Clovis's Stone Age Arsenal Bifaces and Blades for Diverse Tasks

However, we assume the technological strategies used in biface and blade manufacture are the same for artifacts that end up in caches and ... have been regarded by some as unfluted Clovis ... Two lithic technological procedures represented during the Paleo period are. Folsom fluting and blade production ... ... both within the state and outside its borders. Even his commitment to public ... production, repair, storage, or transportation of materials, goods, or ... Mexica blade making with wooden tools: recent experimental insights. In Mesoamerican Lithic Technology: Experimentation and Interpretation (ed. We describe the associated Clovis lithic assemblage of bifaces ... technological variation in Clovis tool production. ... blade production took place at the ... both the biface and blade knapping is equally suit- able for flake tool blanks and needs to be consis- tently included when making comparisons. 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 ... This research examines the technology behind Clovis biface production from ... With regard to Clovis biface technology, both end thinning and channel. In production, Clovis flintknappers detached blade-like flakes from the ends of a biface that traveled through the central portion of the biface ...