Clovis point
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Clovis points are the characteristically fluted projectile points associated with the New World Clovis culture, a prehistoric Paleo-American culture. They are present in dense concentrations across mu
Clovis point, 11500–9000 BC, Sevier County, Utah, chert
Clovis points from the Rummells-Maske Cache Site, Iowa
Clovis points collected in 1807 at Bone Lick, Kentucky
Flint-knapping demonstration
Solutrean hypothesis
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The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas is the claim that the earliest human migration to the Americas began from Europe during the Solutrean Period, with Europeans traveling along pa
Clovis point
…that the technology was introduced by hunters traversing the Atlantic ice-shelf and suggests that some of the first American humans were European (the Solutrean hypothesis). However, this hypothesis is not well-accepted as other archaeologists have pointed out that Solutrean and Clovis lithic technologies are technologically…
Examples of Clovis and other Paleoindian point forms, markers of archaeological cultures in North America.
Solutrean tools created using bifacial percussion flaking.
Biface hand axe stone tool.