Mastering Clovis Lithic Techniques A Comprehensive Guide to Bifaces and Blades

and tool manufacture, only two types were distinguished in this study ... Clovis and Folsom lithic technology on and near the Southern Plains: Similar ... This paper concludes a long-term experimental study to examine the role of bipolar and freehand reduction as strategies for lithic miniaturization on milky ... We describe the associated Clovis lithic assemblage of bifaces ... technological variation in Clovis tool production. ... blade production took place at the ... 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 ... Clovis lithic technology has been characterized as containing complex biface and blade technologies, multiple flake and blade tools such as end ... Both descriptions of Clovis bifaces and projectile points indicate that Clovis point manufacture follows a reduction continuum. This continuum ... ... bifaces with ones known to be both Clovis and post-Clovis ... biface manufacture has served to establish the importance of overshot flaking in Clovis technology. Why Bifaces and Blades? Clovis peoples clearly relied on both blade and especially biface technolo-. gies but the reasons for such a ... Clovis and Folsom Lithic Technology on and Near the Southern Plains: Similar ... At a minimum, biface plan views include two major segments: blade and stem.