Archaeologists and scientists have been fascinated with human migrations to the New World since the early-mid 20th century discoveries at Clovis and Folsom (New Mexico) and somewhat later findings at Cueva Fell in Chile and elsewhere in South America. These sites gave rise to what is known as Paleoindian research and were taken as evidence for earliest human arrivals because of broad distributions of a limited, but elegant group of spear point types. Many sites were associated with the slaughter and meat processing of now extinct mammals such as mammoths and mastodons. Until relatively recentl
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