However, Wolfram points out that at the time " Clovis got no farther than the Seine ; only after several more years did the Franks succeed in occupying the rest of the Gallo-Roman buffer state north of the Loire.

The " land of Francia ," from which France gets its name, had high points of expansion under kings Clovis I and Charlemagne.

Numerous 10, 000-year-old Clovis points found along their banks indicate indigenous peoples used these depressions as campsites.

Excavations from this archeological site in the 1950s revealed mammoth bones with embedded Clovis points, providing evidence of the hunting activities of Paleo-Indians some 13, 000 years ago.

Clovis points are on display at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center and research findings are available through the Wenatchee World.

On that date, while digging in an orchard just east of the city, farmworkers accidentally discovered a cache of 11, 000-year-old Clovis points and other artifacts, left by Pleistocene hunters some 11, 000 years earlier.

Some of the more famous Paleo-Indian types include Clovis, Folsom and Dalton points.

For example, the Folsom point and Clovis point traditions ( collectively known as the fluted points ) are associated with Paleo Indians, some of the first people to colonize the new world ( see Models of migration to the New World ).

These Paleo-Indians or Clovis people hunted the now-extinct mammoths and bison with Clovis points.

Clovis points dated 12, 000 to 13, 000 years old have been found along the Missouri River near Townsend, Montana, about forty-five miles beyond the Jefferson.

Paleo-Indians, the earliest indigenous peoples, lived in the valley and the heights by 10, 000 BCE, as evidenced by archaeological artifacts such as Clovis points.

The Solutrean hypothesis builds on similarities between the Solutrean industry and the later Clovis culture / Clovis points of North America, and suggests that people with Solutrean tool-technology crossed the Ice Age Atlantic by moving along the pack ice edge, using survival skills similar to that of modern Eskimo people.

Archaeologists Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley suggest that the Clovis point derived from the points of the Solutrean culture of southern France ( 19, 000 BP ) through the Cactus Hill points of Virginia ( 16, 000 BP ) to the Clovis point.

Clovis points are the characteristically-fluted projectile points associated with the North American Clovis culture.

Clovis fluted points are named after the city of Clovis, New Mexico, where examples were first found in 1929.

It is noted as the location of controversial artifacts believed by some archaeologists to indicate human habitation of the New World earlier than the Clovis culture, previously believed to be the first people in North America.

Clovis and Mary had seven more children, but there is a timeline confusion that may indicate she already had children when she married Clovis.

With the end of the war plans were made to establish a permanent B-29 presence at Clovis AAF, and initially Clovis AAF became a processing center for personnel separating from service.

Even before he embraced Christianity, Clovis had showered benefits upon Remigius and the Christians of Reims, and after his victory over the Alamanni in the battle of Tolbiac ( probably 496 ), he requested Remigius to baptize him at Reims ( December 24, 496 ) in the presence of a large company of Franks and Alamanni: according to Saint Gregory of Tours, 3, 000 Franks were baptized with Clovis.

The first known inhabitants of New Mexico were members of the Clovis culture of Paleo-Indians.

Under Clovis ' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized.

The earliest known inhabitants of the area lived during the late Pleistocene ( Ice Age ), and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9, 200 BCE ( 11, 200 years old ) based on evidence found at Bell County's much-studied Gault Site.

Lithic antecedents of Clovis points have not been found in northeast Asia, from where the first human inhabitants of the Americas are believed by the majority of archaeologists to have originated.

After the discovery of several Clovis sites in western North America in the 1930s, the Clovis people came to be regarded as the first human inhabitants of the New World.

Since the 1930s, the prevailing theory concerning the peopling of the New World is that the first human inhabitants were the Clovis people, who are thought to have appeared approximately 13, 500 years ago.

William Daly, in order more directly to assess Clovis ' allegedly barbaric and pagan origins, was obliged to ignore the bishop Saint Gregory of Tours and base his account on the scant earlier sources, a sixth-century " vita " of Saint Genevieve and letters to or concerning Clovis from bishops and Theodoric.

Books I to IV recount the world's history from the Creation but move quickly to the Christianization of Gaul, the life and times of Saint Martin of Tours, the conversion of the Franks and the conquest of Gaul under Clovis, and the more detailed history of the Frankish kings down to the death of Sigebert in 575.

In 1956 Holly's band ( then known informally as Buddy and the Two Tones ( meaning Buddy Holly with Sonny Curtis and Don Guess ), posthumous releases refer to The Three Tunes ) recorded an album's worth of rockabilly numbers in Nashville, Tennessee for Decca ; the records were no more than mildly successful, and the band didn't hit pay dirt until 1957, when producer and recording engineer Norman Petty hosted Holly's sessions in Clovis, New Mexico.

Childbert was also one of the more religious of the sons of Clovis, cooperating with his brothers, rescuing his sister, and constructing the famous monastery of Saint Vincent to house his relics.

Archeological digs in nearby East Wenatchee have uncovered Clovis stone and bone tools dating back more than 11, 000 years, indicating that people migrating during the last Ice Age spent time in the Wenatchee area.

The more popular theory claims that " po ' boy " was coined in a New Orleans restaurant owned by Benny and Clovis Martin ( originally from Raceland, LA ), former streetcar conductors.

Clovis points are characterized by concave longitudinal shallow grooves called " flutes " on both faces one third or more up from the base to the pointed tip ; The grooves may have permitted the points to be fastened ( hafted ) to wooden spears, dart shafts or foreshafts ( of wood, bone, etc.

The Clovis culture was replaced by several more localized regional cultures from the time of the Younger Dryas cold climate period onward.

In total, more than 125 species of plants and animals are known to have been used by Clovis people in the portion of the Western Hemisphere they inhabited.

However, the pagan Franks under their king Clovis converted to Catholicism, and thus received the considerable support of the network of Christian bishops, rapidly becoming the only effective institution of power that was more than local in extent, which strongly opposed the Arianism of the Visigothic aristocrats.

The Monte Verde findings were initially dismissed by most of the scientific community, but in recent years the evidence has become more widely accepted in some archaeological circles, although vocal " Clovis First " advocates remain.

Artifacts at this site may predate Clovis by 3, 000 years or more.

As the Romans withdrew more and more of their forces, to concentrate on the western boundaries or to focus on the conquest defence of Iberia, Franks, particularly Clodwig, or Clovis ( 482-511 ), and Goths, particularly Theodorich ( 471-527 ) contested for control of the region.

The Vita tells that Dagobert I sent his representative the merciless general Lollo ( Lollonius ) to reside at Bourges and bring the city more closely under the king's command ; when the people came complaining of their treatment to Sulpicius, he decreed a three-day fast for clergy and laity, but also sent one of his clergy Ebargisilus by name to Clovis II with a remonstrance that alarmed the young king to the extent that he revoked the census or tax, and returned the assessment, setting a precedent, it was claimed: " Indeed, having been relieved from affliction, those people remain in total liberty up to this present day.

The Center for Advanced Research and Technology, more commonly referred to as CART, is a high tech high school located in Clovis, California, USA.

des Huon von Bordeaux, Halle 1900 ), that Wolfdietrich is far more closely connected with Theodoric than Theodebert, and that Hugdietrich, therefore, stands for Clovis, the hero, in the Merovingian historians, of a well-known Brautfahrtsaga.

Eleven feet of river sediment at the site provides a stratigraphy that suggests more than 10, 000 years of nearly constant occupation by American Indians, potentially pre-dating the Clovis culture and contributing to the knowledge of the Dalton and San Patrice cultures.