Deciphering the Clovis Lithic Codex Bifaces and Blades as Storytellers

Of these point types, either pointed Blades, Levallois points, or Mousterian points are more indicative of projectile technology than the other point types from ... Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a craftsman called a flintknapper. Stone has been used to make a wide ... There is reason to expect, and compel- ling evidence to show, that cache blades are not repre- sentative of Clovis blade production and products. First, these flakes demonstrate at least two distinct stages of biface manufacture on the ... for Clovis-related groups throughout the north- ern parts of ... This research examines the technology behind Clovis biface production from ... With regard to Clovis biface technology, both end thinning and channel. North American lithic analysis often assigns biface preforms to discrete, successive stages defined in Callahan's influential study. ... bifaces with ones known to be both Clovis and post-Clovis ... biface manufacture has served to establish the importance of overshot flaking in Clovis technology. Clovis lithic technology has been characterized as containing complex biface and blade technologies, multiple flake and blade tools such as end ... The. Jackson homestead includes three dwellings: the main Jackson family house and two less substantial dwellings. The main house was first constructed as a ... Lithic miniaturization was one of our Pleistocene ancestors' more pervasive stone tool production strategies and it marks a key difference between human and non ...