CLOVIS PROJECTILE POINT MANUFACTURE: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE READY/LINCOLN HILLS SITE, 11JY46, JERSEY COUNTY, ILLINOIS Juliet E. Morrow I ntroduction While many lithic analyses have documented various aspects of Clovis lithic technology from a variety of archaeological contexts in widely scattered loca- tions across North America (e.g., Bradley 1982, 1 993; Green 1953; Young and Collins 1989; Collins 1990; Sanders 1990; Willig 1993), much of our current understanding of Clovis biface manufacture is based primarily on information derived from artifact caches from western North America (Frison 1991; Gramly 1993; Woods and Titmus 1985; Lahren and Bonnichsen 1974; Wilke, Flenniken, and Ozbun 1 994; Stanford and Jodry 1988). Some of these researchers have observed that Clovis knappers employed a highly distinctive biface reduction strategy. This being the case, Clovis lithic assemblages should be easily recognized wherever they occur. Defined technologically, the Clovis complex is represented in many localities across eastern North America. One of these localities is the Ready site, which contains an extensive early Paleo- indian habitation/workshop component. The large assemblage of Paleoindian chipped stone artifacts collected from the Ready site (1 1JY46) in Jersey County, Illinois, contains the full range of Clovis fluted biface manufacturing steps. As such, the assemblage allows one to document in detail the fluted point manufacturing sequence employed at the site. This study discusses the sequence of Clovis fluted biface production as interpreted from the Ready site assemblage. More detailed analyses of the Ready site assemblage are planned, and the present study should be seen as a preliminary view of the site. The Ready site is perhaps better known to the professional archaeological community as the Lincoln Hills site. Although the site was recorded as the Scenic Hill site in 1958 by Patrick Munson (Illinois Site Files), archaeologists soon referred to it as the Lincoln Hills site, presumably based on its location within the Lincoln Hills physiographic area (see Howard 1988; Koldehoff Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 20. No. 2 (C) 1 995 by The Kent State University Press