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Stone tools in Texas date thousands of years before Clovis culture - C C - Jul 12, 2018 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/texas-toolmakers-add-debate-over-who-first-americans-were EXCERPT: . . . People inhabited what’s now central Texas several thousand years before hunters from North America’s ancient Clovis culture showed up, researchers say. Excavations at the Gault site, about 64 kilometers north of Austin, produced a range of stone artifacts that date to between around 16,700 and 21,700 years ago [...] An analysis of 184 of those finds identified 11 spearpoints unlike any others that have been found at ancient American sites, the scientists conclude... MORE: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/texas-toolmakers-add-debate-over-who-first-americans-were