GG354 Lecture Notes - Clovis, New Mexico, Woolly Mammoth, Northern Ontario
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Lesson 5 - social history and cultural background. Ice-free corridor: theory that explains the path by which the first americans took to reach the mid-latitudes of north america between the laurentide and cordilleran ice sheets. Excavation revealed finely crafted thin, leaf-shaped stone projectile points imbedded in the bones of large bison. Clovis theory: some 12,000 years ago, old world hunters from alaska and yukon found an ice- free corridor through the vast ice sheet to the unglaciated areas of the new world. Armed with spears that had a distinctive fluted projectile point, these paleo-indians quickly spread across. Archaeological evidence clearly demonstrates that paleo-indians were hunting the woolly mammoth and other big-game animals in the great plains and the. Southwest of what is today the united states as early as 11,000 years ago. At the same time, primitive hunters had reached the southern tip of south america. Clovis theory is based on archaeological finds of flaked-stone projectile points.
