Just my opinion, but Clovis is not a people. It’s a place. Clovis NM. The tools get there name because of where that particular style of napping was found. When these peoples that developed the style, came to North America they interacted with many other natives and taught them the style. Each group than taught others they interacted with. Hence the spread, and presumably because of its superior design to previous designs it became for a while the go to blade. The basic design is then sub divided into other categories, fluted n unfluted, ext. So when folks speak of Clovis they are basically talking about a style of blade. JMO.For example: when you find a piece, lets say the one I showed, are you able to decipher whether it come from “clovis people”? I know I need books to learn but its fun to study how and when this artifact was used. Time stamed sort of? How close can we narrow this down to a story or culture?
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