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The deeply stratified type site for the Clovis point and Llano complex, located near Clovis, New Mexico, with evidence of occupation from the earliest paleo-Indian through the archaic period. Clovis points have been found associated with mammoth bones and Folsom points have been found with bison bones. Also found: Agate Basin points, Cody complex points, a Frederick point, and tools of the archaic period. Blackwater Draw is also used to evaluate the chronological sequences at other sites and is the Clovis type site.