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Clovis complex

Widely distributed prehistoric culture of North America, characterized by leaf-shaped flint projectile points with fluted sides and dating from c. 9050–8800 BCE. Clovis material culture also includes bone tools, hammerstones, scrapers, and unfluted points. The complex derives its name from the first site found, in 1929, near Clovis, N.M. Some Clovis groups hunted megafauna such as mammoths, but many were generalized hunters and gatherers who consumed a wide variety of wild foods. See also Folsom complex.

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