13,000 Years Ago, the First Americans Recycled Their Points: What 500 Stone Weapons Reveal
As the last Ice Age waned, small mobile bands pushed into an unknown continent with no pack animals to carry their gear. A study of nearly 500 stone points from the Tennessee Valley shows how the first hunters resharpened their weapons almost to exhaustion, and how their successors learned to discard without fear. Two ways of managing risk, written in stone.
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