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

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editor of compilation
Smallwood, Ashley M.
Jennings, Thomas A (Thomas Andrew) 1979-
Author
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting (76th : 2011 : Sacramento, Calif.)
"Peopling of the Americas publications"--Page i.
"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, page 3.
ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank.
Contents
Introduction / Ashley M. Smallwood -- Part I. Chronology. The Clovis-era radiocarbon plateau / Stuart Fiedel ; Reevaluating the duration of Clovis : the problem of non-representative radiocarbon / Mary M. Prasciunas and Todd A. Surovell -- Part II. 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 ; Defining the normative range of Clovis fluted point shape using geographic models of geometric morphometric variation / Heather L. Smith, Ashley M. Smallwood, and Thomas J. DeWitt -- Part III. 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 T. 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 -- Part IV. Concluding Thoughts. Clovis culture update / Ted Goebel
2015
Type
Congresses
Conference papers and proceedings
Physical description
vii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Place
North America
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Clovis culture
Paleo-Indians
Clovis points
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Antiquities
Record ID
siris_sil_1028994
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0