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Why Are Clovis Fluted Points More Resilient than Non‐Fluted Lanceolate Points? A Quantitative Assessment of Breakage Patterns Between Experimental Models by Story, B. A., Eren, M. I., Thomas, K., Buchanan, B., Meltzer, D. J.

“…For decades, archaeologists have wondered whether the Clovis Palaeoindian (c.11 600–10 800 radiocarbon years bp) practice of ‘fluting’, a flake removal…”
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Early Americans: Respecting ancestors by Grayson, D. K., Meltzer, D. J., Buikstra, J. E., Flannery, K. V., Fowler, C. S., Marcus, J., O'Connell, J. F., Piperno, D. R., Sabloff, J. A., Smith, B. D., Thomas, D. H., Willerslev, E., Zeder, M. A.

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Monte Verde and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas by Meltzer, David J.

“…T Dillehay's second book on the Monte Verde, Chile, Late Pleistocene site provides detailed proof of a New World settlement that predates the Clovis culture of…”
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Personality, stress, and injuries in professional ballet dancers by Hamilton, L H, Hamilton, W G, Meltzer, J D, Marshall, P, Molnar, M

“…Twenty-nine soloist and principal dancers (mean age, 29.08 years) from America's two most celebrated ballet companies were administered questionnaires…”
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The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene by Sikora, Martin, Pitulko, Vladimir V., Sousa, Vitor C., Allentoft, Morten E., Vinner, Lasse, Rasmussen, Simon, Margaryan, Ashot, de Barros Damgaard, Peter, de la Fuente, Constanza, Renaud, Gabriel, Yang, Melinda A., Fu, Qiaomei, Dupanloup, Isabelle, Giampoudakis, Konstantinos, Nogués-Bravo, David, Rahbek, Carsten, Kroonen, Guus, Peyrot, Michaël, McColl, Hugh, Vasilyev, Sergey V., Veselovskaya, Elizaveta, Gerasimova, Margarita, Pavlova, Elena Y., Chasnyk, Vyacheslav G., Nikolskiy, Pavel A., Gromov, Andrei V., Khartanovich, Valeriy I., Moiseyev, Vyacheslav, Grebenyuk, Pavel S., Fedorchenko, Alexander Yu, Lebedintsev, Alexander I., Slobodin, Sergey B., Malyarchuk, Boris A., Martiniano, Rui, Meldgaard, Morten, Arppe, Laura, Palo, Jukka U., Sundell, Tarja, Mannermaa, Kristiina, Putkonen, Mikko, Alexandersen, Verner, Primeau, Charlotte, Baimukhanov, Nurbol, Malhi, Ripan S., Sjögren, Karl-Göran, Kristiansen, Kristian, Wessman, Anna, Sajantila, Antti, Lahr, Marta Mirazon, Durbin, Richard, Nielsen, Rasmus, Meltzer, David J., Excoffier, Laurent, Willerslev, Eske

“…Northeastern Siberia has been inhabited by humans for more than 40,000 years but its deep population history remains poorly understood. Here we investigate the…”
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First peoples in a new world: colonizing ice age America by Meltzer, David J

“…More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just…”
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On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile by Meltzer, David J., Grayson, Donald K., Ardila, Gerardo, Barker, Alex W., Dincauze, Dena F., Haynes, C. Vance, Mena, Francisco, Nunez, Lautaro, Stanford, Dennis J.

“…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…”
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Mother Knows Best by Meltzer, David J., Grayson, Donald K.

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Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill by Meltzer, David J

“…In the late 1920s outside a sleepy remote New Mexico village, prehistory was made. Spear points, found embedded between the ribs of an extinct Ice Age bison at…”
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On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil by Meltzer, David J., Adovasio, James M., Dillehay, Tom D.

“…The last decades of fieldwork have not decisively upset the long-held view that the settlement of the Americas occurred in the very latest Pleistocene, as…”
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Renewed investigations at the Folsom Palaeoindian type site by Meltzer, David J.

“…The Folsom site (New Mexico, USA) is justly famous as the place where in 1927 four decades of sometimes bitter controversy came to an end, when it was finally…”
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Geoarchaeology of the Midland (Paleoindian) Site, Texas by Holliday, Vance T., Meltzer, David J.

“…In 1953 human remains and a new type of Paleoindian artifact were discovered eroding from a "blowout" in a small dune field along Monahans Draw, near Midland,…”
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Altithermal Archaeology and Paleoecology at Mustang Springs, on the Southern High Plains of Texas by Meltzer, David J.

“…Excavations at Mustang Springs on the southern High Plains of Texas have yielded a relatively fine-grained record of late Pleistocene to middle Holocene…”
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Early Paleoindian foraging: examining the faunal evidence for large mammal specialization and regional variability in prey choice by Cannon, Michael D., Meltzer, David J.

“…North American archaeologists have spent much effort debating whether Early Paleoindian foragers were specialized hunters of megafauna or whether they pursued…”
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A requiem for North American overkill by Grayson, Donald K., Meltzer, David J.

“…The argument that human hunters were responsible for the extinction of a wide variety of large Pleistocene mammals emerged in western Europe during the 1860s,…”
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North American Archaeology and Archaeologists, 1879-1934 by Meltzer, David J.

“…In February of 1879, Dr. J. M. Toner, Professor Otis Mason, and Col. Garrick Mallery placed an advertisement in the Washington, D.C. newspapers that read, in…”
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Prehistoric Water Wells on the Southern High Plains: Clues to Altithermal Climate by Meltzer, David J., Collins, Michael B.

“…Prehistoric water wells were recently discovered at the Mustang Springs site (41 MT 2), along Mustang Draw on the southern Llano Estacado in west Texas…”
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The Holly Oak Pendant by Sturtevant, William C., Meltzer, David J., Kraft, John C., Custer, Jay F.

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A Mammoth Fraud in Science by Griffin, James B., Meltzer, David J., Smith, Bruce D., Sturtevant, William C.

“…The Holly Oak pendant is a shaped piece of marine whelk (Busycon sinistrum) shell with two holes drilled in one end that bears an incised depiction of an…”
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Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis 'connection' by Straus, Lawrence Guy, Meltzer, David J., Goebel, Ted

“…Bradley and Stanford ( 2004 ) have raised now, in several instances, the claim that European Upper Paleolithic Solutrean peoples colonized North America, and…”
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