Blackwater Draw site
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Blackwater Draw site is an important archaeological location on the Llano Estacado of eastern New Mexico known for early human occupation and distinctive Clovis culture artifacts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blackwater Draw site canonical | 4 |
| Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark | 2 |
| Lehner Ranch site | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blackwater Draw site Context triple: [Paleo-Indian period, associatedWith, Blackwater Draw site]
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A.
Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
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B.
Hot Creek Geological Site
Hot Creek Geological Site is a geothermal area near Mammoth Lakes in California known for its steaming hot springs, colorful mineral pools, and dramatic volcanic landscape along Hot Creek.
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C.
Wolfs Cave
Wolfs Cave is a notable cave site within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, an area renowned for its rich fossil record and significance to human evolutionary history.
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D.
Wells Cave
Wells Cave is a notable cave within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its rich hominin fossil record and karst landscape.
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E.
Russell Cave National Monument
Russell Cave National Monument is a prehistoric archaeological site in northeastern Alabama that preserves one of the most extensively used rock shelters in the southeastern United States, documenting thousands of years of Native American habitation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blackwater Draw site Target entity description: Blackwater Draw site is an important archaeological location on the Llano Estacado of eastern New Mexico known for early human occupation and distinctive Clovis culture artifacts.
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A.
Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
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B.
Hot Creek Geological Site
Hot Creek Geological Site is a geothermal area near Mammoth Lakes in California known for its steaming hot springs, colorful mineral pools, and dramatic volcanic landscape along Hot Creek.
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C.
Wolfs Cave
Wolfs Cave is a notable cave site within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, an area renowned for its rich fossil record and significance to human evolutionary history.
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D.
Wells Cave
Wells Cave is a notable cave within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its rich hominin fossil record and karst landscape.
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E.
Russell Cave National Monument
Russell Cave National Monument is a prehistoric archaeological site in northeastern Alabama that preserves one of the most extensively used rock shelters in the southeastern United States, documenting thousands of years of Native American habitation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Paleoindian site
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Blackwater Draw Locality 1
ⓘ
Blackwater Locality No. 1 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designatedAs | National Historic Landmark ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Ridgely Whiteman ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 1929 ⓘ |
| earliestOccupationDate | approximately 13,000 years ago ⓘ |
| environment | semi-arid High Plains ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Edgar B. Howard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ⓘ
linked to:
Penn Museum
|
| geologicalAge | Late Pleistocene ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalCulture |
Clovis culture
ⓘ
Folsom tradition ⓘ
linked to:
Folsom culture
Late Paleoindian traditions ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceOf |
Pleistocene megafauna hunting
ⓘ
bison hunting ⓘ early human use of freshwater resources ⓘ mammoth hunting ⓘ |
| hasFacility | Blackwater Draw Museum ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ancient spring-fed lake basin
ⓘ
kill and butchering areas ⓘ multiple stratified cultural layers ⓘ |
| hasFind |
Clovis points
ⓘ
linked to:
Clovis culture
Folsom points ⓘ
linked to:
Folsom culture
bone tools ⓘ faunal remains ⓘ hearths ⓘ ivory and bone foreshafts ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Clovis culture artifacts
ⓘ
Folsom culture artifacts ⓘ Paleoindian kill and butchering areas ⓘ early human occupation ⓘ stratified archaeological deposits ⓘ |
| listedOn | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Llano Estacado
ⓘ
eastern New Mexico ⓘ |
| managedBy | Eastern New Mexico University ⓘ |
| near |
Clovis, New Mexico
ⓘ
Portales, New Mexico ⓘ |
| nhlDesignationYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| nrhpType |
National Historic Landmark district
ⓘ
linked to:
National Historic Landmark
|
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| partOf | Blackwater Draw ⓘ |
| region |
Southern High Plains
ⓘ
linked to:
Llano Estacado
|
| significance |
key site for understanding Paleoindian lifeways on the Southern High Plains
ⓘ
type-site for Clovis culture ⓘ |
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Referenced by (7)
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