In the past, researchers thought ancient hunters threw spears to kill mammoths, but new research has shown that the ...

The process starts with a large chunk of chert or flint (bottom center). That rock is chipped into smaller pieces (right and top), and these are finally shaped into finished points (left).

which are sharpened tips made by shaping rocks like chert, flint or jasper. The special weapons, named after the New Mexico ...

Named for the town of Clovis, New Mexico – where the shaped stones were first recovered nearly a century ago, Clovis points were shaped from rocks, such as chert, flint or jasper. They range ...

They are carved from rocks including chert, flint and jasper, with scalloped edges that could easily pierce the hide and skin of animals. But the most distinctive features of Clovis points are ...

Named for the town of Clovis, New Mexico, where the shaped stones were first recovered nearly a century ago, Clovis points were shaped from rocks, such as chert, flint or jasper. They range from ...

Chert, commonly known as flint, often occurs in round nodules that weather out of road cuts and stream banks. For more than a century in Clay County, this flint has been collected as the ideal ...

Suitable rocks for spearheads, such as chert, flint or jasper, are limited to certain areas. As are the right kind of long, straight pole with which you could fashion a spear. Each spear would ...

which are sharpened tips made by shaping rocks like chert, flint or jasper. Clovis points have been found across Ice Age sites in America, some lodged in mammoth skeletons. Exactly how early ...

Named for the town of Clovis, New Mexico, where the shaped stones were first recovered nearly a century ago, Clovis points were shaped from rocks, such as chert, flint or jasper. They range from the ...