The Young Woman Found In An Idaho Gravel Quarry — And The 12,500-Year-Old Burial That Complicated The Clovis Story
What The Debate Has Become — And Where Buhl Fits
The Clovis First paradigm, which was still influential when the Buhl burial was discovered in 1989, has been substantially revised.
It is not precisely dead — there are still researchers who question the reliability of specific pre-Clovis dates and who maintain that the Clovis evidence is more robust than the alternatives — but the consensus has shifted significantly toward accepting pre-Clovis occupation of the Americas.
Cooper’s Ferry in Idaho, with its well-dated pre-Clovis stemmed point assemblage from before 15,000 calibrated years ago, is perhaps the most significant recent addition to the western North American early occupation record.