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The Clovis points

11,050 BCE – 10,800 BCE · na-clovis

Clovis points are stone spear points with a characteristic channel down the middle, named after the site in New Mexico where they were first found. Clovis was long taken to be the first culture in the Americas, and "Clovis first" was scholarly consensus for fifty years. Older sites — Monte Verde in Chile, Page-Ladson in Florida, Cooper's Ferry in Idaho — have overturned that model; people were here before. That makes Clovis more interesting, not less: the technology is not an arrival but something that arose here and spread across a continent in a few generations.

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