New research suggests that Ice Age Americans likely used flint spear heads to hunt mammoths, mastodons.
The Indigenous American Indians who lived in Ohio and neighboring Ontario during the Ice Age made flint spear points that are similar, if not identical, to Clovis points. Clovis points are a particular style of spear point found throughout much of North America during the relatively brief period between about 13,000 and 12,800 years ago.
The Mt. Albion West site in southern Ontario was a campsite for Ice Age Paleoindians. Among the many artifacts recovered by the excavation team, there was one complete Clovis-like spear point and 11 fragments of similar points along with other stone tools. There was a similar discovery in Ohio at the Martins Creek mastodon site in Holmes County. Excavations in 1993 uncovered scattered mastodon bones along with a handful of artifacts, including a scraping tool and several flint flakes. A study of organic residues on several artifacts identified traces of proboscidean proteins on one flake knife. As Williamson and his team noted in regard to the Mt.
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