Description

This is a thin medium to large lanceolate shaped stemmed point with a flattened cross section. The blade is primarily excurvate and is commonly long and narrow. The shoulders are weak to absent and vary from horizontal to having an upward angle. The stem is straight and commonly has basal ears at the base of the stem. The base may vary from straight to concave. The stem is commonly heavily ground, but many examples lack any basal grinding. The flaking pattern may range from collateral to random pattern.
Nomadic hunter-gatherers migrated to the North American continent at the end of the last ice age. Temperatures were frigid and large animals, such as giant beavers, mastodons, and wooly mammoth were abundant. Clovis points, which are long, fluted chipped stone projectile points, were used to fell such megafauna