Clovis lithic technology : investigation of a stratified workshop at the Gault Site, Texas /
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 wildern...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2011.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Peopling of the Americas publication.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.