Unveiling the Clovis Lithic Cipher Bifaces and Blades Intertwined

In production, Clovis flintknappers detached blade-like flakes from the ends of a biface that traveled through the central portion of the biface ... Using a biological analogy, they argue that blade technology eventually became extinct as Clovis groups were forced to rely on bifacial core reduction ... Mexica blade making with wooden tools: recent experimental insights. In Mesoamerican Lithic Technology: Experimentation and Interpretation (ed. 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 research examines the technology behind Clovis biface production from ... With regard to Clovis biface technology, both end thinning and channel. 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. 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 ... Fluted stone bifaces known as Clovis points appeared and spread across vast regions of North American megafauna habitat during four centuries of the terminal ... Biface reduction can proceed along two different manufacturing trajectories, one of which involves ... Lithic Technology. 18. (1/2):106–112. Spiess, A.E. ... The results indicate that the most significant transition in efficiency likely took place with the introduction of small foliate biface, Levallois and ...