The 13,900-Year-Old Mastodon Rib Found With A Bone Point Still Inside — And The CT Scan That Put Hunters Before Clovis
The point was not a crude improvisation.
It was a specialized weapon tip, made from a specifically chosen material, worked to a specific geometry, and delivered against a specific target with sufficient force to penetrate bone.
The engineering behind it was real engineering, not the product of accident or desperation.
And because bone tools are far less likely than stone tools to survive in the archaeological record — bone decomposes; stone does not — the Manis point represents only one preserved example of a technology that was likely far more widespread than the current evidence suggests.
Preservation Bias And The Hidden History Of Bone Technology
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