Molecular biologist honors ancient bones
Remains of Clovis child reinterred after scientist deciphers his genetic secrets
Since she was a toddler, molecular biologist Sarah Anzick has had a unique connection to an ancient child.
In 1968, when Anzick was about 2 years old, construction workers in Montana unearthed the 12,600-year-old burial site of a young boy on her parents’ land. The 18-month-old’s bones are the only human remains ever found of ancient Native Americans known as the Clovis people. For 30 years, archaeologists stored the Clovis child’s remains before returning them to the Anzick family for safekeeping in 1998.