The fluting that defines Clovis points may have served to improve the hafting — the way the point attaches to the shaft — allowing more efficient transfer of the shaft’s momentum to the point during impact.

The animals that Clovis people hunted were not just food.

They were the primary source of a wide range of essential materials: hides for clothing and shelter, bone and ivory for tools, sinew for cordage and binding, fat for fuel and food preservation, and organs and marrow as high-calorie food sources.

In a world without domestic animals and without agriculture, the large game animals of the Pleistocene were the foundation of the material economy.

The Clovis investment in sophisticated hunting technology makes sense against this background — hunting technology was worth investing heavily in because it was the key to accessing the most important resource base in the landscape.