Decoding the Clovis Lithic Enigma Bifaces and Blades Revealed

Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and deadly spear points. Where they worked, they left thousands of pieces of debris, which have allowed ... Long, bifacially worked, fluted points are perhaps the most diagnostic element of Clovis lithic assemblages, but large bifaces, blades produced ... Both descriptions of Clovis bifaces and projectile points indicate that Clo vis point manufacture follows a standard production continuum. This continuum ... 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 ... Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. suggest that occupants of site 21LP11 relied, almost exclusively, on local lithic ... thinning stages of biface manufacture was both intentional ... Putting out a lot of information to jump headlong into the topic of Clovis point manufacturing from early bifaces to preforms through ... ... Clovis bifaces recovered at Topper. Clovis blade technology is encountered more frequently at 38AL228 than Topper, suggesting that high-quality chert ... Why Bifaces and Blades? Clovis peoples clearly relied on both blade and especially biface technolo-. gies but the reasons for such a ... We experimentally reduced blade and bifacial cores and found both reduction strategies to be equally efficient for the production of useable flake blanks.