ANTH 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Huaca Prieta, Clovis Point, Clovis Culture
Document Summary
While only 20 years ago people believed that humans only arrived in the new world. New world settlers were sophisticated hunter-gatherers and brought domesticated gourds and dogs. Evidence for the earliest humans in north america is the clovis point, characterized by its particular fluting, found distributed widely over the new world especially north and. Folsom point comes slightly later and are associated with what are normally called paleo indians (or early hunters), clovis points associated with clovis people. Thought to be exclusively big game hunters but now we think their diet was more diverse. Dates for earliest points are 12,000 - 11,000 bp. However junius bird found human remains in chile that dated to 11,000 bp with no. Now have earlier dates in north america such as human coprolites from 12,300. Bp in paisley cave, oregon and a possible pre-clovis point type found there.
