Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The ...

The people who made them, now dubbed the Clovis people, lived in North America between 13,000 and 12,700 years ago, based on a 2020 analysis of bone, charcoal and plant remains found at Clovis sites.

A number of archaeological sites in South America have yielded the same dates. "The Clovis-first model says it would have taken anywhere from 700 to 1,000 years for people to reach the southern ...

The Clovis First theory of how North America was settled proposes that a group of Paleo-Indian people, dubbed Clovis after the New Mexico town where the first evidence of them was found, were the ...

The Clovis people appeared in North America during the Pleistocene epoch, when much of the world, including the area we now know as Michigan, was covered with sheets of glaciers.

According to the older, "Clovis-first" theory, America's earliest humans were the Clovis people, hunter-gatherers who got here around 13,500 years ago.

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

Ensuing generations of archaeologists filled out the picture of an intrepid mammoth-killing bunch, dubbed the Clovis people, who spread across North America between around 13,500 and 12,500 years ago.

Famous for its iconic toolkit and projectile weaponry, the Paleoindian Clovis Complex left an archaeological imprint across a vast area, spanning from Canada to Mexico. However, to date, the only ...