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Dennis Stanford is the head of the Archaeology
Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
 Division and Director of the Paleo-Indian Program at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its Financial endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazine....
. Along with Dr. Bruce Bradley, Stanford is known for advocating the Solutrean hypothesis
Solutrean hypothesis

The Solutrean hypothesis proposes that stone tool technology of the Solutrean culture in prehistoric Europe may have later influenced the development of the Clovis_culture tool-making culture in the Americas, and that peoples from Europe may have been among the earliest settlers in the Americas....
, which contends that stone tool technology of the Solutrean
Solutrean

The Solutrean archaeological industry is a relatively advanced flint tool-making style of the Upper Palaeolithic.It is named after the type-site of Solutr? in the M?con district, Sa?ne-et-Loire, eastern France, and appeared around 19,000 BCE....
 culture in prehistoric Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 may have influenced the development of the Clovis tool-making culture
Clovis culture

The Clovis culture is a prehistoric indigenous peoples of the Americas culture that first appears in the archaeology record of North America around 11,500 rcbp radiocarbon years ago, at the end of the last glacial period....
 in the Americas.








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Dennis Stanford is the head of the Archaeology
Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
 Division and Director of the Paleo-Indian Program at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its Financial endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazine....
. Along with Dr. Bruce Bradley, Stanford is known for advocating the Solutrean hypothesis
Solutrean hypothesis

The Solutrean hypothesis proposes that stone tool technology of the Solutrean culture in prehistoric Europe may have later influenced the development of the Clovis_culture tool-making culture in the Americas, and that peoples from Europe may have been among the earliest settlers in the Americas....
, which contends that stone tool technology of the Solutrean
Solutrean

The Solutrean archaeological industry is a relatively advanced flint tool-making style of the Upper Palaeolithic.It is named after the type-site of Solutr? in the M?con district, Sa?ne-et-Loire, eastern France, and appeared around 19,000 BCE....
 culture in prehistoric Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 may have influenced the development of the Clovis tool-making culture
Clovis culture

The Clovis culture is a prehistoric indigenous peoples of the Americas culture that first appears in the archaeology record of North America around 11,500 rcbp radiocarbon years ago, at the end of the last glacial period....
 in the Americas.

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