They used much smaller spears and invented the spear thrower, or atlatl. The Archaic Indians did not make Clovis Fluted points for large hand held spears. Hunting deer required new hunting techniques. Instead they hunted deer which generally stay within one mile of their home unlike mammoth, mastodon and caribou. They no longer had to follow herds of Big Game animals.
The Archaic Indians did not travel as much as the Paleo-Indians. The Paleo-Indians changed their way of life to take full advantage of the new plants and animals and the warmer climate. Archeologists have named this the beginning of the Archaic Period. Big Game including mammoth and mastodon became extinct and deer became abundant. The plants and trees changed and became more like what is found in the Kanawha Valley today. Four of these points have been found along the Elk River in Charleston and Clovis points have also been found at Winfield, Poca Bottom near the John Amos Power Plant and Crown Hill.Ībout 10,000 years ago the Paleo-Indian period came to an end. Their Clovis points and other stone tools are often made of flint from Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. We know that Paleo-Indians traveled a lot because they followed the game animals they hunted.
They also hunted smaller animals and gathered numerous plants. Archeologists believe they hunted Big Game animals like the mammoth and mastodon because their Clovis points have been found with mammoth remains in the western United States. Paleo-Indians left very few remains in the Kanawha Valley. They had no schools but taught their children at home. They had religious leaders, community leaders, and doctors to care for the sick. They needed food, shelter, clothing and tools. Prehistoric people had the same basic needs as we have today. In the Western United States they are found with mammoth bones and radiocarbon dating indicates they are 12,500 years old.
Clovis or Fluted points are found all over the United States, Canada and Alaska. We know Paleo-Indians live here because archeologists have found their hunting tools called Clovis points in the mountains and along the river bottoms. Paleo means old and the Paleo-Indians were the oldest inhabitants we know of in the Kanawha Valley. The earliest people in the Kanawha Valley are called Paleo-Indians.
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