Why Did the Clovis People Mysteriously Vanish? 

What do you think happened to the Clovis people?

A well-presented video, thanks ...although scattered with some out-of-date taking points: While there is currently insufficient data to make fully definitive statements at this time what can be reasonably said is as follows: -The first people in the Americas arrived at the very least 20-30k ago. That date may be far older but unambiguous evidence is currently lacking. -There is absolutely no evidence those people contributed genetically to today's 'indigenous' populations. ie: They were replaced by later 'invaders'. -Those 'invaders' seem to have been the Clovis people, arriving 11-14k ago. They in turn contributed somewhat to today's 'indigenous' populations. -'Clovis' or relatives seem to mostly arise from a population isolated in what was once Beringia. In turn arriving from East Asia. -20-14k ago? Currently debated evidence. Maybe other pre-Clovis groups arrived, maybe nobody else post 20-30k ago. -Before the 30-20k arrivals..? Currently anybody's guess, but not unreasonable. There may have been 'pre-Sapiens' people 120k ago. (iffy) -No, it doesn't look like the Solutrean hypothesis holds any water at this point - the first 'Europeans' arrived in semi-historical times. Modern South America would seem to be primarily populated by decedents from North America, then later Europe + Africa. -However there is seeming evidence of populations arriving from the Pacific very much earlier, along with earlier migrations from the North. Of course much of the above is subject to scientific re-evaluation in the light of new evidence as it crops up - that is the scientific method. In short. Both North and South America have seen waves of human populations arriving and then being (largely) replaced by those following for possibly well over 100k years. Certainly for the last 20-30k years, long before Clovis the presumed major ancestors of 'indigenous' North Americans. The current inhabitants of the Americas are no more than the latest groups to arrive and displace those who went before, going back a very long time. As Australian aboriginal peoples might say "Arguing over who owns the land is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog."

It seems possible that that tool technology/design changed and the people didn’t disappear- only that particular style of tool.

YDB impact took out the Clovis people and the majority of megamammals found in North America at the time. The environmental catastrophe that followed lasted centuries.

Thanks for sharing these insights into the mysterious Clovis People. I hope to learn more as information is developed.

About a 10 minute drive from where I live in upstate New York, there's ancient ruins of stone buildings. The native americans in this area say the structures were already there when they came into the area, and was beyong their skill to make even when Europeans arrived. and unfortunately, no one has bothered to try to figure out who made them. Wonder if it could have been a part of the clovis culture.

There was a catastrophe. The Ainu are a remnant population of the Solutrean or Clovis people.

Where’d they go?? Where’d your great grandparents go! Most of their descendants are/were herded into reservations and live there yet. I’m surprised you didn’t know that.

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Amazing how the paleo indians in the thumbnail lost their ability to grow beards in such an anthropogenically short amount of time. 😊

I attended Fresno State Univ. and there was a city adjacent to Fresno called Clovis. I always wondered if it was name for this group of people.

An impact or or atmospheric explosion probably did this. Bits of the Canadian Shield have been found at the Topper site in SC and the channel islands off the CA coast. The dating of this material corresponds exactly to the disappearance of the Clovis people, Wooly Mammoths and Sabertooth Tigers. Something to think about....

The Clovis “people” were not a homogeneous group. They simply shared a technology (the Clovis point) and that’s what they had in common with each other. Today we can be termed as the “cellphone people” because that’s the technology we share with a large percentage of the world. But the people didn’t go anywhere, the technology changed.

There were mastodon bones with animals carved on them found in Florida. They suggest that people were in Florida when those animals were alive, and they were supposed to be extinct before people got to that part of the world. What happened to the "Clovis" people? Their descendants are still here. The curious thing to me is that they changed the way they made their tools. Why?

before politics????? think about how absurd that is

No one vanished,Native Americans have been migrating and mating with each other for thousands of years✌

The assumption here is that Clovis folks kept to themselves, forsaking all others.

Hubo un cambio en la tecnología de casa.....no desaparecieron......cambiaron su tecnología por el cambio de presas para cazar

MAYBE...the first large scale NA culture. not even close to the first NA people.

Hilarious video. I knew at the very beginning when he said "supposed eclipse", to get my tin foil hat and popcorn.

Clovis people did not "vanish", their tools changed when the megafauna were wiped out. It's like saying that Europeans vanished because they switched from using horses to using motor vehicles.

I thought thts wht you were going to tell us !

I’m half Clovis, on my moms side.

Is it possible they integrated with native Americans and also breeding together? When did the first Native Americans arrive in North America or anywhere else on the planet?

Actually we live in Nova Scotia. Can prove it too .

just cultural development, the same can be seen in europe

They evolved into the clovis hitch people

The clovis people are mixed into native American/ mexican DNA.

They went with Noah flood .

before humans there were cows in North America ???????????????????????????????????????????????? odd starting video !!!

Regarding the Clovis culture - as I understand it, there is some debate as to the origins of the Clovis culture, as it has been proposed that they may have been an off- shoot of the Solutrean culture from France, circa 17,000 B.C., due to the close resemblance of both cultures' tool kits ! It has been posited (with considerable heated debate) that the Solutreans may have crossed the Atlantic in small, primitive boats, following (and possibly camping/hunting/fishing from) the southern edge of the ice sheet !

They stayed on the continent of America. And they evolved into present day Native Americans!!! You will never say or claim. That the first people in Europe disappeared. You know they evolved into today's Europeans!

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How you going to tell the Iroquois are history of ancient times your numbers off way off

Too many generalities. Most statements uttered and video scenes can apply to do many ancient cultures. Very disappointed.

Maybe bc they killed off all their favorite prey anmals

This narration with its speaking down to the viewer, is pretty insulting and shame on this production. Also, this tells us that the Anzick kid found in Montana was Clovis. The Anzick kid IS the only so-called Clovis human remains - BUT IT IS NOT CLOVIS. Arkies have lowered their standards on approval of this skeleton as Clovis. Why? Because they only call it Clovis because it was found kind of close to a Clovis cache of points and tools. AJD THEY HAVE WANTED TO FIND CLOVIS PEOPLE THEMSELVES FOR ALMOST 100 YEARS AND STILL HAVE NONE. The kid was found close to, the tools, but the connection with the tools WAS NEVER even close to being established with any certainty at all. I have in my possession documents written and signed by the actual finders and the first arkie connected with this find. And they all say that non-archaeologists dug up the body and removed it before any arkie could determine its provenance. In every other case I have ever heard of in decades, such a desecration would SPECIFICALLY be determined to not be provable. So the Anzick kid, carbon dated to 12,600 years ago (200 years after the Clovis period), WAS NOT CLOVIS BY ANY ARCHAEOLOGICAL STANDARDS. SHAME ON THIS PRODUCTION. SHAME ON ARCHAEOLOGISTS WHO KEEP CLAIMING THE ANZICK KID WAS CLOVIS.

Question: Why Did the Clovis People Mysteriously Vanish? Answer: They hunted all the American megafauna to extinction, and there was no longer a need for their Clovis hunting technology.

This narrator (sythetic?) sounds like he 's speaking to a 5th grade class.

This word "indigenous" is too overused. As far as humanity is concerned, the word "indigenous" is an extremely unwelcome one. Nobody will ever know precisely who---race or human species----was the first on either North American or South American continents. The white man was the first to step foot on the moon over 50 years ago. Just because the "White Man" was the first to step foot on the moon, does not make the "White Race" the owners of the moon, let alone indigenous to it.

What did the last 2 clovises say? EAT ME

You forgot to mention that they were Caucasian.

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