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 ?
There's no people in Europe that figured this out . No , this was uh an American invention . Uh did they use in Europe , they were just using uh blade points sometimes with , uh , with the ears at the bottom .
Well , I mean , both places had outcrops of flint and flint and obsidian were the 22 types of stone you went for . But uh , North America had some really great flint and obsidian outcrops . And one of the things that's really pretty fascinating about these Clovis people , about Clovis of the beautiful and it's , and they were all over America .
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 .
Yeah . So they , one of the great things about the whole Clovis period to a little lesser extent , Folsom is that there are these spectacular blades that they did and sometimes they would do blades that were like eight or nine or 10 inches long . And there are some of them caches of some of these blades of that size that indicate they were never used .
