Murray Springs Clovis Site

A Brief Overview

From Wikipedia: “Murray Springs Clovis site, located east of Moson Road north of Arizona Highway 90, west of Sierra Vista, Arizona. Ramada and interpretive signs beside (south of) incised wash.” (Photo credit: Ammodramus)

A few miles north of the international border with Mexico, in the upper San Pedro Valley, Murray Springs, Arizona was once a hunting camp by nomads of the Clovis culture, a population of Paleoamerican humans from the late Pleistocene era. About a half-mile west of Murray Springs proper, this area is now an archaeological site of immense importance to anthropologists’ understanding of…