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 .
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 ? Well , I mean , both places had outcrops of flint and flint and obsidian were the 22 types of stone you went for .
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 . So the ears , yeah , the ears .
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 . By the way , there are more of their points discovered in the Southeast and in New England than there are in many places in the West . So this is not just a Western phenomenon , this just happens to be where we discovered them first , but they were all over America .
So what these discoveries in the twenties and thirties are finally indicating that contrary to what most Americans of the 20th century think America is a brand new place . History dates to the time Europeans got here in the 16 hundreds . Uh you know , Indian people have only been here a couple of 1000 years .
