[Clovis Points] These Clovis points are among the oldest tools discovered in North America, and have often been found with the remains of ice age animals.

The Clovis people attached these points to lances or spears and probably hunted animals in groups. The points, and other similar tools, were made of flint gathered from sources hundreds of miles away from the sites where they were found, indicating that their makers traveled long distances while following herds of game.

Courtesy of the National Museum of Natural History
Clovis Points of flint: unidentified peoples, North America, about 9,000 B.C.

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