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Clovis is a city in and the county seat of Curry County, New Mexico. [7] The population was 38,567 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Clovis is located in the New Mexico portion of the Llano Estacado , in the eastern part of the state.
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Clovis, New Mexico. Pages in category "People from Clovis, New Mexico" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
Curry County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico.As of the 2020 census, its population was 48,430. [1] Its county seat is Clovis. [2] The county is named in honor of George Curry, territorial governor of New Mexico from 1907 to 1910.
Clovis fluted points are named after the city of Clovis, New Mexico, where examples were first found in 1929 by Ridgely Whiteman. [3] A typical Clovis point is a medium to large lanceolate point with sharp edges, a third of an inch thick, one to two inches wide, and about four inches (10 cm) long. [4]
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]
Blackwater Draw is an intermittent stream channel about 140 km (87 mi) long, with headwaters in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, about 18 km (11 mi) southwest of Clovis, New Mexico, and flows southeastward across the Llano Estacado toward the city of Lubbock, Texas, where it joins Yellow House Draw to form Yellow House Canyon at the head of the North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River.
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Pendejo Cave is a geological feature and archaeological site located in southern New Mexico about 20 miles east of OrograndeArchaeologist Richard S. MacNeish claimed that human occupation of the cave pre-dates by tens of thousands of years the Clovis Culture, traditionally believed to be one of the oldest if not the oldest culture in the Americas.