In 1968, a child‘s body was discovered at an ancient burial site in central Montana. The site was more than 12,000 years old, the oldest in North America.
Studying the child’s DNA, scientists learned he was a member of the Clovis people. The Clovis lived in the region toward the end of the last ice age. Scientists concluded that the Clovis were hunter-gatherers. They lived in small groups that moved around. And they hunted large animals, like mammoths and bison (sometimes called buffalo). Most experts believe this boy, and the Clovis people, are ancestors of Montana’s Indigenous, or original, inhabitants.
