Clovis
Subtitle: on the edge of a new understanding
By: edited by Ashley M. Smallwood and Thomas A. Jennings
Contributors: Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781623492014; 9781623492281
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Clovis culture; Congresses; Prehistoric Antiquities; Clovis points
Work titles: Clovis (2014)
Notes: "Peopling of the Americas publications"

"This volume brings together the work of many researchers actively studying the Clovis  complex. The authors first presented these papers in a symposium (Clovis: Current Perspectives  on Chronology, Technology, and Adaptations) held at the 2011 Society for American  Archaeology meetings in Sacramento, CA."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ashley M. Smallwood; title: Chronology. The Clovis era radiocarbon plateau / Stuart Fiedel; title: Reevaluating the duration of Clovis: the problem of non-representative radiocarbon dates / Mary M. Prasciunas and Todd A. Surovell; title: Technology. Fluted point studies in the Far West / Michael F. Rondeau; title: Clovis in Idaho: an update on its distribution, technology, and chronology / Kenneth C. Reid, Richard E. Hughes, Matthew J. Root, and Michael F. Rondeau; title: Clovis era point production in the Midcontinent / Juliet E. Morrow; title: Flaked stone tools of pleistocene colonizers: overshot flaking at the Red Wing Site, Ontario / Metin I. Eren and Adrienne Desjardine; title: 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; title: A regional perspective on Clovis blades and caching behavior / David Kilby; title: A geometric morphometric exploration of Clovis fluted point shape variability / Heather L. Smith and Ashley M. Smallwood; title: 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; title: Clovis landscapes in the greater Southwest of North America / Vance T. Holliday; title: Sonoran Clovis groups: lithic technological organization and land use / Guadalupe Sanchez, Vance Holliday, John Carpenter, and Edmund Gaines; title: From mammoth to bison: changing Clovis prey availability at the end of the Pleistocene / Leland C. Bement and Brian J. Carter; title: Clovis adaptations in the Great Plains / Thomas A. Jennings; title: 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; title: North Carolina Clovis / I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. and Albert C. Goodyear; title: Concluding thoughts. Clovis culture update / Ted Goebel.