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Folsom tradition (among others) The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present. [1] The type site is Blackwater Draw locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, where stone tools were found alongside the remains of Columbian mammoths in 1929. [2]
35-16420. GNIS feature ID. 0915815. Website. www .cityofclovis .org. Clovis is a city in and the county seat of Curry County, New Mexico. [4] The city had a population of 37,775 as of the 2010 census, and a 2020 census population of 38,567. [5] Clovis is located in the New Mexico portion of the Llano Estacado, in the eastern part of the state.
Clovis points are the characteristically fluted projectile points associated with the New World Clovis culture, a prehistoric Paleo-American culture. They are present in dense concentrations across much of North America and they are largely restricted to the north of South America. There are slight differences in points found in the Eastern ...
Jennie Rocha, a Clovis North senior with Indigenous heritage, poses with the stole the Comanche Nation gifted her for graduating in 2024. Clovis Unified School District initially did not allow ...
Clovis culture. A Folsom spearpoint approximately life size. The Folsom tradition is a Paleo-Indian archaeological culture that occupied much of central North America from c. 10800 BCE to c. 10200 BCE. The term was first used in 1927 by Jesse Dade Figgins, director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. [2]
The Clovis culture, appearing around 11,500 BCE (c. 13,500 BP) in North America, is one of the most notable Paleo-Indian archaeological cultures. It has been disputed whether the Clovis culture were specialist big-game hunters or employed a mixed foraging strategy that included smaller terrestrial game, aquatic animals, and a variety of flora.
The premise behind the Solutrean Hypothesis is that the similarities between Clovis and Solutrean lithic technologies are evidence that the Solutreans were the first people to migrate to the Americas, dating far before mainstream scientific theories of the peopling of the Americas. Originally proposed in the 1970s, the theory has received some ...
The Anzick Site (registered as 24PA506) at about the elevation of the bottom of the hillside below the arrow, is the only known Clovis burial site in North America. In 1961, while hunting marmots at a sandstone outcrop on the Anzick family property, about one mile south of Wilsall, Montana, Bill Roy Bray found a stone projectile point and bones ...