Prehistoric DNA.

• Position: ARCHAEOLOGY - Clovis - Brief article

Archaeologists have tong known that the mysterious Clovis people were the first settlers of North America, about 13,000 years ago. The Clovis left behind stone and bone tools all over the continent, but no trace of where they came from. Where they Europeans? Asians distinct from American Indians? Asian ancestors of today's American Indians? Now, scientists think they have the answer, thanks to a 12,600-year-old skeleton of a 1-year-old boy. Dubbed Anzick, the infant was discovered in 1968 in a burial site in Montana. But scientists only recently sequenced the boy's DNA. Their analysis reveals that 80...