# Texas archeologists get to the point.

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**Created:** [October 25, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-archeologists-get-to-the-point/823473 "2018-10-25T01:58:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-archeologists-get-to-the-point/823473/1 "2018-10-25T01:58:33Z")

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[Or point_s_](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/stone-spear-tip-may-have-belonged-first-americans). Eleven spear points that could be up to 15,500 years old, providing a diagnostic feature for pre-Clovis culture.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-archeologists-get-to-the-point/823473/2 "2018-10-25T02:09:18Z")

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Being Texas, shouldn’t that be “pre-Cletus”?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-archeologists-get-to-the-point/823473/3 "2018-10-25T03:51:30Z")

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Great that they seem to have some definitive dates, as well as an identifiable tool type. One could easily see how that could evolve into Clovis.