Unlocking the Enigma Clovis Lithic Technology's Biface and Blade Synergies

Through lithic analysis of both site assemblages, elements of an ... production and those associated with use ... 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 ... Clovis lithic technological organization includes two formal core-reduction strategies, bifacial and blade. Finished bifaces were reduced from large bifacial ... This distinction was unclear in archaeology, and thus archaeologists relied on general artifact similarity to denote relatedness. Seriation offered a means of ... Both descriptions of Clovis bifaces and projectile points indicate that Clo vis point manufacture follows a standard production continuum. This continuum ... Clovis and Folsom Lithic Technology on and Near the Southern Plains: Similar ... At a minimum, biface plan views include two major segments: blade and stem. This document has been prepared for the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS). Cultural Resources Program (CRP) to address a ... Mexica blade making with wooden tools: recent experimental insights. In Mesoamerican Lithic Technology: Experimentation and Interpretation (ed. There is reason to expect, and compel- ling evidence to show, that cache blades are not repre- sentative of Clovis blade production and products. This paper concludes a long-term experimental study to examine the role of bipolar and freehand reduction as strategies for lithic miniaturization on milky ...