The Hogeye Clovis cache /

The Hogeye Clovis cache /

Roughly thirteen thousand years ago, Clovis hunters cached more than fifty projectile points, preforms, and knives at the toe of a gentle slope near present-day Elgin, Bastrop County, in central Texas. Over the next millennia, deposition buried the cache several meters below the surface. The entombe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Waters, Michael R. (Author), Jennings, Thomas A. 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Peopling of the Americas Publications
Subjects:
Clovis culture > Texas > Bastrop County.
Clovis points > Texas > Bastrop County.
Tools, Prehistoric > Texas > Bastrop County.
Antiquities, Prehistoric > Texas > Bastrop County.
Paleo-Indians > Texas > Bastrop County > Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Texas > Bastrop County.
Bastrop County (Tex.) > Antiquities.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Hogeye Clovis cache: Discovery and naming of the cache
  • Archaeological and geoarchaeological field investigations
  • Surface artifact collection
  • Summary
  • The Clovis bifaces: Clovis biface technology
  • Projectile point trajectory bifaces
  • Ovate bifaces
  • Cache biface analyses: Biface size
  • Biface shape
  • Biface thinning techniques
  • Biface flaking patterns
  • Chert sourcing
  • The Clovis reduction sequence: comparisons with the Gault assemblage
  • Summary
  • Conclusions: The Hogeye Clovis cache
  • Clovis caching and Clovis adaptations.

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