The Clovis Toolkit Bifaces and Blades for Shaping the Past

... both within the state and outside its borders. Even his commitment to public ... production, repair, storage, or transportation of materials, goods, or ... First, these flakes demonstrate at least two distinct stages of biface manufacture on the ... for Clovis-related groups throughout the north- ern parts of ... Clovis lithic technology has been characterized as containing complex biface and blade technologies, multiple flake and blade tools such as end ... 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 ... This thesis tests the assumption of Stanford and Bradley that the blade manufacturing technologies of Clovis and Solutrean were “virtually identical”. By. 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 ... Why Bifaces and Blades? Clovis peoples clearly relied on both blade and especially biface technolo-. gies but the reasons for such a ... North American lithic analysis often assigns biface preforms to discrete, successive stages defined in Callahan's influential study. A fresh look at long-held theories about Clovis peoples in North America based on findings from the Gault site in Central Texas. This distinction was unclear in archaeology, and thus archaeologists relied on general artifact similarity to denote relatedness. Seriation offered a means of ...