Since the beginning of systematic archaeological studies in southern Patagonia (Argentina and Chile), projectile points have played an important role as cultural markers. A sequence of projectile ...

Girl finds pre-historic projectile point on Long Branch beach, less than a month after LBI discovery Unfinished projectile point, designed for spears, likely from Early Woodland period, c. 500 BC ...

Jan. 3—Ancient weaponry dug up by an Oregon State University archaeological team along Idaho's Salmon River is thousands of years older than any previously found in the U.S., offering more insight ...

Archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas, helping to fill in the history of how early humans crafted and ...

The Scoggin Site, an Early Middle Period Bison kill in south-central Wyoming, yielded two distinct stylized projectile point varieties from the one bone layer present. This single component affords ...

Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas, helping to fill in the history of how ...

Nearly 16,000 years ago, Canada was covered by great ice sheets, the type you’d find today in Greenland. Any humans heading north from the present-day United States would have seen “a very dramatic ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered some tools that add to a new understanding of the timeline of human life in the Americas: projectile points. OSU archaeology ...

A 15,000-year-old projectile may provide indirect evidence for how and when people first arrived in the Americas.Credit: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University Thousands of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The projectile point was made of the bone of another mastodon. Here is a top view of the rib with ...