The Clovis First Hypothesis

In 1932, archeologist Edgar B Howard made a major discovery near the town of Clovis, New Mexico. He found a stone spear point embedded in the rib of a wooly mammoth, which inspired what became known as the Clovis first theory. According to this theory, the creators of those spear points known as the Clovis people were the first to settle the Americas about thirteen thousand years ago. Archaeologists accepted this for decades, but new discoveries have put the theory into question. Learn more about the Clovis first hypothesis and how it's being challenged on this episode of everything, everywhere daily. Carvana is so easy. Just a click, and we've got ourselves a car. See? So many cars. That's a clicktastic inventory. And check out the financing options. Payments to fit our budget. I mean, that's Clickonomics one zero one. Delivery to our door. Just a hop, skip, and a click away. And bought. No better feeling than when everything just clicks. Buy your car today on Carvana. Delivery fees may apply. Now for some questions from FanDuel Casino. Have you ever told a barber, you know what? Surprise me. Have you ever said YOLO out loud and unironically? And have you ever danced like no one was watching even though they definitely were? If so, then you might be a trillionaire, and the thrilling rewards from FanDuel Casino Rewards Club might be right for you. FanDuel Casino, calling all trillionaires. 21 plus and present in Michigan. Gambling problem, call +1 800 The Clovis first hypothesis is a theory that explains how the first humans came to The Americas. It's been a powerful narrative for decades and one that most anthropologists and archaeologists have accepted as fact. The Clovis first hypothesis holds that the earliest human inhabitants of The Americas belong to the Clovis culture, arriving around thirteen thousand years ago via the Bering Land Bridge and then migrating south through an ice free corridor between continental ice sheets. From this entry point, Clovis peoples were thought to have rapidly spread across North America, bringing a distinctive fluted stone tool technology and representing the first successful peopling of the new world. This is probably a story that most of you have heard. For the purpose of this episode, the important point to the theory is that the Clovis people were the first to enter the Americas, which means that nobody came before them. The roots of the Clovis first hypothesis lie in the discoveries made in the early twentieth century in the American Southwest. In the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties, excavations at Blackwater Draw near the town of Clovis, New Mexico revealed a finely made stone spear points in clear association with the bones of extinct Pleistocene animals, particularly mammoths. Radiocarbon dating developed after World War two placed these Clovis sites at roughly 13,200 to 12,800 years ago. At the time, no other sites in The Americas were widely accepted as being older. Because Clovis artifacts were found across …