Sunday, 12 January 2025
Clovis First Among Collectors?
I think this https://projectilepoints.net/ webpage is an excellent and thought-provoking resource about arrowhead collection (my project for 2025). I find its presentation of the typology very enlightening, and am particularly taken with the coverage of raw materials.* I have a question.
If one is an "arrowhead" hunter/ collector in the USA, what are the type names given to the "paleo" points that are pre-Clovis?
On US collectors' websites like this, am I mistaken in seeing that points of the 'Clovis 'cluster' seems to be the earliest types listed?
If so, is this a persistence of the "Clovis First" model here? Do not US collectors aspire to be "independent thinkers trying to make sense of the past" like the British "metal detectorists" (laughably) claim to be? Is there any literature on this? (I mean the US, not the Brits)
*The site is unattributed to a group of authors/moderators/creators - does anyone know who's behind it?
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