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Clovis Technology is not Unique to Clovis

2021; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 7; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/20555563.2021.1890402

2055-5571

Metin I. Eren, David J. Meltzer, Brian Andrews,

Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

We previously showed that stone-tool technological attributes thought to be unique to the Clovis period were present in a radiocarbon and OSL dated middle Holocene-age stratum at Goodson Shelter, Oklahoma (Eren et al. 2018a. "Is Clovis Technology Unique to Clovis?" PaleoAmerica 4:202–228). Consequently, we argued that technological attributes alone should not be used to assign assemblages to Clovis times. Huckell, Haynes, and Holliday (2019. "Comments on the Lithic Technology and Geochronology of the Goodson Rock Shelter." PaleoAmerica 6:131–134) proposed two alternative hypotheses: that material we identified as Clovis-like was not, or that it was Clovis but had been mixed with younger deposits. They called for more information on the Clovis-like assemblage at Goodson, and additional dating of the site's lowest deposits. We provide that information, which confirms that stone-tool technologies ostensibly unique to Clovis were indeed in use in the middle Holocene.