| 单词 |
Clovis |
| 释义 |
Clovis|ˈkləʊvɪs|
The name of a city in eastern New Mexico, U.S.A., applied attrib. to a prehistoric culture and its remains first found at the Blackwater Draw site near there, esp. to a type of projectile point (see quots.). Cf. Folsom.
1943E. B. Howard in Amer. Antiquity Jan. 230 The base of the Clovis fluted point is slightly to deeply concave. 1947Bull. Texas Archeol. & Paleont. Soc. XVIII. 12 The fluting is inferior.., that on Clovis points seldom extending as much as half way forward. 1961G. Clark World Prehist. ix. 216 The fact that Clovis points have been found stratified below Folsom ones..is not inconsistent with their persistence into later periods: indeed, it may well prove that the distinction between Folsom and Clovis points is functional rather than cultural. 1968D. L. Clarke Analyt. Archæol. viii. 336 The Magdalenians focussed on reindeer or bison..and the Clovis and Gravettian technocomplexes on mammoth. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia II. 1010/3 The typical Clovis point is leaf shaped, with parallel or slightly convex sides and a concave base... Clovis points range in length from 1½ to 5 inches..and are heavy and fluted. 1981F. H. West Archæol. Beringia 205 There was surely environmental zonation present in Clovis times. 1983La Tierra Oct. 32 There have been a number of Clovis points recovered from surface sites. |
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