Who were the Clovis People?
The Clovis people were early settlers in the Americas who lived somewhere between 12,000 BCE and 9,000 BCE, with estimates varying depending on the region. Clovis culture is estimated to have lasted around 1,000 years, and the presence of numerous Clovis artifacts across the Americas suggests that these Paleoindian people were once very widely distributed, indicating that their culture was very successful. You may also hear the Clovis culture referred to as the Llano culture. The term “Clovis” comes from the site where Clovis artifacts were first discovered, in the state of New Mexico. While artifacts had been found around Clovis for generations, serious work began in the 1950s, when the Clovis people acquired their name and various techniques were used to try and date their culture. For some time, it was believed that the Clovis people were the first Americans. However, substantial evidence has surfaced to belie this claim, including finds which are much older and obviously not relate
We shouldn’t judge the beliefs and actions of people in the past by modern standards and knowledge. However, it does seem rather incredible that at the beginning of the twentieth century the scientific establishment thought that Native Americans, despite their diversity of languages and cultures, had been on this continent for no more than a few thousand years. Then in 1926-27 the Folsom Culture was identified. Their distinctive spear points – finely crafted bifacials with fluting on both sides — were found embedded with the bones of an extinct species of bison near Folsom, NM. The bison was about ten percent larger than the modern ones and was known to have lived in North America at about the end of the Ice Age. Radiocarbon dating techniques were not invented until after WWII, so the dates for Folsom were vague. Then in 1929 another, older, culture was found beneath a Folsom site near Clovis, NM. At about the same time another site near Dent, CO yielded similar large bifacial points
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… How did the Clovis people live? http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter54/text-Clovis/text-Clovi… 8. Evidence acquits Clovis people of ancient killings, archaeologists The Clovis people, who roamed large portions of North America 10,800 to 11,500 years … This search turned up 75 locations in the United States and one in Canada that Grayson and Meltzer evaluated. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-02/uow-eac022403… 9. Evidence acquits Clovis people of ancient killings, archaeologists The Clovis people, who roamed large portions of North America 10,800 to 11,500 years … This search turned up 75 locations in the United States and one in Canada that Grayson and Meltzer evaluated. http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2003archive/02-03arc… 10. New World hunters get a reprieve. acquires SmithKline Beacham…the United States and Canada. … Some scientists contend that these so-called Clovis people, who made deadly spear points out of stone, hunted mammoths and all sorts
The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Paleoindian culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 11,500 rcbp radiocarbon years ago, at the end of the last glacial period!. Archaeologists’ best guess at present suggests this is equal to roughly 13,000 calendar years ago!. The Clovis culture is thought to have lasted from between 200 and 800 years, depending on the source consulted, with an average estimate of around 500 years, starting about 13,000 years ago!.
