David J. Meltzer

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gptkbp:instanceOf Person
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Southern_Methodist_University
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkb:University_of_Arizona
gptkbp:awards Lifetime_Achievement_Award_from_the_Society_for_American_Archaeology
gptkbp:birthDate 1951-01-01
gptkbp:children Not publicly disclosed
gptkbp:contribution Research on megafauna extinction
Understanding of Clovis culture
gptkbp:fieldOfStudy Archaeology
Paleoanthropology
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label David J. Meltzer
gptkbp:influenced Paleoindian_studies
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:William_S._Laughlin
Richard_G._Klein
gptkbp:knownFor Paleoindian_archaeology
Research_on_early_human_migration_in_North_America
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableWork Placing Animals in the Pleistocene
The_Archaeology_of_the_North_American_Paleoindian
gptkbp:occupation Anthropologist
gptkbp:publications The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology
Archaeology_of_the_North_American_Paleoindian
Pleistocene_Mammals_of_North_America
The_Prehistory_of_North_America
The_Archaeology_of_the_North_American_Paleoindian:_A_Review
gptkbp:researchFocus Human origins
Pleistocene extinctions
gptkbp:researchInterest Cultural resource management
Geoarchaeology
Ethnoarchaeology
Dendrochronology
Public archaeology
Radiocarbon dating
Experimental archaeology
Artifact analysis
Lithic analysis
Cultural landscape studies
Remote sensing in archaeology
Site excavation
Interdisciplinary approaches in archaeology
Field archaeology
Zooarchaeology
Site survey techniques
Artifact typology
Chronological modeling
Comparative analysis of archaeological sites
Statistical analysis in archaeology
GIS_in_archaeology
Paleoenvironmental_reconstruction
gptkbp:spouse Not publicly disclosed