Ancient Craftsmanship Clovis Lithic Technology's Bifacial and Blade Finesse

this mean for Clovis, which incorporates both biface and blade. Blades vs. Bifaces in the World. Series of Clovis Technology. I producing a fairly standardized ... Clovis lithic technological organization includes two formal core-reduction strategies, bifacial and blade. Finished bifaces were reduced from large bifacial ... No evidence of a true blade technology was observed in the post- Clovis Paleoindian or Early Archaic debitage assemblages, although biface manufacture continued ... ... biface blade; B, scraper on uniface blade; C, uniface ... lithic technology, suggesting a significant acceleration in the complexity of cultural systems. This document has been prepared for the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS). Cultural Resources Program (CRP) to address a ... Fluted stone bifaces known as Clovis points appeared and spread across vast regions of North American megafauna habitat during four centuries of the terminal ... First, these flakes demonstrate at least two distinct stages of biface manufacture on the ... for Clovis-related groups throughout the north- ern parts of ... technology: materials supporting the existence of a non-fluted lithic blade technology ... blades with curved points, biface. 5 Lithic ... Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a craftsman called a flintknapper. Stone has been used to make a wide ... There is reason to expect, and compel- ling evidence to show, that cache blades are not repre- sentative of Clovis blade production and products.