The 13,900-Year-Old Mastodon Rib Found With A Bone Point Still Inside — And The CT Scan That Put Hunters Before Clovis
They inhabited regions the Clovis-first model did not emphasize.
And they were part of a story that is still being reconstructed, still being complicated, still resisting the clean narrative that any single model imposes on a reality that was always more varied and more interesting than the model.
The Manis mastodon rib, and the bone point inside it, are among the pieces of evidence that helped break the Clovis-first model’s hold on the field.
Not by disproving Clovis — Clovis people were real, their sites are real, their technology is real and impressive.