CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 2, 1996 | By THOMAS H. MAUGH II, TIMES STAFF WRITER
No question fires the blood of American archeologists more than the date of the first migration of humans to the Western Hemisphere. Conservative archeologists, who want an unusually high degree of documentation for older sites, insist that the earliest thoroughly documented site for such habitation is Clovis, N.M., where evidence of Paleoindians has been firmly dated to 11,500 years ago.