The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story
Whether such analysis has been conducted on the Anzick ochre is not fully documented in the publicly available literature.
The symbolic meaning of red ochre in Clovis mortuary practice — what the people who buried this child believed about what the ochre was doing for the deceased — is not recoverable from the archaeological evidence alone.
What we can say is that the use of ochre was deliberate, careful, and substantial, and that it reflects a ritual practice connected to specific beliefs about death and burial that were apparently shared across a broad area and time range of Clovis culture.
How the Burial Survived
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