The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story
What remains unresolved?
The precise composition of the burial — whether it contained one individual or two.
The specific beliefs that motivated the use of red ochre.
The exact relationship of the Clovis expansion to any pre-Clovis populations that may have been in the Americas.
The specific routes and timing by which the founding population moved from Beringia into the Americas.
The detailed relationship between the Clovis founding event and the full diversity of modern Native American populations, with their complex genetic histories stretching across 13,000 years of subsequent demographic events.
These questions will be addressed, incompletely and progressively, by future research.