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==Genetics== The only known Clovis burial is that of [[Anzick-1]], an infant boy who was found near [[Wilsall, Montana]], in 1968. The body was associated with over 100 stone and bone artifacts, all of which were stained with red ocher, and it dates to approximately 12,990–12,840 years BP.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Becerra-Valdivia |first1=Lorena |last2=Waters |first2=Michael R. |last3=Stafford |first3=Thomas W. |last4=Anzick |first4=Sarah L. |last5=Comeskey |first5=Daniel |last6=Devièse |first6=Thibaut |last7=Higham |first7=Thomas |date=July 3, 2018 |title=Reassessing the chronology of the archaeological site of Anzick |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=115 |issue=27 |pages=7000–7003 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1803624115 |doi-access=free |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=6142201 |pmid=29915063|bibcode=2018PNAS..115.7000B }}</ref> Sequencing of his genome demonstrates that he belonged to a population that is ancestral to many contemporary [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas]],<ref name="Rasmussen2014" /> particularly those from Central and South America, and less related to those from contemporary North America, including northern Mexico,<ref name="Rasmussen2014" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=García-Ortiz |first1=Humberto |last2=Barajas-Olmos |first2=Francisco |last3=Contreras-Cubas |first3=Cecilia |last4=Cid-Soto |first4=Miguel Ángel |last5=Córdova |first5=Emilio J. |last6=Centeno-Cruz |first6=Federico |last7=Mendoza-Caamal |first7=Elvia |last8=Cicerón-Arellano |first8=Isabel |last9=Flores-Huacuja |first9=Marlen |last10=Baca |first10=Paulina |last11=Bolnick |first11=Deborah A. |last12=Snow |first12=Meradeth |last13=Flores-Martínez |first13=Silvia Esperanza |last14=Ortiz-Lopez |first14=Rocio |last15=Reynolds |first15=Austin W. |date=October 12, 2021 |title=The genomic landscape of Mexican Indigenous populations brings insights into the peopling of the Americas |journal=Nature Communications |volume=12 |issue=1 |page=5942 |doi=10.1038/s41467-021-26188-w |issn=2041-1723 |pmc=8511047 |pmid=34642312|bibcode=2021NatCo..12.5942G }}</ref> though there is considerable variability in the genetic closeness of Central and South American indigenous peoples to Anzick-1, with older ancient South American remains generally being closer, suggesting that the Native American population had already diverged into multiple genetically distinct groups by the time of the Clovis culture, followed by subsequent migration of these populations later in the [[Holocene]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Posth |first1=Cosimo |last2=Nakatsuka |first2=Nathan |last3=Lazaridis |first3=Iosif |last4=Skoglund |first4=Pontus |last5=Mallick |first5=Swapan |last6=Lamnidis |first6=Thiseas C. |last7=Rohland |first7=Nadin |last8=Nägele |first8=Kathrin |last9=Adamski |first9=Nicole |last10=Bertolini |first10=Emilie |last11=Broomandkhoshbacht |first11=Nasreen |last12=Cooper |first12=Alan |last13=Culleton |first13=Brendan J. |last14=Ferraz |first14=Tiago |last15=Ferry |first15=Matthew |date=November 2018 |title=Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America |journal=Cell|volume=175 |issue=5 |pages=1185–1197.e22 |doi=10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.027 |pmc=6327247 |pmid=30415837}}</ref> Like other Native Americans, Anzick-1 is closely related to [[Siberian peoples]], confirming the Asian origin of the Clovis culture.<ref name="Rasmussen2014" /> He belongs to Y chromosome [[Haplogroup Q-L54]], which is common among contemporary Native Americans, and to mitochondrial haplogroup D4h3a, which is rare among contemporary Native Americans (occurring in only 1.4%, primarily along the Pacific coast) but more common in the very earliest Indigenous Americans.<ref name="Rasmussen2014" />
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