A History Of The World In A 100 Objects: No. 5

A History Of The World In A 100 Objects
Number 5
Clovis Spear Point
Stone spearhead, found in Arizona, USA
11000 BC

The last item skipped quite away forward in terms of time, items 2 & 3 were at the dawn of Human life. They helped early Human's adapt & change their world for the better. It also meant they could spread out. They moved from their African origins, spreading out too Asia, The Middle East, Europe & slightly surprisingly, America. This was at a time when Earth suffered it's last ice age and there was as the Earth thawed there was a land bridge from what is now Russia tp the American continent which then disappeared, stranding those settlers in America for thousands of years. This item is from those people & is a spear head made of stone. It's not decorative like the Reindeer found in France, it's a functional item & would have been used for hunting.
It is about six inches in length & looks like a ridged surfboard. It is 13,000 years old and the was designed to be an attachment to a spear handle that could be broken off & used again.
It was found in Clovis, Arizona & Anthropologists have termed the people who lived in America at this time Clovis People, although they were widespread, colonising the whole of the American continent from The Bering Strait to the Southern most tip of what is now Argentina.
This item comes from a time where Humans were spreading out as a population across the globe & it represents the intrinsic desire for Humans to move about, explore, settle in new areas & prosper. Our natural inquisitive industrialness making us go further in search of new materials, better sources of wealth & food & to populate every corner of globe.