Harnessing Stone Clovis Lithic Technology's Bifacial and Blade Mastery

First, these flakes demonstrate at least two distinct stages of biface manufacture on the ... for Clovis-related groups throughout the north- ern parts of ... implements, burins, prismatic blades and abundant utilized flakes. Bone implements are not numerous, but include atlatl spurs. Lithic technology and some ... Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. ... biface blade; B, scraper on uniface blade; C, uniface ... lithic technology, suggesting a significant acceleration in the complexity of cultural systems. "Modern Times," refers to the study of lithic technology in reference to today's flintknappers who make stone artifacts in a wide variety of both standard and ... Of these point types, either pointed Blades, Levallois points, or Mousterian points are more indicative of projectile technology than the other point types from ... A fresh look at long-held theories about Clovis peoples in North America based on findings from the Gault site in Central Texas. Our results show that the Folsom lithic network is significantly denser than the Clovis lithic network. 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. Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and deadly spear points. Where they worked, they left thousands of pieces of debris, which have allowed ...