Bone Foreshafts from a Clovis Burial in Southwestern Montana

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Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Archaeological and Geological Studies

Abstract

Formal and functional analyses of bone artifacts from a Clovis burial in southwestern Montana suggest that they were constructed to serve as (detachable or nondetachable) foreshafts for attaching fluted projectile points to lance shafts.

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