The First Snowbirds:By the middle of the twentieth century, fluted points like those recovered at Big Bone Lick were viewed by the great majority of the North American archaeologists as the signature artifacts of the first occupants of the New World. Moreover, the makers of these points (now named "Clovis" after their initial occurrence in a stratified context near Clovis, New Mexico) became central players in a highly imaginative peopling scenario called, in recent years, "Clovis-first." According to this paradigm, a small group of migrants crossed the interior of the now-submerged Bering Platform about 12,000 radiocarbon years ago. After a brief sojourn in the unglaciated Bering Refugium, these pioneers were thought to have passed down the ice-free corridor between the Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets in central North America, thence across virtually the length and breadth of the entire unglaciated New World, arriving at the tip of South America within a scant 400–500 radiocarbon years or less.
The Archaeology of Inundated
Late Pleistocene Landscapes
in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
J. M. Adovasio, Ph.D., D.Sc.
July 2008
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Sea-level rose 330' at the end of the most recent Ice Age.
Do the math, guys...