Clovis Lithic Legacy Uncovering the Secrets of Bifacial and Blade Craftsmanship

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. No evidence of a true blade technology was observed in the post- Clovis Paleoindian or Early Archaic debitage assemblages, although biface manufacture continued ... ... both archaeology and the Quaternary sciences were attempting to develop ... blade/microblade systems. The contributions present an interesting ... by bifacial, flake, and prismatic-blade tech- niques on high-quality and oftentimes exotic lithic materials (Collins 1990). Along with. Why Bifaces and Blades? Clovis peoples clearly relied on both blade and especially biface technolo-. gies but the reasons for such a ... This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record. We experimentally reduced blade and bifacial cores and found both reduction strategies to be equally efficient for the production of useable flake blanks. Clovis lithic technology has been characterized as containing complex biface and blade technologies, multiple flake and blade tools such as end ... 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 ... have been regarded by some as unfluted Clovis ... Two lithic technological procedures represented during the Paleo period are. Folsom fluting and blade production ...