#aFactADay2026
#1853: early fluters (people who made fluted points, a common shape found in Clovis points) came to Florida and found other people there, but it's thought that they stuck around - or at least elements of their culture stuck around - because some of the techniques and shapes made in the points that arrived with the Clovis culture stuck around.
later points than Clovis ones, such as Bolen points, had notches in the side at the base, possibly to help lash the point to a handle or javelin. this drastically changed the shape of the overall points, yet some details and construction methods persisted from Clovis points to later points.
there were also transitional points, where side-notches slowly appeared, about 11kyBP. you can follow the details and methods as they developed between local cultures through the tools they left behind. people talk about how the modern day is like a "melting pot" or whatever, but i find it crazy how we can look back many thousand years ago and see that human culture has always been like this.
