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Archaeologists uncovered the first evidence of Pleistocene humans in the Americas near Folsom, New Mexico on the 29th of August 1927. Ridgely Whiteman discovered the specific Clovis site near Blackwater Draw in eastern New Mexico in 1929.
Clovis points are bifacial tools with flakes removed from both faces that typically feature a fluted base running up a third or half of the point length. The largest points exceed thirty centimeters in length and were generally produced from nodules or siliceous cryptocrystalline rocks.
Clovis artifacts often associate with big game including Columbian mammoths, mastodons, gomphothere, bison, and equines. Isotope analysis of the Anzick-1 burial suggests mammoths made up thirty-five to forty percent of the total diet while elk and probably bison also contributed major portions to their nutrition.
The only known Clovis burial is that of Anzick-1, an infant boy found near Wilsall, Montana, in 1968. His genome demonstrates he belonged to a population ancestral to many contemporary Indigenous peoples of the Americas and shares close genetic ties with Siberian peoples confirming Asian origins.
A 2020 study suggests the Clovis culture lasted for a relatively short period spanning thirteen thousand fifty to twelve thousand seven hundred fifty calibrated years before present. Historically many authors argued for a Clovis first paradigm where they represented the earliest inhabitants south of the Laurentide ice sheet but this hypothesis has been abandoned by most researchers since the beginning of the twenty-first century.