The Ice Ages ended during the Paleoindian Period, and megafauna such as mammoths and mastodons were becoming extinct. Humans migrated into the Americas, with some creating chipped stone tools that had a distinctive flake, or flute, along one or both sides. Some of these fluted points were used to hunt megafauna, although recent research shows they were also multi-functional knives in some instances.
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- Digging Up the Noxious Weed: The Archaeology of Tobacco Smoking Pipes
- George is Waiting: Archaeology at George Washington’s Ferry Farm
- Making No Bones About It: Why Zoorchaeologists Study Animal Bones Found at Archaeological Sites
- Telling Time with Stone: How archaeologists use chipped stone tools to find the age of archaeological sites
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