They argued that a staple of museum collections known as Western Stemmed points — roughly pinkie - sized stone
spearpoints with a chunky stem — are the handiwork of those first arrivals.
Some bone
spearpoints with broken tips bear signs of unskilled repair, suggesting adults gave the damaged weapons to children to practice bone - working skills and perhaps play with, she adds.
Not exact matches
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.
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.