This technological continuity is one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the cultural and population continuity that the genetic data has confirmed.

The people who were using modified forms of flintknapping technology in the 16th century, when Europeans first encountered them, were the descendants — cultural as well as biological — of the people who made the Clovis points found in the Anzick burial.

The technological tradition, like the genetic lineage, stretched from Clovis through all the intermediate cultures to the present.

This does not mean the technology was static.

The diversification of stone tool traditions after Clovis — from the regional point styles of the late Paleo-Indian period through the notched and stemmed points of the Archaic period, the development of pottery, the refinement of projectile technology for use with bows and arrows — represents genuine technological evolution and adaptation.