Bifaces and Blades The Dynamic Duo of Clovis Lithic Technology

Long, bifacially worked, fluted points are perhaps the most diagnostic element of Clovis lithic assemblages, but large bifaces, blades produced ... Biface reduction can proceed along two different manufacturing trajectories, one of which involves ... Lithic Technology. 18. (1/2):106–112. Spiess, A.E. ... Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and deadly spear points. Where they worked, they left thousands of pieces of debris, which have allowed ... ... bifaces with ones known to be both Clovis and post-Clovis ... biface manufacture has served to establish the importance of overshot flaking in Clovis technology. The manufacture of pottery was a significant development in prehistoric cooking technology (Sassaman 1993:2-13). Thom's Creek and Stallings are the two earliest ... Putting out a lot of information to jump headlong into the topic of Clovis point manufacturing from early bifaces to preforms through ... 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. both the biface and blade knapping is equally suit- able for flake tool blanks and needs to be consis- tently included when making comparisons. This research examines the technology behind Clovis biface production from ... With regard to Clovis biface technology, both end thinning and channel. suggest that occupants of site 21LP11 relied, almost exclusively, on local lithic ... thinning stages of biface manufacture was both intentional ...