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ArchaeoCafé - Episode 2-31 - The Solutrean hypothesis: An interview with Bruce Bradley


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In this episode I talk with Bruce Bradley about the Solutrean hypothesis and his work investigating this subject.


Episode notes are available on the ArchaeoCafé website.

http://archaeocafe.kvasirpublishing.com/archaeocafe-podcast-ep-231-bradley/



About Bruce Bradley


Dr. Bradley is an emeritus professor at the University of Exeter. His research currently focuses on the Pleistocene in South America and American Southwest Ancestral Puebloan archaeology. He is also active in research into the early occupations of the Atlantic seaboard in North America. Bruce is also well-known in the knapper community for his skill and ability to replicate ancient techniques and styles of knapped stone tools. 

Web:

https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/bradley/
https://exeter.academia.edu/BruceBradley
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruce-Bradley
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruce-Bradley-2
https://www.primtech.net/



Some useful terminology and links


Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optically_stimulated_luminescence


Meadowcroft Rockshelter site

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowcroft_Rockshelter


Page-Ladson site

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page-Ladson


Topper site

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_Site


Gravettian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravettian


Magdalenian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalenian


Denali

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali
https://www.nps.gov/dena/index.htm



Selected reading


Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture

by Dennis J. Stanford, Bruce A. Bradley
University of California Press, 2013, 336 pages.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520275782/across-atlantic-ice
https://www.audible.com/pd/Across-Atlantic-Ice-Audiobook/B008BK8KE4


Ice Bridge

Director: Robin Bicknell
Nature of Things, CBC (Season 57, Episode 11)
Episode air date: 14 January 2018 (Canada)
https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/ice-bridge
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7870326/


New Evidence for a Possible Paleolithic Occupation of the Eastern North American Continental Shelf at the Last Glacial Maximum

by Dennis Stanford and colleagues
Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf, 2014, p. 73-93
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9635-9_5
https://www.academia.edu/7054896/


Solutrean Hypothesis: Genetics, the Mammoth in the Room

by Stephen Oppenheimer, Bruce Bradley & Dennis Stanford
World Archaeology, 2014, Vol. 46(5), Debates in World Archaeology, p. 752-774. 
https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.966273 


The North Atlantic Ice-Edge Corridor: A Possible Palaeolithic Route to the New World

by Bruce Bradley and Dennis Stanford
World Archaeology, 2004, Vol. 36(4), Debates in World Archaeology, p. 459-478.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0043824042000303656



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