Thomas W Stafford

Biographic Data

ID72641
NAMEThomas W Stafford
GIVEN NAMESThomas W
FAMILY NAMEStafford
SIGNATURESTAFFORD T W
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research
ORCID0000-0003-4094-9889
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS360
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8

  • A human skeleton from Última Esperanza, South-West Patagonia, Chile

    Open AccessLumila Paula Menéndez, Constanza Ciriza De Los Ríos et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2025References: 3

    Despite over 130 years of systematic investigation, only a few ancient human skeletons have been recovered in southern Patagonia. These remains, dating to the Middle and Late Holocene, are typically found as isolated individuals or in small burial groups. In this paper, we present a multidisciplinary analysis of a human skeleton belonging to an elderly female discovered in the late 19th century in Mylodon Cave, Última Esperanza, southern Chile. T…

  • Re-dating the Early Upper Paleolithic Levels of Le Trou Magrite (Pont-à-Lesse, Belgium)

    Open AccessL G Straus, M Otte et al.ARTICLEL Anthropologie2022

  • Hard Facts in an Imperfect Site

    Richard A Fariña, P Sebastián Tambusso et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2022Cited by: 2References: 12

    With the excuse of writing a critique to Domínguez-Rodrigo et al. (2021, duly replied here: Domínguez-Rodrigo & Baquedano, 2022), Holcomb et al. (this volume) intend to deny the proposal that the Arroyo del Vizcaíno (AdV, Fariña et al. 2014) is a site with evidence of human presence in South America before the LGM. Among the flaws of their critique, it must be mentioned that they decide to utterly ignore a few lines of evidence that sustain the q…

  • Étude génétique de la diversité et de l’alimentation de l’hyène des cavernes à partir de coprolithes de six sites du sud de la France

    Jean‐Marc Elalouf, Véronique Berthonaud et al.ARTICLEQuaternaire2021References: 21

    Afin d’obtenir des informations sur la diversité génétique et l’alimentation de l’hyène des cavernes, nous avons analysé l’ADN de coprolithes de six sites du sud de la France. Les sites correspondent à quatre grottes ardéchoises (Grotte‐aux‐Ours de Châteaubourg, Baume Néron et Trou‐du‐Renard de Soyons, Le Figuier) et deux grottes de l’Aude (Tournal, La Crouzade). Pour huit coprolithes de ces six sites, nous avons réalisé un séquençage global mass…

  • Elevated lead exposure in Roman occupants of Londinium

    Open AccessS R Scott, Martin M Shafer et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2020Cited by: 3References: 58

    The evolution of metallurgical practices over several millennia has resulted in human exposures to a diverse variety of toxic elements. These exposures were not just confined to the metalworkers, but in many cases broadly impacted the larger community and society. The role of lead in Roman civilization is particularly fascinating, where the available evidence of lead use in a myriad of applications by Roman civilization suggests the potential for…

  • New Research at Paisley Caves

    Open AccessLisa-Marie Shillito, John C Blong et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2018Cited by: 6References: 4

    Paisley Caves in Oregon has become well known due to early dates, and human presence in the form of coprolites, found to contain ancient human DNA. Questions remain over whether the coprolites themselves are human, or whether the DNA is mobile in the sediments. This brief introduces new research applying an integrated analytical approach combining sediment micromorphology and lipid biomarker analysis, which aims to resolve these problems

  • Pre-Clovis occupation 14,550 years ago at the Page-Ladson site, Florida, and the peopling of the Americas

    Open AccessJessi J Halligan, Michael R Waters et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2016

    Page-Ladson, Florida, provides evidence of the oldest human occupation in the North American Gulf Coastal Plain at 14,550 B.P.

  • Younger Dryas Archaeology and Human Experience at the Paisley Caves in the Northern Great Basin

    Dennis L Jenkins, Loren G Davis et al.CHAPTERStones, Bones, and Profiles2016

  • Youngest Radiocarbon Age for Jefferson's Ground Sloth, Megalonyx Jeffersonii (Xenarthra, Megalonychidae)

    Open AccessH Gregory Mcdonald, Thomas W Stafford et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2015

    A partial skeleton of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii , recovered from a farm near Millersburg, Ohio in 1890, was radiocarbon dated for the first time. The ungual dated is part of a skeleton mounted for exhibit at the Orton Geological Museum at Ohio State University and was the first mounted skeleton of this animal. From its initial discovery the bones were treated with multiple organic compounds that had the potential to compromi…

  • The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man

    Open AccessMorten Rasmussen, Mateusz Sikora et al.ARTICLENature2015

    Kennewick Man, a 8,500-year-old male human skeleton discovered in Washington state, USA, has been the subject of scientific and legal controversy; here a DNA analysis shows that Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other extant population worldwide. Kennewick Man is a 9,000-year-old male human skeleton discovered in Washington state, USA in 1996. The population affinities of the remains have been the subject of scientifi…

  • New 14C dates for Spring Creek and Mowbray Swamp megafauna

    Open AccessRichard Gillespie, Rachel Woods et al.ARTICLEArchaeology in Oceania/Archæology…2015Cited by: 4References: 23

    Bones from extinct Australian marsupials found at Spring Creek, Victoria, and in the Mowbray Swamp, Tasmania, have yielded scattered and anomalously young radiocarbon ages measured on collagen, gelatin or ultrafiltered gelatin. We resampled previously dated material from those two sites and from Mt Cripps, Tasmania, as well as a control sample from Zaglik, Russia, to compare chronologies based on XAD‐2 purified total amino acid fractions and coll…

  • Redating Fell's Cave, Chile and the Chronological Placement of the Fishtail Projectile Point

    Open AccessMichael R Waters, Thomas Amorosi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2015Cited by: 8References: 11

    Fell's Cave lies near the Magellan Straits of South America's Southern Cone. This was the first site to provide evidence of a late Pleistocene occupation of South America, and it is the site where the Fishtail projectile point type was defined. Previous radiocarbon ages from Fell's Cave on charcoal samples from three hearths in the late Pleistocene artifact-bearing levels yielded dates ranging from ca. 11,000 to 10,100 radiocarbon years before pr…

  • New Evidence for a Possible Paleolithic Occupation of the Eastern North American Continental Shelf at the Last Glacial Maximum

    Dennis Stanford, Darrin Lowery et al.CHAPTERPrehistoric Archaeology on the…2014

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

    Open AccessMorten Rasmussen, Sarah L Anzick et al.ARTICLENature2014

  • Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native Americans

    Open AccessJames C Chatters, D J Kennett et al.ARTICLEScience2014

    American Beauty Modern Native American ancestry traces back to an East Asian migration across Beringia. However, some Native American skeletons from the late Pleistocene show phenotypic characteristics more similar to other, more geographically distant, human populations. Chatters et al. (p. 750 ) describe a skeleton with a Paleoamerican phenotype from the eastern Yucatan, dating to approximately 12 to 13 thousand years ago, with a relatively com…

  • Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

    Open AccessMaanasa Raghavan, Peter Skoglund et al.ARTICLENature2014

  • Redating the Mill Iron Site, Montana

    Open AccessMichael R Waters, Thomas W StaffordARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2014Cited by: 8References: 14

    The Paleoindian Goshen complex occurs in the northern Plains and eastern Rocky Mountains. Since its identification, there has been much discussion about the chronological placement of the Goshen complex. This is especially true because diagnostic Goshen projectile points occur stratigraphically below Folsom artifacts at two sites, and early dates from the Mill Iron site, Montana, and the Hell Gap site, Wyoming, have suggested that this point type…

  • Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves

    Open AccessDennis L Jenkins, Loren G Davis et al.ARTICLEScience2012

    They Walked Together Paisley Cave in Oregon provides some of the earliest evidence for humans in North America. Jenkins et al. (p. 223 ) provide a wide variety of additional evidence of early human occupation of this site, including a series of radiocarbon ages extending back to nearly 12,500 radiocarbon years ago (about 14,500 calendar years ago). The find includes examples of projectile points representative of the Western Stemmed Tradition dat…

  • Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

    Open AccessEline D Lorenzen, David Nogués‐bravo et al.ARTICLENature2011

  • Pre-Clovis Mastodon Hunting 13,800 Years Ago at the Manis Site, Washington

    Open AccessMichael R Waters, Thomas W Stafford et al.ARTICLEScience2011

    Further dating of the Manis site shows that people were hunting mastodons in North America by 14,000 years ago.

  • AMS 14C analysis of Late Pleistocene non-analog faunal components from 21 cave deposits in southeastern North America

    Open AccessHolmes A Semken, Russell W Graham et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2010

  • Arch Lake Woman

    Douglas W Owsley, Margaret Jodry et al.BOOKArch Lake Woman2010

  • Origins and antiquity of the island fox ( Urocyon littoralis ) on California's Channel Islands

    Open AccessT C Rick, Jon M Erlandson et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2009

    The island fox ( Urocyon littoralis ) is one of few reportedly endemic terrestrial mammals on California's Channel Islands. Questions remain about how and when foxes first colonized the islands, with researchers speculating on a natural, human-assisted, or combined dispersal during the late Pleistocene and/or Holocene. A natural dispersal of foxes to the northern Channel Islands has been supported by reports of a few fox bones from late Pleistoce…

  • Geoarchaeological investigations at the Topper and Big Pine Tree sites, Allendale County, South Carolina

    Open AccessMichael R Waters, Steven L Forman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2009Cited by: 6References: 14

  • Clovis and the American Mastodon at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky

    Open AccessKenneth B Tankersley, Michael R Waters et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2009Cited by: 2References: 11

    Contemporaneity of people and the American mastodon (Mammut americanum) at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, has been extensively debated for more than two hundred years. Newly interpreted stratigraphic excavations and direct AMS 14C measurements on mastodon bones from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, indicate that the megafauna are a palimpsest of fossils spanning at least 1,200 calendar years (11,020 ± 30 to 12,210 ± 35 RC yr B.P.). The radiocarbon evidence ind…