Related Terms • Clovis culture

Definition: A group of Clovis sites clustered around a jasper outcrop in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, southeastern USA, accounting for between 500 to 1000 people at circa 8300 BC. Site types include habitations and stone tool workshops.

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Clovis
Clovis is the name archaeologists have given to the earliest firmly-established human culture in the North American continent.

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