Blackwater Draw site

This site is the Clovis site for the oldest accepted widespread culture in the New World. Evidence of their remarkable fluted points (a New World invention), other stone and bone weapons, tools and processing implements were found at this site. These implements were used by ancient people while hunting Pleistocene life including mammoth, ancient bison, large horses and large turtles. Other Pleistocene-age animals that visited the site for food and water were tapir, camel, four-prong antelope, tampulama, llama, deer, wolf, ground sloth, short-faced bear, saber-tooth cat, shovel-toothed amebeledon, beaver, armadillo and peccary. The site is also famous for its stratigraphic record in the sediment layers giving a unique gauge for the last 13,000 years of cultural sequences. And while we were here, it was closed for the season, so sad.