AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (AAAS)—Bone fragments recovered from the rib of an American mastodon found in present-day Washington state suggest that this extinct Ice Age megafauna was hunted by Paleo-Americans using bone projectile points 13,900 years ago – some 900 years before the well-known Clovis point emerged. Michael Waters and colleagues have identified a thin, smooth, pointed object through a digital reconstruction of the bone fragments – a finding consistent with a human-made projectile point. The discovery follows a 2011 study published in Science, co-authored by members of the same research group, that described the original discovery of the bone fragments: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1207663
Summary author: Nyla Husain
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Manis site. Mastodon rib with embedded point to the left. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University
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Manis site. CT scan of bone point fragments embedded in the rib. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University
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Manis site. CT scan of bone point fragments embedded in the rib. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University
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Manis site. Arrow points to the trajectory of the spear. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University
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Article Source: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (AAAS) news release
Cover Photo, Top Left: Close up of the bone point embedded in the rib. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University
*Late Pleistocene osseous projectile point from the Manis site, Washington—Mastodon hunting in the Pacific Northwest 13,900 years ago, Science Advances, 1-Feb-2023. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1207663
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