Briggs Buchanan

TL;DR: In this article, a review highlights the important strategic role that stone artifact replication experiments must continue to play in further developing a scientific approach to archaeology, and highlights the importance of using information from empirically documented situations to generate predictions.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the Clovis-age archaeological record represents a rapid demic colonization event originating from the north, and it is shown that the high velocity of this wave can be accounted for by a combination of demographic processes, habitat preferences, and mobility biases across complex landscapes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a study in which data from a continentwide sample of Early Paleoindian projectile points were analyzed with cladistic methods in order to assess competing models of colonization as well as several alternative explanations for the variation among the points, including adaptation to local environmental circumstances, cultural diffusion and site type effects.

TL;DR: The study reports a study in which ≈1,500 radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites in Canada and the United States were used to test the hypothesis that the ET resulted in population decline among the Paleoindians and suggested the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis should be amended.

TL;DR: Eerkens et al. as discussed by the authors used the accumulated copying error model to predict negative drift in archaeological data due to the proportional nature of compounded copying errors (i.e., neutral mutations), and the multiplicative process of cultural transmission.