The Clovis Lithic Tapestry Bifacial and Blade Techniques Unraveled

Using a biological analogy, they argue that blade technology eventually became extinct as Clovis groups were forced to rely on bifacial core reduction ... Long, bifacially worked, fluted points are perhaps the most diagnostic element of Clovis lithic assemblages, but large bifaces, blades produced ... North American lithic analysis often assigns biface preforms to discrete, successive stages defined in Callahan's influential study. We describe the associated Clovis lithic assemblage of bifaces ... technological variation in Clovis tool production. ... blade production took place at the ... Clovis lithic technology has been characterized as containing complex biface and blade technologies, multiple flake and blade tools such as end ... 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 ... No evidence of a true blade technology was observed in the post- Clovis Paleoindian or Early Archaic debitage assemblages, although biface manufacture continued ... However, we assume the technological strategies used in biface and blade manufacture are the same for artifacts that end up in caches and ... ... both archaeology and the Quaternary sciences were attempting to develop ... blade/microblade systems. The contributions present an interesting ...