Exploring Clovis Lithic Technology The Role of Bifaces and Blades

... biface blade; B, scraper on uniface blade; C, uniface ... lithic technology, suggesting a significant acceleration in the complexity of cultural systems. 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. This biface thinning strategy is a hallmark of Clovis lithic technology and is perhaps no less diagnostic of. Clovis lithic assemblages than the Clovis point ... The. Jackson homestead includes three dwellings: the main Jackson family house and two less substantial dwellings. The main house was first constructed as a ... Our results show that the Folsom lithic network is significantly denser than the Clovis lithic network. This distinction was unclear in archaeology, and thus archaeologists relied on general artifact similarity to denote relatedness. Seriation offered a means of ... This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record. Describing northern Plains. Clovis technology, Bradley states, “Most Clovis tools are either bifaces or are made from flakes that resulted from ... We describe the associated Clovis lithic assemblage of bifaces ... technological variation in Clovis tool production. ... blade production took place at the ... Using a biological analogy, they argue that blade technology eventually became extinct as Clovis groups were forced to rely on bifacial core reduction ...