Forging the Past Clovis Bifaces and Blades Transformed Stone into Tools

... 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. implements, burins, prismatic blades and abundant utilized flakes. Bone implements are not numerous, but include atlatl spurs. Lithic technology and some ... Using a biological analogy, they argue that blade technology eventually became extinct as Clovis groups were forced to rely on bifacial core reduction ... While biface and flake tools are common artifact forms recovered at a number of Clovis dated sites, blades are not typical of Clovis assemblages in all regions. Of these point types, either pointed Blades, Levallois points, or Mousterian points are more indicative of projectile technology than the other point types from ... Through lithic analysis of both site assemblages, elements of an ... production and those associated with use ... However, we assume the technological strategies used in biface and blade manufacture are the same for artifacts that end up in caches and ... Mexica blade making with wooden tools: recent experimental insights. In Mesoamerican Lithic Technology: Experimentation and Interpretation (ed. The Clovis occupations are directly dated by two radiocarbon ages of ca. ... Latest stage manufacture is indicated for a biface(s), while all other ...