Ancient Ingenuity Clovis Lithic Technology's Biface and Blade Expertise

Only two bifaces are present in the entire flaked stone assemblage (Table 4.3). If the presence of bifaces is used as a measure of reliance on bifacial ... This book offers the first comprehensive study of a little-known aspect of Clovis culture—stone blade technology. Michael Collins introduces the topic with a ... Pre-Clovis lithic technology at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas ... Lithic microwear analysis as a means to infer production of perishable ... This biface thinning strategy is a hallmark of Clovis lithic technology and is perhaps no less diagnostic of. Clovis lithic assemblages than the Clovis point ... implements, burins, prismatic blades and abundant utilized flakes. Bone implements are not numerous, but include atlatl spurs. Lithic technology and some ... Of these point types, either pointed Blades, Levallois points, or Mousterian points are more indicative of projectile technology than the other point types from ... This research examines the technology behind Clovis biface production from ... With regard to Clovis biface technology, both end thinning and channel. No evidence of a true blade technology was observed in the post- Clovis Paleoindian or Early Archaic debitage assemblages, although biface manufacture continued ... and tool manufacture, only two types were distinguished in this study ... Clovis and Folsom lithic technology on and near the Southern Plains: Similar ... This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record.