A morphometric assessment of the intended function of cached Clovis points

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Buchanan, Briggs ^a,b   Kilby, J David ^c   Huckell, Bruce B ^d   O'Brien, Michael J ^b   Collard, Mark ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARCHEOLOGY; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIMULATION; WEAPON; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; WEAPONS;

EID: 84856795784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030530     Document Type: Review

References (79)

1. Kilby JD, (2008) An Investigation of Clovis Caches: Content, Function, and Technological Organization. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
2. Huckell BB, Kilby JD, Boulanger MT, Glascock MD, (2011) Sentinel Butte: neutron activation analysis of White River Group chert from a primary source and artifacts from a Clovis cache in North Dakota, USA. J Archaeol Sci 38: 965-976.
3. Anderson AD, Tiffany JA, (1972) Rummells-Maske: a Clovis find spot in Iowa. Plains Anthropol 17: 55-59.
4. Morrow JE, Morrow TA, (2002) Rummells-Maske revisited: a fluted point cache from east central Iowa. Plains Anthropol 47: 307-321.
5. Gramly RM, (1999) The Lamb Site: A Pioneering Clovis Encampment Buffalo Persimmon Press.
6. Haynes G, (2002) The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
7. Haynes G, Anderson DG, Ferring CR, Fiedel SJ, Grayson DK, et al. (2007) Comment on "redefining the age of Clovis: implications for the peopling of the Americas". Science 317: 320b.
8. Butler BR, (1963) An early man site at Big Camas Prairie, south-central Idaho. Tebiwa 6: 22-33.
9. Gramly RM, (1993) The Richey Clovis Cache New York Persimmon.
10. Meltzer DJ, (2002) What do you do when no one's been there before? thoughts on the exploration and colonization of new lands. In: Jablonski NJ, editors. The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences No. 27 pp. 27-58.
11. Wilke PJ, Flenniken JJ, Ozbun TL, (1991) Clovis technology at the Anzick site, Montana. J Calif Great Basin Anthropol 13: 242-272.
12. Bamforth DB, (2009) Projectile points, people, and Plains Paleoindian perambulations. J Anthropol Archaeol 28: 142-157.
13. Bradley BA, Stanford DJ, (2004) The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: a possible Palaeolithic route to the New World. World Archaeol 36: 459-478.
14. Ellis C, (2009) The Crowfield and Caradoc sites, Ontario: glimpses of Palaeo-Indian sacred ritual and world view. In: Keenlyside DL, Pilon JL, editors. Painting the Past with a Broad Brush: Papers in Honour of James Valliere Wright. Mercury Series Archaeology Paper 170 Gatineau Canadian Museum of Civilization pp. 319-352.
15. Frison GC, Bradley BA, (1999) The Fenn Cache: Clovis Weapons and Tools Santa Fe One Horse Land and Cattle Company.
16. Gillespie JD, (2007) Enculturing an unknown world: caches and Clovis landscape ideology. Canadian J Archaeol 31: 171-189.
17. Speth JD, Newlander K, White AA, Lemke AK, Anderson LE, (in press) Early Paleoindian big-game hunting in North America: provisioning or politics? Quatern Int doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.027.
18. Buchanan B, (2005) Cultural Transmission and Stone Tools: A Study of Early Paleoindian Technology in North America. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
19. Lyman RL, O'Brien MJ, Hayes V, (1998) A mechanical and functional study of bone rods from the Richey-Roberts Clovis cache, Washington, U.S.A. J Archaeol Sci 25: 887-906.
20. Blackmore HL, (2000) Hunting Weapons from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century Mineola Dover.
21. Archer W, Braun DR, (2010) Variability in bifacial technology at Elandsfontein, Western cape, South Africa: a geometric morphometric approach. J Archaeol Sci 37: 201-209.
22. Buchanan B, (2006) An analysis of Folsom projectile point resharpening using quantitative comparisons of form and allometry. J Archaeol Sci 33: 185-199.
23. Crompton RH, Gowlett JAJ, (1993) Allometry and multidimensional form in Acheulean bifaces from Kilombe, Kenya. J Hum Evol 25: 175-199.
24. Gowlett JAJ, Crompton RH, (1994) Kariandusi: Acheulean morphology and the question of allometry. The African Archaeol Rev 12: 3-42.
25. Iovita R, (2010) Comparing stone tool resharpening trajectories with the aid of elliptical Fourier analysis. In: Lycett SJ, Chauhan PR, editors. New Perspectives on Old Stones: Analytical Approaches to Paleolithic Technologies Springer New York pp. 235-253.
26. Iovita R, McPherron SP, (2011) The handaxe reloaded: A morphometric reassessment of Acheulian and Middle Palaeolithic handaxes. J Hum Evol 61: 61-74.
27. McPherron SP, (1999) Ovate and pointed handaxe assemblages: two points make a line. Préhistoire Européenne 14: 9-32.
28. McPherron SP, (2003) Typological and technological variability in the bifaces from Tabun Cave, Israel. In: Soressi M, Dibble H, editors. Prehistoric Bifaces to Human Behavior: Multiple Approaches to the study of Bifacial Technology Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Museum Press pp. 55-75.
29. McPherron SP, (2006) Variability in Acheulian handaxe morphology and its implications for typology. In: Goren-Inbar N, Sharon G, editors. Axe Age: Acheulian Toolmaking, from Quarry to Discard Equinox London pp. 267-285.
30. Shott MJ, Hunzicker DA, Patten B, (2007) Pattern and allometric measurement of reduction in experimental Folsom bifaces. Lithic Technol 32: 203-217.
31. Bonduriansky R, Day T, (2003) The evolution of static allometry in sexually selected traits. Evolution 57: 2450-2458.
32. Harvey PH, Pagel MD, (1991) The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology Oxford Oxford University Press.
33. Jones JS, (1996) The Anzick Site: Analysis of a Clovis Burial Assemblage Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis.
34. Jones JS, Bonnichsen R, (1994) The Anzick Clovis burial. Curr Res Pleist 11: 42-43.
35. Lahren L, Bonnichsen R, (1974) Bone foreshafts from a Clovis burial in southwestern Montana. Science 186: 147-150.
36. Owsley DW, Hunt DR, (2001) Clovis and Early Archaic period crania from the Anzick site (24PA506), Park County, Montana. Plains Anthropol 46: 115-121.
37. Taylor DC, (1969) The Wilsall excavations: an exercise in frustration. Proc Mont Academy Sci 29: 147-150.
38. Stanford DJ, Jodry MA, (1988) The Drake Clovis cache. Curr Res Pleist 5: 21-22.
39. Huckell BB, Bradley BA, Mehringer P, (2006) Flaked stone artifacts from the East Wenatchee Clovis cache. Manuscript on file, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
40. Butler BR, Fitzwater RJ, (1965) A further note on the Clovis site at Big Camas Prairie, south-central Idaho. Tebiwa 8: 38-39.
41. Woods JC, Titmus GL, (1985) A review of the Simon Clovis collection. Idaho Archaeol 8: 3-8.
42. Morrow JE, Fiedel SJ, (2006) New radiocarbon dates for the Clovis component of the Anzick site, Park County, Montana. In: Morrow JE, Gnecco C, editors. Paleoindian Archaeology: A Hemispheric Perspective Gainesville University of Florida Press pp. 123-138.
43. Boldurian AT, Cotter JL, (1999) Clovis Revisited: New Perspectives on Paleoindian Adaptations from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico Philadelphia University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
44. Cotter JL, (1937) The occurrence of flints and extinct animals in pluvial deposits near Clovis, New Mexico: Part IV, Report on excavation at the gravel pit, 1936. Proc Academy Nat Sci Phil 89: 1-16.
45. Hester JJ, (1972) Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1: A Stratified Early Man Site in Eastern New Mexico. Ranchos de Taos: Fort Burgwin Research Center Publication No 8.
46. Warnica JM, (1966) New discoveries at the Clovis site. Am Antiq 31: 345-357.
47. Frison GC, Todd LC, (1986) The Colby Mammoth Site: Taphonomy and Archaeology of a Clovis Kill in Northern Wyoming Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press.
48. Figgins JD, (1933) A further contribution to the antiquity of man in America. Colo Mus Nat Hist Proc 12: 4-8.
49. Haynes CV Jr, McFaul M, Brunswig RH, Hopkins KD, (1998) Kersey-Kuner terrace investigations at the Dent and Bernhardt sites, Colorado. Geoarchaeol 13: 201-218.
50. Leonhardy FC, eds. (1966) Domebo: A Paleo-Indian Mammoth Kill in the Prairie-Plains Lawton Contributions of the Museum of the Great Plains No. 1.
51. Bement LC, Carter BJ, (2003) Clovis bison hunting at the Jake Bluff site, NW Oklahoma. Curr Res Pleist 20: 5-7.
52. Bement LC, Carter BJ, (2010) Jake Bluff: Clovis bison hunting on the southern Plains of North America. Am Antiq 75: 907-933.
53. Haury EW, Sayles EB, Wasley WW, (1959) The Lehner mammoth site, southeastern Arizona. Am Antiq 25: 2-30.
54. Holliday VT, Haynes CV Jr, Hofman JL, Meltzer DJ, (1994) Geoarchaeology and geochronology of the Miami (Clovis) site, Southern High Plains of Texas. Quat Res 41: 234-244.
55. Sellards EH, (1938) Artifacts associated with fossil elephant. B Geol Soc Am 49: 999-1010.
56. Haynes CV Jr, Huckell BB, eds. (2007) Murray Springs: A Clovis Site with Multiple Activity Areas in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona No. 71 Tucson University of Arizona Press.
57. Hemmings ET, (1970) Early Man in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson.
58. Haury EW, Antevs E, Lance JF, (1953) Artifacts with mammoth remains, Naco, Arizona. Am Antiq 19: 1-24.
59. Buchanan B, Collard MC, (2007) Investigating the peopling of North America through cladistic analyses of early Paleoindian projectile points. J Anthropol Archaeol 26: 366-393.
60. Buchanan B, Hamilton MJ, (2009) A formal test of the origin of variation in North American early Paleoindian projectile points. Am Antiq 74: 279-298.
61. Morphometrics at SUNY Stony Brook website Available: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph. Accessed 2011 August.
62. Bailey RC, Byrnes J, (1990) A new, old method for assessing measurement error in both univariate and multivariate morphometric studies. Syst Zool 39: 124-130.
63. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ, (1995) Biometry: The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research. 3rd ed New York Freeman.
64. Yezerinac SM, Lougheed SC, Handford P, (1992) Measurement error and morphometric studies: statistical power and observer experience. Syst Biol 41: 471-482.
65. Strauss RE, Atanassov MN, de Oliveira JA, (2003) Evaluation of the principal-component and expectation-maximization methods for estimating missing data in morphometric studies. J Vert Paleontol 23: 284-296.
66. Strauss RE, (2010) Discriminating groups of organisms. In: Elewa AMT, editors. Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians Berlin Springer-Verlag pp. 73-91.
67. Keene ON, (1995) The log transform is special. Stat Med 14: 811-819.
68. Kuhry B, Marcus LF, (1977) Bivariate linear models in biometry. Syst Zool 26: 201-209.
69. Leamy L, Bradley D, (1982) Static and growth allometry of morphometric traits in randomized house mice. Evolution 36: 1200-1212.
70. Gould SJ, (1974) The origin and function of "bizarre" structures: antler size and skull size in the "Irish Elk," Megaloceros giganteus. Evolution 28: 191-220.
71. Jolicoeur P, (1984) Principal components, factor analysis, and multivariate allometry: a small-sample direction test. Biometrics 40: 685-690.
72. Benjamini Y, Yekutieli D, (2001) The control of the false discovery rate in multiple testing under dependency. Annals of Statistics 29: 1165-1188.
73. Narum SR, (2006) Beyond Bonferroni: less conservative analyses for conservation genetics. Conserv Genet 7: 783-787.
74. Richard Strauss's Matlab Page website Available: http://www.faculty.biol.ttu.edu/Strauss/Matlab/matlab.htm. Accessed 2011 August.
75. Frison GC, (1989) Experimental use of Clovis weaponry and tools on African elephants. Am Antiq 54: 766-784.
76. Cheshier J, Kelly RL, (2006) Projectile point shape and durability: the effect of thickness: length. Am Antiq 71: 353-363.
77. Waguespack NM, Surovell TA, Denoyer A, Dallow A, Savage A, et al. (2009) Making a point: wood- versus stone-tipped projectiles. Antiquity 83: 786-800.
78. Collins MB, (1999) Clovis Blade Technology Austin University of Texas Press.
79. Hamilton MJ, Buchanan B, (2007) Spatial gradients in Clovis-age radiocarbon dates across North America suggest rapid colonization from the north. Proc Natl Acad Sci 104: 15629-15634.