Biface reduction and blade manufacture at the Gault site (41bl323): a Clovis occupation in Bell County, Texas

摘要

This dissertation is a technological study that deals with those techniquesemployed by the Gault Clovis people in the manufacture of both bifaces and blades.The materials studied were recovered during the 2000 and 2001 field seasonsconducted by the Anthropology Department of Texas A&M University. The studyinvolves an analysis that deals with raw material selection, blank production, reductionmethods, and problems encountered, and includes a definitive description and metriccalculations for each of the various artifact types analyzed. The results are thencompared to similar artifact assemblages from known Clovis sites. The conclusionsderived from this analysis show that the Gault Clovis people utilized a number ofdifferent strategies in both biface and blade reduction. It was found that some of thesestrategies, previously felt to be restricted to one reductive procedure, were connectedand utilized in both procedures. In addition, it was discovered that some techniquesthought to be limited to use only within the initial reduction sequence were, in fact,utilized throughout.