Gault-Clovis Reconsidered

Gault-Clovis Reconsidered: "For most students of archeology, 'Clovis' conjures up a vision of a distinctive spear point like the one shown on the left and of small groups of 'big game' hunters killing Ice-Age elephants as they migrated across North America. For over five decades the Clovis-first hypothesis—the idea that Clovis hunters were the first people to explore the New World—has been a fundamental part of the story of the peopling of the Americas. 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. Once below the Ice Sheet, small groups of Clovis hunters and their families expanded rapidly across the continent killing mammoths so effectively that the species was pushed over the brink of extinction. Or so the standard story goes."












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