J David Kilby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 231376 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J David Kilby |
| NOMBRES | J David |
| APELLIDO | Kilby |
| FIRMA | KILBY J D |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2185-7065 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Bruce Huckell and the Folsom Record of the West Mesa, New Mexico
The West Mesa is an expansive Eolian plain atop a basalt-capped terrace of the Rio Grande in central New Mexico. Seminal work carried out in the 1960s–1970s led to the identification of an abundant Paleoindian record across the surface; Bruce Huckell initiated a program of renewed investigation in the region in the late 1990s. He, along with students and volunteers, conducted archaeological surveys and excavations at Rio Rancho, Boca Negra Wash, …
Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell
It is with great pleasure and a degree of sorrow that we present this double issue of PaleoAmerica, a collection of papers in honor of Dr. Bruce B. Huckell (1950–2024). The majority of the 12 paper
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 …
Renewed Investigations at the Mockingbird Gap Clovis Site
The Mockingbird Gap site, located in the northern Jornada del Muerto of New Mexico, represents one of the largest known Clovis occupations west of the Mississippi River. Since 2022, the authors have been conducting systematic surveys and documentation, building upon previous investigations. Our multi-year research program has documented numerous artifact concentrations across the ∼0.5 km2 site extent, including hundreds of surface artifacts, and …
Current Understanding of the Earliest Human Occupations in the Americas
Various chronologies of the earliest Native American occupations have been proposed with varying levels of empirical support and conceptual rigor, yet none is widely accepted. A recent survey of pre-Clovis dated sites (Becerra-Valdivia and Higham 2020) concludes a pre-Last Glacial Maximum (>26,500–19,000 cal yr BP) entry of humans in the Americas, in part based on recent work at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico. We evaluate the evidence used to develop t…
Evidence supports the efficacy of Clovis points for hunting proboscideans
Bayesian Modeling of the Clovis and Folsom Radiocarbon Records Indicates a 200-Year Multigenerational Transition
An enduring problem in North American archaeology concerns the nature of the transition between the Clovis and Folsom Paleoindian complexes in the West. Traditional models indicate a temporal hiatus between the two complexes implying that Folsom was a population replacement for Clovis. Alternatively, if Folsom was an innovation that occurred within Clovis populations and subsequently spread, we would expect to see a temporal overlap. Here, we tes…
A Newly Identified Younger Dryas Component in Eagle Cave, Texas
Recent excavations by the Ancient Southwest Texas Project of Texas State University sampled a previously undocumented Younger Dryas component from Eagle Cave in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas. This stratified assemblage consists of bison (Bison antiquus) bones in association with lithic artifacts and a hearth. Bayesian modeling yields an age of 12,660-12,480 cal BP, and analyses indicate behaviors associated with the processing of a juvenil…
The Nelson stone tool cache, North-Central Ohio, U.S.A
The Nelson stone tool cache was discovered in 2008 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The cache does not include any diagnostic materials, and independent age control is unavailable. Although aspects of its 164 bifaces are suggestive of a Clovis affiliation – including the occasional occurrence of unmistakable flute scars – nearly all are in the early- to mid-stages of production, there are no definitive finished Clovis fluted points that would make it possi…
Bayesian Revision of the Folsom Age Range Using IntCal20
Briggs Buchanana*, J. David Kilbyb , Marcus J. Hamiltonc, Jason M. LaBelled, Kelton A. Meyerd , Jacob Holland-Lulewicze, Brian Andrewsf , Brooke M. Morgang, Brendon Asherh, Vance T. Hollidayi , Gregory W. L. Hodginsj & Todd A. Surovellk* a Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USAb Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USAc Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Anto…
Folsom Point Production at the Rio Rancho Site, New Mexico
This chapter discusses the finished points and then present the evidence for Folsom point manufacture, as reflected by the preforms and channel flakes. It also discusses the artifact assemblages from the Rio Rancho site in relation to current models of Folsom organization. Although it was excavated more than 30 years ago, the Rio Rancho Folsom site remains poorly known among archaeologists interested in Paleoindian prehistory. Dawson recovered ap…
Evaluating Claims of Early Human Occupation at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico
Archaeologists working in Mexico recently claimed evidence for pre-Last Glacial Maximum human occupation in the Americas, based on lithic items excavated from Chiquihuite Cave, Zacatecas. Although they provide extensive array of ancillary studies of the cave's chronostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental record, the data they present do not support their central argument, that these lithic items are anthropogenic and represent a unique lithic indus…
New investigations at Bonfire shelter, Texas examine controversial bison jumps and bone beds
Bonfire Shelter (41VV218) is a nationally significant site in the Lower Pecos region of the West Texas borderlands that contains a record of episodic use by hunter-gatherers spanning at least twelve millennia. At least two major bison hunting episodes are evident at Bonfire Shelter, one associated with Paleoindian Plainview and Folsom projectile points (Bone Bed 2), and another associated with Late Archaic Castroville and Montell points (Bone Bed…
The small-world topology of Clovis lithic networks
Settling into the country
A North American perspective on the Volgu Biface Cache from Upper Paleolithic France and its relationship to the “Solutrean Hypothesis” for Clovis origins
Dating an Exotic Marine Shell from a Potential Clovis Cache
The Franey collection is a possible Clovis cache from Nebraska consisting of lithic artifacts and a marine shell. AMS radiocarbon dating of the shell indicates the assemblage is either mixed or not Clovis. We argue for mixing and discuss processes of assemblage drift and implications for Franey and other caches
Lithic networks reveal early regionalization in late Pleistocene North America
Sentinel Butte
Sentinel Butte
Lithic networks reveal early regionalization in late Pleistocene North America
Settling into the country
The small-world topology of Clovis lithic networks
Bayesian Modeling of the Clovis and Folsom Radiocarbon Records Indicates a 200-Year Multigenerational Transition
An enduring problem in North American archaeology concerns the nature of the transition between the Clovis and Folsom Paleoindian complexes in the West. Traditional models indicate a temporal hiatus between the two complexes implying that Folsom was a population replacement for Clovis. Alternatively, if Folsom was an innovation that occurred within Clovis populations and subsequently spread, we would expect to see a temporal overlap. Here, we tes…
Evidence supports the efficacy of Clovis points for hunting proboscideans
Evaluating Claims of Early Human Occupation at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico
Archaeologists working in Mexico recently claimed evidence for pre-Last Glacial Maximum human occupation in the Americas, based on lithic items excavated from Chiquihuite Cave, Zacatecas. Although they provide extensive array of ancillary studies of the cave's chronostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental record, the data they present do not support their central argument, that these lithic items are anthropogenic and represent a unique lithic indus…
A North American perspective on the Volgu Biface Cache from Upper Paleolithic France and its relationship to the “Solutrean Hypothesis” for Clovis origins
New investigations at Bonfire shelter, Texas examine controversial bison jumps and bone beds
Bonfire Shelter (41VV218) is a nationally significant site in the Lower Pecos region of the West Texas borderlands that contains a record of episodic use by hunter-gatherers spanning at least twelve millennia. At least two major bison hunting episodes are evident at Bonfire Shelter, one associated with Paleoindian Plainview and Folsom projectile points (Bone Bed 2), and another associated with Late Archaic Castroville and Montell points (Bone Bed…
Sentinel Butte
Dating an Exotic Marine Shell from a Potential Clovis Cache
The Franey collection is a possible Clovis cache from Nebraska consisting of lithic artifacts and a marine shell. AMS radiocarbon dating of the shell indicates the assemblage is either mixed or not Clovis. We argue for mixing and discuss processes of assemblage drift and implications for Franey and other caches
Lithic networks reveal early regionalization in late Pleistocene North America
A North American perspective on the Volgu Biface Cache from Upper Paleolithic France and its relationship to the “Solutrean Hypothesis” for Clovis origins
The small-world topology of Clovis lithic networks
Settling into the country
The Nelson stone tool cache, North-Central Ohio, U.S.A
The Nelson stone tool cache was discovered in 2008 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The cache does not include any diagnostic materials, and independent age control is unavailable. Although aspects of its 164 bifaces are suggestive of a Clovis affiliation – including the occasional occurrence of unmistakable flute scars – nearly all are in the early- to mid-stages of production, there are no definitive finished Clovis fluted points that would make it possi…
Bayesian Revision of the Folsom Age Range Using IntCal20
Briggs Buchanana*, J. David Kilbyb , Marcus J. Hamiltonc, Jason M. LaBelled, Kelton A. Meyerd , Jacob Holland-Lulewicze, Brian Andrewsf , Brooke M. Morgang, Brendon Asherh, Vance T. Hollidayi , Gregory W. L. Hodginsj & Todd A. Surovellk* a Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USAb Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USAc Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Anto…
Folsom Point Production at the Rio Rancho Site, New Mexico
This chapter discusses the finished points and then present the evidence for Folsom point manufacture, as reflected by the preforms and channel flakes. It also discusses the artifact assemblages from the Rio Rancho site in relation to current models of Folsom organization. Although it was excavated more than 30 years ago, the Rio Rancho Folsom site remains poorly known among archaeologists interested in Paleoindian prehistory. Dawson recovered ap…
Evaluating Claims of Early Human Occupation at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico
Archaeologists working in Mexico recently claimed evidence for pre-Last Glacial Maximum human occupation in the Americas, based on lithic items excavated from Chiquihuite Cave, Zacatecas. Although they provide extensive array of ancillary studies of the cave's chronostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental record, the data they present do not support their central argument, that these lithic items are anthropogenic and represent a unique lithic indus…
New investigations at Bonfire shelter, Texas examine controversial bison jumps and bone beds
Bonfire Shelter (41VV218) is a nationally significant site in the Lower Pecos region of the West Texas borderlands that contains a record of episodic use by hunter-gatherers spanning at least twelve millennia. At least two major bison hunting episodes are evident at Bonfire Shelter, one associated with Paleoindian Plainview and Folsom projectile points (Bone Bed 2), and another associated with Late Archaic Castroville and Montell points (Bone Bed…
Current Understanding of the Earliest Human Occupations in the Americas
Various chronologies of the earliest Native American occupations have been proposed with varying levels of empirical support and conceptual rigor, yet none is widely accepted. A recent survey of pre-Clovis dated sites (Becerra-Valdivia and Higham 2020) concludes a pre-Last Glacial Maximum (>26,500–19,000 cal yr BP) entry of humans in the Americas, in part based on recent work at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico. We evaluate the evidence used to develop t…
Evidence supports the efficacy of Clovis points for hunting proboscideans
Bayesian Modeling of the Clovis and Folsom Radiocarbon Records Indicates a 200-Year Multigenerational Transition
An enduring problem in North American archaeology concerns the nature of the transition between the Clovis and Folsom Paleoindian complexes in the West. Traditional models indicate a temporal hiatus between the two complexes implying that Folsom was a population replacement for Clovis. Alternatively, if Folsom was an innovation that occurred within Clovis populations and subsequently spread, we would expect to see a temporal overlap. Here, we tes…
A Newly Identified Younger Dryas Component in Eagle Cave, Texas
Recent excavations by the Ancient Southwest Texas Project of Texas State University sampled a previously undocumented Younger Dryas component from Eagle Cave in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas. This stratified assemblage consists of bison (Bison antiquus) bones in association with lithic artifacts and a hearth. Bayesian modeling yields an age of 12,660-12,480 cal BP, and analyses indicate behaviors associated with the processing of a juvenil…
Bruce Huckell and the Folsom Record of the West Mesa, New Mexico
The West Mesa is an expansive Eolian plain atop a basalt-capped terrace of the Rio Grande in central New Mexico. Seminal work carried out in the 1960s–1970s led to the identification of an abundant Paleoindian record across the surface; Bruce Huckell initiated a program of renewed investigation in the region in the late 1990s. He, along with students and volunteers, conducted archaeological surveys and excavations at Rio Rancho, Boca Negra Wash, …
Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell
It is with great pleasure and a degree of sorrow that we present this double issue of PaleoAmerica, a collection of papers in honor of Dr. Bruce B. Huckell (1950–2024). The majority of the 12 paper
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 …
Renewed Investigations at the Mockingbird Gap Clovis Site
The Mockingbird Gap site, located in the northern Jornada del Muerto of New Mexico, represents one of the largest known Clovis occupations west of the Mississippi River. Since 2022, the authors have been conducting systematic surveys and documentation, building upon previous investigations. Our multi-year research program has documented numerous artifact concentrations across the ∼0.5 km2 site extent, including hundreds of surface artifacts, and …
Archaeology (15 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Geology (10 obras) · Paleontology (6 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 obras) · Pleistocene (5 obras) · Biology (4 obras) · Cache (4 obras)