The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story
Short-faced bears were among the most formidable terrestrial predators in the Americas.
This was the world that Clovis technology was designed to exploit.
The extraordinary investment in the fluted point technology — the time, skill, and high-quality stone required to produce each finished Clovis point — makes the most sense in the context of a subsistence system built around hunting very large and potentially dangerous animals.
The precision required to deliver a killing blow to a mammoth or mastodon, under conditions that demanded both accuracy and speed, justifies an investment in the most effective hunting technology available.
The extinction of these animals at the end of the Pleistocene was not merely an ecological event.
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