Artifact is tiny, but ancient find is big

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Prehistoric people: The finely crafted point could be 11,000 years old
By Mark Havnes
The Salt Lake Tribune



KANAB - The pink stone point, flecked with a rainbow of colored minerals and discovered last spring just lying on the ground, appears to be older than any artifact ever found on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Archaeologists believe the point, thought to have been crafted between 10,000 and 11,000 years ago, represents a significant find and could be representative of the ancient people referred to by the name "Clovis," an appellation given to a group of artifacts discovered in the early 1930s near Clovis, N.M.

"Its manufacturing technique appears to be Clovis," said Matthew Zweifel, archaeologist for the monument that is administered by the Bureau of Land Management with headquarters in Kanab.
"It's old, old."

As Zweifel held the exquisite object in his fingers Wednesday, he pointed to fluted edges that gradually smoothed out where the point would have been attached to a shaft.

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1. Noah's son left it there while flying around looking for

Dinosaurs....