[SunkenCiv]

...Traditionally, the Clovis culture has been said to date from 11,500 to 10,900 years ago, but a comprehensive and critical review of the radiocarbon dates for Clovis in the Feb. 23 issue of the journal Science has narrowed the range to 11,050 to 10,800 years ago. Michael Waters, director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans, and Thomas Stafford, director of Stafford Research Laboratories, argue that "in as few as 200 calendar years, Clovis technology originated and spread throughout North America." ...[T]he sudden appearance of Clovis technology no longer can be linked to the original discoverers of America... The nearly simultaneous appearance of Clovis points across North America, coupled with the evidence for pre-Clovis cultures, suggests that it was the idea of making Clovis points that spread through groups of people who already had settled much of the continent... -- Bradley T. Lepper

[PeterNJones]

You are correct, the Clovis people were not a people, but rather a technology that was used by early American Indians. Further, these were not the first American Indians in the Americas. The old Clovis-First theory is dead. There is plenty of genetic evidence to support an earlier peopling of the Americas, and finally sites such as Cactus Hill and especially Gault in Texas bring archaeological evidence. For info on the genetic end I recommend my book American Indian mtDNA, Y Chromosome Genetic Data, and the Peopling of North America.