What’s Not Clovis? An Examination of Fluted Points in the Far West

Abstract

Within thirty years of the 1927 Folsom discovery, post-Clovis fluted point types were being described in all regions North America except the Far West, where “if it’s not Folsom, it’s Clovis” remained the norm. This was largely because of the existence of a different technology, the Western Stemmed Tradition, then believed to have derived from Clovis. Only in the last twenty years has there been any discussion of the possibility of a non-Clovis fluted form in this region, although there has been a reluctance to go beyond referring to points differing from Clovis as “Clovis-like,” “Western Fluted,” or “Great Basin Fluted.” In this paper we present the first large-scale, systematic comparison of fluted points from the Far West with Classic Clovis points in order to determine if, in fact, there is a non-Clovis fluted point form in this region, as is the case in all other regions of North America.

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