Thomas A Jennings
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 119180 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas A Jennings |
| NOMBRES | Thomas A |
| APELLIDO | Jennings |
| FIRMA | JENNINGS T A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6031-4667 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Late Pleistocene paleoenvironments and social dynamics in the southern Lower Mississippi River Valley
Archaeologists studying the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene records in the Southeast have made significant methodological and theoretical contributions to our understanding of the earliest Native American record. In this paper, we briefly review these contributions. We then present a geographic case study of the southern Lower Mississippi River Valley. Relying on border, behavioral ecological, and cultural transmission theories, we show that …
Bifaces to Go (Again)
Bruce Huckell was a pioneer of experimental archaeology. His early work, “Of Chipped Stone Tools, Elephants, and the Clovis Hunters” and “The Denver Elephant Project,” demonstrated how actualistic experiments offer archaeologists powerful interpretative data for understanding Paleoamerican technology and subsistence. This paper builds on a more recent experiment presented by Huckell and colleagues in 2002 entitled “Bifaces to Go: An Experimental …
Using maximum entropy modeling of site distributions to explore late middle Holocene origins of horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands
Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Researching the Earliest Southeastern Record
We review the contributions of archaeologists studying the Pleistocene and Early Holocene records in the American Southeast. Researchers have made great efforts in finding paleoenvironmental proxies for the past, discovering underwater sites, and embracing a record of isolated point finds. With a renewed interest in technological organization and behavioral ecology, researchers study landscape use as adaptive responses and consider the role of so…
The oldest house in the Southeast? Identifying a probable Clovis domestic structure at the Topper site, South Carolina
The third dimension of stone points
Topper Site Revisited
Topper is one of the largest buried Clovis sites in North America. The decades of archaeological excavations and analyses of Topper assemblages have informed our understanding of Clovis technology, mobility, settlement, and, more recently, chronology in the American Southeast. In this paper, we use spatial analysis to explore intra-site variation at Topper. We find that distance and elevation from the outcrop influenced the organization of core a…
Early Archaic landscape use, cultural transmission, and aggregation in the lower Ohio River valley
In this paper, we use GIS and 2D geometric morphometrics to explore landscape use and social interaction among Kirk Cluster populations in the lower Ohio River valley. Using cultural transmission as a theoretical foundation, we develop models for identifying assemblages produced by macroband aggregations. We show that two distinct populations occupied northern Indiana and southwestern Kentucky. Intensively occupied sites in these areas are situat…
Louisiana Paleo indian and Early Archaic
Using 3D Models to Understand the Changing Role of Fluting in Paleoindian Point Technology from Clovis to Dalton
Fluting is a technological and morphological hallmark of some of the most iconic North American Paleoindian stone points. Through decades of detailed artifact analyses and replication experiments, archaeologists have spent considerable effort reconstructing how flute removals were achieved, and they have explored possible explanations of why fluting was such an important aspect of early point technologies. However, the end of fluting has been les…
Prismatic Blade Production at the Sinclair Site, Tennessee
The Tennessee Division of Archaeology documented an extensive Paleoindian lithic quarry and workshop at the Sinclair site in Tennessee in 2008. We present the first detailed description of the lithic assemblage here, which focuses on aspects of its prismatic blade technology. Quantitative and qualitative attributes of 117 blades are assessed to characterize the assemblage and investigate human behaviors related to its formation. We then compare t…
Do early Paleoindian point blades carry culturally significant shape information? Modules versus complete points using geometric morphometrics
Projectile? Knife? Perforator? Using actualistic experiments to build models for identifying microscopic usewear traces on Dalton points from the Brand site, Arkansas, North America
Clues to Clovis mobility from geochemical sourcing of bifaces in the Hogeye Cache, Texas
Paleoindian Projectile-Point Diversity in the American Southeast
Paleoindian projectile points occur in high numbers in the American Southeast, and when compared to other regions of the East, the Southeast has the greatest projectile-point diversity. In this paper, we trace changes in elements of projectile-point design in the region to reconstruct the different evolutionary histories of specific point attributes and how these changes affected Paleoindian point design through time. With this approach, we consi…
The Convergent Evolution of Serrated Points on the Southern Plains–Woodland Border of Central North America
Clovis and Toyah
Expressions of ritual in the Paleoindian record of the Eastern Woodlands
Redating the Late Paleoindian/Early Archaic Golondrina Component at Baker Cave, Texas and Implications for the Dalton/Golondrina Expansion
Golondrina is a lanceolate point type linked to the Southeastern Dalton tradition that emerged during the Paleoindian to Archaic transition in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. The type remains imprecisely dated because only a handful of sites have yielded Golondrina points in buried, dateable contexts, and the few radiocarbon dates from these sites often have relatively large standard deviations. In this paper, we present new radiocarbon d…
The Impact of Stone Supply Stress on the Innovation of a Cultural Variant
Multiple hypotheses have been proposed to explain the relationship between fully fluted Folsom points and unfluted Midland points. One hypothesis, proposed by Hofman (1992, "Recognition and interpretation of Folsom technological variability on the southern plains." In Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies, edited by D. J. Stanford, and J. S. Day, 193–229. Boulder: University Press of Colorado), is that mobile Folsom bands shifted from making Folsom poin…
Testing for Evidence of Paleoindian Responses to Environmental Changes During the Younger Dryas Chronozone in Georgia
For the Southeast, it has been proposed that climate changes during the Younger Dryas period triggered a human population decline and/or substantial reorganization. We use the Georgia point record in the Paleoindian Database of the Americas to test for evidence of changes in landscape use through the Paleoindian period and consider these changes in the context of the Georgia paleoenvironmental record spanning the Younger Dryas. Based on differenc…
The British Paleolithic
THE BRITISH PALEOLITHIC: HUMAN SOCIETIES AT THE EDGE OF THE PLEISTOCENE WORLD." Lithic Technology, 40(3), pp. 251–252
Exploring late Paleoindian and early Archaic unfluted lanceolate point classification in the Southern Plains
During the late Paleoindian and early Archaic periods, the Southern Plains witnessed a diversification in unfluted lanceolate point styles. The classification of these points into distinct and meaningful typological groups continues to play a fundamental role in building an understanding of cultural changes at the end of the last Ice Age. In this study, we analyze a sample of points from the Hogeye site, Texas to explore unfluted lanceolate point…
Pre-Clovis Lithic Technology at the Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas
Humans first left Siberia and colonized the Americas perhaps around 16,000 years ago, and the Clovis archaeological complex in North America has traditionally been linked to this migratory pulse. Archaeologists searching for evidence of Clovis technological antecedents have focused their attention on the Beringian and Siberian archaeological records. Growing evidence for the pre-Clovis occupation of North America provides a possible alternative s…
Clovis, Folsom, and Midland components at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas
A biface and blade core efficiency experiment
Pre-Clovis Lithic Technology at the Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas
Humans first left Siberia and colonized the Americas perhaps around 16,000 years ago, and the Clovis archaeological complex in North America has traditionally been linked to this migratory pulse. Archaeologists searching for evidence of Clovis technological antecedents have focused their attention on the Beringian and Siberian archaeological records. Growing evidence for the pre-Clovis occupation of North America provides a possible alternative s…
The Hogeye Clovis cache, Texas
San Patrice
Coincident with the climatic changes occurring during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, a number of regionally distinct Paleoindian projectile-point styles emerged throughout North America. This paper examines one understudied and poorly understood Late Paleoindian style, the San Patrice point. Although traditionally considered woodland-adapted hunter-gatherers, projectile-point distributions indicate that San Patrice groups, utilizing the sam…
Clovis, Folsom, and Midland components at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas
The Impact of Stone Supply Stress on the Innovation of a Cultural Variant
Multiple hypotheses have been proposed to explain the relationship between fully fluted Folsom points and unfluted Midland points. One hypothesis, proposed by Hofman (1992, "Recognition and interpretation of Folsom technological variability on the southern plains." In Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies, edited by D. J. Stanford, and J. S. Day, 193–229. Boulder: University Press of Colorado), is that mobile Folsom bands shifted from making Folsom poin…
Projectile? Knife? Perforator? Using actualistic experiments to build models for identifying microscopic usewear traces on Dalton points from the Brand site, Arkansas, North America
Paleoindian Projectile-Point Diversity in the American Southeast
Paleoindian projectile points occur in high numbers in the American Southeast, and when compared to other regions of the East, the Southeast has the greatest projectile-point diversity. In this paper, we trace changes in elements of projectile-point design in the region to reconstruct the different evolutionary histories of specific point attributes and how these changes affected Paleoindian point design through time. With this approach, we consi…
Using 3D Models to Understand the Changing Role of Fluting in Paleoindian Point Technology from Clovis to Dalton
Fluting is a technological and morphological hallmark of some of the most iconic North American Paleoindian stone points. Through decades of detailed artifact analyses and replication experiments, archaeologists have spent considerable effort reconstructing how flute removals were achieved, and they have explored possible explanations of why fluting was such an important aspect of early point technologies. However, the end of fluting has been les…
Testing for Evidence of Paleoindian Responses to Environmental Changes During the Younger Dryas Chronozone in Georgia
For the Southeast, it has been proposed that climate changes during the Younger Dryas period triggered a human population decline and/or substantial reorganization. We use the Georgia point record in the Paleoindian Database of the Americas to test for evidence of changes in landscape use through the Paleoindian period and consider these changes in the context of the Georgia paleoenvironmental record spanning the Younger Dryas. Based on differenc…
Experimental production of bending and radial flake fractures and implications for lithic technologies
Do early Paleoindian point blades carry culturally significant shape information? Modules versus complete points using geometric morphometrics
Exploring late Paleoindian and early Archaic unfluted lanceolate point classification in the Southern Plains
During the late Paleoindian and early Archaic periods, the Southern Plains witnessed a diversification in unfluted lanceolate point styles. The classification of these points into distinct and meaningful typological groups continues to play a fundamental role in building an understanding of cultural changes at the end of the last Ice Age. In this study, we analyze a sample of points from the Hogeye site, Texas to explore unfluted lanceolate point…
Early Archaic landscape use, cultural transmission, and aggregation in the lower Ohio River valley
In this paper, we use GIS and 2D geometric morphometrics to explore landscape use and social interaction among Kirk Cluster populations in the lower Ohio River valley. Using cultural transmission as a theoretical foundation, we develop models for identifying assemblages produced by macroband aggregations. We show that two distinct populations occupied northern Indiana and southwestern Kentucky. Intensively occupied sites in these areas are situat…
Prismatic Blade Production at the Sinclair Site, Tennessee
The Tennessee Division of Archaeology documented an extensive Paleoindian lithic quarry and workshop at the Sinclair site in Tennessee in 2008. We present the first detailed description of the lithic assemblage here, which focuses on aspects of its prismatic blade technology. Quantitative and qualitative attributes of 117 blades are assessed to characterize the assemblage and investigate human behaviors related to its formation. We then compare t…
The third dimension of stone points
Clues to Clovis mobility from geochemical sourcing of bifaces in the Hogeye Cache, Texas
San Patrice
Coincident with the climatic changes occurring during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, a number of regionally distinct Paleoindian projectile-point styles emerged throughout North America. This paper examines one understudied and poorly understood Late Paleoindian style, the San Patrice point. Although traditionally considered woodland-adapted hunter-gatherers, projectile-point distributions indicate that San Patrice groups, utilizing the sam…
A biface and blade core efficiency experiment
The Buttermilk Creek Complex and the Origins of Clovis at the Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas
A large artifact assemblage dating to 15,000 years ago lies beneath a Clovis assemblage in central Texas.
Experimental production of bending and radial flake fractures and implications for lithic technologies
Clovis, Folsom, and Midland components at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas
The Hogeye Clovis cache, Texas
Pre-Clovis Lithic Technology at the Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas
Humans first left Siberia and colonized the Americas perhaps around 16,000 years ago, and the Clovis archaeological complex in North America has traditionally been linked to this migratory pulse. Archaeologists searching for evidence of Clovis technological antecedents have focused their attention on the Beringian and Siberian archaeological records. Growing evidence for the pre-Clovis occupation of North America provides a possible alternative s…
Testing for Evidence of Paleoindian Responses to Environmental Changes During the Younger Dryas Chronozone in Georgia
For the Southeast, it has been proposed that climate changes during the Younger Dryas period triggered a human population decline and/or substantial reorganization. We use the Georgia point record in the Paleoindian Database of the Americas to test for evidence of changes in landscape use through the Paleoindian period and consider these changes in the context of the Georgia paleoenvironmental record spanning the Younger Dryas. Based on differenc…
The British Paleolithic
THE BRITISH PALEOLITHIC: HUMAN SOCIETIES AT THE EDGE OF THE PLEISTOCENE WORLD." Lithic Technology, 40(3), pp. 251–252
Exploring late Paleoindian and early Archaic unfluted lanceolate point classification in the Southern Plains
During the late Paleoindian and early Archaic periods, the Southern Plains witnessed a diversification in unfluted lanceolate point styles. The classification of these points into distinct and meaningful typological groups continues to play a fundamental role in building an understanding of cultural changes at the end of the last Ice Age. In this study, we analyze a sample of points from the Hogeye site, Texas to explore unfluted lanceolate point…
Redating the Late Paleoindian/Early Archaic Golondrina Component at Baker Cave, Texas and Implications for the Dalton/Golondrina Expansion
Golondrina is a lanceolate point type linked to the Southeastern Dalton tradition that emerged during the Paleoindian to Archaic transition in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. The type remains imprecisely dated because only a handful of sites have yielded Golondrina points in buried, dateable contexts, and the few radiocarbon dates from these sites often have relatively large standard deviations. In this paper, we present new radiocarbon d…
The Impact of Stone Supply Stress on the Innovation of a Cultural Variant
Multiple hypotheses have been proposed to explain the relationship between fully fluted Folsom points and unfluted Midland points. One hypothesis, proposed by Hofman (1992, "Recognition and interpretation of Folsom technological variability on the southern plains." In Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies, edited by D. J. Stanford, and J. S. Day, 193–229. Boulder: University Press of Colorado), is that mobile Folsom bands shifted from making Folsom poin…
The Convergent Evolution of Serrated Points on the Southern Plains–Woodland Border of Central North America
Clovis and Toyah
Expressions of ritual in the Paleoindian record of the Eastern Woodlands
Clues to Clovis mobility from geochemical sourcing of bifaces in the Hogeye Cache, Texas
Paleoindian Projectile-Point Diversity in the American Southeast
Paleoindian projectile points occur in high numbers in the American Southeast, and when compared to other regions of the East, the Southeast has the greatest projectile-point diversity. In this paper, we trace changes in elements of projectile-point design in the region to reconstruct the different evolutionary histories of specific point attributes and how these changes affected Paleoindian point design through time. With this approach, we consi…
Projectile? Knife? Perforator? Using actualistic experiments to build models for identifying microscopic usewear traces on Dalton points from the Brand site, Arkansas, North America
Do early Paleoindian point blades carry culturally significant shape information? Modules versus complete points using geometric morphometrics
Louisiana Paleo indian and Early Archaic
Using 3D Models to Understand the Changing Role of Fluting in Paleoindian Point Technology from Clovis to Dalton
Fluting is a technological and morphological hallmark of some of the most iconic North American Paleoindian stone points. Through decades of detailed artifact analyses and replication experiments, archaeologists have spent considerable effort reconstructing how flute removals were achieved, and they have explored possible explanations of why fluting was such an important aspect of early point technologies. However, the end of fluting has been les…
Prismatic Blade Production at the Sinclair Site, Tennessee
The Tennessee Division of Archaeology documented an extensive Paleoindian lithic quarry and workshop at the Sinclair site in Tennessee in 2008. We present the first detailed description of the lithic assemblage here, which focuses on aspects of its prismatic blade technology. Quantitative and qualitative attributes of 117 blades are assessed to characterize the assemblage and investigate human behaviors related to its formation. We then compare t…
Topper Site Revisited
Topper is one of the largest buried Clovis sites in North America. The decades of archaeological excavations and analyses of Topper assemblages have informed our understanding of Clovis technology, mobility, settlement, and, more recently, chronology in the American Southeast. In this paper, we use spatial analysis to explore intra-site variation at Topper. We find that distance and elevation from the outcrop influenced the organization of core a…
Early Archaic landscape use, cultural transmission, and aggregation in the lower Ohio River valley
In this paper, we use GIS and 2D geometric morphometrics to explore landscape use and social interaction among Kirk Cluster populations in the lower Ohio River valley. Using cultural transmission as a theoretical foundation, we develop models for identifying assemblages produced by macroband aggregations. We show that two distinct populations occupied northern Indiana and southwestern Kentucky. Intensively occupied sites in these areas are situat…
Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Researching the Earliest Southeastern Record
We review the contributions of archaeologists studying the Pleistocene and Early Holocene records in the American Southeast. Researchers have made great efforts in finding paleoenvironmental proxies for the past, discovering underwater sites, and embracing a record of isolated point finds. With a renewed interest in technological organization and behavioral ecology, researchers study landscape use as adaptive responses and consider the role of so…
Archaeology (26 obras) · Geography (24 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (22 obras) · Geology (16 obras) · History (8 obras) · Archaeology and Natural History (7 obras) · Biology (6 obras) · Geology (6 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 obras)