Rachel Wolf

7 November 2019
Ice Age
Reading Report

Kilby (2014) “Direction and Distance in Clovis Caching: The movement of people and lithic
raw materials on the Clovis-age landscape”
Clovis people frequently cached tools which sets them apart from later Paleoindians in the North
America Plains and western mountains. Kilby argues that they did this to create artificial supply
depots to adapt to their new environment. He focuses this chapter on testing the idea that Clovis
people cached tools as a colonization strategy. He concludes that more data needs to be found to
come to a solid conclusion on caching as a colonization strategy.
Kilby (2015) “A Regional Perspective on Clovis Blades and Caching Behavior”
In this chapter, Kilby attempts to interpret Clovis blades and blade cores from caches and their
context within the organization of mobility and technology. He argues that “the geographic
distributions of intensive blade manufacture, caches of blades, and caches with blade cores
represent organizational variations resulting from differences in resource distribution, [and that]
the blade technology is organized differently from biface technology, requiring researchers to
conceive of the blade reduction mode separately from the biface mode” (145). In other words,
caching habits change regionally. For example, Kilby proposes that blade caching’s eastern
boundary (fig 6; p 155) depends on the region’s critical resources.