List of works - David J. Meltzer

8 The human colonization of the Americas: archaeology

scholarly article by David J. Meltzer published in February 2013

: Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile. Volume 1: Palaeoenvironment and Site Context . Tom D. Dillehay

article

A Further Assessment of Paleoindian Site-Use at Bonfire Shelter

A Mammoth Fraud in Science

A Quaternary Question

scientific article published in Science

A Study of Style and Function in a Class of Tools

A composite window into human history

scientific article published in June 2017

A requiem for North American overkill

scholarly article

Altithermal Archaeology and Paleoecology at Mustang Springs, on the Southern High Plains of Texas

article

Americans before columbus: Ice-Age Origins. Ronald C. Carlisle (Editor), 1988, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, Ethnology Monographs 12, xi + 123 pp., $ 11.00 (paperbound)

article by David J. Meltzer published 1990 in Geoarchaeology

Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas Impact Event

2013 scientific paper by Mark Boslough et al.

Book Reviews: Ancient Human Migrations: A Multidisciplinary Approach edited by Peter N. Peregrine, Ilia Peiros, and Marcus Feldman

scholarly article in American Anthropologist, vol. 112 no. 3, August 2010

Chronological evidence fails to support claim of an isochronous widespread layer of cosmic impact indicators dated to 12,800 years ago. ⬇️

scholarly article

Climate change and the integrity of science

scientific article

Clocking the First Americans

article by David J. Meltzer published October 1995 in Annual Review of Anthropology

Clovis Hunting and Large Mammal Extinction: A Critical Review of the Evidence

article

Clovis at the end of the world

scientific article

Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding. Ashley M. Smallwood and Thomas A. Jennings editors. 2015. Texas: A&M University Press, College Station, vii + 364 pp. $ 50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-62349-201-4

Comment on "Redefining the age of Clovis: implications for the peopling of the Americas".

scientific article

Early Holocene Paleoindian deposits at Nall Playa, Oklahoma Panhandle, U.S.A

Early Paleoindian foraging: examining the faunal evidence for large mammal specialization and regional variability in prey choice

article

Early human dispersals within the Americas

scientific article published in Science

Explaining the origin of fluting in North American Pleistocene weaponry

Explaining variability in Early Paleoindian foraging

scholarly article

Fossil horses: Systematics, paleobiology, and evolution of the family equidae. Bruce J. MacFadden, 1992, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 369 pp., $74.95 (clothbound)

Geoarchaeology and Geochronology of the Miami (Clovis) Site, Southern High Plains of Texas

scholarly article by Vance T. Holliday et al published March 1994 in Quaternary Research

Geoarchaeology of the Midland (Paleoindian) Site, Texas

Geochronology of Sandia Cave, C. Vance Haynes, Jr. and George A. Agogino, 1986, Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 32. Free (Paper). (Available from the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institutio

article

Historic Period Faunal Remains from Mustang Springs on the Southern High Plains of Texas

article

Human Responses to Middle Holocene (Altithermal) Climates on the North American Great Plains

article

Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis ‘connection’

scholarly article by Lawrence Guy Straus published in December 2005

Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies. Dennis J. Stanford and Jane S. Day, editors. Denver Museum of Natural History and University of Colorado Press, Niwot, 1992. xii + 378 pp., figures, tables, photographs, references, index. ’39.95 (cloth); ’19.95 (p

Ideology and Material Culture

article

Impact did not cause Climate Change, Extinction, or Clovis termination at 12.9 ka ⬇️

abstract from the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2011

Is There a Clovis Adaptation?

scientific article published in 1993

Just how far and just how fast? Clovis in Late Glacial North America

scientific article

Kennewick Man: coming to closure

Last glacial–interglacial environments in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA and implications for Younger Dryas-age human occupation

scholarly article

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

scientific article

Late pleistocene human adaptations in eastern North America

scientific article published in March 1988

Lewis Binford

Bibliography article

MORE ON THE RUMOR OF “INTENTIONAL OVERSHOT FLAKING” AND THE PURPORTED ICE-AGE ATLANTIC CROSSING

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Man and the mid-holocene climatic optimum, Neil A. McKinnon and G.S.L. Stuart (Eds.), 1987, the University of Calgary Archaeological Association, 404 + xii p., about $18.00 (incl. shipping) (paperbound)

scholarly article by David J. Meltzer published in January 1989

Millennial-scale dynamics of valley fills over the past 12,000 14C yr in northeastern New Mexico, USA

article

Mother knows best

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

New Evidence for the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas. Alan Lyle Bryan, editor. Center for the Study of Early Man, University of Maine, Orono, 1986. i + 368 pp., figures, tables, references cited, index. $32.00 inside North America (paper); $42.0

article

North American Archaeology and Archaeologists, 1879-1934

scholarly article by David J. Meltzer published in April 1985

North American overkill continued?

On Bonfire Shelter (Texas) as a Paleoindian Bison Jump: An Assessment Using GIS and Zooarchaeology

On Stone Procurement and Settlement Mobility in Eastern Fluted Point Groups

article

On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil

article

On the Presumed Clovis-Age Structure at the Paleo Crossing Site, Ohio

scientific article published on 7 December 2021

Optically stimulated luminescence dating of Southern High Plains archaeological sites

article

Overkill, glacial history, and the extinction of North America's Ice Age megafauna

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

PLEISTOCENE PATHWAYS OF HUMAN DISPERSAL INTO AMERICA

POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

scientific article

Paleoenvironment of the Folsom archaeological site, New Mexico, USA, approximately 10,500 14C yr B.P. as inferred from the stable isotope composition of fossil land snail shells

article

Paradigms Lost—Paradigms Found?

Paradigms and the Nature of Change in American Archaeology

scholarly article by David J. Meltzer published in October 1979

Peopling of North America

Pleistocene Overkill and North American Mammalian Extinctions

Pleistocene overkill and the associational critique

Pleistocene peopling of the Americas

Postglacial viability and colonization in North America's ice-free corridor.

scientific article

Prehistoric Water Wells on the Southern High Plains: Clues to Altithermal Climate

scientific article published in 1987

Refuting the technological cornerstone of the Ice-Age Atlantic crossing hypothesis

scholarly article by Metin I. Eren et al published July 2013 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Renewed investigations at the Folsom Palaeoindian type site

Reply to comments on "The 12.9-ka ET Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians"

reply to comments by multiple authors

Revisiting Paleoindian exploitation of extinct North American mammals

Social Theory and Archaeology. Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1988. viii + 243 pp., appendix, references, index. $29.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper)

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Spatial point pattern identification of an apparent Ice-Age house structure

article by Kalanka P. Jayalath et al published November 2015 in Spatial Statistics

Stable Isotopes in Yellow-Bellied Marmot (Marmota Flaviventris) Fossils Reveal Environmental Stability in the Late Quaternary of the Colorado Rocky Mountains

article published in 2015

Stratigraphy of the Younger Dryas Chronozone and paleoenvironmental implications: Central and Southern Great Plains

scholarly article

Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans.

scientific article

The 12.9-ka ET Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians

2010 scholarly article by Holliday and Meltzer

The Antiquity of Man and the Development of American Archaeology

article

The Archaeology of William Henry Holmes

article

The Folsom (Paleoindian) Type Site: Past Investigations, Current Studies

The Great Paleolithic War

The Timing of Late Pleistocene Mammalian Extinctions in North America

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: a cosmic catastrophe

scholarly article

The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man

scientific article

The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

scientific article

The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

The relationship between sample size and diversity in archaeological assemblages

scholarly article by David J. Meltzer published in July 1992

W. Roger Powers, R. Dale Guthrie & John F. Hoffecker (edited by Ted Goebel). Dry Creek: archaeology and paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan hunting camp. 2017. 330 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, tables. College Station: Texas A&

scholarly article by David J. Meltzer published in December 2017

Were Hominins in California ∼130,000 Years Ago?

article

When Destiny Takes a Turn for the Worse: William Henry Holmes and, Incidentally, Franz Boas in Chicago, 1892-97

article

Why Don't We Know When the First People Came to North America?

article by David J. Meltzer published July 1989 in American Antiquity

List of works by David J. Meltzer

8 The human colonization of the Americas: archaeology

: Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile. Volume 1: Palaeoenvironment and Site Context . Tom D. Dillehay

A Further Assessment of Paleoindian Site-Use at Bonfire Shelter

A Mammoth Fraud in Science

A Quaternary Question

A Study of Style and Function in a Class of Tools

A composite window into human history

A requiem for North American overkill

Altithermal Archaeology and Paleoecology at Mustang Springs, on the Southern High Plains of Texas

Americans before columbus: Ice-Age Origins. Ronald C. Carlisle (Editor), 1988, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, Ethnology Monographs 12, xi + 123 pp., $ 11.00 (paperbound)

Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas Impact Event

Book Reviews: Ancient Human Migrations: A Multidisciplinary Approach edited by Peter N. Peregrine, Ilia Peiros, and Marcus Feldman

Chronological evidence fails to support claim of an isochronous widespread layer of cosmic impact indicators dated to 12,800 years ago. ⬇️

Climate change and the integrity of science

Clocking the First Americans

Clovis Hunting and Large Mammal Extinction: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Clovis at the end of the world

Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding. Ashley M. Smallwood and Thomas A. Jennings editors. 2015. Texas: A&M University Press, College Station, vii + 364 pp. $ 50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-62349-201-4

Comment on "Redefining the age of Clovis: implications for the peopling of the Americas".

Early Holocene Paleoindian deposits at Nall Playa, Oklahoma Panhandle, U.S.A

Early Paleoindian foraging: examining the faunal evidence for large mammal specialization and regional variability in prey choice

Early human dispersals within the Americas

Explaining the origin of fluting in North American Pleistocene weaponry

Explaining variability in Early Paleoindian foraging

Fossil horses: Systematics, paleobiology, and evolution of the family equidae. Bruce J. MacFadden, 1992, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 369 pp., $74.95 (clothbound)

Geoarchaeology and Geochronology of the Miami (Clovis) Site, Southern High Plains of Texas

Geoarchaeology of the Midland (Paleoindian) Site, Texas

Geochronology of Sandia Cave, C. Vance Haynes, Jr. and George A. Agogino, 1986, Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 32. Free (Paper). (Available from the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institutio

Historic Period Faunal Remains from Mustang Springs on the Southern High Plains of Texas

Human Responses to Middle Holocene (Altithermal) Climates on the North American Great Plains

Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis ‘connection’

Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies. Dennis J. Stanford and Jane S. Day, editors. Denver Museum of Natural History and University of Colorado Press, Niwot, 1992. xii + 378 pp., figures, tables, photographs, references, index. ’39.95 (cloth); ’19.95 (p

Ideology and Material Culture

Impact did not cause Climate Change, Extinction, or Clovis termination at 12.9 ka ⬇️

Is There a Clovis Adaptation?

Just how far and just how fast? Clovis in Late Glacial North America

Kennewick Man: coming to closure

Last glacial–interglacial environments in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA and implications for Younger Dryas-age human occupation

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Late pleistocene human adaptations in eastern North America

Lewis Binford

MORE ON THE RUMOR OF “INTENTIONAL OVERSHOT FLAKING” AND THE PURPORTED ICE-AGE ATLANTIC CROSSING

Man and the mid-holocene climatic optimum, Neil A. McKinnon and G.S.L. Stuart (Eds.), 1987, the University of Calgary Archaeological Association, 404 + xii p., about $18.00 (incl. shipping) (paperbound)

Millennial-scale dynamics of valley fills over the past 12,000 14C yr in northeastern New Mexico, USA

Mother knows best

New Evidence for the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas. Alan Lyle Bryan, editor. Center for the Study of Early Man, University of Maine, Orono, 1986. i + 368 pp., figures, tables, references cited, index. $32.00 inside North America (paper); $42.0

North American Archaeology and Archaeologists, 1879-1934

North American overkill continued?

On Bonfire Shelter (Texas) as a Paleoindian Bison Jump: An Assessment Using GIS and Zooarchaeology

On Stone Procurement and Settlement Mobility in Eastern Fluted Point Groups

On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil

On the Presumed Clovis-Age Structure at the Paleo Crossing Site, Ohio

Optically stimulated luminescence dating of Southern High Plains archaeological sites

Overkill, glacial history, and the extinction of North America's Ice Age megafauna

PLEISTOCENE PATHWAYS OF HUMAN DISPERSAL INTO AMERICA

POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

Paleoenvironment of the Folsom archaeological site, New Mexico, USA, approximately 10,500 14C yr B.P. as inferred from the stable isotope composition of fossil land snail shells

Paradigms Lost—Paradigms Found?

Paradigms and the Nature of Change in American Archaeology

Peopling of North America

Pleistocene Overkill and North American Mammalian Extinctions

Pleistocene overkill and the associational critique

Pleistocene peopling of the Americas

Postglacial viability and colonization in North America's ice-free corridor.

Prehistoric Water Wells on the Southern High Plains: Clues to Altithermal Climate

Refuting the technological cornerstone of the Ice-Age Atlantic crossing hypothesis

Renewed investigations at the Folsom Palaeoindian type site

Reply to comments on "The 12.9-ka ET Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians"

Revisiting Paleoindian exploitation of extinct North American mammals

Social Theory and Archaeology. Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1988. viii + 243 pp., appendix, references, index. $29.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper)

Spatial point pattern identification of an apparent Ice-Age house structure

Stable Isotopes in Yellow-Bellied Marmot (Marmota Flaviventris) Fossils Reveal Environmental Stability in the Late Quaternary of the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Stratigraphy of the Younger Dryas Chronozone and paleoenvironmental implications: Central and Southern Great Plains

Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans.

The 12.9-ka ET Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians

The Antiquity of Man and the Development of American Archaeology

The Archaeology of William Henry Holmes

The Folsom (Paleoindian) Type Site: Past Investigations, Current Studies