Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers takes a hit
Tests of stone points show that early Americans may have been better scavengers than hunters of the giant beasts
Artists’ renderings of ancient Clovis people often show them taking down giant beasts, but new research suggests their stone points made such kills unlikely.
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An amateur archaeologist exploring a dried-out, ancient stream channel called Blackwater Draw near Clovis, New Mexico, made a startling discovery in 1929. He came across chiseled stone points strewn among mammoth fossils.