The Clovis Legacy Bifaces and Blades that Shaped a Prehistoric Era

No evidence of a true blade technology was observed in the post- Clovis Paleoindian or Early Archaic debitage assemblages, although biface manufacture continued ... 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 ... suggest that occupants of site 21LP11 relied, almost exclusively, on local lithic ... thinning stages of biface manufacture was both intentional ... Pre-Clovis lithic technology at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas ... Lithic microwear analysis as a means to infer production of perishable ... A fresh look at long-held theories about Clovis peoples in North America based on findings from the Gault site in Central Texas. Through lithic analysis of both site assemblages, elements of an ... production and those associated with use ... 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. The Clovis occupations are directly dated by two radiocarbon ages of ca. ... Latest stage manufacture is indicated for a biface(s), while all other ... Clovis lithic technological organization includes two formal core-reduction strategies, bifacial and blade. Finished bifaces were reduced from large bifacial ... However, we assume the technological strategies used in biface and blade manufacture are the same for artifacts that end up in caches and ...