Research Catalog

Title

The Hogeye Clovis cache / Michael R. Waters and Thomas A. Jennings.

Author

Waters, Michael R.

Publication

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xv, 151 pages : color illustrations, color map; 29 cm.

Summary

"This is the story of the Hogeye cache and its remarkable collection of Clovis artifacts - a time capsule from the past. A circuitous path brought thirteen of the original thirty-seven Clovis bifaces and points through many hands before reaching the attention of Michael Waters at Texas A & M University. He and some of his students followed the trail to the site where the bifaces had been discovered and located fifteen more bifaces. At the site of the original cache, they conducted excavations, studied the geology, and dated the geological layers to reconstruct how the cache was buried. Ultimately, fifty-two bifaces were recovered from the site. This book provides a well-illustrated, thoroughly analyzed description and discussion of the Hogeye Clovis cache, the projectile points and other artifacts from later occupations, and the geological context of the site, which has yielded evidence of multiple Paleoindian, Archaic, and Late Prehistoric occupations. The cache of tools and weapons at Hogeye, when combined with other sites, allows us to envision a snapshot of life at the end of the last Ice Age."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Peopling of the Americas publications

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Peopling of the Americas publication.

Subject

• Clovis culture > Bastrop County
• Clovis points > Bastrop County
• Tools, Prehistoric > Bastrop County
• Antiquities, Prehistoric > Bastrop County
• Paleo-Indians > Bastrop County > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Bastrop County
• Antiquities
• Antiquities, Prehistoric
• Clovis culture
• Clovis points
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Paleo-Indians > Antiquities
• Tools, Prehistoric
• Bastrop County (Tex.) > Antiquities
• Texas > Bastrop County

Note

• "Peopling of the Americas publications."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-148) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9781623492144
• 1623492149
• 9781623492328
• 1623492327

LCCN

^^2014019854

OCLC

• 880929749
• SCSB-12454201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library