Point Projectiles in the Ice Age (IMAGE)

University of Mississippi

Point Projectiles in the Ice Age

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 Jesse Tune, director of the Center for Archaeological Research, examines a replica of a Cumberland spear point, one of two types of stone projectiles he and Shane Miller, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama, studied to gain insights into the lives of ancient inhabitants of the Tennessee River Valley. The Cumberland people were the second known group of humans living in the region some 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age.

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Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

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