✦ LIBER ✦
A Clovis well at the type site 11,500 B.C.: The oldest prehistoric well in America
✍ Scribed by C. Vance Haynes Jr.; Dennis J. Stanford; Margaret Jodry; Joanne Dickenson; John L. Montgomery; Philip H. Shelley; Irwin Rovner; George A. Agogino
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 382 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0883-6353
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✦ Synopsis
An enigmatic circular pit uncovered during archaeological excavations at the Clovis type site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, in 1964 has been reexposed and posited as a water well excavated by Clovis people around 11,500 B.C. The prehistoric well, the oldest in the New World, was probably a dry hole. Other Clovis wells may exist in the area. The excavation of wells near where there had been surface water