And the first islanders had to have been sailors.

The Clovis Paradigm And Why It Fell

To fully appreciate what the Arlington Springs revision meant for the history of American archaeology, it is necessary to understand the intellectual weight of the Clovis First paradigm — and why challenging it was so difficult for so long.

The distinctive fluted stone projectile points first identified near Clovis, New Mexico, in the late 1920s and early 1930s were a revelation.

They appeared, consistently, in association with the bones of extinct Pleistocene megafauna — mammoths, giant bison, horses.