When Edgar B. Howard heard that a road crew in eastern New Mexico had stumbled across a cache of big ancient bones, he dropped everything and grabbed the first westbound train. At the time—November ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and mastodons. But such a ...

Depictions of ancient humans in both scientific and popular culture contexts picture them throwing spears at the thick hides of mammoths. A new study from archaeologists at UC Berkeley suggests that ...

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How did early humans use sharpened rocks to bring down megafauna 13,000 years ago? Did they throw spears tipped with carefully crafted, razor-sharp rocks called Clovis points? Did they surround and ...

Archeologists say new findings might help resolve the debate about Clovis points and reshape how we think about what life was like roughly 13,000 years ago. After an extensive review of writings and ...

Clovis points are distinguishable, in part, due to their distinctive flute or channel flake scar near the base, as shown in these replicas. UC Berkeley researchers studied how the points functioned as ...