Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smallwood, Ashley M.
• Jennings, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1979-
• Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (76th : 2011 : Sacramento, Calif.)

Description

vii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Uniform Title

Clovis (2014)

Subjects

• North America
• Antiquities, Prehistoric
• Clovis culture
• Conference proceedings
• North America > Antiquities > Congresses
• Clovis culture > Congresses
• Antiquities, Prehistoric > North America > Congresses
• Clovis points > Congresses
• Paleo-Indians > North America > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference proceedings.

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFF 15-331

ISBN

• 9781623492014 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1623492017 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781623492281 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 1623492289 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014016902

OCLC

902001954

Title

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

Publisher

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Smallwood, Ashley M., editor.

Jennings, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1979- editor.

Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (76th : 2011 : Sacramento, Calif.)

Research Call Number

JFF 15-331