The Hogeye Clovis Cache (Peopling of the Americas Publications)

Description

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 entombed artifacts lay undisturbed until 2003. 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. At the site of the original cache, Waters and coauthor Thomas A. Jennings conducted excavations, studied the geology, and dated the geological layers to reconstruct how the cache was buried. 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. Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 1. Discovery and Naming of the Cache 1. Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Field Investigations 1. Surface Artifact Collection 1. Summary Chapter 2, 2. Clovis Biface Technology 2. Projectile Point Trajectory Bifaces 2. Ovate Bifaces Chapter 3, 3. Biface Size 3. Biface Shape 3. Biface Thinning Techniques 3. Biface Flaking Patterns 3. Chert Sourcing 3. The Clovis Reduction Sequence 3. Summary Chapter 4, 4. The Hogeye Clovis Cache 4. Clovis Caching and Clovis Adaptations References Index Illustrations Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 Fig. 6 Fig. 7 Fig. 8 Fig. 9 Fig. 10 Fig. 11 Fig. 12 & 13 Fig. 14 Fig. 15 Fig. 16 Fig. 17 Fig. 18 Fig. 19 Fig. 20 Fig. 21 Fig. 22 Fig. 23 Fig. 24 Fig. 25 Fig. 26 Fig. 27 Fig. 28 Fig. 29 Fig. 30 Fig. 31 Fig. 32 Fig. 33 Fig. 34 Fig. 35 Fig. 36 Fig. 37 Fig. 38 Fig. 39 Fig. 40 Fig. 41 Fig. 42 Fig. 43 Fig. 44 Fig. 45 & 46 Fig. 47 Fig. 48 Fig. 49 Fig. 50 & 51 Fig. 52 Fig. 53 Fig. 54 Fig. 55 Fig. 56 & 57 Fig. 58 Fig. 59 Fig. 60 Fig. 61 Fig. 62 Fig. 63 Fig. 64 Fig. 65 Fig. 66 Fig. 67 Fig. 68 & 69 Fig. 70 Fig. 71 Fig. 72 Fig. 73 & 74 Fig. 75 Fig. 76 Fig. 77 Fig. 78 Fig. 79 Fig. 80 Fig. 81 Fig. 82 Fig. 83 Fig. 84 Fig. 85 Fig. 86 Fig. 87 Fig. 88 Fig. 89 Fig. 90 Fig. 91 & 92 Fig. 93 & 94 Fig. 95 Fig. 96 Fig. 97 Fig. 98 Fig. 99 Fig. 100 Tables Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5 Tables 6 & 7 Table 8 Table 9 Table 10 Table 11 Table 12 Tables 13 & 14 Tables 15 & 16 Table 17 Tables 18 & 19 Table 20 Table 21 Table 22 Table 23 Table 24 Tables 25 & 26 Table 27 Table 28 Table 29