NOUN
- the Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by sharp fluted projectile points made of obsidian or chalcedony
How To Use Clovis culture In A Sentence
- Despite such arguments, the Clovis culture model remained powerful.
- The discoveries in Texas are seen as compelling evidence that the so-called Clovis culture does not represent America's original immigrants.
- Whether or not the Clovis culture turns out to represent the first Americans, they were the first people on this continent to develop weaponry that allowed them to go one-on-one against big, dangerous game.
- The discoveries in Texas are seen as compelling evidence that the so-called Clovis culture does not represent America's original immigrants.
- In recent years a theory has emerged that seeks to explain three mysterious events that took place at around 13,000 years ago (kya) - the sudden cooling phase known as the Younger Dryas, at the end of the Bølling Allerød warm interstadial, the sudden termination of the Clovis culture in North America, along with the mass extinction event there that saw the demise of over 30 genera of Pleistocene fauna, although this last event had been in progress from c. 40 kya, and also affected further flung parts of the world such as Eurasia and Australia. Anthropology.net
- The discoveries in Texas are seen as compelling evidence that the so-called Clovis culture does not represent America's original immigrants.
- This Clovis culture was assumed to have lasted from about 12,000 BP (years before present) to about 10,000 BP.
- Most of their argument rests upon what they see as the similarity in lithic technology between the Solutrean cultures known from France and the Clovis culture from North America. Archive 2006-03-01
- These findings, demonstrating that early South American prehistory predates Clovis culture, have led to the decline of the Clovis paradigm.
