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NOVA | Making a Stone Age Weapon | PBS

Duration: 03:11

Jeff Boudreau of the Massachusetts Archeological Society demonstrates how America's Stone Age explorers made the Clovis point, a weapon that could mean the difference between life and death.

This video podcast was produced and edited by Melissa Salpietra and David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.

For more on the Clovis point and what it can tell us about the first Americans, visit www.pbs.org/nova/stoneage

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Post Date: March 3, 2007