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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 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    the Clovis culture phase, there is evidence that Clovis hunters targeted contemporary proboscideans based on archeological "kill sites." Clovis projectile...
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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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    Mammoth Kill Site, the Naco Mammoth Kill Site, the Escapule Clovis Site and the Leikem Clovis Site. The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management...
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  • first defined such as the Hallstatt culture or Clovis culture.[citation needed] Since the term "culture" has many different meanings, scholars have also...
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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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  • opposition from Indigenous groups over Hancock's depiction of their history and culture. Archaeologists and other experts say that the theories presented in the...
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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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    The Samara culture is an Eneolithic (Copper Age) culture dating to the turn of the 5th millennium BCE, at the Samara Bend of the Volga River (modern Russia)...
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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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    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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    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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  • El Fin del Mundo (category Clovis sites)
    Clovis weapon fragments relative to the gomphothere bones at the site suggest that humans did in fact kill the two animals there. Of the seven Clovis...
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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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    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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    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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    Solutrean (redirect from Solutrean culture)
    Clovis-Solutrean link remains controversial and does not enjoy wide acceptance. The hypothesis is challenged by large gaps in time between the Clovis...
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    Dent site (category Clovis culture)
    The Dent site is a Clovis culture (about 11,000 years before present) site located in Weld County, Colorado, near Milliken, Colorado. It provided evidence...
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  • Anzick-1 (category Clovis culture)
    burial. Anzick-1 is the only human whose remains are associated with the Clovis culture, and is the first ancient Native American genome to be fully sequenced...
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    toolmaking Oldowan Acheulean Mousterian Aurignacian Clovis culture Cupstone Fire hardening Gravettian culture Hafting Hand axe Grooves Langdale axe industry...
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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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