Everytime I see one of these "early man" or the related but much later "people find America" threads I always take a quick look over at my dozen or so top quality, perfect 9,000 or so year old Clovis points my father found around our home.
That always reassures me that this stuff is for real.
Cool points! Can you post a picture?
Blam--Cool thread. Thanks!
I have a hypothesis that the grooves on the Clovis points were for carrying poison to kill the megafauna. The Aleuts used a poison (aconite) made from the roots of Monkshood flowers to kill whales using a tiny harpoon from a kayak. Our ancestors could have thrown a Clovis point about 100 yards using an atlatl. Even hitting one out of a herd of mammoths meant abundant BBQ for the entire tribe for a week. Otherwise, why go to the trouble of flaking out flutes along the sides of the Clovis point? Flint knapping like that takes days to complete and a lot of skill.