Clovisn.
/ˈkləʊvɪs/, U.S. /ˈkloʊvəs/ Applied attributively to a prehistoric culture and its remains first found at the Blackwater Draw site near there, esp. to a type of projectile point (see quots.). Cf. Folsom n.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific prehistoric
Bronze Age1863
Iron Age1868
Cromerian1922
Olmecan1929
Ahrensburg1931
Ghassulian1931
Yuma1932
Dorset1933
Oldowan1934
Cortaillod1940
Clovis1943
Olmec1943
Ahrensburgian1950
Ubaid1952
Olmecoid1956
pre-Clovis1962
Lapita1971
1943 E. B. Howard in Amer. Antiq. Jan. 230 The base of the Clovis fluted point is slightly to deeply concave.
1947 Bull. Texas Archeol. & Paleont. Soc. 18 12 The fluting is inferior.., that on Clovis points seldom extending as much as half way forward.
1961 G. Clark World Prehist. ix. 216 The fact that Clovis points have been found stratified below Folsom ones..is not inconsistent with their persistence into later periods: indeed, it may well prove that the distinction between Folsom and Clovis points is functional rather than cultural.
1968 D. L. Clarke Analyt. Archaeol. viii. 336 The Magdalenians focussed on reindeer or bison..and the Clovis and Gravettian technocomplexes on mammoth.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia II. 1010/3 The typical Clovis point is leaf shaped, with parallel or slightly convex sides and a concave base... Clovis points range in length from 1½ to 5 inches..and are heavy and fluted.
1981 F. H. West Archæol. Beringia 205 There was surely environmental zonation present in Clovis times.
1983 La Tierra Oct. 32 There have been a number of Clovis points recovered from surface sites.
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