Fluted Spear Points Prove Early Native Americans Liked to Travel
Apr 3, 2018 by News Staff / Source
Analyses of numerous spear points with fluted edges found in northern Alaska and Yukon, and artifacts from further south in Canada, the Great Plains, and eastern United States, prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas was much more complex than previously believed. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could change how scientists view the traveling patterns and routes of early humans from 14,000 to 12,000 years ago as they settled in numerous parts of North America.
“Using new digital methods of analyses utilized for the first time in such a study of these artifacts, we found that early settlers in the emerging ice-free corridor of interior western Canada were traveling north to Alaska, not south from Alaska, as previously interpreted,†said co-author Professor Ted Goebel, an anthropologist with Texas A&M University.
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