Clovis's Technological Prowess Bifaces and Blades for Superior Craftsmanship

The premise of the Solutrean Hypothesis is that the similarities between Clovis and Solutrean lithic technologies are evidence that the Solutreans were 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. 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 ... No evidence of a true blade technology was observed in the post- Clovis Paleoindian or Early Archaic debitage assemblages, although biface manufacture continued ... This document has been prepared for the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS). Cultural Resources Program (CRP) to address 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 ... 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 ... technology: materials supporting the existence of a non-fluted lithic blade technology ... blades with curved points, biface. 5 Lithic ... Both descriptions of Clovis bifaces and projectile points indicate that Clovis point manufacture follows a reduction continuum. This continuum ... ... biface blade; B, scraper on uniface blade; C, uniface ... lithic technology, suggesting a significant acceleration in the complexity of cultural systems.