But before this method of killing woolly mammoths can be 100 percent verified, archeologists will need to locate the shafts of the weapons so that they can be certain that the Clovis tips were affixed as pikes. Metin Erin, an archeologist from Kent State University, maintains that up to this point in time, this missing puzzle piece has eluded researchers.
The type of wood the Clovis had available to them would have deteriorated to dust long ago, making the likelihood of finding an intact pike very remote. For now, at least, archeologists have a solid hypothesis to work with until a dig can turn up more evidence.
Sources: PLOS One Science News
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