Clovis Lithic Technology's Edge Bifaces and Blades for Survival

Fluted stone bifaces known as Clovis points appeared and spread across vast regions of North American megafauna habitat during four centuries of the terminal ... Both descriptions of Clovis bifaces and projectile points indicate that Clovis point manufacture follows a reduction continuum. This continuum ... This paper concludes a long-term experimental study to examine the role of bipolar and freehand reduction as strategies for lithic miniaturization on milky ... Both descriptions of Clovis bifaces and projectile points indicate that Clo vis point manufacture follows a standard production continuum. This continuum ... both the biface and blade knapping is equally suit- able for flake tool blanks and needs to be consis- tently included when making comparisons. ... biface blade; B, scraper on uniface blade; C, uniface ... lithic technology, suggesting a significant acceleration in the complexity of cultural systems. In production, Clovis flintknappers detached blade-like flakes from the ends of a biface that traveled through the central portion of the biface ... Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and coloniz... 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 ... Long, bifacially worked, fluted points are perhaps the most diagnostic element of Clovis lithic assemblages, but large bifaces, blades produced ...