Clovis People and the Ingenious Use of Braced Pikes in Megafauna Hunting

Understanding Ancient Hunting Innovations in the Late Pleistocene

In the wake of the last Ice Age, vast herds of megafauna roamed North America, and the Indigenous peoples who lived alongside these colossal creatures needed effective hunting methods for survival. Recent research¹ has unveiled a remarkable technological adaptation used by the Clovis culture—a system of braced pikes that were likely employed in the hunti…