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Clovis Caches
Recent Discoveries and New Research
About this book
"A unique, significant contribution to our maturing studies of the Clovis era."—Gary Haynes, author of The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era
The Paleoindian Clovis culture is known for distinctive stone and bone tools often associated with mammoth and bison remains, dating back some 13, 500 years. While the term Clovis is known to every archaeology student, few books have detailed the specifics of Clovis archaeology. This collection of essays investigates caches of Clovis tools, many of which have only recently come to light. These caches are time capsules that allow archaeologists to examine Clovis tools at earlier stages of manufacture than the broken and discarded artifacts typically recovered from other sites. The studies comprising this volume treat methodological and theoretical issues including the recognition of Clovis caches, Clovis lithic technology, mobility, and land use.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- 1: Clovis Caches: Discoveries, Identification, Lithic Technology, and Land Use
- 2: New Insights into the Simon Clovis Cache
- 3: A Contextual and Technological Reevaluation of the Dickenson Blade Cache, Blackwater Locality No. 1, Roosevelt County, New Mexico
- 4: Clovis Caches and Clovis Knowledge of the North American Landscape: The Mahaffy Cache, Colorado
- 5: The JS Cache: Clovis Provisioning the Southern Plains Late Pleistocene Landscape
- 6: The Carlisle Clovis Cache from Central Iowa
- 7: Determining a Cultural Affiliation for the CW Cache from Northeastern Colorado
- 8: But How Do We Know If It’s Clovis?: An Examination of Clovis Overshot Flaking of Bifaces and a North Dakota Cache
- 9: Putting the Specialization Back in Clovis: What Some Caches Reveal about Skill and the Organization of Production in the Terminal Pleistocene
- 10: Clovis Lithic Procurement, Caching, and Mobility in the Central Great Plains of North America
- 11: Direction and Distance in Clovis Caching: The Movement of People and Lithic Raw Materials on the Clovis-Age Landscape
- 12: Opportunities and Challenges in Working with Clovis Caches: Some Concluding Thoughts
- References Cited
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover