Dennis J Stanford
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 301524 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dennis J Stanford |
| NOMBRES | Dennis J |
| APELLIDO | Stanford |
| FIRMA | STANFORD D J |
| AFILIACIONES | Smithsonian Institution |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 435 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Further Insights Into Paleoindian Use of the Powars Ii Red Ocher Quarry (48pl330), Wyoming
We report major new insights from recent research at the Powars II Paleoindian red ocher quarry (48PL330). We salvaged more than 7,000 artifacts from Powars II between 2014 and 2016 by screening redeposited sediment from the talus slope below the intact portion of the site. Clovis artifacts dominate the diagnostic artifact assemblage, including 53 Clovis points, 33 preforms, and artifacts associated with a previously unrecognized blade core indus…
Charcoal Versus Manganese Mineral Wad and the Geochronology of the Kimmswick Clovis Site
Hydrated manganese oxide, known as mineral wad, is sometimes mistaken for charcoal, as US National Museum geologist W. H. Holmes and archaeologist Gerald Fowke did in 1902. Here we discuss the Kimmswick Clovis site as an example and provide recent radiocarbon results pertinent to Mississippi Valley geochronology
Dating the Peopling of Northwestern South America
The El Inga site in Ecuador produced an important number of fishtail (or Fell) points. Early 1960s conventional radiocarbon assays yielded dates ranging between 9000 and 4900 14C yr BP. Even the oldest one seems too young given dates for these artifacts in South America. We recently AMS dated a curated sample from Bell's original excavation. The new results are in agreement with dates obtained from fishtail point sites in the rest of the continen…
Lone Butte
The Lone Butte site represents a substantial lithic assemblage from a Folsom hunting camp and overlook locality in the central Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico. It appears to be similar to the Rio Rancho site in the Central Rio Grande Valley in terms of its landscape position and assemblage signature. Lone Butte represents the largest and most comprehensive lithic assemblage from any Paleoindian site in the Tularosa Basin, strongly docu…
Lessons from Ginsberg
Reply to O'Brien et al
Across Atlantic ice (AAI) sets out specifically to propose an alternative hypothesis of early human entry into the Americas and to stimulate research (Stanford & Bradley 2012: 16). O'Brien et al .'s response (above) primarily contains an unsupported dismissal of the evidence and these ideas. Unfortunately, to date, no work equivalent to AAI has been presented for any other Clovis origin hypothesis; this would be most welcome, especially from thos…
Fluted point manufacture in eastern North America
Differences in Paleoindian projectile point morphology have previously been used to define technologies, infer colonization patterns, propose chronological and regional boundaries. In this study, we evaluate the effectiveness of traditional linear measurements and ratios, flake scar angles, and 3D model-based flake contours for the statistical differentiation of projectile point type(s) and reduction technique. Sixty-three fluted bifaces from eas…
Solutrean hypothesis
© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in World Archaeology on 31/10/2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00438243.2014.966273
Across Atlantic Ice
Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted a…
Clovis Coastal Zone Width Variation
A coastal ecological model based on coastal zone width is presented to explain human interest in the coastal plain during the Clovis-era circa 13,200 to 12,800 years ago. Isobathic depths on the continental shelf along with relative sea-level data are used to approximate the Clovis-age coastal zone widths for the Delmarva Peninsula and coastal North Carolina. Coastal plain areas with former broad coastal zones during the Clovis-era have revealed …
Flake scar patterns of Clovis points analyzed with a new digital morphometrics approach
Earliest art in the Americas
The Nelson Site, a Cody Occupation in Northeastern Colorado
The Nelson site in northeastern Colorado represents a Cody age occupation of the High Plains. Because Paleoindian sites of any age are sparse in the archaeological record, each known occurrence adds significant information about prehistory. The Nelson site has received no formal field investigation; however, a small quantity of data has accumulated over nearly one half century of collecting. The cultural affiliation can be demonstrated with the r…
The Solutrean-Clovis connection
In the abstract of their rebuttal article in this journal Straus, Meltzer and Goebel conclude that: ‘The origin and arrival time of the first Americans remain uncertain, but not so uncertain that w
The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor
The early peopling of the New World has been a topic of intense research since the early twentieth century. We contend that the exclusive focus of research on a Beringian entry point has not been productive. Evidence has accumulated over the past two decades indicating that the earliest origin of people in North America may have been from south-western Europe during the last glacial maximum. In this summary we outline a theory of a Solutrean orig…
Digging for the color of life
The Powars II site, 48PL330, located near Sunrise, Wyoming, is a significant Paleoindian site in the Hartville Uplift area of eastern Wyoming. Intensive red ochre mining took place at Powars II, as indicated by Paleoindian materials in direct association with a natural hematite deposit. Projectile points ranging in age from Clovis to Late Paleoindian have been recovered, as well as stone and bone tools, shell and bone beads, and several pieces of…
A Clovis well at the type site 11,500 B.C.
An enigmatic circular pit uncovered during archaeological excavations at the Clovis type site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, in 1964 has been reexposed and posited as a water well excavated by Clovis people around 11,500 B.C. The prehistoric well, the oldest in the New World, was probably a dry hole. Other Clovis wells may exist in the area. The excavation of wells near where there had been surface water shortly before adds to the evidence for dro…
A Clovis well at the type site 11,500 B.C
An enigmatic circular pit uncovered during archaeological excavations at the Clovis type site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, in 1964 has been reexposed and posited as a water well excavated by Clovis people around 11,500 B.C. The prehistoric well, the oldest in the New World, was probably a dry hole. Other Clovis wells may exist in the area. The excavation of wells near where there had been surface water shortly before adds to the evidence for dro…
The Facts about Ishi's Brain
On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile
The potential importance of the Monte Verde site for the peopling of the New World prompted a detailed examination of the collections from that locality, as well as a site visit in January 1997 by a group of Paleoindian specialists. It is the consensus of that group that the MV-II occupation at the site is both archaeological and 12,500 years old, as T. Dillehay has argued. The status of the potentially even older material at the site (MV-1, ∼ 33…
Hannah Marie Wormington 1914-1994
of Paleoindian archaeology and one of the first female archaeologists in North America, died May 31,1994, in her native city of Denver. Born on September 5, 1914, she was raised by her mother
A Further Evaluation of the San Jon Site, New Mexico
The San Jon site (LA 6437) is a well-known, but only briefly documented, multicomponent archaeological locality situated on the northern rim of the Southern High Plains in Quay County, New Mexico. The site is in a small (360m wide), dry lake basin or “playa.”Archaeological materials buried by basin jill are now being exposed along deep arroyo tributaries of a canyon that cut into the High Plains escarpment. Excavations in 1941 provided evidence t…
Clovis
Reply to F. E. Green's Comments on the Clovis Site
F. E. Green has corrected errors regarding the provenience and prior determination of the artifactual nature of the ivory semifabricate reported by Saunders et al. (1990) and has brought forth new information regarding the spring deposits of the north bank of the gravel pit at the Clovis site. This statement addresses the contemporaneity of Clovis occupation with deposition of the gray sand and the relation of the gray sand to spring deposits. We…
A Mammoth-Ivory Semifabricate from Blackwater Locality No. 1, New Mexico
A carved segment of mammoth ivory recently recognized in a faunal collection from the Clovis type site at Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, reveals for the first time techniques employed by Clovis Paleoindians for working ivory and adds a new trait element shared between the archaeological cultures of the Eurasian Upper Paleolithic and the late Pleistocene Clovis complex of North America
On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile
The potential importance of the Monte Verde site for the peopling of the New World prompted a detailed examination of the collections from that locality, as well as a site visit in January 1997 by a group of Paleoindian specialists. It is the consensus of that group that the MV-II occupation at the site is both archaeological and 12,500 years old, as T. Dillehay has argued. The status of the potentially even older material at the site (MV-1, ∼ 33…
The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor
The early peopling of the New World has been a topic of intense research since the early twentieth century. We contend that the exclusive focus of research on a Beringian entry point has not been productive. Evidence has accumulated over the past two decades indicating that the earliest origin of people in North America may have been from south-western Europe during the last glacial maximum. In this summary we outline a theory of a Solutrean orig…
Flake scar patterns of Clovis points analyzed with a new digital morphometrics approach
Digging for the color of life
The Powars II site, 48PL330, located near Sunrise, Wyoming, is a significant Paleoindian site in the Hartville Uplift area of eastern Wyoming. Intensive red ochre mining took place at Powars II, as indicated by Paleoindian materials in direct association with a natural hematite deposit. Projectile points ranging in age from Clovis to Late Paleoindian have been recovered, as well as stone and bone tools, shell and bone beads, and several pieces of…
Fluted point manufacture in eastern North America
Differences in Paleoindian projectile point morphology have previously been used to define technologies, infer colonization patterns, propose chronological and regional boundaries. In this study, we evaluate the effectiveness of traditional linear measurements and ratios, flake scar angles, and 3D model-based flake contours for the statistical differentiation of projectile point type(s) and reduction technique. Sixty-three fluted bifaces from eas…
The Jones-Miller Site
1978). The Jones-Miller Site: An Example of Hell Gap Bison Procurement Strategy. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 23, No. 82, pp. 90-97
Lessons from Ginsberg
Earliest art in the Americas
Further Insights Into Paleoindian Use of the Powars Ii Red Ocher Quarry (48pl330), Wyoming
We report major new insights from recent research at the Powars II Paleoindian red ocher quarry (48PL330). We salvaged more than 7,000 artifacts from Powars II between 2014 and 2016 by screening redeposited sediment from the talus slope below the intact portion of the site. Clovis artifacts dominate the diagnostic artifact assemblage, including 53 Clovis points, 33 preforms, and artifacts associated with a previously unrecognized blade core indus…
The Solutrean-Clovis connection
In the abstract of their rebuttal article in this journal Straus, Meltzer and Goebel conclude that: ‘The origin and arrival time of the first Americans remain uncertain, but not so uncertain that w
A Further Evaluation of the San Jon Site, New Mexico
The San Jon site (LA 6437) is a well-known, but only briefly documented, multicomponent archaeological locality situated on the northern rim of the Southern High Plains in Quay County, New Mexico. The site is in a small (360m wide), dry lake basin or “playa.”Archaeological materials buried by basin jill are now being exposed along deep arroyo tributaries of a canyon that cut into the High Plains escarpment. Excavations in 1941 provided evidence t…
A Mammoth-Ivory Semifabricate from Blackwater Locality No. 1, New Mexico
A carved segment of mammoth ivory recently recognized in a faunal collection from the Clovis type site at Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, reveals for the first time techniques employed by Clovis Paleoindians for working ivory and adds a new trait element shared between the archaeological cultures of the Eurasian Upper Paleolithic and the late Pleistocene Clovis complex of North America
Solutrean hypothesis
© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in World Archaeology on 31/10/2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00438243.2014.966273
Reply to F. E. Green's Comments on the Clovis Site
F. E. Green has corrected errors regarding the provenience and prior determination of the artifactual nature of the ivory semifabricate reported by Saunders et al. (1990) and has brought forth new information regarding the spring deposits of the north bank of the gravel pit at the Clovis site. This statement addresses the contemporaneity of Clovis occupation with deposition of the gray sand and the relation of the gray sand to spring deposits. We…
Reply to O'Brien et al
Across Atlantic ice (AAI) sets out specifically to propose an alternative hypothesis of early human entry into the Americas and to stimulate research (Stanford & Bradley 2012: 16). O'Brien et al .'s response (above) primarily contains an unsupported dismissal of the evidence and these ideas. Unfortunately, to date, no work equivalent to AAI has been presented for any other Clovis origin hypothesis; this would be most welcome, especially from thos…
Clovis Coastal Zone Width Variation
A coastal ecological model based on coastal zone width is presented to explain human interest in the coastal plain during the Clovis-era circa 13,200 to 12,800 years ago. Isobathic depths on the continental shelf along with relative sea-level data are used to approximate the Clovis-age coastal zone widths for the Delmarva Peninsula and coastal North Carolina. Coastal plain areas with former broad coastal zones during the Clovis-era have revealed …
The Nelson Site, a Cody Occupation in Northeastern Colorado
The Nelson site in northeastern Colorado represents a Cody age occupation of the High Plains. Because Paleoindian sites of any age are sparse in the archaeological record, each known occurrence adds significant information about prehistory. The Nelson site has received no formal field investigation; however, a small quantity of data has accumulated over nearly one half century of collecting. The cultural affiliation can be demonstrated with the r…
Hannah Marie Wormington 1914-1994
of Paleoindian archaeology and one of the first female archaeologists in North America, died May 31,1994, in her native city of Denver. Born on September 5, 1914, she was raised by her mother
The Jones-Miller Site
1978). The Jones-Miller Site: An Example of Hell Gap Bison Procurement Strategy. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 23, No. 82, pp. 90-97
Archeology
On the Possible Utilization of Camelops by Early Man in North America
Camelops was a major faunal element in late Wisconsin biotic communities over much of North America. Interpretations of possible human association with Camelops are often based on poorly evaluated evidence. Ideal standards for acceptable evidence are compared here to the actual evidence that has been advanced. Of 25 fossil assemblages examined, 2 might be examples only of geological contemporaneity of humans and Camelops; 2 might indicate behavio…
The Claypool Study
Linguistic Anthropology
A Mammoth-Ivory Semifabricate from Blackwater Locality No. 1, New Mexico
A carved segment of mammoth ivory recently recognized in a faunal collection from the Clovis type site at Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, reveals for the first time techniques employed by Clovis Paleoindians for working ivory and adds a new trait element shared between the archaeological cultures of the Eurasian Upper Paleolithic and the late Pleistocene Clovis complex of North America
Reply to F. E. Green's Comments on the Clovis Site
F. E. Green has corrected errors regarding the provenience and prior determination of the artifactual nature of the ivory semifabricate reported by Saunders et al. (1990) and has brought forth new information regarding the spring deposits of the north bank of the gravel pit at the Clovis site. This statement addresses the contemporaneity of Clovis occupation with deposition of the gray sand and the relation of the gray sand to spring deposits. We…
Clovis
A Further Evaluation of the San Jon Site, New Mexico
The San Jon site (LA 6437) is a well-known, but only briefly documented, multicomponent archaeological locality situated on the northern rim of the Southern High Plains in Quay County, New Mexico. The site is in a small (360m wide), dry lake basin or “playa.”Archaeological materials buried by basin jill are now being exposed along deep arroyo tributaries of a canyon that cut into the High Plains escarpment. Excavations in 1941 provided evidence t…
Hannah Marie Wormington 1914-1994
of Paleoindian archaeology and one of the first female archaeologists in North America, died May 31,1994, in her native city of Denver. Born on September 5, 1914, she was raised by her mother
On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile
The potential importance of the Monte Verde site for the peopling of the New World prompted a detailed examination of the collections from that locality, as well as a site visit in January 1997 by a group of Paleoindian specialists. It is the consensus of that group that the MV-II occupation at the site is both archaeological and 12,500 years old, as T. Dillehay has argued. The status of the potentially even older material at the site (MV-1, ∼ 33…
A Clovis well at the type site 11,500 B.C.
An enigmatic circular pit uncovered during archaeological excavations at the Clovis type site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, in 1964 has been reexposed and posited as a water well excavated by Clovis people around 11,500 B.C. The prehistoric well, the oldest in the New World, was probably a dry hole. Other Clovis wells may exist in the area. The excavation of wells near where there had been surface water shortly before adds to the evidence for dro…
A Clovis well at the type site 11,500 B.C
An enigmatic circular pit uncovered during archaeological excavations at the Clovis type site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, in 1964 has been reexposed and posited as a water well excavated by Clovis people around 11,500 B.C. The prehistoric well, the oldest in the New World, was probably a dry hole. Other Clovis wells may exist in the area. The excavation of wells near where there had been surface water shortly before adds to the evidence for dro…
The Facts about Ishi's Brain
Digging for the color of life
The Powars II site, 48PL330, located near Sunrise, Wyoming, is a significant Paleoindian site in the Hartville Uplift area of eastern Wyoming. Intensive red ochre mining took place at Powars II, as indicated by Paleoindian materials in direct association with a natural hematite deposit. Projectile points ranging in age from Clovis to Late Paleoindian have been recovered, as well as stone and bone tools, shell and bone beads, and several pieces of…
The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor
The early peopling of the New World has been a topic of intense research since the early twentieth century. We contend that the exclusive focus of research on a Beringian entry point has not been productive. Evidence has accumulated over the past two decades indicating that the earliest origin of people in North America may have been from south-western Europe during the last glacial maximum. In this summary we outline a theory of a Solutrean orig…
The Solutrean-Clovis connection
In the abstract of their rebuttal article in this journal Straus, Meltzer and Goebel conclude that: ‘The origin and arrival time of the first Americans remain uncertain, but not so uncertain that w
The Nelson Site, a Cody Occupation in Northeastern Colorado
The Nelson site in northeastern Colorado represents a Cody age occupation of the High Plains. Because Paleoindian sites of any age are sparse in the archaeological record, each known occurrence adds significant information about prehistory. The Nelson site has received no formal field investigation; however, a small quantity of data has accumulated over nearly one half century of collecting. The cultural affiliation can be demonstrated with the r…
Earliest art in the Americas
Across Atlantic Ice
Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted a…
Clovis Coastal Zone Width Variation
A coastal ecological model based on coastal zone width is presented to explain human interest in the coastal plain during the Clovis-era circa 13,200 to 12,800 years ago. Isobathic depths on the continental shelf along with relative sea-level data are used to approximate the Clovis-age coastal zone widths for the Delmarva Peninsula and coastal North Carolina. Coastal plain areas with former broad coastal zones during the Clovis-era have revealed …
Flake scar patterns of Clovis points analyzed with a new digital morphometrics approach
Reply to O'Brien et al
Across Atlantic ice (AAI) sets out specifically to propose an alternative hypothesis of early human entry into the Americas and to stimulate research (Stanford & Bradley 2012: 16). O'Brien et al .'s response (above) primarily contains an unsupported dismissal of the evidence and these ideas. Unfortunately, to date, no work equivalent to AAI has been presented for any other Clovis origin hypothesis; this would be most welcome, especially from thos…
Fluted point manufacture in eastern North America
Differences in Paleoindian projectile point morphology have previously been used to define technologies, infer colonization patterns, propose chronological and regional boundaries. In this study, we evaluate the effectiveness of traditional linear measurements and ratios, flake scar angles, and 3D model-based flake contours for the statistical differentiation of projectile point type(s) and reduction technique. Sixty-three fluted bifaces from eas…
Solutrean hypothesis
© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in World Archaeology on 31/10/2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00438243.2014.966273
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