Clovis Points and Early Innovation in North America
Clovis Points and Early Innovation in North America
Clovis points were an American invention, perhaps the first. More than 10,000 Clovis points have been discovered scattered in 1,500 locations throughout North America, dating back 13,000 years. This teaching collection includes: 1) a 3-D scan of a Clovis point; 2) a video of Smithsonian anthropologist Dr. Dennis Stanford explaining what they tell us about early America, 3) a video demonstration of how stone tools were made; and 4) three Smithsonian magazine articles about Clovis points and stone tools.