Jesse W Tune
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4053606 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jesse W Tune |
| PRENOMES | Jesse W |
| SOBRENOME | Tune |
| ASSINATURA | TUNE J W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Fort Lewis College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3679-5808 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2027 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Foraging Theory and the Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes
How humans perceive risk has long been of interest to the social sciences. The colonization of unfamiliar landscapes by Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers is a valuable case study that required novel strategies of risk management, technological organization, and ecological knowledge acquisition. Here, we apply evolutionary theory to projectile point reduction in the Tennessee River Valley to model utility thresholds and assess resharpening versus …
Replication as a Virtue
Surovell and colleagues’ recent publication claiming that the Monte Verde II archaeological component dates to the Middle Holocene rather than the Late Pleistocene has generated considerable controversy. We argue that perhaps the most significant contribution of their study is not its chronological conclusions, but what it represents as a scientific practice; that is, the first truly independent geochronological investigation of one of the most c…
Response to Davis (2026)
Davis 2026. “Reevaluation Is Not Novel, and Not All Reevaluations Are Equal: A Response to Tune and Miller.” PaleoAmerica 12 (2). https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2026.2670166] misrepresents what we stated in our comment. We respond by reaffirming what we actually stated: that foundational claims are rarely subjected to independent geochronological scrutiny and that our comment was a perspective piece on scientific practice and epistemology, not …
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 American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age
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…
American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age
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…
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…
Identification of the natural origin of waterproofing pine pitch in historical Southwest Native American basketry through gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
A Crescent Biface from Southeastern Utah
Crescent bifaces are one of the most enigmatic stone tool types in North America. While these artifacts are poorly understood, they are widely known from sites throughout a core area consisting of the Great Basin and California. Here, we report on one of the eastern-most crescents from southeastern Utah, which is also the only crescent currently documented from the northern Colorado Plateau
Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Central Colorado Plateau during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition
The central Colorado Plateau contains an exceptional density of cultural resources. Historically, however, archaeological investigations have overlooked the late Pleistocene and early Holocene record of this region. As such, there is currently a biased understanding of the earliest human occupations and adaptations. The regional Paleoindian record is reviewed here to assess the nature of initial human occupation of the area. Projectile point typo…
Variation in Fluted-point Technology
The transmission of Clovis fluted-point technology, the earliest well-dated fluted point industry, is considered to have led to regional variants of point forms as a result of cultural drift and founder effects as Paleoindian groups dispersed throughout the Western Hemisphere and adapted to local ecological settings. The papers collected in this volume present recent research and perspectives of a group of archaeologists focusing on regional vari…
Mobility and ancient society in Asia and the Americas
Characterizing Cumberland fluted biface morphology and technological organization
The Clovis–Cumberland–Dalton Succession
Considerable debate has recently focused on understanding the effects of the Younger Dryas (YD) on human behavioral adaptations throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It has been proposed that adverse paleoecological conditions in southeastern North America triggered a decline or substantial reorganization in human populations. The Tennessee Paleoindian biface data in the Paleoindian Database of the Americas is used here to assess transitions in beh…
The Clovis–Cumberland–Dalton Succession
Considerable debate has recently focused on understanding the effects of the Younger Dryas (YD) on human behavioral adaptations throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It has been proposed that adverse paleoecological conditions in southeastern North America triggered a decline or substantial reorganization in human populations. The Tennessee Paleoindian biface data in the Paleoindian Database of the Americas is used here to assess transitions in beh…
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…
Characterizing Cumberland fluted biface morphology and technological organization
Variation in Fluted-point Technology
The transmission of Clovis fluted-point technology, the earliest well-dated fluted point industry, is considered to have led to regional variants of point forms as a result of cultural drift and founder effects as Paleoindian groups dispersed throughout the Western Hemisphere and adapted to local ecological settings. The papers collected in this volume present recent research and perspectives of a group of archaeologists focusing on regional vari…
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…
A Crescent Biface from Southeastern Utah
Crescent bifaces are one of the most enigmatic stone tool types in North America. While these artifacts are poorly understood, they are widely known from sites throughout a core area consisting of the Great Basin and California. Here, we report on one of the eastern-most crescents from southeastern Utah, which is also the only crescent currently documented from the northern Colorado Plateau
Characterizing Cumberland fluted biface morphology and technological organization
The Clovis–Cumberland–Dalton Succession
Considerable debate has recently focused on understanding the effects of the Younger Dryas (YD) on human behavioral adaptations throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It has been proposed that adverse paleoecological conditions in southeastern North America triggered a decline or substantial reorganization in human populations. The Tennessee Paleoindian biface data in the Paleoindian Database of the Americas is used here to assess transitions in beh…
Mobility and ancient society in Asia and the Americas
Variation in Fluted-point Technology
The transmission of Clovis fluted-point technology, the earliest well-dated fluted point industry, is considered to have led to regional variants of point forms as a result of cultural drift and founder effects as Paleoindian groups dispersed throughout the Western Hemisphere and adapted to local ecological settings. The papers collected in this volume present recent research and perspectives of a group of archaeologists focusing on regional vari…
Identification of the natural origin of waterproofing pine pitch in historical Southwest Native American basketry through gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
A Crescent Biface from Southeastern Utah
Crescent bifaces are one of the most enigmatic stone tool types in North America. While these artifacts are poorly understood, they are widely known from sites throughout a core area consisting of the Great Basin and California. Here, we report on one of the eastern-most crescents from southeastern Utah, which is also the only crescent currently documented from the northern Colorado Plateau
Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Central Colorado Plateau during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition
The central Colorado Plateau contains an exceptional density of cultural resources. Historically, however, archaeological investigations have overlooked the late Pleistocene and early Holocene record of this region. As such, there is currently a biased understanding of the earliest human occupations and adaptations. The regional Paleoindian record is reviewed here to assess the nature of initial human occupation of the area. Projectile point typo…
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…
The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age
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…
American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age
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…
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…
Replication as a Virtue
Surovell and colleagues’ recent publication claiming that the Monte Verde II archaeological component dates to the Middle Holocene rather than the Late Pleistocene has generated considerable controversy. We argue that perhaps the most significant contribution of their study is not its chronological conclusions, but what it represents as a scientific practice; that is, the first truly independent geochronological investigation of one of the most c…
Response to Davis (2026)
Davis 2026. “Reevaluation Is Not Novel, and Not All Reevaluations Are Equal: A Response to Tune and Miller.” PaleoAmerica 12 (2). https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2026.2670166] misrepresents what we stated in our comment. We respond by reaffirming what we actually stated: that foundational claims are rarely subjected to independent geochronological scrutiny and that our comment was a perspective piece on scientific practice and epistemology, not …
Foraging Theory and the Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes
How humans perceive risk has long been of interest to the social sciences. The colonization of unfamiliar landscapes by Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers is a valuable case study that required novel strategies of risk management, technological organization, and ecological knowledge acquisition. Here, we apply evolutionary theory to projectile point reduction in the Tennessee River Valley to model utility thresholds and assess resharpening versus …
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · Archaeology (11 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 obras) · Biology (5 obras) · Geology (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · Pleistocene (4 obras) · Ecology (3 obras) · Geology (3 obras)