ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Clovis Point, Clovis Culture, Quaternary Extinction Event
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Modern humans occupied the coldest, harshest environments of e. asia by ~35,000 to. Oceans had retreated forming a land bridge in beringia (alaska and russian far east) 36- By ~36 kya, ice sheets retreated and humans from asia began expanding into the. They are referred to as amerinds, paleoindians, or clovis people. Clovis points are very sophisticated artifacts made by pressure-flaking. Clovis points were attached to shafts and used as spear points. Clovis date to ~11,000 to 11,500 years ago. The lehner site in se arizona revealed a clovis point in situ with a bison mandible and a mammoth bone. So, clovis people were definitely big game (megafauna) hunters. Clovis points found in association with extinct megafauna showed they dated to the. This biostratigraphic dating confirmed the relative age of clovis. Scattered clovis sites are found throughout n. america. Clovis first model states that the clovis culture was the first group to enter the.
