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That depends, pardner. Mostly on how you define the term “cowboy” – and whether there’s a 10-gallon hat lurking somewhere in your closet. During 11 months out of the year, the city’s Western-themed ...

When Edgar B. Howard heard that a road crew in eastern New Mexico had stumbled across a cache of big ancient bones, he dropped everything and grabbed the first westbound train. At the time—November ...

The end of thePleistocene, marked by the Younger Dryas (YD) onset around 12.8 thousand years ago, witnessed the sudden extinction of many North American megafauna and the collapse of the Clovis ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2010: George McJunkin and Ales Hrdlicka Episode: 2010 George McJunkin and Ales Hrdlicka: Who discovered the Clovis culture? Today, guest historian Cathy ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role ...

The people who for decades have been presumed to be the first inhabitants of the New World probably were not, according to a new study dating tools to a more recent age about 12,000 years ago. Clovis ...

The diet of a key prehistoric American group appears to have been rich in mammoth meat, a study analyzing data extracted from the 12,800-year-old remains of a toddler has revealed. Published in the ...