PaleoIndian

Arlington Springs (CA)
The Arlington Springs site is located on an island in the North Channel Islands off the coast of southern California in the western United States.

Atlatl Dart Company
A site that discusses the history of the Atlatl dart, the mechanics, and can sell you a replica, too.

Blackwater Draw (NM)
Eleven thousand years ago, a small lake near Clovis, New Mexico, was populated with extinct forms of elephant, wolf, bison, and horse, and the people who hunted them.

Capelinha (Brazil)
The site of Capelinha is a Paleoindian site in the Ribeira do Iguape Valley of Sao Paulo state in Brazil, and it is a shell midden with six human burials.

Clovis at the Gault Site
Clovis at the Gault Site

Clovis Culture
Clovis culture is the name given to the earliest, very well established people in North America.

Current Research in the Pleistocene
Contains tables of contents since 1993, and is working on subject indexes; occasionally complete articles are found here.

East Wenatchee (USA)
The East Wenatchee site, also known as the Richey-Roberts site, is a cache of finished and unfinished Clovis projectile points, found in Washington State.

Eel Point (California)
Eel Point is a paleo-coastal archaeological site located on the central western shore of San Clemente Island, a Channel Island located off the California coast.

Fishtail Points
Fishtail points are to South America what Clovis points are to North America: associated with the earliest occupations in South America that everybody agrees on.

Folsom : a brief definition
Early Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer peoples of the North American continent, ca. 11,000 years BP

Gault Site (Texas, US)
The Gault site is a stratified multicomponent site with a Late Prehistoric and Archaic midden overlying a hard packed Paleoindian component, located in central Texas.

Guitarrero Cave (Peru)
Located near Yungay, Peru, Guitarrero Cave contains evidence of human occupations beginning at least 10,000 years ago, and perhaps as early as 12,500 years ago.

How to Make a Folsom Point
At the March 1997 Folsom Workshop Conference, six experienced flint knappers show their techniques on making the quintessential PaleoIndian point, the Folsom.

Ground Hog Bay Site, Alaska
The earliest occupation at Ground Hog Bay, located on a coastal terrace in southern Alaska, dates to ~12,000 years ago.

Kennewick Man
This 9,000 year old human skeleton found in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is currently at the heart of a wide-ranging controversy.

Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers
Jason LaBelle, a student at Southern Methodist University, in a paper on South American paleoindian and archaic sites; published in Tony Baker's excellent website.

Murray Springs AZ
The Murray Springs site is located in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona, and it is an early Clovis site where buffalo were butchered about 11,000 years ago.

Nenana Culture
The Nenana Valley of central Alaska is the site of one of the earliest archaeological occupations in the North American continent

Oregon Coastline Project
A project by Roberta Hall at Oregon State University, searching underwater along the Pacific northwest coastline for pleistocene-aged sites that would support the coastline entrada for people into the new world.

Pedra Furada (Brazil)
The archaeological site of Pedra Furada, Brazil, is a stratified rockshelter with a very early (and hence contested) date, a Paleoindian occupation, and some ancient cave art dated between 5000 and 11000 years BP

Shawnee-Minisink PA
The deeply buried, stratified Shawnee Minisink archaeological site is located on the Delaware River in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States.

Siberian Clovis Point?
Although by no means uncontroversial, this projectile point made the newspapers last November.

The American Colonization
How the American continents became colonized is a fascinating topic that has been addressed in archaeology for well over a hundred years. Here's a collection of the latest articles about this interesting topic.

The Mammoth Trumpet
A quarterly newsletter on the peopling of the American continent. 

Upward Sun River Site
The Upward Sun River site in central Alaska is a paleoindian and pre-clovis site, where one of the oldest burials in the Americas was found.

Variation in Paleoindian Lithic Assemblages Through Time
SAA paper by Tony Baker on how similar (or dissimilar) Paleoindian projectile points are spatially.

Western Stemmed Tradition
The Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) refers to the early Archaic/late Paleoindian culture who lived in the American western desert lands between 9500 and 10,500 years ago.