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Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument

Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument: Holding History In Your Hand

From an outcrop of flint in today's northern Texas, spear points and other Clovis-era tools spread across the continent thousands of years ago. Today the spear points are one of the most famous and defining items known to North American archaeology. But what's to be seen at Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument today...?
  • By stratto - June 19th, 2019 1:30am

Exploring The Parks: Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument

Archaeologists for years have puzzled over the scale and range of prehistoric activities that created the remarkable flint quarry sites at Alibates, Texas. No doubt some Native Americans, in search of flint, merely picked up exposed chunks or cobbles lying on the ground. Others chiseled boulders directly from the bedrock.

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