Clovis People and the Ingenious Use of Braced Pikes in Megafauna Hunting
Understanding Ancient Hunting Innovations in the Late Pleistocene
In the wake of the last Ice Age, vast herds of megafauna roamed North America, and the Indigenous peoples who lived alongside these colossal creatures needed effective hunting methods for survival. Recent research1 has unveiled a remarkable technological adaptation used by the Clovis culture—a system of braced pikes that were likely employed in the hunti…
