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This educational display features an authentic Paleo spear point base dating approximately 14,000–9,000 years old from the Paleo Period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"253\" data-end=\"529\"\u003eThese stone points were attached to shafts and used with an atlatl, one of humanity's earliest hunting technologies. 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