Yeah . So this , this fluted idea is a distinctive North American invention . Is there any difference in the quality of the type of the stone that was accessible to people in North America versus Europe ?
But one of the things I I argue is that they , unlike in Western Europe , they didn't leave us Grand cave art of these animals that they were hunting . It's almost as if their tools were their art and it was their tools kind of represented , uh , this ultimate technology , the , the sublime technology that they would actually create in some form in blaze that they never really used to hunt just to have a ceremonial objects . So it's a , I mean , it's a really fascinating story .
So , so when they were making these points , they were just doing it in a different way , they were doing it in a different way . So they figured out the same sort of technology kind of attaching a stick , but they had different methods that seemed to be just be human ingenuity . When , when did they figure that out ?
These giant bison that became extinct about 10,000 years ago . The ones that the Folsom people had particularly specialized in hunting and as they're excavating the site in the first summer , they come across just sort of lying in the debris , a couple of points like they've never seen before , which are three or four inches long and have these thin flutes on either side at the base . There's one , there's , yeah , there's one right there .
So this is not just a Western phenomenon , this just happens to be where we discovered them first , but they were all over America . But they went for , they seem to be making pilgrimages to four or five locations that had the absolute best , sharpest , hardest flint in America . And they would go back to those spots again and again and again , kind of had a in their minds , a mental geography of where these locations were .
