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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788053503321

Titolo

Clovis : on the edge of a new understanding / / edited by Ashley M. Smallwood and Thomas A. Jennings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, Texas : , : Texas A&M University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-62349-228-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 pages)

Collana

Peopling of the Americas Publications

Disciplina

970.01/1

Soggetti

Clovis culture - North America

Antiquities, Prehistoric - North America

Clovis points

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Ashley M. Smallwood -- Chronology. The Clovis era radiocarbon plateau / Stuart Fiedel -- Reevaluating the duration of Clovis: the problem of non-representative radiocarbon dates / Mary M. Prasciunas and Todd A. Surovell -- Technology. Fluted point studies in the Far West / Michael F. Rondeau -- Clovis in Idaho: an update on its distribution, technology, and chronology / Kenneth C. Reid, Richard E. Hughes, Matthew J. Root, and Michael F. Rondeau -- Clovis era point production in the Midcontinent / Juliet E. Morrow -- Flaked stone tools of pleistocene colonizers: overshot flaking at the Red Wing Site, Ontario / Metin I. Eren and Adrienne Desjardine -- Clovis bipolar lithic reduction at Paleo Crossing, Ohio: a reinterpretation based on the examination of experimental replications / Brooke M. Morgan, Metin I. Eren, Nada Khreisheh, Genevieve Hill, and Bruce A. Bradley -- A regional perspective on Clovis blades and caching behavior / David Kilby -- A geometric morphometric exploration of Clovis fluted point shape variability / Heather L. Smith and Ashley M. Smallwood -- Subsistence and settlement adaptations. The densest concentration on earth?: quantifying human-mammoth associations in the San Pedro Basin, southeastern Arizona, USA / Jesse A.M. Ballenger -- Clovis landscapes in the greater Southwest of North America / Vance T. Holliday -- Sonoran Clovis groups: lithic technological organization and



land use / Guadalupe Sanchez, Vance Holliday, John Carpenter, and Edmund Gaines -- From mammoth to bison: changing Clovis prey availability at the end of the Pleistocene / Leland C. Bement and Brian J. Carter -- Clovis adaptations in the Great Plains / Thomas A. Jennings -- Early Paleoindian subsistence strategies in eastern North America: a continuation of the Clovis tradition? or evidence of regional adaptations? / Joseph A.M. Gingerich and Nathaniel R. Kitchel -- North Carolina Clovis / I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. and Albert C. Goodyear -- Concluding thoughts. Clovis culture update / Ted Goebel.