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David J. Meltzer (born 1955) is an American archaeologist. He is currently the Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. Meltzer is known for his research on Paleo-Indians, climatic and environmental conditions during the late Pleistocene and Holocene, the prehistory of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, and the history of north American archaeology. He is member of both the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
David J. Meltzer | |
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| Born | 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Maryland (B.A.) University of Washington (Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Archaeology, Anthropology |
| Institutions | Southern Methodist University |
Publications
[edit]- Archaeological Excavations at an Historic Drydock, Lock 35, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. (1979, National Park Service, Denver).
- mit Jim I. Mead [Hrsg.]: Environments and extinctions: man in late glacial North America. (1985, Center for the Study of Early Man, University of Maine, Orono)
- mit Don D. Fowler, Jeremy A. Sabloff [Hrsg.]: American archaeology: past and future.(1986, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.)
- mit Tom D. Dillehay [Hrsg.]: The first Americans: search and research. (1991, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida)
- mit Robert C. Dunnell [Hrsg.]: The archaeology of William Henry Holmes. (1992, Classics of Smithsonian Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.)
- Search for the first Americans. (1993, Smithsonian Books, Washington, D.C., St.Remy's Inc., Montreal)
- Folsom: new archaeological investigations of a classic Paleoindian bison kill. (2006, University of California Press, Berkeley)
- Meltzer, David J. 2009. First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America. Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley)
- Meltzer, David J. 2015. The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age past. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.