Clovis culture early North American people (c.10,000-9000 B.C.) known through artifacts first unearthed in the early 1930s near Clovis, N.Mex. Their chipped flint points (Clovis points) and other stone tools were found with remains of large mammals, e.g., extinct mammoths. Clovis groups are the earliest definitively dated human populations in the Americas.