ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors describe and characterize the Sonoran Clovis site patterns, along with the organization of lithic technology and the cultural landscape. The bones were deposited in red soil of Pleistocene age, all indicating an abundance of Terminal Pleistocene remains with cultural associations. It is often described as a pronounced reversal in the overall warming trend that characterized the terminal Pleistocene. The archaeological record for the first peoples of northern and southern Mesoamerica older than 11,000 years ago is very scarce. The Basin of Mexico seems to be an exception or outlier for Terminal Pleistocene settlement in that fluted point technologies appear to have never been introduced or adopted, and more data are needed from this important area. The archaeological visibility of 13,000–12,000-year-old sites is very low, and the paucity of investigations sometimes has also left this early period under studied.
