Bifaces and Blades The Cornerstones of Clovis Lithic Technology

Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and deadly spear points. Where they worked, they left thousands of pieces of debris, which have allowed ... The geographic distribution of Clovis biface caches, putative Clovis blade caches, and other Clovis sites in the West can only support one of these hypotheses. While biface and flake tools are common artifact forms recovered at a number of Clovis dated sites, blades are not typical of Clovis assemblages in all regions. No evidence of a true blade technology was observed in the post- Clovis Paleoindian or Early Archaic debitage assemblages, although biface manufacture continued ... Long, bifacially worked, fluted points are perhaps the most diagnostic element of Clovis lithic assemblages, but large bifaces, blades produced ... ... both archaeology and the Quaternary sciences were attempting to develop ... blade/microblade systems. The contributions present an interesting ... Clovis lithic technology has been characterized as containing complex biface and blade technologies, multiple flake and blade tools such as end ... by bifacial, flake, and prismatic-blade tech- niques on high-quality and oftentimes exotic lithic materials (Collins 1990). Along with. A fresh look at long-held theories about Clovis peoples in North America based on findings from the Gault site in Central Texas. Clovis and Folsom Lithic Technology on and Near the Southern Plains: Similar ... At a minimum, biface plan views include two major segments: blade and stem.