Decoding the Clovis Lithic Code Bifacial and Blade Production Revealed

This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record. Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and coloniz... Clovis lithic technological organization includes two formal core-reduction strategies, bifacial and blade. Finished bifaces were reduced from large bifacial ... Of these point types, either pointed Blades, Levallois points, or Mousterian points are more indicative of projectile technology than the other point types from ... ... Clovis bifaces recovered at Topper. Clovis blade technology is encountered more frequently at 38AL228 than Topper, suggesting that high-quality chert ... Putting out a lot of information to jump headlong into the topic of Clovis point manufacturing from early bifaces to preforms through ... and tool manufacture, only two types were distinguished in this study ... Clovis and Folsom lithic technology on and near the Southern Plains: Similar ... implements, burins, prismatic blades and abundant utilized flakes. Bone implements are not numerous, but include atlatl spurs. Lithic technology and some ... The Clovis occupations are directly dated by two radiocarbon ages of ca. ... Latest stage manufacture is indicated for a biface(s), while all other ... Reducing biface and blade cores is the staple of Clovis lithic technology, attested to by their abundance in caches (they're part of the mobile toolkit) and ...