New World Clovis Site Points

Image courtesy of the Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University

Clovis points from various sites in North America

It has to be said by somebody: part of the attraction of studying the first well-documented people in the Americas is the stunning beauty of the Clovis point, used by hunter-gatherers throughout the North American continent from about 11,500 to 10,000 years ago.

These points are from several sites throughout the world, and the photograph was published in conjunction with a news report about the redating of Clovis (and by definition, pre-Clovis), in the following article:

• Michael R. Waters and Thomas W. Stafford Jr. 2007. Redefining the age of Clovis: Implications for the peopling of the Americas. Science 315:1122-1126.

More Information

• Clovis Culture
• Paleoindian
• D. Clark Wernecke, "The Gault Site (Texas, USA)"