Editing Clovis culture (section)

====Blades====
Clovis [[Blade (archaeology)|blades]]—long flakes removed from specially prepared conical or wedge-shaped cores—are part of the global [[Upper Paleolithic]] blade tradition.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Collins |first=Michael B. |title=Clovis Blade technology: a comparative study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas |date=1999 |publisher=University of Texas |isbn=978-0-292-71235-5 |series=Texas archaeology and ethnohistory series |location=Austin (Tx)}}</ref> Clovis blades are twice as long as they are wide and were used and modified to create a variety of tools, including endscrapers (used to scrape hides), serrated tools, and gravers.<ref name=":16" /> Unlike bifaces, Clovis blade cores do not appear to have been regularly transported over long distances, with only the blades typically carried in the mobile toolkit.<ref>Kilby, David. "A Regional Perspective on Clovis Blades and Blade Caching." In "Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding," Ed. by Ashley Smallwood and Thomas Jennings, TAMU Press., 2014.</ref>