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New Discoveries at the Clovis Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James M. Warnica
James M. Warnica*
Affiliation:
Portales, New Mexico
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Abstract

Excavations at the Clovis site near Portales, New Mexico, in 1962 and 1963 produced much new information on the Llano complex. This work, which was done principally by the El Llano Archaeological Society (Portales, New Mexico), yielded the skeletons of four mammoths and other Pleistocene faunal remains and enlarged the tool inventory of the Llano complex. Significant ancestral ties with the Upper Paleolithic of Siberia, which have been postulated on the basis of prismatic blades and blade-tools collected from the Clovis horizon seem to be further confirmed. Further information on the size range of Clovis projectile points has been obtained from small projectile points found in the mammoth-bone bed. Analysis of lithic materials from the Clovis site reveals extensive use of Alibates flint from the Canadian River valley of Texas.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 3Part1 , January 1966 , pp. 345 - 357
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1966

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