That act is real.

That act was performed by a fully human being with knowledge, intention, and skill — a member of the first peoples of the Americas, living in a world that was, by the standards of geological time, just beginning to take its modern form.

The mastodon is gone, extinct for ten thousand years.

The hunter is gone, the individual unknown, the community lost beyond recall.

The weapon shattered on impact, and most of its material decomposed over the following centuries.