Crude demographic proxy reveals nothing about Paleoindian population

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 50, 2008, Pages

  Culleton, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CARBON;

ARCHEOLOGY; CLIMATE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; LETTER; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY; AMERICAN INDIAN; ASTRONOMY; CANADA; HISTORY; HUMAN; NOTE; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CANADA; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; METEOROIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149388205     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809092106     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. Buchanan B, Collard M, Edinborough K (2008) Paleoindian demography and the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:11651-11654.
2. Gkiasta M, et al. (2003) Neolithic transition in Europe: The radiocarbon record revisited. Antiquity 77:45-62.
3. Firestone RB, et al. (2007) Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:16016-16021.
4. Buck CE, et al. (1991) Combining archaeological and radiocarbon information: A Bayesian approach to calibration. Antiquity 65:808-821.
5. Weninger B, et al. (2007) CalPal-2007: Cologne Radiocarbon Calibration and Palaeoclimate Research Package (Cologne Univ, Cologne, Germany).