Re: Ohio man finds 15,000-year-old flint spear tip

Jack Linthicum wrote:
This is interesting. From Clovis-first and 12,000 years give or take
we now can identify a spear point to 3,000 years earlier. Perhaps it
had an inscription, in Chinese, "Made in 13,000 BC"

The date is probably based on the conjectured date of the extinction of the Mastodon or equivalently large game animals. The size of the point would indicate the size of the game. It probably could be as old as the oldest Clovis point found.

Chalk the rest up to science writer syndrome.

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