Chipping Away at History The Bifacial and Blade Techniques of Clovis

... 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. Reducing biface and blade cores is the staple of Clovis lithic technology, attested to by their abundance in caches (they're part of the mobile toolkit) and ... Clovis lithic technological organization includes two formal core-reduction strategies, bifacial and blade. Finished bifaces were reduced from large bifacial ... Both descriptions of Clovis bifaces and projectile points indicate that Clo vis point manufacture follows a standard production continuum. This continuum ... 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 ... ... both archaeology and the Quaternary sciences were attempting to develop ... blade/microblade systems. The contributions present an interesting ... "Modern Times," refers to the study of lithic technology in reference to today's flintknappers who make stone artifacts in a wide variety of both standard and ... Two unifaces are in the collection. Both are made on biface-thinning flakes. One is unifa- cially worked at one end of the flake. The other is unifacially ... This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record. 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.