By Robert Torrez New Mexico's history began long before the first Europeans set foot in the Americas. In fact, New Mexico's unique environment, which contains six of the world's seven life zones, first attracted human beings and then persuaded them to remain in this area over 12,000 years ago. The earliest prehistoric residents are known as Clovis Man, named after a distinctive projectile point found near present day Clovis in eastern New Mexico. These ancient peoples are believed to have emigrated across the Bering Strait from Siberia many thousands of years ago as they followed migrations of now extinct mammoth, … Continue reading Ancient Peoples of New Mexico