The earliest humans to settle the Great Lakes region likely returned to a campsite in southwest Michigan for several years in a row, according to a new study.
The earliest humans to settle the Great Lakes region likely returned to a campsite in southwest Michigan for several years in a row, according to a University of Michigan study.
Thomas Talbot, an independent researcher who discovered the first Clovis point at the Belson site in Mendon, Michigan, in 2008, also conducts the group's chert analysis. He discovered some of these chert pieces were from Paoli chert, which formed in northeastern Kentucky. The Clovis period is characterized by distinctive spear points. The points have a very characteristic central channel through the length of the tool, called a flute. A Clovis person would have used this channel as a place to attach a shaft to the spearhead, creating a composite hunting weapon -- a spear that was used to hunt prey of all sizes. Also distinctive to the Clovis people is that they struck large flakes of material off the stone to create their points.
The current study examines excavations of buried flakes -- chips off of stone created when the Clovis people were resharpening, or creating, their points -- and multiple tools buried in less disturbed sediment beneath the plowed surface layers of the field.
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