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Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: Phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes by O’Brien, Michael J., Boulanger, Matthew T., Buchanan, Briggs, Collard, Mark, Lee Lyman, R., Darwent, John

“…[Display omitted] •North American fluted points date ca. 13,300–11,900 calBP.•Some point forms exhibit regional differences in shape but not in…”
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Comparison of fluoride and direct AMS radiocarbon dating of black bear bone from Lawson Cave, Missouri by Lyman, R Lee, Rosania, Corinne N, Boulanger, Matthew T

“…After a 20-year hiatus (1955-1975) during which few archaeologists discussed fluoride dating, the method again received attention in the 1980s and 1990s when…”
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Preliminary results on the applicability of neutron activation analysis (NAA) to identify cherts from the Munsungun Lake Formation, Maine, USA by Kitchel, Nathaniel R., MacDonald, Brandi L., Boulanger, Matthew T., Rockwell, Heather M.

“…Red chert attributed to the Munsungun Lake Formation, Maine, USA is common in late Pleistocene fluted‐point‐period archaeological sites located throughout the…”
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Dynamics of obsidian procurement at Pot Creek Pueblo (LA 260), Northern New Mexico by Boulanger, Matthew T., Adler, Michael, Sommer, Evan, Jorgeson, Ian

“…We present obsidian sourcing data from Pot Creek Pueblo (LA 260), one of the northernmost Puebloan settlements in the Northern Rio Grande, occupied from at…”
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Hunter-gatherer gatherings: stone-tool microwear from the Welling Site (33-Co-2), Ohio, U.S.A. supports Clovis use of outcrop-related base camps during the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas by Miller, G. Logan, Bebber, Michelle R., Rutkoski, Ashley, Haythorn, Richard, Boulanger, Matthew T., Buchanan, Briggs, Bush, Jennifer, Lovejoy, C. Owen, Eren, Metin I.

“…During the Pleistocene Peopling of North America, the use of stone outcrops for forager gatherings would have provided Clovis colonizing hunter-gatherers with…”
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Nine-thousand years of optimal toolstone selection through the North American Holocene by Williams, Jeremy C, Simone, Diana M, Buchanan, Briggs, Boulanger, Matthew T, Bebber, Michelle R, Eren, Metin I

“…Stone was a critical resource for prehistoric hunter-gatherers. Archaeologists, therefore, have long argued that these groups would actively have sought out…”
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Petrographic and XRF analyses of andesitic cut stone blocks at Teotihuacan, Mexico: implications for the organization of urban construction by Murakami, Tatsuya, Boulanger, Matthew T., Glascock, Michael D.

“…This study presents preliminary results of petrographic and X-ray fluorescence analyses of cut stone blocks used for urban construction at Teotihuacan, the…”
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On the Inferred Age and Origin of Lithic Bi-Points from the Eastern Seaboard and their Relevance to the Pleistocene Peopling of North America by Boulanger, Matthew T., Eren, Metin I.

“…Recently, advocates of an “older -than- Clovis” occupation of eastern North America have suggested that bi-pointed leaf-shaped lanceolate stone bifaces provide…”
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Sentinel Butte: neutron activation analysis of White River Group chert from a primary source and artifacts from a Clovis cache in North Dakota, USA by Huckell, Bruce B., Kilby, J. David, Boulanger, Matthew T., Glascock, Michael D.

“…Instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) was used to characterize the chemical composition of chert from a primary source in western North Dakota. Known…”
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Design Space and Cultural Transmission: Case Studies from Paleoindian Eastern North America by O'Brien, Michael J., Boulanger, Matthew T., Buchanan, Briggs, Bentley, R. Alexander, Lyman, R. Lee, Lipo, Carl P., Madsen, Mark E., Eren, Metin I.

“…Tool design is a cultural trait—a term long used in anthropology as a unit of transmittable information that encodes particular behavioral characteristics of…”
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GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF MICA SOURCE SPECIMENS AND ARTIFACTS FROM THE ABBOTT FARM NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK (28ME1) by Boulanger, Matthew T., Lattanzi, Gregory D., Roush, Cody C., Glascock, Michael D.

“…The Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark is one of the more significant Woodland-period sites in the Northeast. Numerous Hopewellian cultural traits (copper…”
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On thin ice: problems with Stanford and Bradley's proposed Solutrean colonisation of North America by O'Brien, Michael J., Boulanger, Matthew T., Collard, Mark, Buchanan, Briggs, Tarle, Lia, Straus, Lawrence G., Eren, Metin I.

“…Across Atlantic ice: the origin of America's Clovis culture (Stanford & Bradley 2012) is the latest iteration of a controversial proposal that North America…”
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A new perspective on Late Holocene social interaction in Northwest Alaska: results of a preliminary ceramic sourcing study by Anderson, Shelby L., Boulanger, Matthew T., Glascock, Michael D.

“…This research examines the evidence for prehistoric ceramic exchange networks over the last 2000 years in northwest Alaska through the use of neutron…”
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Woodland period ceramic provenance and the exchange of Swift Creek Complicated Stamped vessels in the southeastern United States by Wallis, Neill J., Boulanger, Matthew T., Ferguson, Jeffrey R., Glascock, Michael D.

“…Results of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) of Middle and Late Woodland pottery ( n = 313) and clay ( n = 22) samples from northeastern Florida…”
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Petrographic analysis of Contact Period Native American pottery from Fort Hill (27CH85), Hinsdale, NH, USA by Boulanger, Matthew T., Hill, David V.

“…We present results of petrographic analysis of a sample of pottery from Fort Hill, a fortified village in southwestern New Hampshire built and occupied by a…”
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Solutreanism by O'Brien, Michael J., Boulanger, Matthew T., Collard, Mark, Buchanan, Briggs, Tarle, Lia, Straus, Lawrence G., Eren, Metin I.

“…The comments of Stanford and Bradley (above) do not address our criticisms and obfuscate the topic at hand with irrelevant data (e.g. the south-to-north…”
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Preliminary characterization and regional comparison of the Dasht-i-Nawur obsidian source near Ghazni, Afghanistan by Boulanger, Matthew T., Davis, Richard S., Glascock, Michael D.

“…Archaeologists have known that an obsidian source exists in the Dasht-i-Nawur basin of central Afghanistan since at least the 1970s; however, regional…”
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Assessment of the Gripability of Textured Ceramic Surfaces by Boulanger, Matthew T., Hudson, Corey M.

“…Archaeologists have suggested that various methods of surface texturing, specifically those resulting in alternating ridges and grooves, affect the gripability…”
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Trees, thickets, or something in between? Recent theoretical and empirical work in cultural phylogeny by O’Brien, Michael J., Collard, Mark, Buchanan, Briggs, Boulanger, Matthew T.

“…Anthropology has always had as one of its goals the explanation of human cultural diversity across space and through time. Over the past several decades, there…”
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Geochemical Characterization of Tecovas and Alibates Source Samples by Michael Quigg, J., Boulanger, Matthew T., Glascock, Michael D.

“…Data recovery excavations at three sites near Amarillo, Texas, have yielded lithic assemblages dominated by Alibates and Tecovas materials. The visual…”
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