Clovis lithic technology : investigation of a stratified workshop at the Gault Site, Texas / Michael R. Waters, Charlotte D. Pevny, David L. Carlson ; with William A. Dickens [and others] ; foreword by Michael B. Collins.

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 wildern...

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Main Author: Waters, Michael R.
Other Authors: Pevny, Charlotte D., Carlson, David Lee, 1952-, Dickens, William A., Collins, Michael B., 1941-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Peopling of the Americas publication.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:160344467X
9781603444675
1299052339
9781299052338
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.