Clovis
First Frankish king
Clovis refers to an ancient Native American culture identified by distinctive fluted stone spearpoints, dating to roughly 13,000 years ago.
The Clovis people were among the earliest inhabitants of the Americas, known for hunting large game like mammoths.
The name comes from Clovis, New Mexico, where artifacts were first discovered in the 1930s.
Separately, Clovis is a masculine given name, most associated with Clovis I, the first king to unite the Frankish tribes.
Having parallel grooves
- mammothExtinct elephant with curved tusks
- mastodonExtinct elephantine Pleistocene mammal
- megafaunaSpecies over 44 kilograms
- PleistoceneAncient glacial geological period
lithic · Folsom · big-game hunting · Ice Age · Beringia · stone tools · artifact · excavation
Early medieval Frankish rulers
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- FranksMedieval Germanic tribe
- GaulRoman-era Western Europe
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
Catholicism · succession · warrior · conquest · coronation · Paris · Visigoths
Semi-arid western American tableland
- Buddy HollyFifties rock-and-roll pioneer
- Route 66Historic cross-country highway
- dairy farmingLivestock husbandry for milk
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
Central California agricultural region
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
- suburbanOf residential outskirts
fluted
Having parallel grooves
- mammothExtinct elephant with curved tusks
- mastodonExtinct elephantine Pleistocene mammal
- megafaunaSpecies over 44 kilograms
Pleistocene · lithic · Folsom · big-game hunting · Ice Age · Beringia · stone tools · artifact · excavation · stratigraphy
Merovingian
Early medieval Frankish rulers
baptism · Catholicism · succession · warrior · conquest · coronation · Paris · Visigoths
High Plains
Semi-arid western American tableland
- Buddy HollyFifties rock-and-roll pioneer
- Route 66Historic cross-country highway
- dairy farmingLivestock husbandry for milk
cattle · railroad · ranching · Southwest · Great Plains
San Joaquin Valley
Central California agricultural region
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
- suburbanOf residential outskirts