what is clovis?

Question

its for a history test review

Answer 1

There was a King named Clovis back in the Dark Ages but there's also a town named Clovis in Eastern New Mexico near Portales.

Answer 2

The Clovis culture (also Llano culture) is a prehistoric Native American culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age.
The culture is named for artifacts found near Clovis, New Mexico. Clovis sites have since been identified throughout all of the contiguous United States, as well as Mexico and Central America.
The Clovis people, also known as Paleo-Indians, are generally regarded as the first human inhabitants of the New World, and ancestors of all the indigenous cultures of North and South America. However, this view has been recently contested by various archaeological finds which are claimed to be much older.
A hallmark of Clovis culture is the use of a distinctively-shaped fluted rock spear point, known as the Clovis point. The Clovis point is distinctively bifacial and fluted on both sides, a feature that possibly allowed the point to be mounted onto a spear in a way so that the point would snap off on impact. Archaeologists do not agree on whether the widespread presence of these artifacts indicates the proliferation of a single people, or the adoption of a superior technology by non-Clovis people. It is generally accepted that Clovis people hunted mammoth: sites abound where Clovis points are found mixed in with mammoth remains. Yet this is only part of the Clovis story. More than 125 species of plants and animals are known to have been used by Clovis People throughout the Western Hemisphere. Whether they drove the mammoth, and other species, to extinction via over hunting--the so-called Pleistocene overkill hypothesis--is still an open, and controversial, question. The greater likelihood is that a combination of climate change, human predation, disease, and additional pressures from newly arrived herbivores (competition) and carnivores (predation)isolated populations and made it impossible for them to reproduce and survive.

Answer 3

Clovis was a great king of the Francs .
He defeated the Romans in 486 at Soissons, and the Alamans at Tolbiac in 496 + the Visigoths in 507.
He founded the Franc monarchy.
After his death though the empire was divided among his four sons as was the Franc custom.

Answer 4

Clovis is of or relating to a widely distributed prehistoric culture of North America characterized by leaf-shaped flint projectile points having fluted sides.

Answer 5

Clovis was a medieval Frankish King who converted to Christianity. He is relative, (something like great great great great grandfather or something like that) of Charlemagne, first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800CE

Answer 6

Clovis is definitely a King that reigned way back in the dark ages.
Pre medievial times.

Answer 7

In Minnesota its a name of a band

Answer 8

somebody with a lisp trying to ask for a hovis loaf of bread

Answer 9

i wish i could help you but i dunno. the only clovis i know of, is a city right by mine (in the central valley) try searchin for it on yahoo or google!

Answer 10

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