The 13,900-Year-Old Mastodon Rib Found With A Bone Point Still Inside — And The CT Scan That Put Hunters Before Clovis
They did not, in the CT images alone, look like a weapon.
They looked like scattered pieces of dense bone material distributed through a channel in the rib.
The CT images established the geometry of the penetration and the density of the embedded material.
They did not, by themselves, reveal the shape of the original object.
That would require more work.
And the CT images raised a question that a different kind of analysis would have to answer: what was the embedded material made of?
What The Bone Itself Was Made From
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