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Clovis Point
| The Palaeo, or Palaeoindian,
Period, is the earliest firmly established
era of human activity in Manitoba. It began approximately 12,000 years
ago, and some archaeologists attribute its development to the Aboriginal
discoverers of North America,
who migrated over the Bering land bridge that once connected Alaska
and Siberia. These early inhabitants are widely identified by the appearance
of similar technologies and subsistence patterns throughout the continent.
As elsewhere, Palaeo cultures are represented in Manitoba by the predominance
of skillfully crafted stone spearheads, such as the Clovis point in the
picture to the left.
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