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Stories about: Clovis

The Migrations of the Clovis Culture Some 13 millennia ago, what is now the territory of North America was occupied by the Clovis culture, the oldest identifiable culture in the region. The civilization lasted between 200 and 800 years, depending on the source providing the information, but consensus places its life span at somewhere around 500 years. A... 22 October 2009 04:00 GMT Diamonds Reveal Clues of Comet Impact in the US A new archaeological investigation conducted on the Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara by scientists from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) has revealed traces of nanodiamonds, which seem to indicate that a comet struck the location some 12,900 years ago. The team believes that traces... 22 July 2009 09:48 GMT The Oldest People in North America: 14,300 Years Old All the anthropologic manuals talk about the Clovis people as the first Native Americans. But South American fossils show that the continent was already inhabited by Asian Blacks (the type of the Papuans and Australian Aborigines) by the time Clovis entered North America. And a new research published in the journal "... 4 April 2008 03:00 GMT