"In this book, Michael Collins ... demonstrates why he is
considered one of the leading researchers in the field of lithic
analysis. The work offers a masterful review and synthesis of
Clovis blade technology with lucid prose and lavish
illustrations.... I recommend this book for all professional and
avocational archaeologists interested in Paleoindian occupations of
the New World." -- Illinois Archaeology "This book makes an
important contribution to a newly revived debate on the
significance of the Clovis phenomenon and the timing and migration
routes of the peopling of the New World more generally." -- SAS
Bulletin
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
cachingbehavior 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.
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