Description, Microwear, and Morphometrics of Clovis and Possible-Clovis Lithic Artifacts from the Kasten Site, Erie County, Ohio, USA

References

• Anderson, D. G. (1990). The Paleoindian colonization of Eastern North America: A view from the Southeastern United States. In K. B. Tankersely, & B. L. Isaac (Eds.), Early Paleoindian economies of Eastern North America (pp. 163–216). JAI Press.
   Google Scholar
• Anderson, D. G. (1995). Paleoindian interaction networks in the Eastern Woodlands. In M. S. Nassaney, & K. E. Sassaman (Eds.), Native American interaction: Multi- scalar analyses and interpretations in the Eastern Woodlands (pp. 1–26). University of Tennessee Press.
   Google Scholar
• Anderson, D. G. (1996). Models of Paleoindian and Early Archaic settlement in the lower Southeast. In D. G. Anderson, & K. E. Sassaman (Eds.), The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast (pp. 29–57). University of Alabama Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bebber, M. R., Miller, G. L., Boulanger, M. T., Andrews, B. N., Redmond, B. G., Jackson, D., & Eren, M. I. (2017). Description and microwear analysis of Clovis artifacts on a glacially-deposited secondary chert source near the Hartley Mastodon discovery, Columbiana County, Northeastern Ohio, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 12, 543–552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.02.027
   Google Scholar
• Bradley, B. A., Collins, M. B., & Hemmings, C. A. (2010). Clovis technology. International monographs in prehistory. Ann Arbor.
   Google Scholar
• Buchanan, B., Andrews, B., O'Brien, M. J., & Eren, M. I. (2018). An assessment of stone weapon tip standardization during the Clovis–Folsom transition in the Western United States. American Antiquity, 83(4), 721–734. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2018.53
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Buchanan, B., Collard, M., & O'Brien, M. J. (2020). Geometric morphometric analyses support incorporating the Goshen point type into Plainview. American Antiquity, 85(1), 171–181. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2019.89
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Buchanan, B., Eren, M. I., Boulanger, M. T., & O'Brien, M. J. (2015). Size, shape, scars, and spatial patterning: A quantitative assessment of late Pleistocene (Clovis) point resharpening. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 3, 11–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.05.011
   Google Scholar
• Buchanan, B., O’Brien, M. J., & Collard, M. (2014). Continent-wide or region-specific? A geometric morphometrics-based assessment of variation in Clovis point shape. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 6(2), 145–162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-013-0168-x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Buchanan, B., O’Brien, M. J., & Collard, M. (2017). A geometric morphometrics-based assessment of point types on the Southern high plains during Plainview times. In V. T. Holliday, E. Johnson, & R. Knudson (Eds.), Plainview: The enigmatic Paleoindian artifact style of the Great Plains (pp. 274–284). University of Utah Press.
   Google Scholar
• Deller, D. B., Ellis, C., & Franklin, M. (2018). The Rogers site: An early Paleoindian site in the Niagara Peninsula region of Ontario. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 46, 103–134.
   Google Scholar
• DeRegnaucourt, T., & Georgiady, J. (1998). Prehistoric cherts types of the Midwest. Occasional Monographs Series of the Upper Miami Valley Archaeological Research Museu, No. 7, Greenville.
   Google Scholar
• Diez-Martin, F., Buchanan, B., Norris, J. D., & Eren, M. I. (2021). Was Welling, Ohio (33-Co-2), a Clovis basecamp or lithic workshop? Employing experimental models to interpret old collections. American Antiquity, 86(1), 183–198. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.81
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ellis, C. J., Carr, D. H., & Loebel, T. J. (2011). The Younger Dryas and late Pleistocene peoples of the Great Lakes region. Quaternary International, 242(2), 534–545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.038
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I. (2009). Paleoindian stability during the Younger Dryas in the north American lower Great Lakes. In J. J. Shea, & D. E. Lieberman (Eds.), Transitions in prehistory: Papers in honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef (pp. 385–417). Harvard University American School of Prehistoric Research Press.
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I. (2011). Behavioral adaptations of Late Pleistocene human colonizers in the North American Lower Great Lakes Region [Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA].
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Bebber, M. R., Buchanan, B., Grunow, A., Key, A., Lycett, S. J., Maletic, E., & Riley, T. R. (2023). Antarctica as a ‘natural laboratory’ for the critical assessment of the archaeological validity of early stone tool sites. Antiquity, 97(392), 472–482. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Bebber, M. R., Mika, A., Flood, K., Maguire, L., Norris, D., Perrone, A., Mullen, D., Centea, S., Centea, C., Christy, B., Daud, R., Jackson, J., Patten, R., Redmond, B., Buchanan, B., Haythorn, R., Miller, G. L., Conaway, M., … Meltzer, D. J. (2021b). The Nelson stone tool cache, North-Central Ohio, USA: Assessing its cultural affiliation. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 37, 102972. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102972
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Bebber, M. R., Mukusha, L., Wilson, M., Boehm, A., Buchanan, B., Miller, G. L., Skoglin, M., Hayes, J., Barta, M., Bates, S., Callaghan, R., Floyd, C., Morris, S., Neuharth, S., Newcomb, C., Rinella, S., Schneider, C., Smith, M., … Meltzer, D. J. (2024). Experimental bison butchery using replica hafted Clovis fluted points and large handheld flakes. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, In Press.
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., & Buchanan, B. (2016). Clovis technology. eLS, 1–9.
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Chao, A., Hwang, W. H., & Colwell, R. K. (2012). Estimating the richness of a population when the maximum number of classes is fixed: A nonparametric solution to an archaeological problem. PLoS One, 7(5), e34179. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034179
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Diez-Martin, F., Miller, G. L., Buchanan, B., Haythorn, R., Boulanger, M. T., Rutkoski, A., Bush, J., Norris, J., Lovejoy, C. O., Meindl, R., & Bebber, M. R. (2021c). Current evidence supports Welling as an outcrop-related base camp. American Antiquity, 86(4), 867–870. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.116
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Meltzer, D. J., & Andrews, B. N. (2018). Is Clovis technology unique to Clovis? PaleoAmerica, 4(3), 202–218. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2018.1531277
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Meltzer, D. J., & Andrews, B. N. (2021a). Clovis technology is not unique to Clovis. PaleoAmerica, 7(3), 226–241. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2021.1890402
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Meltzer, D. J., Story, B., Buchanan, B., Yeager, D., & Bebber, M. R. (2021d). On the efficacy of Clovis fluted points for hunting proboscideans. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 39, 103166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103166
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Meltzer, D. J., Story, B., Buchanan, B., Yeager, D., & Bebber, M. R. (2022). Not just for proboscidean hunting: On the efficacy and functions of Clovis fluted points. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 45, 103601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103601
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Miller, G. L., Buchanan, B., Boulanger, M. T., Bebber, M. R., Redmond, B. G., Stephens, C., Coates, L., Boser, P., Sponseller, B., & Slicker, M. (2019). The Black Diamond site, Northeast Ohio, USA: A new Clovis occupation in a proposed secondary staging area. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2(2), 211–233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-019-00023-7
   Google Scholar
• Eren, M. I., Redmond, B. G., Miller, G. L., Buchanan, B., Boulanger, M. T., Hall, A., & Hall, L. (2016). The Wauseon Clovis fluted point preform, Northwest Ohio, USA: Observations, geometric morphometrics, microwear, and toolstone procurement distance. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 147–154.
   Google Scholar
• Ferring, R. (2001). The archaeology and paleoecology of the Aubrey Clovis Site (41DN479) Denton County, Texas. Center for Environmental Archaeology, Department of Geography, University of North Texas. Report Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of Contract No. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District.
   Google Scholar
• Gramly, R. M. (1999). The Lamb site: A pioneering Clovis encampment. Persimmon Press.
   Google Scholar
• Grayson, D. K., & Meltzer, D. J. (2015). Revisiting Paleoindian exploitation of extinct North American mammals. Journal of Archaeological Science, 56, 177–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.009
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Holliday, V. T., & Miller, D. S. (2013). The Clovis landscape. In M. Waters, K. Graf, & C. Ketron (Eds.), Paleoamerican Odyssey (pp. 221–245). Texas A&M University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Jennings, T. A., & Smallwood, A. (2018). Clovis and Toyah: Convergent blade technologies on the southern plains periphery of North America. In M. O’Brien, B. Buchanan, & M. I. Eren (Eds.), Convergent evolution in stone-tool technology (pp. 229–251). MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Jennings, T. A., & Smallwood, A. M. (2019). The Clovis record. SAA Archaeological Record, 19(3), 45–50.
   Google Scholar
• Keeley, L. H. (1980). Experimental determination of stone tool uses: A microwear analysis. University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Laub, R. S., DeRemer, M. F., Dufort, C. A., & Parsons, W. L. (1988). The Hiscock site: A rich late quaternary locality in western New York State. Late Pleistocene and early Holocene paleoecology and archaeology of the Eastern Great Lakes Region. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 33, 67–81.
   Google Scholar
• Lepper, B. T. (1986). Early Paleo-Indian land use patterns in the Central Muskingum River Basin, Coshocton County, Ohio [Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus. Ohio, USA].
   Google Scholar
• Lepper, B. T. (1989). Lithic resource procurement and early Paleoindian land Use patterns in the Appalachian Plateau of Ohio. In C. J. Ellis, & J. Lothrop (Eds.), Eastern Paleoindian lithic resource Use (pp. 239–257). Westview Press.
   Google Scholar
• Lepper, B. T. (2005). Pleistocene peoples of midcontinental North America. In R. Bonnichsen, & K. L. Turnmire (Eds.), Ice age peoples of North America: Environments, origins, and adaptations of the first Americans (pp. 362–394). Center for the Study of the First Americans.
   Google Scholar
• Loebel, T. (2004). 11Ls981: a new fluted point site in northern Illinois. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 21, 62–64.
   Google Scholar
• Loebel, T. (2013). Endscrapers, use-wear, and early Paleoindians in Eastern North America. In J. Gingerich (Ed.), In the eastern fluted point tradition (pp. 315–330). University of Utah Press.
   Google Scholar
• Loebel, T. J. (2005). The organization of early Paleoindian economies in the Western Great Lakes [Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA].
   Google Scholar
• Luedtke, Barbara. (1976). Lithic Material Distributions and Interaction Patterns During the Late Woodland Period in Michigan. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
   Google Scholar
• Meltzer, D. J. (2021). First peoples in a new world (2nd ed.). University of Cambridge Press.
   Google Scholar
• Meltzer, D. J., Seebach, J. D., & Byerly, R. M. (2006). The Hot Tubb Folsom-Midland site (41CR 10), Texas. Plains Anthropologist, 51(198), 157–184. https://doi.org/10.1179/pan.2006.012
   Google Scholar
• Miller, D. S., Holliday, V. T., & Bright, J. (2013). Clovis across the continent. In M. Waters, K. Graf, & C. Ketron (Eds.), Paleoamerican Odyssey (pp. 207–220). Texas A&M University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Miller, G. L. (2013). Illuminating activities at Paleo Crossing (33ME274) through microwear analysis. Lithic Technology, 38(2), 108–197. https://doi.org/10.1179/0197726113Z.00000000012
   Google Scholar
• Miller, G. L. (2014). Lithic microwear analysis as a means to infer production of perishable technology: A case from the Great Lakes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 49, 292–301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.05.019
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miller, G. L., Bebber, M. R., Rutkoski, A., Haythorn, R., Boulanger, M. T., Buchanan, B., Bush, J., Lovejoy, C. O., & Eren, M. I. (2019). Hunter-gatherer gatherings: Stone-tool microwear from the Welling site (33-Co-2), Ohio, USA supports Clovis use of outcrop-related base camps during the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas. World Archaeology, 51(1), 47–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1461128
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Minetti, A. E., Moia, C., Roi, G. S., Susta, D., & Ferretti, G. (2002). Energy cost of walking and running at extreme uphill and downhill slopes. Journal of Applied Physiology, 93(3), 1039–1046. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.01177.2001
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mukusha, L., Miller, G. L., Buchanan, B., Boulanger, M., Marvin, R., Fisher, S., Kunst, R., Bebber, M., & Eren, M. I. (2022). Clovis and possible-Clovis artifacts from the Wyandot and Portage County historical societies, Ohio. Northeast Anthropology, 90, 1–25.
   Google Scholar
• Muñiz, M. P. (2014). Determining a cultural affiliation for the CW Cache from northeastern Colorado. In B. Huckell, & J. D. Kilby (Eds.), Clovis caches: Recent discoveries and new research (pp. 107–132). University of New Mexico Press.
   Google Scholar
• Norris, J. D., Stephens, C., & Eren, M. I. (2019). Early-and middle-stage fluted stone tool bases found near Fox Lake, Wayne County Ohio: Clovis or not?. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 25, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.03.015
   Google Scholar
• Odell, G. H. (1985). Small sites archaeology and use-wear on surface-collected artifacts. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 10, 21–48.
   Google Scholar
• Reith, C. (Ed.). (2008). Current approaches to the analysis and interpretation of small lithic sites in the Northeast. New York State Museum Bulletin Series 508, New York State Education Department, Albany.
   Google Scholar
• Rots, V. (2010). Prehension and hafting traces on flint tools: A methodology. Leuven University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Sanchez, G., Holliday, V. T., Gaines, E. P., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Martínez-Tagüeña, N., Kowler, A., Lange, T., Hodgins, G., Mentzer, S., & Sanchez-Morales, I. (2014). Human (Clovis)–gomphothere (Cuvieronius sp.) association∼ 13,390 calibrated yBP in Sonora, Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(30), 10972–10977. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1404546111
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seeman, M. F., Loebel, T. J., Comstock, A., & Summers, G. L. (2013). Working with Wilmsen: Paleoindian end scraper design and use at Nobles Pond. American Antiquity, 78(3), 407–432. https://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.78.3.407
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sellet, F. (2015). A fresh look at the age and cultural affiliation of the Sheaman site. PaleoAmerica, 1(1), 81–87. https://doi.org/10.1179/2055556314Z.0000000009
   Google Scholar
• Shafer, H. J. (1970). Notes on uniface retouch technology. American Antiquity, 35(4), 480–487. https://doi.org/10.2307/278121
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shott, M. J. (1993). The Leavitt Site: A Parkhill Phase Paleo-Indian Occupation in Central Michigan (Vol. 25). University of Michigan Museum, Ann Arbor.
   Google Scholar
• Simons, D. B., Shott, M. J., & Wright, H. T. (1984). The Gainey site: Variability in a Great Lakes Paleo-indian assemblage. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 12, 266–279.
   Google Scholar
• Slice, D. E. (2005). Modern morphometrics in physical anthropology. Kluwer.
   Google Scholar
• Slice, D. E. (2007). Geometric morphometrics. Annual Review of Anthropology, 36(1), 261–281. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120613
   Google Scholar
• Smallwood, A. M. (2012). Clovis technology and settlement in the American southeast: Using biface analysis to evaluate dispersal models. American Antiquity, 77(4), 689–713. https://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.77.4.689
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smallwood, A. M. (2015). Building experimental use-wear analogues for Clovis biface functions. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 7(1), 13–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-013-0139-2
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smallwood, A. M., & Jennings, T. A. (Eds.). (2014). Clovis: On the edge of a New understanding. Texas A&M University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, A., Stephens, C., Mielke, D., Wilson, A., Debolt, T., Groseclose, F., Hothem, P., Boulanger, M., Buchanan, B., Miller, G. L., Bebber, M., & Eren, M. I. (2023). Newly reported Clovis points and possible preforms from or around the Welling, Mielke, and Debolt Farm sites, Ohio. Northeast Anthropology, 91-92, 52–79.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, H. L. (2023). Clovis Lifeways Set in Stone: The Contribution of Fluted-Point Morphological Variation. PaleoAmerica, 9(4), 269–288.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, H. L., & Tune, J. W. (2019). Variation in fluted-point technology: Investigations across space and time. PaleoAmerica, 5(2), 105–108. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2019.1618176
   Google Scholar
• Talbot, T., Wright, H. T., & Nash, B. (2021). The Belson site: A Paleoindian campsite on the outwash plains of the Central Great Lakes. PaleoAmerica, 7(1), 76–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2020.1848105
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tankersley, K. B., Vanderlaan, S., Holland, J. D., & Bland, S. (1997). Geochronology of the arc site: A Paleoindian habitation in the Great Lakes Region. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 25, 31–44.
   Google Scholar
• Thurmond, J. P. (1990). A small Clovis assemblage from Western Oklahoma. Plains Anthropologist, 35(129), 291–298. https://doi.org/10.1080/2052546.1990.11909546
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tune, J. W., Jennings, T. A., & Deter-Wolf, A. (2022). Prismatic blade production at the Sinclair site, Tennessee: Implications for understanding Clovis Technological Organization. American Antiquity, 87(3), 601–610. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2022.16
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tune, J. W., Waters, M. R., Schmalle, K. A., DeSantis, L. R., & Kamenov, G. D. (2018). Assessing the proposed pre-last glacial maximum human occupation of North America at Coats-Hines-Litchy, Tennessee, and other sites. Quaternary Science Reviews, 186, 47–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.02.018
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilmsen, E. N., & Roberts, F. H. H. (1978). Lindenmeier, 1934-1974: Concluding Report on Investigations. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 24. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
   Google Scholar