About 13,000 years ago, people from the Clovis period settled in the Great Lakes region and returned to a campsite in southwest Michigan for several consecutive years, according to a new study.

In this debate, the researchers have relied on the study of artifacts, like spearheads, found with mammoth bones. In 2024 a ...

“Pitiful,” Meltzer joked in First Peoples in a New World, his history of America’s first colonization. Today it appears likely that Clovis people depended mostly on foraging for ...

The Belson site discovery is a significant step in understanding the Clovis people, one of North America’s earliest inhabitants. From their tools and trade networks to their diverse diet ...

That posed a challenge: either Clovis hunters went to South America without their trademark weapons (highly unlikely) or people settled in South America even before the Clovis people arrived.

some of them potentially doubling the time frame people have been in the Western Hemisphere. In this interactive map, peruse 28 possible pre-Clovis sites found throughout North America.

These people spread widely throughout North and South America, as evidenced by the leaf-shaped spearheads they left behind. Some discoveries have begun to poke holes in the model, however. The Clovis ...

Are the Clovis people really the first Americans? The leading expert in this period is Professor Gary Haynes: 'There's some scattered evidence that people were in North America maybe before these ...