Dennis Stanford

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Dennis Stanford
Born Dennis Joe Stanford
(1943-05-13)May 13, 1943
Cherokee, Iowa, U.S.
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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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