Decoding Clovis Lithic Technology Bifacial and Blade Production Unveiled

suggest that occupants of site 21LP11 relied, almost exclusively, on local lithic ... thinning stages of biface manufacture was both intentional ... We experimentally reduced blade and bifacial cores and found both reduction strategies to be equally efficient for the production of useable flake blanks. "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 ... 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 ... implements, burins, prismatic blades and abundant utilized flakes. Bone implements are not numerous, but include atlatl spurs. Lithic technology and some ... Clovis lithic technological organization includes two formal core-reduction strategies, bifacial and blade. Finished bifaces were reduced from large bifacial ... Why Bifaces and Blades? Clovis peoples clearly relied on both blade and especially biface technolo-. gies but the reasons for such a ... There is reason to expect, and compel- ling evidence to show, that cache blades are not repre- sentative of Clovis blade production and products. Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. Clovis and Folsom Lithic Technology on and Near the Southern Plains: Similar ... At a minimum, biface plan views include two major segments: blade and stem.