But uh , North America had some really great flint and obsidian outcrops . And one of the things that's really pretty fascinating about these Clovis people , about Clovis of the beautiful and it's , and they were all over America . By the way , there are more of their points discovered in the Southeast and in New England than there are in many places in the West .
And so suddenly that discovery in the early 20th century in the 19 twenties gives America a kind of an antiquity that it had never had before . And within a decade , we discover the Clovis site which is out on the Texas New Mexico border . And the Clovis site is of these elephant hunters who are actually even older than the Folsom people .
There's a , there's a actually a Clovis burial site in Montana of uh of two infants , a young child and an infant . And they were buried with ceremonial Clovis points several inches long covered in sacred , what we think was sacred red ochre . Um And that particular site in 2014 , uh The local native people in Montana is near Bozeman , uh and the local native people and uh and archaeologists um went out to the Shiels River , the nearby Shiels river .
So it's a , I mean , it's a really fascinating story . I mean , we've known about the Clovis people , obviously for a long time , we've been trying to figure out of course , other explanations for what happened to the animals of the Pleistocene because we lost a lot of them during the Pleistocene . And people have proposed all sorts of other theories .
And within a decade , we discover the Clovis site which is out on the Texas New Mexico border . And the Clovis site is of these elephant hunters who are actually even older than the Folsom people . And this pushes when they're finally radiocarbon dated , that site pushes uh the dates back to the 13,000 year range .
