Dennis Stanford
Dennis Stanford | |
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Born | Dennis Joe Stanford May 13, 1943 Cherokee, Iowa, U.S. |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Georgetown, Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Archaeologist and Museum Curator |
Known for | Solutrean hypothesis |
Dennis Joe Stanford (born 13 May 1943 in Cherokee, Iowa,[1] died 24 April 2019 in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.) was an archaeologist and Director of the Paleoindian/Paleoecology Program at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution.[2]
Solutrean hypothesis
Along with Prof. Bruce Bradley, Stanford was known for advocating the Solutrean hypothesis, which contends that stone tool technology of the Solutrean culture in prehistoric Europe may have influenced the development of the Clovis tool-making culture in the Americas by way of an earlier transatlantic maritime travel along a sea ice shelf to North America during the Last Glacial Maximum. In 2012, they published details concerning their hypothesis in Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture.
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