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Clovis culture  

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  • The antiquity of humans in the New World had been a controversy during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Insight into just how long ago the incursion of people into the Americas occurred came in 1927, when lanceolate projectile points were found with the remains of extinct bison near Folsom, New Mexico. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Clovis Culture]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-RV1JDNJ8-L

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