Sentences with phrase «clovis spearpoints»

These big game hunters spread their Clovis spearpoints — long and thin with distinctive hollows carved into both sides of the base — across the United States and northern Mexico starting about 13,000 years ago, when they arrived via an ice - free corridor through glacier - covered Alaska and western Canada.

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Their arrival roughly coincided with the North American appearance of Clovis people, makers of distinctive spearpoints who may have entered the New World via an ice - free, inland route (SN: 5/13/17, p. 8).
Clovis people hunted big game with distinctive spearpoints and camped at sites with large hearths.
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