New Clovis Technology book signing at Bell County Museum!

Description

The Bell County Museum will host a book signing for Clovis Technology, a new work by Drs. Michael B. Collins and Bruce Bradley. The book signing will be held on Saturday, May 15, 2010, from 2-4 p.m. Dr. Bradley will be present to discuss the book and sign copies.
Softcover copies will sell for $47.50 plus tax. Museum members receive a 10 percent discount.
Clovis Technology is the first book that deals with the extant bone and stone tool technologies of the Clovis Culture (13,500 years ago) beyond the projectile points. Even though archaeologists are examining only a small existing fragment of this ancient culture a great deal of information about how ancient peoples lived and interacted can be gleaned from these enduring clues. The authors examine various types of tools and demonstrate that Clovis cultural material can be identified by unique toolmaking techniques and that usewear analysis can tell us much about prehistoric environmental knowledge and usage. Clues locked into their stone tools can also tell us much about patterns of learning and the teaching of manufacturing knowledge.
Professor Bruce Bradley is Director of the Experimental Archaeology Masters Programme at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, and has extensive experience with Stone Age technologies and experimental archaeology. He is involved in a variety of research projects including the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia and France, horse domestication in Central Asia, early peopling of the New World and prehistoric Pueblo archaeology of the American Southwest. Bruce is also active in bringing his archaeological interests to the public through presentations, teaching and participation in documentaries.
For more information, please contact the museum at 254.933.5243.