Late Pleistocene archaeological discovery models on the Pacific Coast of North America

D McLaren, D Fedje, Q Mackie, LG Davis… - …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Pacific coast of North America is a hypothesized route by which the earliest
inhabitants of the Americas moved southwards around the western margin of the Cordilleran …

Fladmark+ 40: What have we learned about a potential Pacific Coast peopling of the Americas?

TJ Braje, JM Erlandson, TC Rick, L Davis… - American …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Forty years ago, Knut Fladmark (1979) argued that the Pacific Coast offered a viable
alternative to the ice-free corridor model for the initial peopling of the Americas—one of the …

A Circum-Pacific perspective on the origin of stemmed points in North America

J Pratt, T Goebel, K Graf, M Izuho - PaleoAmerica, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Western Stemmed and Paleocoastal technocomplexes are prevalent in
western North America. A working hypothesis states they are associated with the late …

Paleocoastal landscapes, marginality, and early human settlement of the California Islands

AE Gusick, JM Erlandson - An archaeology of abundance …, 2019 - books.google.com
The islands of Alta and Baja California have long been viewed as marginal habitats for early
humans that were settled relatively late compared to the adjacent mainland (eg, Landberg …

Soils and terrestrial sediments on the seafloor: Refining archaeological paleoshoreline estimates and paleoenvironmental reconstruction off the California coast

AE Gusick, J Maloney, TJ Braje, GJ Retallack… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
On global, regional, and local scales, sea level histories and paleoshoreline reconstructions
are critical to understanding the deep history of human adaptations in island and coastal …

Chipped-Stone Crescents from the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene of Far Western North America and the Transverse Projectile Point Hypothesis

DS Amick - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2024 - Springer
Crescents are a distinctive component of several terminal Pleistocene–early Holocene (TP–
EH) toolkits in the Far West, including the concave-based projectile point techno-complex …

[PDF][PDF] Working from the known to the unknown: Linking the subaerial archaeology and the submerged landscapes of Santarosae Island, Alta California, USA

TJ Braje, JM Maloney, AE Gusick… - Open …, 2019 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Since the collapse of the Clovis-first model of the peopling of the Americas some 30 years
ago, there has been growing interest in the Pacific Coast as a potential early human …

Maritime Paleoindian technology, subsistence, and ecology at an~ 11,700 year old Paleocoastal site on California's Northern Channel Islands, USA

JM Erlandson, TJ Braje, AF Ainis, BJ Culleton, KM Gill… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
During the last 10 years, we have learned a great deal about the potential for a coastal
peopling of the Americas and the importance of marine resources in early economies …

[HTML][HTML] Allometry of unifacial flake tools from Mojave Desert terminal pleistocene/early holocene sites: Implications for landscape knowledge, tool design, and land …

EJ Knell - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the allometry of terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene age unifacial flake
tools in the northcentral Mojave Desert of California to reveal linkages between landscape …

Fluted and basally thinned concave-base points of obsidian in the Borden Collection from Inyo County, Alta California: Age and significance

MJ Moratto, AP Garfinkel, JM Erlandson… - California …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article describes, classifies, and provides the calculated ages of 14 basally thinned and
fluted points of obsidian in the Borden collection from Rose Valley in southern Inyo County …