Talk:Clovis point

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Impact event and Clovis[edit]

What effect, if any, did the hypothesized meteorite impact event of 12,9 kya have on Clovis (read humans already in the Americas)? Doesn't Clovis fade out about the same time? Did this event kill or weaken the megafauna enough to drive them to extinction? ^[1] Twalls (talk) 08:08, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidently not much. Megafauna extinctions started before that and ended thousands of years after it. Additionally, Clovis lasted another century afterward.--Windustsearch (talk) 01:33, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

According to this study[1], the impact event may have caused an immediate population decline as well as behavioral and cultural changes. Twalls (talk) 22:21, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329505.stm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.108.16.214 (talk) 07:48, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3629e596-6d60-11dc-ab19-0000779fd2ac.html

"...disappeared from the continental United States"?[edit]

Under the heading "Age and cultural affiliations", the first sentence of the second paragraph states "Around 10,000 radio carbon years before present, a new type of fluted projectile point called Folsom appeared in archaeological deposits, and Clovis-style points disappeared from the continental United States." (emphasis mine) Since the boundaries of the "continental United States" as an area were gradually and arbitrarily formed between 1787 and 1912, wouldn't it make more sense to use "North America" as the continental area being described? Bricology (talk) 21:24, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Internal contradiction[edit]

If all known points date from "roughly 13,400–12,700 years ago", meaning roughly 11,400–10,700 BCE, how can the one in the first image be dated "11500-9000 BC"? Even on these time scales, a discrepancy in the end dates of the ranges by 1700 years is too much. Both ranges are unsourced. BTW, has the label "DSC07376" anything to do with this specific artifact, or is it the code assigned by the digital camera, a DSC-H55? --Lambiam 07:48, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Clovis transition[edit]

Your right, and since the Clovis in Europe has no flutes. But the same basic points without, and the theory is they came from Europe. So it all fits that Clovis began in Europe. It evolved in north America. Then evolved further into Folsom, the longer blood groove was twice as deadly as a Clovis with it's short hafting groove. 174.212.224.205 (talk) 13:16, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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