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Clovis Blade Technology
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Author : Michael B. Collins
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
Clovis Blade Technology written by Michael B. Collins and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with Social Science categories.
Around 11,000 years ago, a Paleoindian culture known to us as "Clovis" occupied much of North America. Considered to be among the continent's earliest human inhabitants, the Clovis peoples were probably nomadic hunters and gatherers whose remaining traces include camp sites and caches of goods stored for utilitarian or ritual purposes. This book offers the first comprehensive study of a little-known aspect of Clovis culture—stone blade technology. Michael Collins introduces the topic with a close look at the nature of blades and the techniques of their manufacture, followed by a discussion of the full spectrum of Clovis lithic technology and how blade production relates to the production of other stone tools. He then provides a full report of the discovery and examination of fourteen blades found in 1988 in the Keven Davis Cache in Navarro County, Texas. Collins also presents a comparative study of known and presumed Clovis blades from many sites, discusses the Clovis peoples' caching practices, and considers what lithic technology and caching behavior can add to our knowledge of Clovis lifeways. These findings will be important reading for both specialists and amateurs who are piecing together the puzzle of the peopling of the Americas, since the manufacture of blades is a trait that Clovis peoples shared with the Upper Paleolithic peoples in Europe and northern Asia.
Clovis Blade Technology At The Topper Site 38al23
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Author : Douglas Allen Sain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Clovis Blade Technology At The Topper Site 38al23 written by Douglas Allen Sain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Clovis culture categories.
Clovis Lithic Technology
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Author : Michael R. Waters
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-12
Clovis Lithic Technology written by Michael R. Waters and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-12 with Social Science categories.
Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness. Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and deadly spear points. Where they worked, they left thousands of pieces of debris, which have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct their methods of tool production. Along with the faunal material that was also discarded in their prehistoric campsite, these stone, or lithic, artifacts afford a glimpse of human life at the end of the last ice age during an era referred to as Clovis. The area where these people roamed and camped, called the Gault site, is one of the most important Clovis sites in North America. A decade ago a team from Texas A&M University excavated a single area of the site—formally named Excavation Area 8, but informally dubbed the Lindsey Pit—which features the densest concentration of Clovis artifacts and the clearest stratigraphy at the Gault site. Some 67,000 lithic artifacts were recovered during fieldwork, along with 5,700 pieces of faunal material. In a thorough synthesis of the evidence from this prehistoric “workshop,” Michael R. Waters and his coauthors provide the technical data needed to interpret and compare this site with other sites from the same period, illuminating the story of Clovis people in the Buttermilk Creek Valley.
The Keven Davis Cache 41nv659 And Clovis Blade Technology In The South Central United States
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Author : Michael B. Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Keven Davis Cache 41nv659 And Clovis Blade Technology In The South Central United States written by Michael B. Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
A Microwear Study Of Clovis Blades From The Gault Site Bell County Texas
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Author : Scott Alan Minchak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
A Microwear Study Of Clovis Blades From The Gault Site Bell County Texas written by Scott Alan Minchak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Prehistoric quarries in America are poorly understood and thus problematical to take into account when making inferences about past behavior. A microwear analysis of Clovis blades from the 2000 Texas A & M University excavations at the Gault site (41BL323), located in southern Bell County, Texas, provided a window into this problem. Texas A & M excavations on the site produced an extraordinarily large number of Clovis artifacts in two bounded geologic units, 3a and 3b. Included in the artifact types are blades, specialized elongate flakes associated with a core and blade technology. In conducting a microwear analysis of the Clovis blades from Gault, I proposed the following questions: (1) were the Clovis blades utilized at Gault?; (2) is there a difference in the use-wear patterns of Clovis blades from the geological units 3a and 3b?; and (3) is Gault, as a quarry/workshop site, a place to just obtain raw materials or did it also serve as a craft site? Observations from experiments, stereomicroscope analysis, compound microscope analysis, and SEM/EDS analysis led to answers for two research questions: (1) blades were used at Gault and (2) there is a difference between Clovis units 3a and 3b. Eight Clovis 3a blades, or 3.0% of the total Clovis 3a blade/blade fragment population (n=264), exhibit use-wear. Six Clovis 3b blades, 3.3% of the total Clovis 3b blade/blade fragment population (n=182), exhibit use-wear. In general, Clovis 3b blades were used on harder contact materials (wood to bone) than those in Clovis Unit 3a (softer contact materials similar to grass, sinew, and rawhide). The function(s) of quarries and quarry-related workshops were interpreted by William Henry Holmes as a place to obtain raw materials, while Kirk Bryan interpreted them as a place to bring other materials to work in craft activities. Following the microwear analysis of Clovis blades/blade fragments at Gault, I compared Gault to three other Paleoindian quarry-workshop sites (Wells Creek, Dutchess Quarry, and West Athens Hill). My intent is to provide supplemental data for the consideration when applying Holmes' and Bryan's respective hypotheses.
Clovis Points Blades Flakes And Bifaces In Archaeology
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Author : Wm Hranicky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-06
Clovis Points Blades Flakes And Bifaces In Archaeology written by Wm Hranicky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-06 with categories.
This 250+ page reference book on the Clovis fluted projectile point. It covers identified and analyzing methods to document a point's placement in history. Numerous examples are shown with discussion on how to record and curate points. Major Clovis styles are illustrated along with their distributions. Various lithics are suggested. Clovis terms are defined.
Clovis Technology
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Author : Bruce A. Bradley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Clovis Technology written by Bruce A. Bradley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Clovis culture categories.
This volume presents a detailed description and analysis of the technology of tool production in the Clovis, Paleoindian period of North American prehistory. Lithic technology is most exhaustively covered, but ivory, bone, antler, and tooth tool production is considered as well. In addition, microscopic analysis of a number of lithic tools provides indications of some of the uses to which these tools were put.
Lithic Technological Systems And Evolutionary Theory
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Author : Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-22
Lithic Technological Systems And Evolutionary Theory written by Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-22 with Nature categories.
This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a byproduct of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, macroevolution, and various applications of evolutionary ecology.
Los Primeros Mexicanos
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Author : Guadalupe Sánchez
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2016-02-11
Los Primeros Mexicanos written by Guadalupe Sánchez and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-11 with History categories.
"This book presents a synthesis of Mexican Paleoindian archaeology with an emphasis on the state of Sonora. The author uses extensive primary data concerning specific artifacts, assemblages, and other Mexican and Sonoran Paleoindian archaeology to demonstrate the insignificance of current international borders to the earliest peoples of North America"--Provided by publisher.
Convergent Evolution In Stone Tool Technology
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Author : Michael J. O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-05-21
Convergent Evolution In Stone Tool Technology written by Michael J. O'Brien and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with Science categories.
Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages. Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the nearly ubiquitous use of stone tools by humans and their ancestors, the study of lithic technology offers an important line of inquiry into questions of evolution and behavior. This book examines convergence in stone tool-making, cases in which functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages. Identifying examples of convergence, and distinguishing convergence from divergence, refutes hypotheses that suggest physical or cultural connection between far-flung prehistoric toolmakers. Employing phylogenetic analysis and stone-tool replication, the contributors show that similarity of tools can be caused by such common constraints as the fracture properties of stone or adaptive challenges rather than such unlikely phenomena as migration of toolmakers over an Arctic ice shelf. Contributors R. Alexander Bentley, Briggs Buchanan, Marcelo Cardillo, Mathieu Charbonneau, Judith Charlin, Chris Clarkson, Loren G. Davis, Metin I. Eren, Peter Hiscock, Thomas A. Jennings, Steven L. Kuhn, Daniel E. Lieberman, George R. McGhee, Alex Mackay, Michael J. O'Brien, Charlotte D. Pevny, Ceri Shipton, Ashley M. Smallwood, Heather Smith, Jayne Wilkins, Samuel C. Willis, Nicolas Zayns