The Clovis Lithic Legacy Bifaces and Blades that Defined a Prehistoric Culture

A fresh look at long-held theories about Clovis peoples in North America based on findings from the Gault site in Central Texas. implements, burins, prismatic blades and abundant utilized flakes. Bone implements are not numerous, but include atlatl spurs. Lithic technology and some ... have been regarded by some as unfluted Clovis ... Two lithic technological procedures represented during the Paleo period are. Folsom fluting and blade production ... Our results show that the Folsom lithic network is significantly denser than the Clovis lithic network. In production, Clovis flintknappers detached blade-like flakes from the ends of a biface that traveled through the central portion of the biface ... Clovis blade manufacture: Analytical procedure to infer “technique. ... Pressure blades and total cutting edge: An experiment in lithic technology ... 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 ... This document has been prepared for the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS). Cultural Resources Program (CRP) to address a ... First, these flakes demonstrate at least two distinct stages of biface manufacture on the ... for Clovis-related groups throughout the north- ern parts of ... The Clovis occupations are directly dated by two radiocarbon ages of ca. ... Latest stage manufacture is indicated for a biface(s), while all other ...