On Feb. 12, 2014, Scientists, led by ancient DNA expert Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen and his colleagues announced sequencing DNA from a 12,600-year-old skeleton of an infant found in central Montana. Scientists confirmed that early Native Americans descended from ancient Asians, not from Western Europeans, according to a study published in Nature.

The skeleton was found in association with Clovis tools and is among the oldest human skeletons in the Americas. It is a small boy between 1 and 1.5 years of age ﾖ found in a 12,600 old burial site, called the Anzick Site, in Wilsall, Montana. This was the first ancient North American genome to have been fully sequenced.