The Clovis Edge Bifaces and Blades for Precision in Stoneworking

This biface thinning strategy is a hallmark of Clovis lithic technology and is perhaps no less diagnostic of. Clovis lithic assemblages than the Clovis point ... by bifacial, flake, and prismatic-blade tech- niques on high-quality and oftentimes exotic lithic materials (Collins 1990). Along with. Both descriptions of Clovis bifaces and projectile points indicate that Clo vis point manufacture follows a standard production continuum. This continuum ... Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. Clovis lithic technological organization includes two formal core-reduction strategies, bifacial and blade. Finished bifaces were reduced from large bifacial ... Through lithic analysis of both site assemblages, elements of an ... production and those associated with use ... Fluted stone bifaces known as Clovis points appeared and spread across vast regions of North American megafauna habitat during four centuries of the terminal ... This paper concludes a long-term experimental study to examine the role of bipolar and freehand reduction as strategies for lithic miniaturization on milky ... Reducing biface and blade cores is the staple of Clovis lithic technology, attested to by their abundance in caches (they're part of the mobile toolkit) and ... ... both archaeology and the Quaternary sciences were attempting to develop ... blade/microblade systems. The contributions present an interesting ...