Bifacial Brilliance and Blade Precision The Essence of Clovis Lithic Art

... biface blade; B, scraper on uniface blade; C, uniface ... lithic technology, suggesting a significant acceleration in the complexity of cultural systems. In production, Clovis flintknappers detached blade-like flakes from the ends of a biface that traveled through the central portion of the biface ... Metric, technological and typological data are presented for the entire assemblage. The technical interpretations for blade and biface manufacture are sound and ... have been regarded by some as unfluted Clovis ... Two lithic technological procedures represented during the Paleo period are. Folsom fluting and blade production ... This document has been prepared for the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS). Cultural Resources Program (CRP) to address a ... The. Jackson homestead includes three dwellings: the main Jackson family house and two less substantial dwellings. The main house was first constructed as a ... Our results show that the Folsom lithic network is significantly denser than the Clovis lithic network. This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record. conclude that blade technology was one of the most efficient lithic manufacturing ... opposed to 30% at Shoop; and biface production was the most common lithic ... Why Bifaces and Blades? Clovis peoples clearly relied on both blade and especially biface technolo-. gies but the reasons for such a ...