Were Clovis people big-game hunters or scavengers? New study challenges long-held views

For decades, archaeologists have linked Clovis stone points found beside mammoth, mastodon, and gomphothere bones with large game hunting. Those finds helped shape the idea that Clovis people hunted these giant animals and played a major part in their extinction near the end of the Late Pleistocene. A new study argues the evidence does not