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The Anzick site (24PA506), located adjacent to Flathead Creek, a tributary of the Shields River in Wilsall, Park County, Montana, United States, is the only known Clovis burial site in the New World. The term "Clovis" is used by archaeologists to define one of the New World's earliest hunter-gatherer cultures and is named after the site near ...
Anzick-1 was a young (1–2 years old) Paleoindian child whose remains were found in south central Montana, United States, in 1968.He has been dated to 12,990–12,840 years Before Present. [1]
As an example, Clovis remains at the Murry Springs Site date to around 12,900 calendar years ago (10,900 ± 50 C14 years BP). [2] Clovis fluted points are named after the city of Clovis, New Mexico , where examples were first found in 1929 by Ridgely Whiteman.
Ancient ancestors of Native Americans, known as the Clovis people, mostly ate mammoths and other large animals during the most recent ice age, according to a new study.
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.
The remains of an 18-month-old boy who lived 13,000 years ago in what’s now Montana have helped researchers gain insights into the diet of the ancient Clovis people, who were the ancestors of ...
The Gault Site is among a dozen or so "pre-Clovis" sites in the Americas. Since an earlier presence of humans predates the last major Ice Age and the Bering Land Bridge, this suggests that ...