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ix Figures FIGURE 1. Topographic map showing the location of Excavation Area 8 and other excavation areas and trenches at the Gault site 2 FIGURE 2. View of the Gault site looking southwest 3 FIGURE 3. View of Excavation Area 8 looking northwest 4 FIGURE 4. Map of excavation units at Excavation Area 8 6 FIGURE 5. Excavations underway at Excavation Area 8 7 FIGURE 6. Crew members participating in the 2000 field season 7 FIGURE 7. North-south geological cross sections through Excavation Area 8 13 FIGURE 8. East-west geological cross section through Excavation Area 8 13 FIGURE 9. North-south geological cross section of Trench 2 that extends into Excavation Area 8 14 FIGURE 10. Stratigraphy along the south and west walls of the excavation block 14 FIGURE 11. Stratigraphy along the west wall of the excavation block 15 FIGURE 12. Plan views showing the extent of Units 3a and 3b in relation to excavated units within the Excavation Area 8 block 15 FIGURE 13. Dense concentration of Clovis lithic artifacts in Unit 3a in excavation unit N1017/E983 16 FIGURE 14. Close-up of dense concentration of Clovis lithic artifacts 16 FIGURE 15. Vertical distribution of piece-plotted artifacts oriented along the north-south excavation lines 21 FIGURE 16. Vertical distribution of piece-plotted artifacts oriented along the east-west excavation lines 22 FIGURE 17. Map showing the horizontal distribution of refitted artifacts from Unit 3a 22 FIGURE 18. Plots showing the vertical distribution of refitted artifacts from Unit 3a along east-west and north-south transects 23 FIGURE 19. Scatterplots comparing the counts of four debitage size classes between Units 3a and 3b 26 FIGURE 20. Outcrop of Edwards limestone with large chert nodules 32 FIGURE 21. Organization of Clovis lithic technology at Excavation Area 8 33 FIGURE 22. Irregularly shaped core that was used expediently as a chopper 35 FIGURE 23. Irregular blocky core 35 FIGURE 24. Hammerstone from Excavation Area 8 37 x FIGURES FIGURE 25. Abraders from Excavation Area 8 37 FIGURE 26. Fractal plots of the log transform of flake size against the log of the cumulative flake frequency showing the size-frequency distributions of debitage from Unit 3a and Unit 3b 39 FIGURE 27. Conical blade cores showing blade removal faces and platform surfaces 43 FIGURE 28. Unidirectional wedge-shaped cores showing lateral views, blade removal faces, and platforms 48 FIGURE 29. Multidirectional wedge-shaped cores showing lateral views, blade removal faces, and platforms 49 FIGURE 30. Cortical and noncortical irregular blades showing exterior blade surfaces and either the interior surfaces or lateral views 51 FIGURE 31. Crested blades showing exterior blade surfaces and lateral views 56 FIGURE 32. Refit consisting of two crested blades 58 FIGURE 33. Cortical and noncortical bladelike flakes showing exterior blade surfaces and either the interior surfaces or lateral views 60 FIGURE 34. Core-tablet flakes showing exterior surfaces and views of the platforms 66 FIGURE 35. Regular cortical blades showing exterior blade surfaces and lateral views 68 FIGURE 36. Regular noncortical blades showing exterior and lateral views 72 FIGURE 37. Blade types by percentage 76 FIGURE 38. Plot of the measurable attributes for each cortical and noncortical blade type 76 FIGURE 39. Scatterplots for cortical and noncortical regular blades from Excavation Area 8 and the blades from the Pavo Real site 77 FIGURE 40. Scatterplots for cortical and noncortical regular blades from Gault, Excavation Area 8, and Pavo Real compared to those found in Clovis blade caches 77 FIGURE 41. Scatterplot for select cortical and noncortical regular blades from Excavation Area 8 compared to cached blades and blades from other portions of the Gault site 77 FIGURE 42. Kernel density plot of cortical and noncortical regular blades from Excavation Area 8 with a comparison of regular blades from Excavation Area 8 with cached blades 78 FIGURE 43. Scatterplots for cortical and noncortical regular blades from Excavation Area 8 and a sample of blades from other portions of the Gault site 79 FIGURE 44. Scatterplot for blade core scars and used blades from Excavation Area 8 80 FIGURE 45. Primary bifaces showing exterior surfaces and lateral views 88 FIGURE 46. Primary bifaces showing exterior surfaces and lateral views 89 FIGURE 47. Primary biface that may be a bifacial core 93 FIGURE 48. Secondary bifaces showing exterior surfaces and lateral views 94 FIGURE 49. Preforms showing exterior surfaces and lateral views 96 [44.210.78.150] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:29 GMT) FIGURES xi...