Current Issues-The High Costs of Cozy Orthodoxy: The Rise and Fall of Clovis First

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The High Costs of Cozy Orthodoxy: The Rise and Fall of Clovis First I It should come as no real surprise that a scientific theory propounded in the 1950s would eventually fall prey to advances in both evidence and technology. Of all the disciplines, archaeology typically involves the greatest shortfall between evidence and theory. As a result, archaeological theories hardly ever rise beyond the level of the possible/probable, and differences of opinion inevitably proliferate. One of these instances concerns the evolving weight of evidence regarding the first settlement of the Americas.