In fact, this wave appeared to have completely replaced the
Clovis people of the first wave.
"More broadly, although
Clovis people may yet be shown to represent an independent migration separate from the peoples present here by 14,700" years ago, the authors wrote, "they must have descended from a population that entered the Americas via a different route than the ice-free corridor."
Among them was the
Clovis people, who first show up in the archaeological record more than 13,000 years ago.
At least 1,000 years before
Clovis people roamed the Great Plains, a group of hunter-gatherers either butchered a mastodon or scavenged its carcass near Florida's Gulf Coast.
Her investigations demonstrate that the
Clovis people used a variety of raw materials for tool making, and that the homogeneity of Clovis points, the sharing of artifacts between groups, and the sharing of raw materials suggests that Clovis groups maintained strong ties with extended populations at a regional level.
Additional information is provided about the
Clovis people and other extinct Ice Age animals depicted in the story.
The Younger Dryas lasted a thousand years and coincided with the extinction of mammoths and other great beasts and the disappearance of the Paleo-Indian
Clovis people. In the 1980s, some researchers put forward the idea that the cool period, which fell between two major glaciations, began when a comet or meteorite struck North America.
It is a quest with a love (sort of) twist set in the area we now know as Texas near the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers, 13,000 years ago among the
Clovis people who were nomadic hunter gatherers.
Re-examining the Red Wing collection, Metin discovered that the people at that site frequently produced overshot flakes, and he concluded that the site had been occupied by
Clovis people, not some later group as I had thought.
Archaeologists have tong known that the mysterious
Clovis people were the first settlers of North America, about 13,000 years ago.
Who the
Clovis people were and which present day humans they are related to has been discussed intensely and the issue has a key role in the discussion about how the Americas were peopled.