Revealed The Sophisticated Lithic Legacy of Clovis Craftsmanship

... both within the state and outside its borders. Even his commitment to public ... production, repair, storage, or transportation of materials, goods, or ... Lithic miniaturization was one of our Pleistocene ancestors' more pervasive stone tool production strategies and it marks a key difference between human and non ... Only two bifaces are present in the entire flaked stone assemblage (Table 4.3). If the presence of bifaces is used as a measure of reliance on bifacial ... suggest that occupants of site 21LP11 relied, almost exclusively, on local lithic ... thinning stages of biface manufacture was both intentional ... North American lithic analysis often assigns biface preforms to discrete, successive stages defined in Callahan's influential study. technology: materials supporting the existence of a non-fluted lithic blade technology ... blades with curved points, biface. 5 Lithic ... ... 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. 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. Biface reduction can proceed along two different manufacturing trajectories, one of which involves ... Lithic Technology. 18. (1/2):106–112. Spiess, A.E. ... In production, Clovis flintknappers detached blade-like flakes from the ends of a biface that traveled through the central portion of the biface ...