The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story
Clovis people were not sedentary villagers.
They were highly mobile hunter-gatherers following the seasonal movements of large prey animals across a landscape that offered different resources in different seasons and in different locations.
The biface transport strategy — carrying partially worked stone blanks rather than only finished tools — is itself an adaptation to high mobility: it ensures that the toolmaker always has raw material available for producing needed tools, regardless of whether locally available stone is suitable for the task.
The geographic range implied by the stone source evidence from Anzick is substantial.