TY - JOUR
T1 - Late Pleistocene osseous projectile point from the Manis site, Washington-Mastodon hunting in the Pacific Northwest 13,900 years ago
AU - Waters, Michael R.
AU - Newell, Zachary A.
AU - Fisher, Daniel C.
AU - McDonald, H. Gregory
AU - Han, Jiwan
AU - Moreno, Michael
AU - Robbins, Andrew
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the North Star Archaeological Research Program and the Chair in First American Studies, Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 The Authors.
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - Bone fragments embedded in a rib of a mastodon (Mammut americanum) from the Manis site,Washington, were digitally excavated and refit to reconstruct an object that is thin and broad, has smooth, shaped faces that converge to sharp lateral edges, and has a plano-convex cross section. These characteristics are consistent with the object being a human-made projectile point. The 13,900-year-old Manis projectile point is morphologically different from later cylindrical osseous points of the 13,000-year-old Clovis complex. The Manis point, which is made of mastodon bone, shows that people predating Clovis made and used osseous weapons to hunt megafauna in the Pacific Northwest during the Bølling-Allerød.
AB - Bone fragments embedded in a rib of a mastodon (Mammut americanum) from the Manis site,Washington, were digitally excavated and refit to reconstruct an object that is thin and broad, has smooth, shaped faces that converge to sharp lateral edges, and has a plano-convex cross section. These characteristics are consistent with the object being a human-made projectile point. The 13,900-year-old Manis projectile point is morphologically different from later cylindrical osseous points of the 13,000-year-old Clovis complex. The Manis point, which is made of mastodon bone, shows that people predating Clovis made and used osseous weapons to hunt megafauna in the Pacific Northwest during the Bølling-Allerød.
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U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.ade9068
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.ade9068
M3 - Article
C2 - 36724281
AN - SCOPUS:85147235463
VL - 9
JO - Sci Adv
JF - Sci Adv
SN - 2375-2548
IS - 5
M1 - eade9068
ER -