Remnants of a boy from 12,600 years ago have led scientists to the clovis culture. The culture is considered one of the first known human populations according to Scientific American.
"That place is very special to me, that's my ancestral homeland," I think you need to put the little boy back where his parents left him," Shane Doyle, one of the authors of the study told Scientific American. Doyle is employed in the Native American studies department at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mon. Doyle also belongs to the Crow native american tribe.
The findings are printed in the science journal Nature, and detail how the boy is made up Scientific American reported. The information also states how living beings came from one classification of people who hiked out of Asia over the Bering Land Bridge.
"You're looking to try to talk to the people who might be most invested in, or connected with, particular sets of remains," Hank Greeley, a legal scholar at Stanford University in California told Scientific American.
According to the study, ancient Clovis members, and another flock separated. This led to the creation of additional cluster's that had DNA, resembled in people in today's Canada and Greenland Scientific American reported.
Eske Willerslev, a paleobiologist at the University of Copenhagen, and lead author of the study informed tribe members about the study by meeting with them, and exploring their land Scientific American reported.
"I didn't want a situation where the first time they heard about this study was when it's published," Willerslev told Scientific American.
Construction workers found 100 stone and bone fossils, and pieces of a male child less than two years of age the land on a secluded ranch next to Wilsall, Mon. in May 1968 Scientific American reported. The clovis culture was around from 12,600 to 13,000 years ago.
