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Yes Virginia, It Really is That Old: A Reply to Haynes and Mead

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. M. Adovasio ,
J. D. Gunn ,
J. Donahue ,
R. Stuckenrath ,
J. E. Guilday  and
K. Volman
J. M. Adovasio
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA 15260
J. D. Gunn
Affiliation:
Department of Social Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78285
J. Donahue
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Planetary Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
R. Stuckenrath
Affiliation:
Radiation Biology Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution, 12441 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852
J. E. Guilday
Affiliation:
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
K. Volman
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843
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Abstract

All of the presently available and processed data from Meadowcroft Rockshelter indicate that the radiocarbon dates for middle and lower Stratum IIa are not discordant with either the associated fauna, flora, and artifacts or with the known geological history of the Cross Creek drainage. Consequently, it is reiterated that the earliest occupations at this locality still represent the best evidence recovered to date for the presence of pre-Clovis or pre-fluted point populations in the New World. It is further suggested that a maintenance of the "Clovis primacy syndrome" is both anachronistic and futile.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1980 , pp. 588 - 595
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980 

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