In 1968, a child‘s body was discovered at a burial site in central Montana. The site was more than 12,000 years old. It was the oldest in North America.
Scientists studied the child’s DNA. They learned he was a member of the Clovis people. The Clovis lived in the area near the end of the last ice age. Scientists believed the Clovis were hunter-gatherers. They lived in small groups. They 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 first inhabitants.
