Research into the earliest occupations in the southeastern United States has been
underway since the 1930s, when a pattern of large-scale excavations combined with the …

Archaeologists often wish to distinguish between groups of cultural artifacts using
information collected from descriptions or measurements of their morphological forms …

Three-dimensional (3D) artifact modeling is becoming an increasingly utilized tool in
archaeology. In comparison with other methods of 3D scanning, photogrammetry has the …

The timing of the earliest colonization of North America is debatable, but what is not at issue
is the point of origin of the early colonists: Humans entered the continent from Beringia and …

Tool design is a cultural trait—a term long used in anthropology as a unit of transmittable
information that encodes particular behavioral characteristics of individuals or groups. After …

The Clovis techno-complex has figured prominently in American archaeology since the
1930s, when fluted stone weapon tips and other tools were found alongside the remains of …

Abstract Across late Pleistocene North America, Paleoindians designed a variety of
projectile point styles that vary in form over time and space, but also share similar …

This article presents a practical workflow that utilizes Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based
photogrammetric survey to contextualize large expanses of rock art distributed across the …

Current understanding of the processes involved in the Late Pleistocene human settlement
of North America has benefited from the application of theoretical perspectives derived from …

Fluting is a technological and morphological hallmark of some of the most iconic North
American Paleoindian stone points. Through decades of detailed artifact analyses and …