Clovis Lithic Legacy Preserving the Heritage of Bifacial and Blade Craftsmanship

Clovis lithic technological organization includes two formal core-reduction strategies, bifacial and blade. Finished bifaces were reduced from large bifacial ... Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a craftsman called a flintknapper. Stone has been used to make a wide ... 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. ... Clovis blade manufacture: Analytical procedure to infer “technique. ... Pressure blades and total cutting edge: An experiment in lithic technology ... ... biface blade; B, scraper on uniface blade; C, uniface ... lithic technology, suggesting a significant acceleration in the complexity of cultural systems. Pre-Clovis lithic technology at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas ... Lithic microwear analysis as a means to infer production of perishable ... Describing northern Plains. Clovis technology, Bradley states, “Most Clovis tools are either bifaces or are made from flakes that resulted from ... technology: materials supporting the existence of a non-fluted lithic blade technology ... blades with curved points, biface. 5 Lithic ... The Clovis occupations are directly dated by two radiocarbon ages of ca. ... Latest stage manufacture is indicated for a biface(s), while all other ...