Subject: hunter
Culture: Clovis Paleoindian
Setting: human settlement / megafauna extinction, North America 13,500-11,000 BP
Object: weapons
* Ghost Ranch > Ellis Museum of Anthropology
"Clovis"
* Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History > Hall of the People of Oklahoma
"Clovis Variety
Clovis points are found throughout North America in a variety of sizes.
2. Clovis Point, Vail site, Massachusetts (cast), Maine State Museum
5. Clovis Points, Domebo site, Oklahoma (casts), Museum of the Great Plains
6. Clovis Point, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico (cast), Denver Museum of Natural History
7. Clovis-like Point, Thedford site, Southwest Ontario (cast), University of Waterloo
8. Clovis Points, Lehner site, Arizona (casts), Arizona State Museum"
* Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History > Hall of the People of Oklahoma
"Many Materials
Clovis tools and weapons were made from a variety of materials, including stone, bone, ivory, and wood." ...
* Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History > Hall of the People of Oklahoma
"Clovis Tool"
* Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History > Hall of the People of Oklahoma
"Unique Finds
"Very large non-hunting points were found at the Richey Roberts site in Washington State. Points painted with red ochre were found at the Fenn site in Utah.
6. Clovis Points, Riche Roberts site, Washington State (casts)
7. Clovis Points, Fenn site. Utah (casts)"
* Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History > Hall of the People of Oklahoma
"Clovis Point, reworked into a scraper, Alibates chert, Haskell County, Oklahoma"
* Historic Jamestowne
"Paleoindian 14,000-10,000 years ago Clovis projectile point, quartzite"
* Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History > Hall of the People of Oklahoma
"Life in changing environmental conditions
People of the Clovis Culture lived when changes in climate, plants, and animals followed the retreat of the northern glaciers, 11,000 to 10,000 years ago. The landscape, as well as the plant and animal distributions were different from today. Warm dry summers, cool dry winters, and highly variable temperatures and rainfall were drying out the moist Southern Plains, leaving mainly grasslands with many marshy areas. It was probably this changing environment, possibly along with Clovis hunters, that caused the extinction of Ice Age mammals."
* Historic Jamestowne
"The discovery of these two spearheads (known as 'Clovis points') on Jamestown Island is evidence of Paleoindian presence on the island at the time of the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago.
Clovis points
ca. 10,000 B.P., vitric tuff rock, found at eastern end of Jamestown Island"
* Mayborn Museum Complex > Waco at the Crossroads of Texas
"Clovis dart point (replica) -- representative of Paleoindian cultural period"
* pc
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* Big Bear Native American Museum
"Clovis Point (Reproduction)
ca 11,500 BCE in Texas"
* Big Bear Native American Museum
"Atlatl Dart Throwing Stick (Reproduction)"
