The entire assemblage reflects a coherent technological strategy adapted to the specific challenges of mobile hunter-gatherers pursuing large prey animals across a varied and sometimes rapidly changing landscape.

The geographic distribution of Clovis sites is extraordinary.

Clovis points have been found from coast to coast across North America, and Clovis-like technology extends into Central America.

The breadth of this distribution — across environments ranging from the boreal forests of the northern continent to the tropical environments of Central America — indicates that Clovis technology was either enormously adaptive to different environments or that the Clovis expansion was so rapid that the technology spread before regional adaptations had time to differentiate significantly.

Most Clovis sites are surface finds or disturbed contexts — places where artifacts have eroded out of the surrounding sediment or been found in plowed fields and construction excavations without intact associated context.