Although experimental archaeology in some form has existed for more than a century, in the
last couple of decades it has matured as a useful approach for making inferences and …

The atlatl is a handheld, rod-shaped device that employs leverage to launch a dart, and
represents a major human technological innovation. One hypothesis for forager atlatl …

Ethnographically known weapon systems are crucial for the functional interpretation of
pertinent archaeological materials. The tip cross-sectional geometries of North American …

Our article “On the efficacy of Clovis fluted points for hunting proboscideans”(Eren et al.,
2021), sought to assess whether these stone points were, as conventional wisdom had it …

Proboscideans may have been important prey for Pleistocene foragers in the Americas.
Dozens of proboscidean sites have been claimed to show evidence of human involvement …

Abstract Late Pleistocene Clovis fluted points and stone flake tools have been found in
association with bison at several archaeological sites in western North America. To gain …

The role that humans played in the extinction of Pleistocene proboscideans is highly
controversial. Ethnohistoric records of elephant hunting, in concert with theoretical …

Landmark-based geometric morphometrics (LGM) is most often used in archaeology to
characterize and differentiate groups of artifacts, but it can be used for much more. We …

Fishtail projectile points are the earliest widespread projectile type in South America, and
share chronology and techno-morphology with Clovis, the oldest North American projectile …

Stone Age hunter-gatherers likely often had choices concerning the raw materials used in
the production of their technologies. How different raw materials performed once …