Did you know the Clovis point is considered the first American invention? This 13,000-year-old technology was used to hunt mammoth and other big game. Learn more about the Clovis people and their arrival in the Americas on Wednesday, 6/24 beginning at 9/8c on FIRST PEOPLES. | PBS

Archaeology shows the Clovis culture vanishing at the Younger Dryas boundary...and they weren’t alone. Around the world, sites show long periods of habitation followed by sudden silence. The common assumption is migration. But what if many of these cultures didn’t relocate at all? The evidence may point instead to abrupt, catastrophic loss...entire populations wiped out rather than moving on. | The Randall Carlson