The Peopling of the New World: Present Evidence, New Theories, and Future Directions
- S. Fiedel
- History
- 1 March 2000
The prevailing archaeological consensus on Paleoindian origins and colonization of the Americas has been shaken by recent wide acknowledgment of pre-Clovis occupation at Monte Verde, Chile, and by…
The mysterious onset of the Younger Dryas
- S. Fiedel
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 15 October 2011
Comment on "Redefining the Age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of the Americas"
- G. Haynes, David G. Anderson, R. Yohe
- MedicineScience
- 20 July 2007
Waters and Stafford (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1122) provided useful information about the age of some Clovis sites but have not definitively established the temporal span of this cultural…
Older Than We Thought: Implications of Corrected Dates for Paleoindians
- S. Fiedel
- GeologyAmerican Antiquity
- 1 January 1999
Radiocarbon dates for the terminal Pleistocene are about 2,000 years too young. Furthermore, because of significant carbon perturbations that are manifest as plateaus or abrupt jumps in age,…
Man's best friend – mammoth's worst enemy? A speculative essay on the role of dogs in Paleoindian colonization and megafaunal extinction
- S. Fiedel
- Geography
- 1 March 2005
Recent genetic studies indicate that the wolf ancestors of New World dogs were domesticated in East Asia, about 15,000 cal. bp. Although archaeological evidence of the earliest American dogs is very…
Prehistory of the Americas by Stuart J. Fiedel
- S. Fiedel
- History
- 1 May 1992
Sudden Deaths: The Chronology of Terminal Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction
- S. Fiedel
- Environmental Science
- 2009
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