Ice Age America: The Clovis Culture
The Ancients

Ice Age America: The Clovis Culture

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 202657 min
  • Interview
  • History

Before the mammoths disappeared, people hunted them across Ice Age America. Armed with distinctive stone spear points, the mysterious Clovis culture left behind traces of a world filled with giant beasts and landscapes now lost to time. Tristan Hughes is joined by archaeologist Dr Madeline Mackie to explore the latest discoveries surrounding America’s prehistoric history. Who were these remarkable hunter-gatherers? How did they hunt some of the largest animals ever to walk the continent? And what mysteries still surround one of the most fascinating cultures of Ice Age America? MORE: Ic...

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– hunter-gatherers who lived near the end of the Ice Age just over 10,000 years ago,

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They're known as America's prehistoric mammoth hunters. – hunter-gatherers who lived near the end of the Ice Age just over 10,000 years ago, defined by their iconic leaf-shaped stone spear tips and the great megafauna carcasses they butchered at sites across America, from New Mexico to Wyoming, from Washington State

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to Virginia. They are remembered as the Clovis Culture, prehistoric peoples that have long since fascinated archaeologists working on America's late Ice Age story. Over the decades, more and more information has come to light about who these people were

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and how they lived, and yet, so many mysteries, so many debates still remain. It's this archaeology that we're going to be exploring today. Welcome to The Ancients, I'm Tristan Hughes, your host, and this is the latest on America's mammoth hunting Clovis culture.

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