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 ...

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 Friedkin toolkit is bolstered by that found at its neighbor, the Gault site, less than 300 yards upstream, where similar tools have been found. While finds older than Clovis at Gault have yet ...

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 ...

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 ...