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	Clovis culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Native American culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 13,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age.
		A hallmark of Clovis culture is the use of a distinctively-shaped fluted rock spear point, known as the Clovis point.
		The Clovis point is distinctively bifacial and fluted on both sides, a feature that possibly allowed the point to be mounted onto a spear in a way so that the point would snap off on impact.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clovis_culture (768 words)

	Projectile Points Bibliography -- Tennessee Archaeology Net
		Anderson, A.D., and J.A. Tiffiny 1972 Rummels-Maske: A Clovis Find-Spot in Iowa.
		Copeland, J.M. and R.E. Fike 1988 Fluted Projectile Points in Utah.
		Cruxent, J.M. 1970 Projectile Points with Pleistocene Mammals in Venezuela.
	www.mtsu.edu /~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/pointbib.html (11342 words)

	Clovis
		The Clovis is part of a family or cluster of associated points with regional variations and sub-types.
		The Clovis was named by Edgar B. Howard for his work in Clovis, New Mexico where the point was found and associated with the remains of an extinct species.
		Overall, the point measures 57 mm in length, is 28 mm wide (at 21 mm from the base) and is only 12 mm thick (mid blade at the point where the flutes end).
	members.aol.com /artgumbus/clovis.html (526 words)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| America's Stone Age Explorers \| PBS
		Alongside the Clovis point was the skeleton of a mammoth, which, evidently, the spear point had been used to kill.
		For, as they pointed out, although it was possible to walk across the land bridge into present day Alaska, ice sheets blocked entry to the rest of the continent until at least that time.
		Clovis is the first great invention of the New World and the icon of the peoples who may rightfully be called the first Americans.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/3116_stoneage.html (6166 words)

	Gault-Clovis Reconsidered
		Clovis blades were used to make various kinds of tools including hide or endscrapers (the two specimens on left) and gravers with tiny beaks (two on right).
		Clovis peoples with their remarkably sophisticated hunting technology were seen as the first pioneers, highly mobile hunters who walked to North America via the Bering Land Bridge.
		In the lowest and hence earliest Clovis deposits, there are the bones of mammoth, horse, and bison, all species that became extinct at the end of the last Ice Age.
	www.texasbeyondhistory.net /gault/clovis.html (5188 words)

	The Distribution of Fluted Paleoindian Projectile Points: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Classic Clovis points are made from bifa ce preforms, generally with flakes traversing the entire face of the biface, although some points from early contexts have flaking scars meeting in the middle of the blade.
		Fluted or basally thinned points with concave bases, and concave (excurvate) lateral margins are found in Columbia, Ecuador (Mayer-Oakes 1984, 1986), and in the southern and southeastern portions of the South American continent, in Chil e, Argentina, and Uruguay (Politis 1991).
		Dense concentrations of points occur in the East in portions of the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Ohio River valleys, or in the karstic terrain of northwest Florida.
	www.adp.fsu.edu /aenaf.html (10506 words)

	NOVA \| America's Stone Age Explorers \| The Fenn Cache \| PBS
		The Clovis were a prehistoric people who flourished in North America at the end of the Ice Age, hunting mammoths and other big game with spear points not unlike this one.
		This point, crafted from red jasper, reveals an unusual flaking style: its maker struck the point diagonally rather than from side to side, as was the norm.
		Experts believe the first step the Clovis took in attaching their points to spears or knife handles was to smear tree resin on each point's flute to serve as a kind of glue.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/stoneage/fenn.html (1059 words)

	Clovis / Pre-Clovis Views
		The Clovis first model does not require an early entry, but it does require the abandonment of the compound projectile point and the reversion from a BLADE technology back to the a flake technology.
		This link is apparent in the early stages of Clovis point manufacture which were accomplished by removing large, flat percussion flakes from a biface.
		The Clovis point was then invented almost overnight and it spread across the in place population in a very short time.
	www.ele.net /art_folsom/preclvis.htm (2012 words)

	HAZEL CLOVIS
		Clovis pictured with this article is a type known as the Hazel Clovis, or sometimes as the Ross County Clovis variety.
		Most often, when a point is purchased, it is not even possible to locate or speak to the finder, so I was very happy to be able to obtain valuable information about this point.
		It is thought that Clovis points served as a combination hunting and butchering tool.
	www.csasi.org /2000_july_journal/Hazel_Clovis.htm (757 words)

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		The point was discovered by Judy Caito - a volunteer and member of the Mound City Chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society.
		Clovis point found in situ beneath a large bone fragment during the 1980 excavation season.
		The Clovis points were found in two stratified and superimposed pond pond deposits.
	users.stlcc.edu /mfuller/kimmswick.html (716 words)

	Clovis/Folsom Transition
		Wormington wrote "the true Folsom (point) appears to be a specialization that developed from the Clovis (point) in the High Plains" (1957:30).
		Up until about 15 years ago, my image was that the Clovis points grew smaller while the grooves in the base grew longer.
		A complex that made a bifacially reduced point with the majority of the mass removed by flakes originating from the lateral edges.
	www.ele.net /Carl/intro.htm (1452 words)

	East Wenatchee Clovis Point Arrowhead Find
		Clovis Point arrowheads were found in East Wenatchee, Douglas County, in 1987 by some apple orchard workers digging an irrigation canal near the East Wenatchee airport.
		The quartz Clovis points initially found at the East Wenatchee Clovis Cache were tentatively dated at around 11,000 years old and are the largest Clovis points ever found to date.
		The Colvilles believe the Clovis people of East Wenatchee are their ancestors and they staged a peaceful protest hoping to shut the dig down.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/washington_state/40822 (546 words)

	News-Star OnlineArcheologists find Clovis spear point 07/05/02
		Bement is a member of the Oklahoma Arcaeological Survey that unearthed a Clovis spear point.
		Members of the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey found the point Sunday in an excavation area at Jake Bluff on the Beaver River.
		Brooks said archeologists determined the approximate age of the spear head by studying its Clovis characteristics, including a long groove down the middle of the point.
	www.news-star.com /stories/070502/New_j.shtml (403 words)

	People of the Colorado Plateau-Paleoindian and Archaic Peoples
		The bulk of archaeological evidence points to the Clovis culture as the earliest group of Paleoindians to occupy the North American regions south of the continental ice sheets of the last glaciation.
		The oldest Clovis artifacts have been radiocarbon dated about 11,500 yr B.P. The style of projectile points that characterized Clovis culture persisted at most for a few hundred years; they were replaced by another type of point, characteristic of the Folsom culture.
		Some researchers believe that it was the Clovis and Folsom peoples who were responsible for the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna.
	www.cpluhna.nau.edu /People/paleoindians.htm (613 words)

	Martens Archaeological Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A total 23 Clovis points have been recorded from the Martens site.
		This includes 16 points from the Martens collection, 2 from the Morrow's excavation (WU), and 5 points in two private collections.
		Clovis point from Square 52, Level 1, 22 cm.
	users.stlcc.edu /mfuller/martens/Pottery.html (210 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - Stone Age Columbus
		The first Americans were the Clovis, a people from Asia, and they had stayed isolated ruling America for 11,000 years until their first fatal contact with Columbus and the people of Europe in 1492.
		Whoever had made the Clovis Point had used a technique quite different to that used in Asia, so where had they come from and then he remembered a textbook he had seen when he was a student.
		DENNIS STANFORD: The projectile points that we found that are Solutrean in age are almost identical to the in blades that Eskimos use on their seal hunting harpoons and the Clovis Point makes a wonderful harpoon point.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/horizon/2002/columbustrans.shtml (4709 words)

	Clovis Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Clovis points were made more than 11,000 years ago over much of North America by Paleoindian hunters.
		This point was found near Lake County in the eastern part of the state.
		Archaeologists believe the points were hafted to short shafts, which in turn were mounted into sockets on heavier spear shafts.
	www.sdsmt.edu /wwwsarc/collectn/stone/clovis.html (97 words)

	Mammoth Trumpet 14(4) 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Evidence that may tie the Clovis tradition to Europe was the topic of the conference's crowded closing banquet at the Santa Fe Hilton.
		that ponders the "Quandry of Clovis" from the perspective of archaeology of the Patagonia region.
		To have so many Clovis and pre-Clovis collections at one place for examination by all is a tremendous feat and a genuine contribution to knowledge." He thanked Mark Mullins for his part in organizing the exhibits of artifacts.
	www.peak.org /csfa/mt15-1.html (9235 words)

	Clovis Point Consulting Services
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		At Clovis Point, we teach adults how to use computers.
		Clovis Point is the human side of computing.
	www.clovispoint.com /consult.html (273 words)

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		This is an excellent example of a Clovis projectile point.
		The point was found associated with the bones of
		American mastodons by a crew under the directorship of former ISM Curator of Geology Dr. Russell W. Graham.
	www.museum.state.il.us /exhibits/larson/clovis.html (69 words)

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