The 13,900-Year-Old Mastodon Rib Found With A Bone Point Still Inside — And The CT Scan That Put Hunters Before Clovis
The fluting, which is largely unique to North America, served to allow the point to be hafted securely to a shaft.
No one outside North America made fluted projectile points in the same way.
By the middle of the twentieth century, the distribution of Clovis sites across North America — from the Great Plains to the East Coast to the Southwest — and the relatively consistent dating of those sites to around 13,000 years ago had created a compelling narrative.
People arrived from Asia via Beringia.
They brought a specific stone tool technology that they refined into the characteristic Clovis point.
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