The ability to identify, harvest, prepare, and store plant foods is a complex body of knowledge that takes years to develop and generations to transmit.

The people at Paisley Caves 14,000 years ago were not surviving by luck; they were applying a comprehensive knowledge of the resources available in their environment and of the techniques required to exploit those resources effectively.

Placing Paisley in the Broader Pre-Clovis Picture

Paisley Caves does not stand alone in the evidence for pre-Clovis human presence in the Americas.

It is one piece in a growing body of evidence from multiple sites across both continents that collectively indicates the Americas were inhabited before the Clovis horizon.