Clovis spear point
c. 13,000 years ago · Resource
A fluted stone projectile point of the Clovis culture, the earliest widespread toolmaking tradition of the Americas. Such points are linked to big-game hunting of Ice Age megafauna.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 11000 BCE
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution (10000 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution begins (10000 BCE)
- Megafauna extinction in the Americas (12000 BCE)
- Younger Dryas (10900 BCE)
- Clovis culture (11000 BCE)
- Clovis culture flourishes in North America (11500 BCE)
- Folsom culture (10500 BCE)