Clovis culture

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Noun1.Clovis culture - the Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by sharp fluted projectile points made of obsidian or chalcedony
archaeology, archeology - the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures
Paleo-American culture, Paleo-Amerind culture, Paleo-Indian culture - the prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America
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In the last two decades, though, the confident tellers of Clovis Man's tale have been challenged by academic renegades devoted to identifying a new "First American." There are at least four major sites (and some minor ones) in the Americas that claim to have found man-made objects dating to tens of thousands of years before Clovis time.
Mighty white of you: racial preferences color America's oldest skulls and bones
In a day's time and basically on the same route, for example, you can leave Cannon and see where Billy the Kid was buried at Fort Sumner, then visit the Blackwater Draw anthropology site where the city's history includes "Clovis Man," an archeological site and early man culture that dates to 12,500 years ago.
Cannon blast: being assigned to this southeastern New Mexico base puts you in one of the most diverse regions of 'The Land of Enchantment'
Ever since a 12,000-year-old spearhead was found near Clovis, N.M., in the 1930s, the first American was dubbed Clovis Man. In the early 1970s, archaeologists overwhelmingly agreed that the first Americans came by way of the Bering Strait.
The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

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