Publications list

*In press*	Cannon, M.D. and D.J. Meltzer, Explaining variability in early Paleoindian foraging. *Quaternary International*
*In press*	Meltzer, D.J., Places of the first Americans. In *American Indian Places*, F. Kennedy, ed. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York.

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 Archeological Society* 78:65-99. [PDF]
2007	Byerly, R.M., J.R. Cooper, D.J. Meltzer, M.E. Hill and J.M. LaBelle, A further assessment of Paleoindian site-use at Bonfire Shelter. American Antiquity 72:373-381.
2007	Byerly, R.M., D.J. Meltzer, J. Cooper, and J. Theler, Exploring Paleoindian site-use at Bonfire Shelter (41VV218). *Bulletin of the Texas Archeological 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 Archeological 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., History of research on the Paleo-Indian. Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 3, pp. 110-128. D.H. Ubelaker, Volume editor, W.C. Sturtevant, General editor. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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 594 k]
2005	Byerly, R.M., J.R. Cooper, D.J. Meltzer, M.E. Hill and J.M. LaBelle, On Bonfire Shelter (Texas) as a Paleoindian bison jump: an assessment using GIS and zooarchaeology. *American Antiquity* 70:595-629.
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 Late Paleoindian period in the Americas. In *The Human Past*, C. Scarre, ed. pp. 307-313. Thames and Hudson, London.
2005	Meltzer, D.J., The Seventy-year itch: controversies over human antiquity and their resolution. *Journal of Anthropological Research* 61(4):433-468.
2005	Meltzer, D.J., [Untitled comments for the special section, Think Tank: archaeology]. *Discover* (March) 26(3):72.
2005	Strauss, L.G., D.J. Meltzer and T. Goebel, Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis "Connection." World Archaeology 37:506-531

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 892 k]
2004	Grayson, D.K. and D.J. Meltzer, North American overkill continued? *Journal of Archaeological Science* 31:133-136. [PDF 151k]
2004	Meltzer, D.J., Modeling the initial colonization of the Americas: issues of scale, demography, and landscape learning. In *The settlement of the American continents: a multidisciplinary approach to human biogeography*, edited by C.M. Barton, G.A. Clark, D.R. Yesner and G.A. Pearson, pp. 123-137. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2004	Meltzer, D.J., North America – Plains. In Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, edited by S. Krech, J. McNeill, and C. Merchant, Volume 2, pp. 928-932. Berkshire Publishing Group, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
2004	Meltzer, D.J., On possibilities, prospecting and patterns: thinking about a pre-LGM human presence in the Americas. In Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum, D. Madsen, ed., pp. pp. 269-287. University of Utah Press.
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 691K]
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.

2003	Grayson, D.K. and D.J. Meltzer, Requiem for North American overkill. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:585-593. [pdF 123K]
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 10.6 MB]
2003	Meltzer, D.J., In the heat of controversy: C.C. Abbott, the American Paleolithic, and the University Museum, 1889-1893. In *Archaeology and archaeologists in* *Philadelphia,* edited by D. Fowler and D. Wilcox, pp. 48-87. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2003	Meltzer, D.J., Lessons in landscape learning. In Colonization of unfamiliar landscapes: the archaeology of adaptation, edited by M. Rockman and J. Steele, pp. 222-241. Routledge, London.

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 254K]
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 190K]
2002	Meltzer, D.J., Earliest Peoples. ENCARTA Reference Library 2003. Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington. [available online]
2002	Meltzer, D.J., Migration to the Americas. ENCARTA Reference Library 2003. Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington. [available online]
2002	Meltzer, D.J., Paleoindian. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9^th Edition, Volume 12. [PDF 56K]
2002	Meltzer, D.J., Starring the anthropologists in the American Men of Science. In Anthropology, history, and American Indians: essays in honor of William C. Sturtevant, edited by W. Merrill and I. Goddard. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 44:221-238.
2002	Meltzer, D.J., Thomas Wolfe and eastern North American Paleoindians. In Ice Age peoples of Pennsylvania, edited by K. Carr and J. Adovasio, pp. 159-166. Recent Research in Pennsylvania Archaeology, Number 2. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA
2002	Meltzer, D.J., What do you do when no one’s been there before? Thoughts on the exploration and colonization of new lands. In The First Americans: the Pleistocene colonization of the New World, edited by N. Jablonski. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 27:25-56.
2002	Meltzer, D.J., L.C. Todd and V.T. Holliday, The Folsom (Paleoindian) type site: past investigations, current studies. American Antiquity 67:5-36.

2001	Meltzer, D.J., Late Pleistocene cultural and technological diversity of Beringia: a view from down under. Arctic Anthropology 38(2):206-213. [PDF 1.93 MB]
2001	Meltzer, D.J., Why we still don’t know when the first people came to North America. In On being first: cultural innovation and environmental consequences of first peoplings. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Chacmool Conference, edited by J. Gillespie, S. Tupakka, and C. de Mille, pp. 1-25. Calgary: The Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

2000	Meltzer, D.J., Renewed investigations at the Folsom Paleoindian type site. Antiquity 74:35-36

1999	Meltzer, D.J., Comment on "Reproductive interests and forager mobility," by D. MacDonald and B.S. Hewlett. Current Anthropology 40(4):519-520.
1999	Meltzer, D.J., Human responses to Middle Holocene (Altithermal) climates on the North American Great Plains. Quaternary Research 52:404-416. [pdf 171k]
1999	Meltzer, D.J., On Monte Verde. In Special Report: Monte Verde Revisited, pp. 16-17, in Discovering Archaeology (November/December) [PDF 101K]
1999	Meltzer, D.J., North America’s vast legacy. Archaeology 52 :50-59 (January/February)
1999	Meltzer, D.J., William Henry Holmes (1846-1933). Encyclopedia of archaeology: the great archaeologists, edited by T. Murray, pp. 175-191. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California.
1999	Meltzer, D.J. and T.D. Dillehay, The search for the earliest Americans. Archaeology 52:60-61 (January/February).
1999	Meltzer, D.J., V.T. Holliday and L.C. Todd, 1998 excavations at the Folsom type site (29 CX 1), New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 16:55-57.

1998	Meltzer, D.J., Ephraim Squier, Edwin Davis, and the making of an American archaeological classic. In Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, 150th Anniversary Edition, pp. 1-97, by E.G. Squier and E. H. Davis. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1998	Meltzer, D.J., Guide to Squier and Davis’s references. In Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, 150^th Anniversary Edition, pp. 307-311, by E.G. Squier and E. H. Davis. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1998	Meltzer, D.J., V.T. Holliday and L.C. Todd Recent field research at the Folsom site (29CX1), New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 15:42-44.

1997	Meltzer, D.J., Monte Verde and the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas. Science 276:754-755. [available online]. (*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 730 KB] (*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 2.48 MB]
1996	LaBelle, J.M. and Meltzer, D.J., Reinvestigation of Marks Beach: a possible early/mid-Holocene campsite on Blackwater Draw. Current Research in the Pleistocene 13:31-33.
1996	Meltzer, D.J., Antiquity of humankind in the Americas. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by B. Fagan, pp. 36-38. Oxford University Press, New York.
1996	Meltzer, D.J., Discussoes (Discussion comments). In Anais da Conferência Internacional sobre o Povoamento das Américas. Revista da Fundação Museu do Homem Americano 1:287-293, 297-298, 301, 310, 317, 322-324.
1996	Meltzer, D.J., Settlement of the Americas after 12,000 B.P. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by B. Fagan, pp. 24-26. Oxford University Press, New York.
1996	Meltzer, D.J., Uma perspectiva do norte sobre o povoamento das Americas (A northern perspective on the peopling of the Americas). In Anais da Conferência Internacional sobre o Povoamento das Américas. Revista da Fundação Museu do Homem Americano 1:242-258.
1996	Meltzer, D.J., J.M. Adovasio and T.D. Dillehay, Uma visao da Toca do Boqueirao da Pedra Furada. (A view of Toca do Boqueiro da Pedra Furada. In Anais da Conferência Internacional sobre o Povoamento das Américas. Revista da Fundação Museu do Homem Americano 1:348-377.

1995	Meltzer, D.J., Clocking the first Americans. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:21-45. [PDF 3.3 MB]
1995	Meltzer, D.J., Modeling the prehistoric response to Altithermal climates on the Southern High Plains. In Ancient peoples and landscapes, edited by E. Johnson, pp. 349-368. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock.
1995	Meltzer, D.J., Stones of contention. New Scientist 1983:31-35.
1995	Meltzer, D.J., The Texas Clovis Fluted Point Survey - 1995. Current Research in the Pleistocene 12:34-36.
1995	Meltzer, D.J. and M.L. Bever, Paleoindians of Texas: an update on the Texas Clovis fluted point survey. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 66:17-51.

1994	Holliday, V.T., C.V. Haynes, J.L. Hofman, and D.J. Meltzer, Geoarchaeology and geochronology of the Miami (Clovis) site on the Southern High Plains of Texas. Quaternary Research 41:234-244.
1994	Meltzer, D.J., The discovery of deep time: a history of views on the peopling of the Americas. In Method and theory for investigating the peopling of the Americas, edited by R. Bonnichsen and D.G. Steele, pp. 7-26. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Corvallis.
1994	Meltzer, D.J., J.M. Adovasio and T.D. Dillehay, On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil. Antiquity 68:695-714.

1993	Holliday, V.T. and D.J. Meltzer, Geoarchaeology of the Midland (Paleoindian) site and the age of the Midland skull. Current Research in the Pleistocene 10:41-43.
1993	Meltzer, D.J., Bref aperçu sur les Paléoindiens de l'est de l'Amérique du Nord. L'Anthropologie 97(4):579-585.
1993	Meltzer, D.J., Coming to America. Discover (October) 14:90-97. (*Reprinted various places, 1994-1998, see below*)
1993	Meltzer, D.J., Is there a Clovis adaptation? In From Kostenki to Clovis: Upper Paleolithic – Paleo-indian adaptations, edited by O. Soffer and N. Praslov, pp. 293-310. Plenum Press, New York.
1993	Meltzer, D.J., The Pleistocene peopling of the Americas. Evolutionary Anthropology 1 (5):157-169.
1993	Meltzer, D.J., D.D. Fowler and J.A. Sabloff, Preface to the Second edition. In American archaeology: Past and future. A celebration of the Society for American Archaeology, edited by D.J. Meltzer, D.D. Fowler, and J.A. Sabloff, p. 12. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

1992	Meltzer, D.J., How Columbus sickened the New World. New Scientist 136:38-41.
1992	Meltzer, D.J. and R.C. Dunnell, Introduction. In The archaeology of William Henry Holmes, edited by D.J. Meltzer and R.C. Dunnell, pp. vii-l. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1992	Meltzer, D.J., R.D. Leonard and S.K. Stratton, The relationship between sample size and diversity in archaeological assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 19:375-387.

1991	Dillehay, T.D. and D.J. Meltzer, Finale: processes and prospects. In The first Americans: search and research, edited by T. Dillehay and D. Meltzer, pp. 287-294. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
1991	Holliday, V.T., C.V. Haynes, J. Hofman, D.J. Meltzer, The Miami site revisited: a Clovis mammoth kill in the Texas Panhandle. Current Research in the Pleistocene 8:36-39.
1991	Lepper B.T. and D.J. Meltzer, The late Pleistocene human occupation of the central and southern United States. In Clovis: origins and adaptations, edited by R. Bonnichsen and K. Turnmire, pp. 175-184. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Oregon State University, Corvallis.
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 5.16 MB]
1991	Meltzer, D.J., The early history and archaeology of Nebraska Paleoindian sites. Current Research in the Pleistocene 8:73-76.
1991	Meltzer, D.J., On "paradigms" and "paradigm bias" in controversies over human antiquity in America. In The first Americans: search and research, edited by T. Dillehay and D. Meltzer, pp. 13-49. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
1991	Meltzer, D.J., The parching of prehistoric North America. New Scientist 131(1785): 39-43.
1991	Meltzer, D.J., Who were the first Americans? Science Year 1992: The World Book Annual Science Supplement, pp. 58-71. World Book Publishing, Chicago.
1991	Meltzer, D.J., and T.D. Dillehay, Overture: the problem and the papers. In The first Americans: search and research, edited by T. Dillehay and D. Meltzer, pp. 1-9. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

1990	Meltzer, D.J., In search of a mammoth fraud. New Scientist 127(1725):51-55.

1989	Meltzer, D.J., A question of relevance. In Tracing archaeology's past: the historiography of archaeology, edited by A. Christenson, pp. 5-20. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
1989	Meltzer, D.J., An update on the Texas Clovis Fluted Point Survey. Current Research in the Pleistocene 6:31-34.
1989	Meltzer, D.J., Was stone exchanged among eastern North American Paleoindians? In Eastern Paleo-indian lithic resource procurement and processing, edited by C. Ellis and J. Lothrop, pp. 11-39. Westview Press, Boulder.
1989	Meltzer, D.J., Why don't we know when the first people came to North America? American Antiquity 54(3):471-490. [PDF 3.25 MB] (*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 793 KB]
1988	Meltzer, D.J., Late Pleistocene human adaptations in eastern North America. Journal of World Prehistory 2(1):1-52.

1987	Hill C. and D.J. Meltzer, Late Pleistocene to middle Holocene depositional environments at Mustang Springs, southern Llano Estacado. Current Research in the Pleistocene 4:127-130.
1987	Meltzer, D.J., The Clovis Paleoindian occupation of Texas: results of the Texas Clovis Fluted Point Survey. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 57:27-68.
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 3.67 MB].
1987	Meltzer, D.J. and R.C. Dunnell, Fluted points from the Pacific Northwest. Current Research in the Pleistocene 4:64-67.

1986	Meltzer, D.J., Pleistocene overkill and the associational critique. Journal of Archaeological Science 13:51-60.
1986	Meltzer, D.J., A study of Texas Clovis points. Current Research in the Pleistocene 3:33-36.
1986	Meltzer, D.J., D.D. Fowler and J.A. Sabloff, Editors' introduction. In American archaeology: Past and future. A celebration of the Society for American Archaeology, edited by D.J. Meltzer, D.D. Fowler, and J.A. Sabloff, pp. 1-12. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1986	Meltzer, D.J. and B.D. Smith, Paleoindian and early Archaic subsistence strategies in eastern North America. In Foraging, collecting, and harvesting: Archaic period subsistence and settlement in the eastern Woodlands, edited by S. Neusius, pp. 2-30. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

1985	Mead, J.I. and D.J. Meltzer, Introduction. In Environments and extinctions: man in late glacial North America, edited by J.I. Mead and D.J. Meltzer, pp. 1-5. Center for the Study of Early Man, University of Maine, Orono.
1985	Meltzer, D.J. and J.I. Mead, Dating late Pleistocene extinctions: theoretical issues, analytical bias and substantive results. In Environments and extinctions: man in late glacial North America, edited by J.I. Mead and D.J. Meltzer, pp. 145-174. Center for the Study of Early Man, University of Maine, Orono.
1985	Meltzer, D.J., The Cedar Creek Transcripts. In Environments and extinctions: man in late glacial North America, edited by J.I. Mead and D.J. Meltzer, pp. 175-198. Center for the Study of Early Man, University of Maine, Orono.
1985	Meltzer, D.J., North American archaeology and archaeologists, 1879-1934. American Antiquity 50(2):249-260.
1985	Sturtevant, W.C. and D.J. Meltzer, The Holly Oak pendant. Science 227(4684):242-244.

1984	Mead, J.I. and D.J. Meltzer, North American late Quaternary extinctions and the radiocarbon record. In Quaternary extinctions: a prehistoric revolution, edited by P.S. Martin and R.G. Klein, pp. 440-450. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1984	Meltzer, D.J., On stone procurement and settlement mobility in eastern fluted point groups. North American Archaeologist 6:1-24.

1983	Meltzer, D.J., The antiquity of man and the development of American archaeology. Advances in archaeological method and theory 6:1-51. Academic Press, New York.
1983	Meltzer, D.J., Prehistory, power and politics in the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1879-1906. In The Socio-politics of archaeology, edited by J.M. Gero, D.M. Lacy and M.L. Blakey, Research Reports Number 23:67-77, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1983	Meltzer, D.J. and J.I. Mead, The timing of Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions in North America. Quaternary Research 19:130-135.
1983	Meltzer, D.J. and W.C. Sturtevant, The Holly Oak shell game: an historic archaeological fraud. In Lulu Linear Punctated: essays in honor of George Irving Quimby, edited by R.C. Dunnell and D.K. Grayson. Anthropological Papers No. 72:325-352. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

1981	Meltzer, D.J., Ideology and material culture. In Modern material culture: the archaeology of US, edited by R.A. Gould and M. B. Schiffer. Academic Press, New York. Pp. 113-125.
1981	Meltzer, D.J., Paradigms lost - paradigms found? American Antiquity 46(3):622- 625.
1981	Meltzer, D.J., A study of style and function in a class of tools. Journal of Field Archaeology 8(3):313-326 [PDF 2.25 MB]. (*Reprinted 2003, see below*)
1981	Meltzer, D.J., W. H. Holmes and the Folsom finds. History of Anthropology Newsletter 8(2):6-8.

1979	Meltzer, D.J., Paradigms and the nature of change in American archaeology. American Antiquity 44(4):644-657. (*Reprinted 2003, see below*)