Yes Virginia, It Really is That Old: A Reply to Haynes and Mead
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 45 (3) , 588-595
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279879
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.Keywords
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