The quantity and quality of the artifacts were remarkable.

These were not casually deposited objects.

They were a concentrated assemblage of the most valued technological items that Clovis people produced — items that took skill, time, and access to specific high-quality stone to create, and that were deposited with a very young child who could not have accumulated them through personal achievement.

The immediate question that archaeologists faced was: what did this mean?

The Technology of the Clovis Points