For those who believe they've made a similar discovery, Slade encourages contacting a local museum or archaeological society.

A dramatic finding was made there in 1979, when archaeologists excavated a spear point made by members of the Clovis culture (14,000 – 10,000 year ago) among the mastodon bones.

For many years, scientists have thought the first Americans arrived from Asia 13,000 years ago, during the last ice age, probably by way of the Bering Strait. They were known as the Clovis people ...

Archaeologists reveal method used by ancient humans to hunt mighty mammoths to extinction - Prehistoric hunters used stone-tipped spears as pikes to kill charging mammoths and mastodons ...

That date is about 2,000 years before the appearance of the so-called “Clovis culture” whose distinctive fluted and notched arrowheads are the earliest widely found human artifacts in North ...