Clovis bone versus stone weapon tip penetration: Thinking about relative costs and benefits, experimental assumptions, and archaeological unknowns at Sheriden Cave, Ohio, U.S.A

•Pleistocene people used different raw materials in the production of their technologies.•We produced replica Clovis bone and stone points based off those from Sheriden Cave, Ohio.•We compared the bone and stone points in terms of target penetration depth.•The stone points outperformed the bone points.•Experiments do not provide archaeological answers.