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Blackwater Draw contains an important archaeological site, called Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark, first recognized in 1929 by Ridgley Whiteman of Clovis, New Mexico. [5] Blackwater Locality No. 1 (29RV2; LA3324) is the type-site of the Clovis culture. The first large-scale excavation occurred in 1932, though local residents had been ...
Clovis culture. The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present (BP). [1] The type site is Blackwater Draw locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, where stone tools were found alongside the remains of Columbian mammoths in 1929. [2]
Barton Gulch, along with the Alder site, are regarded as the type sites for the Blackwater Draw Paleo-Indian archaeological culture, and believed to be a Clovis culture. Most of the excavations of Barton Gulch were done by Dr. Les Davis, a professor at Montana State University, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country and territories. ... Blackwater Draw; Blood Run Site; Blythe Intaglios; Bottle Creek Indian Mounds;
This archaeological phase was named after the city of Clovis, New Mexico, where in 1936 unique Clovis points were found in situ at the site of Blackwater Draw, where they were directly associated with the bones of Pleistocene animals.
Blackwater Draw. January 20, 1961 Clovis ... Archaeological site; type site for the Folsom tradition: 13: Fort Bayard Site: Fort Bayard Site. March 19, 2004
The Blackwater Draw Formation is a geologic formation in the southern High Plains of eastern New Mexico and Texas. [1] The formation was deposited between 1.8 million (Ma) and 300,000 years ago, corresponding to the early to middle Pleistocene epoch. [2]
Image courtesy of the Virginia Dept. of Historic Resources. The Dent site is a Clovis culture (about 11,000 years before present) site located in Weld County, Colorado, near Milliken, Colorado. It provided evidence that humans and mammoths co-existed in the Americas. The site is located on an alluvial fan alongside the South Platte River.