Discovering the Clovis Lithic Toolkit Bifaces and Blades Unveiled

In production, Clovis flintknappers detached blade-like flakes from the ends of a biface that traveled through the central portion of the biface ... conclude that blade technology was one of the most efficient lithic manufacturing ... opposed to 30% at Shoop; and biface production was the most common lithic ... Through lithic analysis of both site assemblages, elements of an ... production and those associated with use ... This distinction was unclear in archaeology, and thus archaeologists relied on general artifact similarity to denote relatedness. Seriation offered a means of ... The Clovis occupations are directly dated by two radiocarbon ages of ca. ... Latest stage manufacture is indicated for a biface(s), while all other ... ... both archaeology and the Quaternary sciences were attempting to develop ... blade/microblade systems. The contributions present an interesting ... Lithic miniaturization was one of our Pleistocene ancestors' more pervasive stone tool production strategies and it marks a key difference between human and non ... 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 ... Clovis blade manufacture: Analytical procedure to infer “technique. ... Pressure blades and total cutting edge: An experiment in lithic technology ... The geographic distribution of Clovis biface caches, putative Clovis blade caches, and other Clovis sites in the West can only support one of these hypotheses.