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...
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and then dispersed throughout the Americas, otherwise known as the Clovis First theory. Recent radiocarbon dating of Clovis sites has yielded ages of between...
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Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (redirect from Clovis comet)
of likely Clovis, pre-Clovis, and post-Clovis age and their possible responses to environmental changes known to have occurred during the Younger Dryas...
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Pedra Furada (category Pre-Clovis archaeological sites in the Americas)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Coastal migration (Americas) (category Peopling of the Americas)
the Clovis people moved south from Alaska through an ice-free corridor located between modern British Columbia and Alberta, recent dating of Clovis and...
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Fringe science (category Fringe theory)
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...
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transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or...
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Origin of language (redirect from The first language)
challenges to the "gesture-first" theory have been presented by researchers in psycholinguistics, including David McNeill. Proponents of the motor theory of language...
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