The theory known as "Clovis First" was the predominant hypothesis among archaeologists in the second half of the 20th century to explain the peopling of...

and then dispersed throughout the Americas, otherwise known as the Clovis First theory. Recent radiocarbon dating of Clovis sites has yielded ages of between...

of likely Clovis, pre-Clovis, and post-Clovis age and their possible responses to environmental changes known to have occurred during the Younger Dryas...

dated to 16,000 years BP, have also raised doubts about the "Clovis First" theory. As a result, scholars have proposed alternate scenarios for the routes...

called Clovis First. This theory does not mean that Clovis showed up and had the fluted biface technology, but assumes that over about 1,000 years the original...

9500 BCE: People craft early Clovis spear points, knives, and skin scrapers from rock in New Mexico. 9250–8950 BCE: Clovis points – thin, fluted projectile...

the Clovis people moved south from Alaska through an ice-free corridor located between modern British Columbia and Alberta, recent dating of Clovis and...

favor in the 1930s. By the late 1950s, it was regarded as a fringe theory. The Clovis First theory held that the Clovis culture was the first culture in...

data pushed back the date from Clovis First, with theories suggesting dates of approximately 15,000 to 24,000 years ago. Other theories proposed dates as...

transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or...