Pre-Clovis projectile -Implications for the Late Pleistocene peopling of the Americas

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Pre-Clovis projectile points at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas—Implications for the Late Pleistocene peopling of the Americas

Abstract

Lanceolate projectile points of the Clovis complex and stemmed projectile points of the Western Stemmed Tradition first appeared in North America by ~13 thousand years (ka) ago. The origin, age, and chronological superposition of these stemmed and lanceolate traditions are unclear. At the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas, below Folsom and Clovis horizons, we find stemmed projectile points dating from ~13.5 to ~15.5 ka ago, with a triangular lanceolate point form appearing ~14 ka ago. The sequential relationship of stemmed projectile points followed by lanceolate forms suggests that lanceolate points are derived from stemmed forms or that they originated from two separate migrations into the Americas.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaat4505
 
Clovis spread very fast, with early and very similar dates ranging from S Canada down to N Mexico making it hard to pinpoint the origin.
So now they have a 15 ka predecessor at Friedkin?

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