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Selection of endscrapers from Paleo Crossing. Endscrapers are the most common type of tool found at Clovis sites.

Selection of endscrapers from Paleo Crossing. Endscrapers are the most common type of tool found at Clovis sites.

1 posted on 09/15/2013 2:20:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

I have found several, no, many of the smaller ones pictured in south Texas and northern Mexico. Never found one of those big ones, that would be a treat!


5 posted on 09/15/2013 2:30:40 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: SunkenCiv
Hello from Clovis, NM.

It's also interesting to speculate from where they got the flint.

Blackwater Draw is a sand dune down to what used to be the water table.

6 posted on 09/15/2013 2:33:38 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: SunkenCiv
Hey, I've got one that looks kinda like that.

Found near Menard, Texas.

7 posted on 09/15/2013 2:35:22 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: txhurl
Ping!! I may need to look much closer..
12 posted on 09/15/2013 3:07:32 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I just don’t understand this mamouth and mastodon fetish. What about ground sloths, short nosed bears, saber cats or dire wolves?


15 posted on 09/15/2013 3:10:55 PM PDT by frithguild (You can call me Snippy the Anti-Freeper)
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To: SunkenCiv
If this old world last a few thousand years someone is going to be very confused in my area LOL. I had a cousin who could make arrowheads. As a prank my dad and I found a large 250 - 300 pound Quartz rock and delivered it to his front porch while he was at work. Within a few months he made some real great points from it. The three of us used to go out hunting arrowheads together. I still have my dads collection.
16 posted on 09/15/2013 3:18:34 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: SunkenCiv

“...high-quality flint,...” Thank you for reminding me. I use Ronson brand although there are others. I meant to refill my Zippo and I had forgotten ‘til flint was mentioned in the article and comments.

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. The lamp is lit.


20 posted on 09/15/2013 3:50:22 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis)
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To: SunkenCiv

I live right on the Balcones Escarpment in Texas. Our property is “blessed” with hundreds of thousands of rocks. We used some of them for landscaping, and found that a very high percentage are chert, which is multicolored flint. It is somewhat uncommon to find such a large supply of flint.

We find broken flint chips along a natural wash. Some of the chips look like some of the pictures of the “Clovis points”. Some have speculated that early humans used this area to find and make their cutting tools.

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24 posted on 09/15/2013 5:23:41 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: SunkenCiv
Somebody sat Clovis Point? Thats just my game.  photo DSCN0821.jpg
32 posted on 09/16/2013 5:46:57 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: SunkenCiv

They probably served both functions.


34 posted on 09/16/2013 9:01:22 AM PDT by ZULU (Barack Hussein Obama is the Lord of Misrule)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ooma Feinstein: These can be used as weapons. We need Clovis Point control!


36 posted on 09/19/2013 2:09:43 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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