The new study from Byram and his co-authors helps bridge the two perspectives by hypothesizing that the Clovis-era spear was a far more sophisticated tool — and wielded in a very different way ...

Mixed in with the bones were slender, finger-long spear points—Clovis points, as they are called today—which Howard carefully left in place. Eminent researchers quickly converged on Clovis and ...

Researchers said the way the stone point could have pierced animal flesh and the wood-and-bone shaft opened up suggests that the spear as a system functioned similar to a hollow-point bullet.

This artifact was used for killing mammoths and other megafauna. Clovis refers to this particular style of stone spear point and to the culture of the North American people who used such weapons ...

That spear is useless now ... from Alaska to Mexico. They're known as Clovis points, after the small town in the US State of New Mexico where they were first discovered in 1936, alongside the ...

Chalcedony is a type of quartz commonly used by Clovis communities to fashion arrowheads, spear tips, and other sharp implements. The recent excavations at the site revealed a chalcedony tool ...

This artifact was used for killing mammoths and other megafauna. Clovis refers to this particular style of stone spear point and to the culture of the North American people who used such weapons ...

That spear is useless now ... from Alaska to Mexico. They're known as Clovis points, after the small town in the US State of New Mexico where they were first discovered in 1936, alongside the ...