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The Clovis people made projectile points out of quartz crystals – possibly because they thought they had supernatural properties
The earliest hunter-gatherers in the Americas were expert stone knappers, and fashioned a variety of tools and weapons out of ...
Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, and many other large animals went extinct. Around the same time, the Clovis ...
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of an extraordinary trove of stone and mammoth ivory tools deep within a frozen layer of Alaskan soil. The extraordinary find not only features the oldest ...
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role ...
Fluted points and the peopling of the Americas -- What is Clovis? The archeological record -- Clovis archeological culture -- The Old and New World patterns compared -- Figures in the landscape: ...
A new study finds that Clovis-era quartz crystal points, despite being harder to knap than chert or obsidian, were functionally similar to other stone tools. Researchers analyzed 58 artifacts and ...
Stanford, Dennis J. and Bradley, Bruce. 2012. Across Atlantic Ice: The Origins of America's Clovis Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...
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