CLOVIS POINTS
FENN CACHE----UTAH
PRIVATE COLLECTION

   Here is another example of the variation of Clovis basal styles from a single site. These three points are part of what has become known as the Fenn cache and they are believed to have been found together as a single group. But there is still a difference in style just as there is in the points found on the Colby site. One of these points has a base which was made very similar to the "classic" Colby notched bases. It has the same rounded wide "ears" and a very deep concave base.
   The longest point is this group is 6 inches long and made of deep red Phosphoria Formation chert. It's considered by many to be the most skillfully made Clovis point so far discovered. The even edge-to-edge diagonal percussion flaking on both sides of this point is proof that the ancient flintknapper that made it was one of the most highly skilled craftsman of Clovis lithic technology that has ever been documented by modern scientists.

Three Clovis points from the Fenn cache.

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