A lot of Ice Age remnants did not survive the effects of ... Experts spotted small tools at the ridge, which were different from the large spear points present at other Great Lakes sites.

Scott Byram During the Ice Age ... chert, obsidian and other types of stone. They also usually have fluted indentations at the base, which suggests they may have been attached to spear shafts.

But such a technique would have been less than useless — leaving a hunter with no spear and an angry mammoth, a new study argues. Instead, Ice Age hunters ... made of obsidian or jasper, the ...

The Clovis were a prehistoric people who flourished in North America at the end of the Ice Age, hunting mammoths and other big game with spear points ... this obsidian piece is the largest ...

But they likely fail to consider the realities of life in the Ice Age, said Byram and his co-author, Jun Sunseri, a Berkeley associate professor of anthropology. Clovis points are often the only ...

during the last Ice Age, early humans faced the daunting task of hunting massive creatures like mammoths, mastodons, and saber-toothed cats. The common belief was that these prehistoric hunters used ...

Previous theories included throwing spears with razor sharp rocks called ... of the most commonly unearthed objects from the last Ice Age. Thousands have been uncovered over the past century ...

Known as Obsidian Cliff ... people since the last ice age. Over the last 11,500 years or so, the stone has been fashioned into deadly knives, razor-sharp spear points, darts for atlatls, or ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The first humans who spread across North America during the last Ice Age put mammoths at ... artifacts including large stone spear points suitable for killing massive ...

After an extensive review of writings and artwork -- and an experiment with replica Clovis point spears -- a team of ... unearthed items from the Ice Age? Named for the town of Clovis, New Mexico ...

Did they throw spears tipped with carefully crafted ... which are among the most frequently unearthed items from the Ice Age? Named for the town of Clovis, New Mexico, where the shaped stones ...