S8 Ep661: 2. Flores discusses the Clovis culture's rapid expansion and its role in the American extinction of large mammals. While climate played a part, overhunting and genomic isolation likely triggered these disappearances. (2)
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🗓️ 29 March 2026
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2. Flores discusses the Clovis culture'srapid expansion and its role in the American extinction of large mammals. While climate played a part, overhunting and genomic isolationlikely triggered these disappearances. (2)
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| 0:32.1 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchewitt. Dan Florence. His new book is Wild New World, the epic story of |
| 0:38.5 | animals and people in America. The Clovis culture, so-called, because of where it was identified, |
| 0:46.1 | that tools were suggestive of a developing culture, is important first to establish where the |
| 0:52.6 | sites are, and Dan's book wonderfully gives us a map of what's been found so far. |
| 0:58.0 | They're more defined. |
| 1:00.0 | And these are between around 13,000 years ago. |
| 1:03.0 | There's speculation that human beings, as we, the modern human beings, |
| 1:08.0 | were here before them, but it's important to establish why Clovis matters. |
| 1:13.6 | Dan, it's the tools, it's the hunting skills, |
| 1:16.8 | it's the remains of the sites. |
| 1:18.7 | Is that why we key on that 13,000 years ago? |
| 1:24.2 | It really is all those things you mentioned. |
| 1:28.6 | As you referred to, we do believe, we're pretty convinced, in fact, by a set of footprints found in southern New Mexico just four or five years ago, that people did get here, even before the glacial maximum, 23,000 years ago. |
| 1:48.6 | But it looks as if their populations were really small. |
| 1:54.1 | And one of the reasons we think that is because when the Clovis migration happens, |
| 1:59.4 | and it happens when the ice sheets in North America |
| 2:03.0 | open sufficiently to allow an overland migration out of Siberia into what is now Canada |
| 2:10.8 | and the lower 48 states of the U.S., when that happens, this migration takes place with such rapidity that it implies that there's not really |
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