Table of Contents

Part I. Fluted Points and the Peopling of the Americas:
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Fin de siècle paradigm-busting, or what's at stake in the debate about the colonizing of North America?
1.3. How do archaeologists address the big unanswered questions about Fluted-Point-Makers?
Part II. What is Clovis? The Archaeological Record:
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Clovis archaeological footprints, region by region
2.3. Knowledge and guesswork about the late Pleistocene
2.4. Defining Clovis: is it a culture? 2.5. The course of regional developments: the megamammal connection
Part III. Clovis Archaeological Culture:
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Clovis-era technology
3.3. Clovis-era megamammal bone-breakage
3.4. Clovis-era artwork, decorative work, 'symbolic' objects
Part IV. The Old and New World Patterns Compared:
4.1. Dispersals and diffusions: old world Upper Paleolithic and new world Clovis
4.2. The American Upper Paleolithic
Part V. Figures in the Landscape: Foraging in the Clovis Era:
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Archaeological evidence about hunting and gathering in megamammal landscapes
5.3. Why hunt megamammals? Why not hunt megamammals? Conclusions from Part V. Figures in the Landscapes: Part VI. Colonizing Foragers:
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Colonization theory. Conclusions from Part VI: Complexity in Clovis dispersals
Part VII. Unified Conclusions about the Clovis Era:
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The end.

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