Anzick site

Anzick Site
Anzick site is located in Montana
Anzick site
Shown within Montana
LocationWilsall, Park County, Montana, United States
Coordinates45°59′06″N 110°39′06″W / 45.98500°N 110.65167°W / 45.98500; -110.65167
Typesettlement
History
CulturesClovis
Site notes
Excavation dates1968
ArchaeologistsDee C. Taylor
OwnershipPublic
Public accessYes

The Anzick site (24PA506), located adjacent to Flathead Creek, a tributary of the Shields River in Wilsall, Park County, Montana, United States, is the only known Clovis burial site in the New World. The term "Clovis" is used by archaeologists to define one of the New World's earliest hunter-gatherer cultures and is named after the site near Clovis, New Mexico, where human artifacts were found associated with the procurement and processing of mammoth and other large and small fauna.[1][2]

  1. ^ H.M.Wormington, "Ancient Man in North America", Denver Museum of Natural History, Popular Series No. 4, 1949
  2. ^ From Kostenski to Clovis: Upper Paleolithic-Paleo-Indian Adaptations. Edited by Olga Soffer and N.D. Praslov. Plenum Press, 1993.