The Clovis Lithic Legacy A Tale of Bifacial and Blade Excellence

suggest that occupants of site 21LP11 relied, almost exclusively, on local lithic ... thinning stages of biface manufacture was both intentional ... North American lithic analysis often assigns biface preforms to discrete, successive stages defined in Callahan's influential study. by bifacial, flake, and prismatic-blade tech- niques on high-quality and oftentimes exotic lithic materials (Collins 1990). Along with. The geographic distribution of Clovis biface caches, putative Clovis blade caches, and other Clovis sites in the West can only support one of these hypotheses. Metric, technological and typological data are presented for the entire assemblage. The technical interpretations for blade and biface manufacture are sound and ... this mean for Clovis, which incorporates both biface and blade. Blades vs. Bifaces in the World. Series of Clovis Technology. I producing a fairly standardized ... conclude that blade technology was one of the most efficient lithic manufacturing ... opposed to 30% at Shoop; and biface production was the most common lithic ... Only two bifaces are present in the entire flaked stone assemblage (Table 4.3). If the presence of bifaces is used as a measure of reliance on bifacial ... Clovis blade manufacture: Analytical procedure to infer “technique. ... Pressure blades and total cutting edge: An experiment in lithic technology ... 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 ...