The evidence gave rise to a consensus known as the Clovis First theory. More recently, discoveries from archaeological sites predating the Clovis culture have challenged the Clovis First theory ...

Clovis points are typically larger than Folsom flutes, which were first found at another archaeological site in New Mexico. For decades after Whiteman's discovery, experts thought the Clovis ...

They seem to have materialized suddenly, by archaeological standards ... turned up in Chile in the late 1990s. Other pre-Clovis sites followed, notably a cave in Oregon with fossilized human ...

and Clovis sites dated around somewhere between the late 12,000 year, early 13,000 years ago. And the dates are all pretty uniform across the... There are a lot of Clovis sites and they all date ...

or so the archaeological conventional wisdom went. For most of the twentieth century, research bore that out. The earliest sites in North America all held those unmistakable Clovis spear tips ...

some 1,500 years before the date of the earliest Clovis site in the Americas. Today, the archaeological community has largely come to accept that people were living at Monte Verde before the ...

The culture—known for its distinctive pointed and sharp-edged stone tools—is named after the Clovis archaeological site in New Mexico where researchers first uncovered evidence of them.

More recently, discoveries from archaeological sites predating the Clovis culture have challenged the Clovis First theory and posed new questions about how, when, and by whom the Americas were ...