Clovis Lithic Technology A Symphony of Bifaces and Blades

this mean for Clovis, which incorporates both biface and blade. Blades vs. Bifaces in the World. Series of Clovis Technology. I producing a fairly standardized ... technology: materials supporting the existence of a non-fluted lithic blade technology ... blades with curved points, biface. 5 Lithic ... First, these flakes demonstrate at least two distinct stages of biface manufacture on the ... for Clovis-related groups throughout the north- ern parts of ... The. Jackson homestead includes three dwellings: the main Jackson family house and two less substantial dwellings. The main house was first constructed as a ... "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 ... 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 ... This distinction was unclear in archaeology, and thus archaeologists relied on general artifact similarity to denote relatedness. Seriation offered a means of ... However, we assume the technological strategies used in biface and blade manufacture are the same for artifacts that end up in caches 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 ... Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and coloniz...