{"id":261651,"date":"2025-05-28T12:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/archaeologists-excavate-traces-of-ice-age-hunters-sapiens\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:08:16","slug":"archaeologists-excavate-traces-of-ice-age-hunters-sapiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=261651","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists Excavate Traces of Ice Age Hunters \u2013 SAPIENS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--rosart\">\n<div class=\"m-text-insert-image__media\">\n<figure class=\"c-image-video\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02-Martin-Excavating-the-Traces-of-Ice-Age-Foragers\u202f-hands-still.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"img img--contain\" style=\"--data-padding-bottom: 78.22265625%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02-Martin-Excavating-the-Traces-of-Ice-Age-Foragers\u202f-hands-still-1024x801.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"In front of a desk with a lamp and laptop, a pair of hands delicately holds a tiny object. A subtitle reads: \u201cover a thousand flakes that are smaller than a centimeter.\u201d\" data-highres-url=\"https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02-Martin-Excavating-the-Traces-of-Ice-Age-Foragers\u202f-hands-still.jpg\" data-aspectratio=\"1.2784019975031\" data-sizes=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/span>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Clovis points are well known from the U.S. Southwest and the Great Plains. But recent findings are pushing their range north and east into what is today Ohio, Indiana, and the Great Lakes region. The team hypothesizes that makers of Clovis points migrated north to Michigan, bringing their spearpoints and establishing a hunting camp at the Belson site. The wee lithics suggest the hunters resharpened these tools repeatedly, shedding the fingernail-size flakes in the process.<\/p>\n<p>And because these pieces were found through multiple excavation layers, it\u2019s likely the site was occupied repeatedly\u2014perhaps annually by a small group, the archaeologists think. Such successive, Clovis-rich layers at an archaeological site are \u201cessentially unheard of,\u201d says Nash. \u201cThere\u2019s an incredible potential to add to our understanding of early hunter-gatherer anthropology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this short documentary, Nash shares his thoughts about working on the Belson site and its significance.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Aaron Martin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clovis points are well known from the U.S. Southwest and the Great Plains. But recent findings are pushing their range north and east into what is today Ohio, Indiana, and the Great Lakes region. 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