Clovis Lithic Technology The Art of Bifacial and Blade Crafting

... both archaeology and the Quaternary sciences were attempting to develop ... blade/microblade systems. The contributions present an interesting ... No evidence of a true blade technology was observed in the post- Clovis Paleoindian or Early Archaic debitage assemblages, although biface manufacture continued ... 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. Lithic miniaturization was one of our Pleistocene ancestors' more pervasive stone tool production strategies and it marks a key difference between human and non ... 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 ... The manufacture of pottery was a significant development in prehistoric cooking technology (Sassaman 1993:2-13). Thom's Creek and Stallings are the two earliest ... "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 ... This research examines the technology behind Clovis biface production from ... With regard to Clovis biface technology, both end thinning and channel. This thesis tests the assumption of Stanford and Bradley that the blade manufacturing technologies of Clovis and Solutrean were “virtually identical”. By.