Clovis points and foreshafts under braced weapon compression: Modeling Pleistocene megafauna encounters with a lithic pike
by R. Scott Byram, Kent G. Lightfoot, Jun Ueno Sunseri
Historical and ethnographic sources depict use of portable braced shaft weapons, or pikes, in megafauna hunting and defense during Late Holocene millennia in North and South America, Africa, Eurasia and Southeast Asia. Given the predominance of megafauna in Late Pleistocene North America during the centuries when Clovis points appeared and spread across much of the continent (13,050–12,650 cal BP), braced weapons may have been used in... Читать дальше...