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====Other tools==== Other tools associated with the Clovis culture are [[adzes]] (likely used for woodworking),<ref name=":16" /> bone "shaft wrenches" (suggested to have been used to straighten wooden shafts),<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Haynes |first1=C. Vance |last2=Hemmings |first2=E. Thomas |date=January 12, 1968 |title=Mammoth-Bone Shaft Wrench from Murray Springs, Arizona |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.159.3811.186 |journal=Science |volume=159 |issue=3811 |pages=186β187 |doi=10.1126/science.159.3811.186 |pmid=17792354 |bibcode=1968Sci...159..186V |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }}</ref> as well as rods, some of which have [[bevel]]ed (diagonally shaped) ends. These rods are made of bone, antlers,<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Sutton |first=Mark Q. |date=July 3, 2018 |title=Paleoindian-Era Osseous Rods: Distribution, Dating, and Function |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20555563.2018.1525600 |journal=PaleoAmerica |language=en |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=183β201 |doi=10.1080/20555563.2018.1525600 |issn=2055-5563|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and ivory.<ref name=":16" /> The function of the rods is unknown and has been subject to numerous hypotheses. Rods that were beveled on both ends are most often interpreted as foreshafts to which stone points were hafted, with a pair of rods surrounding each side of the point (or alternatively, the point being surrounded by a single beveled rod and the end of the wooden shaft,<ref name=":23">{{Cite journal |last1=Byram |first1=R. Scott |last2=Lightfoot |first2=Kent G. |last3=Sunseri |first3=Jun Ueno |date=August 21, 2024 |editor-last=Barkai |editor-first=Ran |title=Clovis points and foreshafts under braced weapon compression: Modeling Pleistocene megafauna encounters with a lithic pike |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=19 |issue=8 |pages=e0307996 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0307996 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=11338624 |pmid=39167742|bibcode=2024PLoSO..1907996B }}</ref>) while rods that are beveled on only one end, with the other being pointed, are most often interpreted as projectile points. The rods may have served other purposes, such as prybars.<ref name=":4" /> Clovis people are also known to have used ivory and bone to create projectile points.<ref name=":16" /> {{gallery|Clovis beveled rod replica.png|Replica of a Clovis beveled bone rod from the East Wenatchee site|Clovis spear shaft diagram.png|Diagram of a hypothetical reconstruction of a hafted Clovis weapon, including a Clovis point (gray), a beveled rod (cream), and a wooden shaft (brown)|File:Reconstructed Clovis spear.png|Hypothetical reconstruction of a hafted Clovis weapon, including a Clovis point, a beveled rod, a wooden shaft, and lashings|||||||width=185|height=|lines=|align=center|title=Beveled rod and Clovis spear reconstructions}}
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