Highlighting the auction is the Rutz Clovis. At 9 3/4” long, this sea green obsidian masterpiece is the largest Clovis point on record. Consigned by the family of the original finder, the importance of such a monumental artifact could easily cause it to exceed it’s $200,000-400,000.00 estimate.

This Fluted point was found on a high plateau about eight or ten miles from the East Wenatchee Clovis site. It's made from semi-translucent Rainbow Obsidian. Normally it looks black but when it's tilted in the light it turns a shade of sea green.

The East Wenatchee Clovis Site (also called the Richey-Roberts Clovis Site or the Richey Clovis Cache) is a deposit of prehistoric Clovis points and other implements, dating to roughly 11,000 radiocarbon years before present or about 13,000 calendar years before present, found near the city of East Wenatchee, Washington in 1987. Accidentally ...

2023年3月29日 · These are the rarest and most valuable arrowheads nowadays, considering they are one of the earliest types of arrowheads ever crafted. In fact, just a few years ago, one specimen of prehistoric Rutz Clovis point was estimated to be worth around $400,000 and it was sold for $276,000!

2013年11月13日 · The Rutz Clovis point, a Palaeolithic projectile head, hammered for $276,000 at Morphy Auctions' November 9 Prehistoric American Artefacts sale in Denver. The price set is a world record for a North American flaked stone artefact. The point dates to circa 10,000-9,000 BC and was produced by the Clovis people - early in

Another large Clovis point from the area called the "Rutz" Clovis (CLICK HERE) was brought to light when the owners read an article about the Wenatchee site in National Geographic magazine. This point was found several years earlier on a high …

2013年11月8日 · Michael Gramly brought the Rutz Clovis to first light in 1990 when a descendant of the finder brought the Clovis to Dr. Gramly's excavation of the Richie Clovis Cache in East Wenatchee, Washington . A photo of the Rutz Clovis was included in Gramly's monograph of the Richie Clovis site.

Clovis points are the characteristically fluted projectile points associated with the New World Clovis culture, a prehistoric Paleo-American culture. They are present in dense concentrations across much of North America and they are largely restricted to the north of South America.

The Rutz Clovis point, a Palaeolithic projectile head, hammered for $276,000 at Morphy Auctions' November 9, 2013 Prehistoric American Artifacts sale in Denver. The price set is a world record for a North American flaked stone artifact.

The large 'Rutz" Clovis point is laying on top of the largest Biface from the Anzick cache. The obsidian Clovis points just below are from Blackwater Draw, the Fenn cache and the one at the top was found near the Dietz site in Oregon. A cast of the Murray Springs Bone Wrench is at the right of the picture.