Stone Age Savvy Unveiling the Bifacial and Blade Mastery of Clovis Lithic Technology

Metric, technological and typological data are presented for the entire assemblage. The technical interpretations for blade and biface manufacture are sound and ... The results indicate that the most significant transition in efficiency likely took place with the introduction of small foliate biface, Levallois and ... There is reason to expect, and compel- ling evidence to show, that cache blades are not repre- sentative of Clovis blade production and products. Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and coloniz... ... 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. This research examines the technology behind Clovis biface production from ... With regard to Clovis biface technology, both end thinning and channel. This document has been prepared for the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS). Cultural Resources Program (CRP) to address a ... ... biface blade; B, scraper on uniface blade; C, uniface ... lithic technology, suggesting a significant acceleration in the complexity of cultural systems. Through lithic analysis of both site assemblages, elements of an ... production and those associated with use ... Using a biological analogy, they argue that blade technology eventually became extinct as Clovis groups were forced to rely on bifacial core reduction ...