Clovis blade technology : a comparative study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas
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Clovis blade technology : a comparative study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas
(Texas archaeology and ethnohistory series)
University of Texas Press, 2002, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First paperback printing 2002"--t.p. verso
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Part One: Blade Technology and Its Place in North American Prehistory
1. Introduction
2. Blades and Blade Technology
3. A Review of Clovis Lithic Technology
Part Two: The Keven Davis Site, a Clovis Blade Cache
4. The Keven Davis Cache Site and Its Setting
5. Field and Laboratory Investigations
6. The Collection
7. Microscopic Attributes of the Keven Davis Blades, by Marvin Kay
Part Three: Comparisons and Considerations of Caching Behavior
8. Comparisons
9. Caching Behavior
10. Clovis Lithic Technology and Caching Behavior: Clues to Subsistence Strategies and Behavior
Postscript
Glossary
References Cited
Index
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