BOOKS OR MONOGRAPHS:
2009 Meltzer, D.J., First peoples in a New World: colonizing Ice Age America. University of California Press, Berkeley.
2006 Meltzer, D.J., Folsom: new archaeological investigations of a classic Paleoindian bison kill. University of California Press, Berkeley.
ARTICLES (A NUMBER OF WHICH ARE AVAILABLE AS PDF FILES OR ONLINE):
In press Meltzer, D.J., Folsom: une nouvelle vue á un classique Paléoindiens bison chasse site. In Peuplements du continent Américain, D. Vialore et B. Schmitt-Cordova, eds. Le Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS), Paris
2010 Holliday, V.T. and D.J. Meltzer, The 12.9ka ET impact hypothesis and North American Paleoindians. Current Anthropology (in press). [PDF]
2010 Meltzer, D.J., When destiny takes a turn for the worse: William Henry Holmes and, incidentally, Franz Boas in Chicago, 1892-1897. Histories of Anthropology Annual 6:171-224. [PDF]
2010 Meltzer, D.J. and V.T. Holliday, Would North American Paleoindians have noticed Younger Dryas age climate changes? Journal of World Prehistory 23:1-41. [PDF]
2009 Cooper, J.R. and D.J. Meltzer, Investigations at 5GN149, a lithic workshop in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado. Colorado Archaeology 2:3-29. [PDF]
2009 Meltzer, D.J. and B.B. Huckell, Flake tools from the Folsom type site: removing a case of mistaken identity. Current Research in the Pleistocene 26:99-100. [PDF]
2008 Cannon, M.D. and D.J. Meltzer, Explaining variability in early Paleoindian foraging. Quaternary International 191:5-17. [PDF]
2007 Bever, M. and D.J. Meltzer, Investigating variation in Clovis Paleoindian lifeways: the third revised edition of the Texas Clovis Fluted Point Survey. Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society 78:65-99. [PDF]
2007 Byerly, R.M., D.J. Meltzer, J. Cooper, and J. Theler, Exploring Paleoindian site-use at Bonfire Shelter (41VV218). Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society 78:125-147. [PDF]
2007 Mann, D.H. and D.J. Meltzer, Millennial-scale dynamics of valley fills over the past 12,000 14C yr in northeastern New Mexico, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin 119:1433-1448. [PDF]
2007 Meltzer, D.J., R.M. Byerly, and J. Cooper, On an alternative interpretation of Paleoindian site use at Bonfire Shelter. Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society 78:159-160. [PDF]
2006 Feathers, J., V.T. Holliday, and D.J. Meltzer, Optically stimulated luminescence dating of Southern High Plains archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1651-1665. [PDF]
2006 Meltzer, D.J. and J.R. Cooper, On morphometric differentiation of Clovis and non-Clovis blades. Current Research in the Pleistocene 23:143-145. [PDF]
2006 Meltzer, D.J., J.D. Seebach, and R.M. Byerly, The Hot Tubb Folsom-Midland site (41 CR 10), Texas. Plains Anthropologist 51:157-184. [PDF]
2005 Balakrishnan, M., C. Yapp, D.J. Meltzer, and J. Theler, Paleoenvironment of the Folsom site 10,500 14C years B.P. as inferred from the stable isotope composition of fossil land snails. Quaternary Research 63:31-44. [PDF]
2005 Byerly, R.M. and D.J. Meltzer, Historic period faunal remains from Mustang Springs, Southern High Plains, Texas. Plains Anthropologist 50:93-110. [PDF uncorrected galleys]
2005 Meltzer, D.J., The Seventy-year itch: controversies over human antiquity and their resolution. Journal of Anthropological Research 61(4): 433-468. [PDF]
2005 Meltzer, D.J., [Untitled comments for the special section, Think Tank: archaeology]. Discover (March) 26(3):72. [PDF]
2005 Strauss, L.G., D.J. Meltzer and T. Goebel, Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis “Connection.” World Archaeology 37:506-531. [PDF]
2004 Cannon, M.D. and D.J. Meltzer, Early Paleoindian foraging: examining the faunal evidence for large mammal specialization and regional variability in prey choice. Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (18/19): 1955-1987. [PDF]
2004 Grayson, D.K. and D.J. Meltzer, North American overkill continued? Journal of Archaeological Science 31:133-136. [PDF]
2004 Meltzer, D.J., Peopling of North America. In The Quaternary period in the United States, edited by A. Gillespie, S.C. Porter, and B. Atwater, pp. 539-563. Elsevier Science, New York. [PDF]
2004 Meltzer, D.J., D.H. Mann, and J.M. LaBelle, A Bison antiquus from Archuleta Creek, Folsom, New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 21:107-109. [PDF]
2003 Grayson, D.K. and D.J. Meltzer, Requiem for North American overkill. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:585-593. [PDF] (Reprinted 2008, see below)
2003 LaBelle, J.M., V.T. Holliday and D.J. Meltzer, Early Holocene Paleoindian deposits at Nall Playa, Oklahoma Panhandle. Geoarchaeology 18:5-34. [PDF]
2002 Grayson, D.K. and D.J. Meltzer, Clovis hunting and large mammal extinction: a critical review of the evidence. Journal of World Prehistory 16(4):313-359. [PDF]
2002 Meltzer, D.J., The Children of Jacob: using evolutionary biology to explore Genesis. CCAR Journal: a Reform Jewish Quarterly Fall 2002:58-71. [PDF]
2002 Meltzer, D.J., Paleoindian. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th Edition, Volume 12. [PDF]
2001 Meltzer, D.J., Late Pleistocene cultural and technological diversity of Beringia: a view from down under. Arctic Anthropology 38(2):206-213. [PDF]
1999 Meltzer, D.J., Human responses to Middle Holocene (Altithermal) climates on the North American Great Plains. Quaternary Research 52:404-416. [PDF]
1999 Meltzer, D.J., On Monte Verde. In Special Report: Monte Verde Revisited, pp. 16-17, in Discovering Archaeology (November/December). [PDF]
1997 Meltzer, D.J., Monte Verde and the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas. Science 276:754-755. [PDF]. (Translated 1997, see below)
1997 Meltzer, D.J., D.K. Grayson, G. Ardila, A.W. Barker, D.F. Dincauze, C.V. Haynes, F. Mena, L. Nunez and D.J. Stanford, On the Pleistocene antiquity of Monte Verde, southern Chile. American Antiquity 62(4):659-663. [PDF] (Reprinted 2004, Translated 1997, see below)
1996 Holliday, V.T. and D.J. Meltzer, Geoarchaeology of the Midland (Paleoindian) site, Texas. American Antiquity 61:755-771. [PDF]
1995 Meltzer, D.J., Clocking the first Americans. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:21-45. [PDF]
1991 Meltzer, D.J., Altithermal archaeology and paleoecology at Mustang Springs, on the southern High Plains of Texas. American Antiquity 56(2):236-267. [PDF]
1989 Meltzer, D.J., Why don’t we know when the first people came to North America? American Antiquity 54(3):471-490. [PDF] (Reprinted 2004, see below)
1988 Griffin, J.B., D.J. Meltzer, B.D. Smith, W.C. Sturtevant, A mammoth fraud in science. American Antiquity 53(3):578-582. [PDF]
1987 Meltzer, D.J. and M.B. Collins, Prehistoric water wells on the southern High Plains: clues to Altithermal climate. Journal of Field Archaeology 14(1):9-28. [PDF]
1985 Sturtevant, W.C. and D.J. Meltzer, The Holly Oak pendant. Science 227(4684):242-244. [PDF]
1981 Meltzer, D.J., A study of style and function in a class of tools. Journal of Field Archaeology 8(3):313-326. [PDF] (Reprinted 2003, see below)
ARTICLES REPRINTED IN ANTHOLOGIES OR IN TRANSLATION:
2009 Grayson, D.K. and D.J. Meltzer, Requiem for North American overkill. In Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Anthropology, K. Endicott and R. Welsch, editors. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Boston (Originally published, 2003)
BOOK REVIEWS:
2010 Meltzer, D.J., Review of Ancient human migrations: a multidisciplinary approach, edited by P. Peregrine, I. Peiros, and M. Feldman. American Anthropologist 112:489-491.
2009 Meltzer, D.J., Review of Human ecology of Beringia, by J. Hoffecker and S. Elias. Journal of Field Archaeology 34:110-112.
2008 Meltzer, D.J., Review of Foragers of the terminal Pleistocene in North America, edited by R. Walker and B. Driskell. Journal of Anthropological Research 64:605-606.
2006 Meltzer, D.J., Review of Paleoamerican origins: beyond Clovis, edited by R. Bonnichsen, B.T. Lepper, D. Stanford and M. Waters. Journal of Field Archaeology 31:441-443.
2005 Meltzer, D.J., Review of Ephraim George Squier and the development of American Anthropology, by Terry A. Barnhart. Journal of Illinois History 8:258-260.
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