluted, bifacially worked points that define the Clovis technological tradition — as well as bifaces at various stages of production, from roughly worked flakes through nearly finished tools.

Bone tools were also found, including items made from the bone of large animals that had been carefully shaped and polished.