Clovis Lithic Technology A Testament to Human Ingenuity in Biface and Blade Production

First, these flakes demonstrate at least two distinct stages of biface manufacture on the ... for Clovis-related groups throughout the north- ern parts of ... A fresh look at long-held theories about Clovis peoples in North America based on findings from the Gault site in Central Texas. We experimentally reduced blade and bifacial cores and found both reduction strategies to be equally efficient for the production of useable flake blanks. This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record. This paper concludes a long-term experimental study to examine the role of bipolar and freehand reduction as strategies for lithic miniaturization on milky ... This book offers the first comprehensive study of a little-known aspect of Clovis culture—stone blade technology. Michael Collins introduces the topic with a ... This biface thinning strategy is a hallmark of Clovis lithic technology and is perhaps no less diagnostic of. Clovis lithic assemblages than the Clovis point ... This distinction was unclear in archaeology, and thus archaeologists relied on general artifact similarity to denote relatedness. Seriation offered a means of ... suggest that occupants of site 21LP11 relied, almost exclusively, on local lithic ... thinning stages of biface manufacture was both intentional ... Lithic miniaturization was one of our Pleistocene ancestors' more pervasive stone tool production strategies and it marks a key difference between human and non ...