The Young Woman Found In An Idaho Gravel Quarry — And The 12,500-Year-Old Burial That Complicated The Clovis Story
The earliest inhabitants of the Americas were not sedentary.
They moved across large territories, following game, moving with the seasons, maintaining relationships across wide geographic areas.
A point made of obsidian from a source hundreds of kilometers away is not surprising in this context.
It is evidence of connection, of movement, of a world that was larger than the local landscape.
The other objects buried with her were made of bone.
There was an eyed needle — a sewing needle with a hole through which thread or sinew could be passed.