The Clovis Lithic Toolkit Bifaces and Blades for Mastery over Stone

Two unifaces are in the collection. Both are made on biface-thinning flakes. One is unifa- cially worked at one end of the flake. The other is unifacially ... In production, Clovis flintknappers detached blade-like flakes from the ends of a biface that traveled through the central portion of the biface ... The premise of the Solutrean Hypothesis is that the similarities between Clovis and Solutrean lithic technologies are evidence that the Solutreans were the ... Of these point types, either pointed Blades, Levallois points, or Mousterian points are more indicative of projectile technology than the other point types from ... Why Bifaces and Blades? Clovis peoples clearly relied on both blade and especially biface technolo-. gies but the reasons for such a ... No evidence of a true blade technology was observed in the post- Clovis Paleoindian or Early Archaic debitage assemblages, although biface manufacture continued ... ... biface blade; B, scraper on uniface blade; C, uniface ... lithic technology, suggesting a significant acceleration in the complexity of cultural systems. ... both archaeology and the Quaternary sciences were attempting to develop ... blade/microblade systems. The contributions present an interesting ... technology: materials supporting the existence of a non-fluted lithic blade technology ... blades with curved points, biface. 5 Lithic ... 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.