David Bustos

Biographic Data

ID9427789
NAMEDavid Bustos
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEBustos
SIGNATUREBUSTOS D
AFFILIATIONSNational Park Service
ORCID0000-0002-0309-7632
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • The Geochronology of White Sands Locality 2 is Resolved

    Jeffrey S Pigati, Kathleen B Springer et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2024

    Rhode et al. [2024. “Unresolved: Persistent problems with the White Sands Locality 2 Geochronology.” PaleoAmerica] contend there are many “unresolved issues” with the geochronology of White Sands National Park (WHSA) Locality 2. They suggest there are substantial age offsets due to hard-water effects in the aquatic plants that were dated and that radiocarbon ages of pollen may be anomalously old due to reworking. In their view, the luminescence a…

  • Onset of dune construction based on archaeological evidence, White Sands, New Mexico

    Open AccessVance T Holliday, Matthew Cuba et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2023

    The White Sands dune field is the largest gypsum dune system in the world, derived from deflation of paleo-Lake Otero deposits. Understanding the timing of initial dune construction, and therefore lake deflation, is critical for understanding regional landscape evolution, including the history of lake desiccation. The onset of dune construction is currently estimated at ~8000 to 6500 cal yr BP, but numerical age control is limited. Archaeological…

  • Reply to “Evidence for Humans at White Sands National Park during the Last Glacial Maximum Could Actually be for Clovis People ∼13,000 Years Ago” by C. Vance Haynes, Jr

    Jeffrey S Pigati, Kathleen B Springer et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2022

    Bennett et al. (2021, Science 373, 1528–1531) reported that ancient human footprints discovered in White Sands National Park, New Mexico date to between ∼23,000 and 21,000 years ago. Haynes (2022, PaleoAmerica, this issue) proposes two alternate hypotheses to explain the antiquity of the footprints. One is that they were made by humans crossing over older sediments sometime during the Holocene. This is incorrect as there are Pleistocene megafauna…

  • Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Open AccessMichael James Bennett, David Bustos et al.ARTICLEScience2021

    Early footsteps in the Americas Despite a plethora of archaeological research over the past century, the timing of human migration into the Americas is still far from resolved. In a study of exposed outcrops of Lake Otero in White Sands National Park in New Mexico, Bennett et al . reveal numerous human footprints dating to about 23,000 to 21,000 years ago. These finds indicate the presence of humans in North America for approximately two millenni…