Center for the Study of the First Americans, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Sci Adv. 2023 Feb 3;9(5):eade9068. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade9068. Epub 2023 Feb 1.
Bone fragments embedded in a rib of a mastodon () from the Manis site, Washington, were digitally excavated and refit to reconstruct an object that is thin and broad, has smooth, shaped faces that converge to sharp lateral edges, and has a plano-convex cross section. These characteristics are consistent with the object being a human-made projectile point. The 13,900-year-old Manis projectile point is morphologically different from later cylindrical osseous points of the 13,000-year-old Clovis complex. The Manis point, which is made of mastodon bone, shows that people predating Clovis made and used osseous weapons to hunt megafauna in the Pacific Northwest during the Bølling-Allerød.
嵌入华盛顿马尼斯遗址的一根乳齿象肋骨中的骨碎片被数字化挖掘并重新组装,以重建一个薄而宽的物体,其具有光滑的成型面,逐渐汇聚到锐利的侧面边缘,并具有平凸的横截面。这些特征表明该物体是一种人造投射器。这枚有 13900 年历史的马尼斯投射器在形态上与后来的 13000 年的克洛维斯复杂的圆柱形骨制投射器不同。马尼斯投射器由乳齿象骨制成,表明在博林-阿勒罗德期,在太平洋西北地区,在克洛维斯人之前的人类就已经制造和使用骨质武器来捕猎巨型动物。