Clovis Spear Point

As Ice Age hunter-gatherers, the Clovis people relied on expertly crafted spear points like this for a successful hunt. This spear point would have been tied to a long shaft with animal sinew and could have penetrated the thick skins of mammoths and other large mammals extinct today.

• Clovis Culture
• Paleoindians
• North American archaeology
• Hunter-gatherers
• Ancient Americas at the Field Museum