Clovis not first Americans, study says.(News)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | February 23, 2007| | Copyright

Byline: Jim Erickson, Rocky Mountain News

A Colorado geochemist and his Texas colleague say they have dealt the mortal blow to Clovis First, the long-held idea that the first Americans were spear-toting hunters who crossed into an uninhabited continent from Asia.

For decades, schoolchildren were taught that small bands of hide-clad hunters walked into a virgin world over a "land bridge" that linked Siberia to Alaska during the last ice age, about 13,600 years ago.

They quickly dispersed across North America, slaughtering mammoths with a new and ...

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