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    distinctive part of the Clovis culture toolkit are Clovis points, which are projectile points with a fluted, lanceolate shape. Clovis points are typically...
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    Clovis points are the characteristically fluted projectile points associated with the New World Clovis culture, a prehistoric Paleo-American culture. They...
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    Clovis is a city in and the county seat of Curry County, New Mexico. The population was 38,567 at the 2020 census. Clovis is located in the New Mexico...
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  • explain the peopling of the Americas. According to Clovis First, the people associated with the Clovis culture were the first inhabitants of the Americas. This...
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  • up Clovis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clovis may refer to: Clovis (given name), the early medieval (Frankish) form of the name Louis Clovis I (c...
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  • Topper site (category Pre-Clovis archaeological sites in the Americas)
    century to the Clovis theory based on this site and others, it was unusual for archaeologists to dig deeper than the layer of the Clovis culture, as they then...
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    the Clovis culture phase, there is evidence that Clovis hunters targeted contemporary proboscideans based on archeological "kill sites." Clovis projectile...
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  • East Wenatchee Clovis Site (also called the Richey-Roberts Clovis Site or the Richey Clovis Cache) is a deposit of prehistoric Clovis points and other...
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  • ages of Paleoamerican artifacts, including those of likely Clovis, pre-Clovis, and post-Clovis age and their possible responses to environmental changes...
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    significant questions remain unresolved. The "Clovis first theory" refers to the hypothesis that the Clovis culture represents the earliest human presence in...
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  • Virginia, where stone artefacts and possibly hearths dating to before the Clovis culture have been found. Middle East: Probable domestication of the dog. Italy:...
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    Solutrean hypothesis (category Clovis culture)
    and Clovis points share this commonality. The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Paleoamerican culture, named for distinct stone tools found near Clovis, New...
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    technological innovation within Clovis. There is a possible correlation, but not necessarily a causation, between the end of Clovis and the onset of Folsom with...
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    thought to have hunted Columbian mammoths with Clovis pointed spears which were thrown or thrust. Although Clovis points have been found with Columbian mammoth...
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    Dent site (category Clovis culture)
    of 1932. The first Dent Clovis point was found November 5, 1932 and the in situ point was found July 7, 1933. The Clovis culture (about 13,300 - 12,900...
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  • Anzick-1 (category Clovis culture)
    the only human whose remains are unambiguously associated with the Clovis culture, and is the first ancient Native American genome to be fully sequenced...
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    Clovis Cornillac (born 16 August 1968) is a French actor, film director, and screenwriter. Clovis Cornillac was born to actors Myriam Boyer and Roger...
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    the Paleo-Indians, and the earliest accepted dates are those of the Clovis culture sites, some 13,500 years ago. Globally, societies were hunter-gatherers...
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    Western Stemmed Tradition (category Paleolithic cultures)
    thus overlapping with the more well-known Clovis culture) to around 8,500 years Before Present. Unlike Clovis and related traditions, the stone projectile...
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    Lithic stage (category Pre-Columbian cultures)
    9500 BCE: People craft early Clovis spear points, knives, and skin scrapers from rock in New Mexico. 9250–8950 BCE: Clovis points – thin, fluted projectile...
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    Gault (archaeological site) (category Pre-Clovis archaeological sites in the Americas)
    contains strata which date to prior to the appearance of Clovis (more than 13,500 years B.P.) and to Clovis (13,500 to 13,000 years B.P.), as well as the entire...
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    Europe (see Magdalenian culture) and enter North America from Eastern Siberia for the first time (see Paleo-Indians, pre-Clovis culture and Settlement of the...
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  • opposition from Indigenous groups over Hancock's depiction of their history and culture. Archaeologists and other experts have described the theories presented...
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    Buttermilk Creek complex (category Pre-Clovis archaeological sites in the Americas)
    pre-dates the Clovis peoples, who until recently were thought to be the first humans to explore and settle North America. The site's pre-Clovis occupation...
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    period is present throughout the entire Predynastic period, and individual "cultures" must not be interpreted as separate entities but as largely subjective...
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  • the Solutrean culture in prehistoric northern Spain and Portugal may have influenced the development of later Clovis tool-making culture in the Americas...
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    roughly with the appearance of people belonging to the big game-hunting Clovis culture, who were prolific hunters with distinct fluted stone tools, which allowed...
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    blocked by ice, which may have prevented early Paleo-Indians such as the Clovis culture from directly crossing Beringia to reach the Americas. According to...
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    Prehistory of Ohio (category Prehistoric cultures in Ohio)
    the type of spear point that they used, the clovis point, which were discovered by archaeologists near Clovis, New Mexico. The points were attached to spears...
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    Monte Verde (category Pre-Clovis archaeological sites in the Americas)
    of the Americas pre-dates the Clovis culture by at least 1,000 years. This contradicts the previously accepted "Clovis first" model which holds that settlement...
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