Word: spearpoint
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...assumption that humans arrived in the Americas about 11,500 years ago is known as the Clovis hypothesis. The name comes from the 1933 discovery of a fluted stone spearpoint dated to that era in a pile of mammoth bones near Clovis, New Mexico. Over the years, similar spearpoints were unearthed all over North America, all apparently about the same age. Because the weapons, known as "Clovis points," were so widespread, and because essentially no artifacts at all were found in older sediments, archaeologists and anthropologists concluded that the Clovis people were the first and that they came over from...