Construction workers found the Clovis child on the Anzick family ranch in 1968, the family's geneticist sequenced him, and six tribes reburied him in 2014

In 1968 construction workers Ben Hargis and Calvin Sarver uncovered a burial on land owned by the Anzick family near Wilsall, Montana. It held a child of one to two years with about 100 stone tools and 15 antler tool fragments dusted with red ochre, the only known Clovis burial^†. Research teams studied the bones, which went back to the family; the tools went to the Montana Historical Society. Because the burial was on private land, the federal repatriation law did not apply; Montana law requires consultation. Sarah Anzick, a family member and geneticist who had worked on the Human Genome Project, paused her work when the tribes reached no consensus, then did the DNA analysis. In February 2014 Morten Rasmussen, Anzick, Eske Willerslev and colleagues, with Crow scholar Shane Doyle, published his genome in Nature. The child was more closely related to all Native American peoples than to any other group. Many tribal members said they wanted to be asked before destructive testing. On 28 June 2014 scientists and representatives of six tribes reburied him in sagebrush near where he was found. Anzick said, "it was a moment of closure."