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When I first got online in the mid 90’s my usual internet handle was rockr, since I’m a rock and roll guitar player. It got to the point I couldn’t use it any more when I lost all my passwords, computer died and they were all in a text file...so I had to come up with another one. And someone else had already started using it when I got another computer and got back online...so...

I and a couple of friends were all amateur archaeologists, they had nicknamed each other Arrowhead Fred and Clovis Clyde. Clovis is the name of a particular style of spear point made by the paleolithic Native American group known as the Clovis Culture who lived in North America around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. The point style was first located in or near Clovis New Mexico, the Clovis people were found all over North America. Most types of projectile points are usually named after the first place they are found. Clovis and Folsom are two of the oldest point styles found anywhere in North America. The Clovis people disappeared around 10,000 years ago for unknown reasons. Other groups appeared about 1000 years later. The Folsom people I think were mainly concentrated out west but a few here and there in other places. The newer arrivals still used a very similar flaking style and similar shapes, but not the same as the Clovis and Folsom - the Scottsbluff, San Patrice, Cascade, Cumberland, Plainview are just a few of the older point styles in that later era. So that’s where Clovis Clyde’s nickname originated.

Anyway I ended up nicknamed Paleo Pete. Paleo, in archaeology, means ancient or old. Paleolithic, for example, means old or ancient stone tool user. Paleo means old, lithic refers to the art of making of tools from rocks. Pete is just another name...

So I’m named after ancient stone tool makers...