ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountain that flakes the stone technology. Flake tools included standardized forms, with produced by percussion flaking techniques. The earliest well-documented flaked stone assemblages of the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains are Clovis, but there may be evidence of earlier assemblages in the region. Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountain Paleo-Indian flaked stone technologies were dominated by bifacial production. Complex projectile point production strategies are present in the various Paleo-Indian assemblages, and the expertise exhibited may have developed as an expression of perceived supernatural power. The chapter explains that the Agate Basin technology was not derived from Folsom technology on the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains. Hell Gap projectile point manufacturing technology was a continuation of the well-developed Agate Basin technology. This chapter presents the Agate Basin points as an effective way of making recyclable projectiles and the efficient design of any of the specialist bison hunters in the Plains and Rocky Mountains.
