| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages) : color illustrations, color map |
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Peopling of the Americas publication |
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Peopling of the Americas publication
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| Contents |
The Gault Site and the investigation of excavation area 8 -- Stratigraphy, chronology, and site formation -- Introduction to the organization of Clovis lithic technology at excavation area 8 -- Clovis blade technology -- Clovis biface technology -- Clovis endscraper and edge-modified tool assemblages -- Usewear analyses of Clovis artifacts -- Vertebrate faunal remains -- Spatial organization of the Clovis lithic workshops -- Interpretation of the Clovis workshops at excavation area 8: tool production, site structure, and regional settlement |
| Summary |
Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness. Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and deadly spear points. Where they worked, they left thousands of pieces of debris, which have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct their methods of tool production. Along with the faunal material that was also discarded in their prehistoric cam |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Clovis culture -- Texas -- Bell County
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Clovis points -- Texas -- Gault Site
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Texas -- Bell County
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Texas -- Bell County
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Antiquities
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Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Clovis culture
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Clovis points
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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| SUBJECT |
Gault Site (Tex.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010015366
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Bell County (Tex.) -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
Texas -- Bell County
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Texas -- Gault Site
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pevny, Charlotte D
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Carlson, David Lee, 1952-
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Dickens, William A
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Collins, Michael B., 1941-
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| LC no. |
2010053080 |
| ISBN |
160344467X |
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9781603444675 |
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1299052339 |
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9781299052338 |
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