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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