Revealing Clovis's Lithic Genius Bifaces and Blades in Harmony

North American lithic analysis often assigns biface preforms to discrete, successive stages defined in Callahan's influential study. We describe the associated Clovis lithic assemblage of bifaces ... technological variation in Clovis tool production. ... blade production took place at the ... The premise of the Solutrean Hypothesis is that the similarities between Clovis and Solutrean lithic technologies are evidence that the Solutreans were the ... Clovis blade manufacture: Analytical procedure to infer “technique. ... Pressure blades and total cutting edge: An experiment in lithic technology ... Mexica blade making with wooden tools: recent experimental insights. In Mesoamerican Lithic Technology: Experimentation and Interpretation (ed. "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 ... However, we assume the technological strategies used in biface and blade manufacture are the same for artifacts that end up in caches and ... Putting out a lot of information to jump headlong into the topic of Clovis point manufacturing from early bifaces to preforms through ... Metric, technological and typological data are presented for the entire assemblage. The technical interpretations for blade and biface manufacture are sound and ... 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.