I mean , I kind of argue in the book , I mean , it's pretty much speculation because we don't really know a huge amount about these people . But one of the things I I argue is that they , unlike in Western Europe , they didn't leave us Grand cave art of these animals that they were hunting . It's almost as if their tools were their art and it was their tools kind of represented , uh , this ultimate technology , the , the sublime technology that they would actually create in some form in blaze that they never really used to hunt just to have a ceremonial objects .
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 .
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 4000 years ago without any other effect , being present , they died out . Do we have biological remains or skeletal remains of Clovis people and people from that , that time period ? Yeah , we do .
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 .
