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Rewriting History: Ice Age Hunters Used Planted Pikes, Not Throwing Spears, To Bring Down Mammoths


UC Berkeley archaeologists suggest that the findings could help settle the debate over Clovis points and offer new insights into what life was like approximately 13,000 years ago. Researchers propose early humans used Clovis points to impale charging megafauna by bracing spears on the ground, inf

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