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Clovis and Folsom age estimates: stratigraphic context and radiocarbon calibration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

R. E. Taylor ,
C. Vance Haynes Jr.  and
Minze Stuiver
R. E. Taylor
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside, Riverside CA 92521, USA
C. Vance Haynes Jr.
Affiliation:
Departments of Anthropology and Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA
Minze Stuiver
Affiliation:
Quaternary Research Center, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, USA
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The events to do with peopling the New World archaeologically represented by ‘Clovis’ and ‘Folsom’ have been — tantalizingly — beyond the range of radiocarbon calibration. Now calibration extends further, one can ask if the aburptness of Clovis, of Folsom, and of the transition between them are realities. A calibrated chronology for those sites where the stratigraphic security is best shows these in truth are rapid human affairs.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 515 - 525
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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