The Clovis tradition-a sophisticated stone technology based on a sharp point that was fastened to the end of a hunting spear-flourished
A. widely all across the Americas, with archaeological evidence of its reach as far south as Tierra del Fuego.
B. around 18,000 B.P. in northeastern Asia, making possible the successful crossing of the Bering Sea into North America.
C. as the dominant and exclusive cultural tradition of the Americas between 18,000 and 12,000 B.P.
D. in the Central Plains, on their western margins, and in what is now the eastern United States, between 13,250 and 12,800 B.P.
E. in Sahul, the land mass connecting Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, around 50,000 B.P.
Answer: D
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