In 1968, a child‘s body was discovered in central Montana at a burial site 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 who lived in the region toward the end of the last ice age. Scientists concluded that the Clovis were hunter-gatherers living in small groups that moved around and 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.
