This Lab Replicates Weapons to Reveal Stone Age Feats of Engineering
A Kent State archaeologist is testing the innovative engineering of the Clovis people, one of the earliest communities to inhabit North America
By Ben Panko
smithsonian.com
August 23, 2017 11:03AM
The so-called Clovis people, one of the earliest communities to inhabit North America, left behind more than 10,000 arrowheads scattered throughout the continent. Depending on their location, the crafted blades have slightly differing designs, but archaeologists still aren't sure why these differences evolved. Over the last year, however, Kent State University archaeologist Metin Eren has turned his lab into a modern-day weapons workshop to find out. Recently, Eren's experiments helped solve a long simmering mystery about grooves carved in some Clovis points, reports Dake Kang for the Associated Press.
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