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Clovis lithic technology : investigation of a stratified workshop at the Gault Site, Texas / Michael R. Waters, Charlotte D. Pevny, David L. Carlson ; with William A. Dickens ... [et al.] ; foreword by Michael B. Collins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waters, Michael R.
- Series:
- Peopling of the Americas Publications
- Peopling of the Americas publication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clovis culture--Texas--Bell County.
- Clovis culture.
- Clovis points--Texas--Gault Site.
- Clovis points.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Texas--Bell County.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Antiquities, Prehistoric--Texas--Bell County.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- Gault Site (Tex.).
- Bell County (Tex.)--Antiquities.
- Bell County (Tex.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 cam
- Contents:
- The Gault Site and the investigation of excavation area 8
- Stratigraphy, chronology, and site formation
- Introduction to the organization of Clovis lithic technology at excavation area 8
- Clovis blade technology
- Clovis biface technology
- Clovis endscraper and edge-modified tool assemblages
- Usewear analyses of Clovis artifacts
- Vertebrate faunal remains
- Spatial organization of the Clovis lithic workshops
- Interpretation of the Clovis workshops at excavation area 8: tool production, site structure, and regional settlement.
- Notes:
- "Peopling of the Americas publications."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-05233-9
- 1-60344-467-X
- OCLC:
- 759158574
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