Coordinated group hunts with multiple hunters working together to separate younger or weaker animals from a group and overwhelm them are a third possibility.

The physical requirements of killing an animal as large as a mammoth with a hafted stone point are considerable.

The point needs to penetrate deeply enough to reach vital organs, which requires either striking the animal in a relatively vulnerable area — the belly, the region around the eyes, or other locations where the skin is thinner and the vital organs are relatively accessible — or delivering the point with sufficient force to penetrate the thick hide and muscle of the animal’s flanks or back.

Experimental archaeologists have tested Clovis points in various ways, including the use of replicated points in penetration tests on large animal analogues, and the results suggest that Clovis points were effective penetrating instruments capable of delivering lethal wounds to very large animals.