The Art of Clovis Lithic Technology Exploring Bifacial and Blade Crafting

We describe the associated Clovis lithic assemblage of bifaces ... technological variation in Clovis tool production. ... blade production took place at the ... Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and coloniz... Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. However, we assume the technological strategies used in biface and blade manufacture are the same for artifacts that end up in caches and ... 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 ... technology: materials supporting the existence of a non-fluted lithic blade technology ... blades with curved points, biface. 5 Lithic ... Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a craftsman called a flintknapper. Stone has been used to make a wide ... Describing northern Plains. Clovis technology, Bradley states, “Most Clovis tools are either bifaces or are made from flakes that resulted from ... Why Bifaces and Blades? Clovis peoples clearly relied on both blade and especially biface technolo-. gies but the reasons for such a ...