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Dennis Stanford

Curator of Paleo-Indian Archaeology
Department / Division
Anthropology
Education
  • B.A., University of Wyoming
  • Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Research Interests
Paleo-Indian paleoecology and New World origins, circumpolar Paleolithic archaeology.
Publications
Journal Article
  • Gingerich, Joseph A. M. and Stanford, Dennis J. 2018. "Lessons from Ginsberg: An analysis of elephant butchery tools." Quaternary International, 466, (Part B) 269–283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.03.025.
  • Haynes, Jr,C.Vance, Stanford, Dennis J., and Johnson, Donald L. 2017. "Charcoal Versus Manganese Mineral Wad and the Geochronology of the Kimmswick Clovis Site." PaleoAmerica, 3, (2) 182–187. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2017.1296266.
  • Sholts, Sabrina B., Gingerich, Joseph A. M., Schlager, Stefan, Stanford, Dennis J., and Wärmländer, Sebastian K. T. S. 2017. "Tracing social interactions in Pleistocene North America via 3D model analysis of stone tool asymmetry." PloS One, 12, (7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179933.
  • Gingerich, Joseph A. M., Sholts, Sabrina B., Wärmländer, Sebastian K. T. S., and Stanford, Dennis J. 2014. "Fluted point manufacture in eastern North America: an assessment of form and technology using traditional metrics and 3D digital morphometrics." World Archaeology, 46, (1) 101–122. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.892437.
  • Oppenheimer, Stephen, Bradley, Bruce, and Stanford, Dennis J. 2014. "Solutrean hypothesis: genetics, the mammoth in the room." World Archaeology, 46, (5) 752–774. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.966273.
  • Lowery, Darrin L., Jodry, Margaret, and Stanford, Dennis J. 2012. "Clovis Coastal Zone Width Variation: A Possible Solution for Early Paleoindian Population Disparity Along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, USA." The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 7, (1) 53–63. https://doi.org/10.1080//15564894.2011.611853.
  • Sholts, Sabrina B., Stanford, Dennis J., Flores, Louise M., and Wärmländer, Sebastian K. T. S. 2012. "Flake scar patterns of Clovis points analyzed with a new digital morphometrics approach: Evidence for direct transmission of technological knowledge across early North America." Journal of Archaeological Science, 39, (9) 3018–3026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.04.049.
  • Purdy, Barbara A., Jones, Kevin S., Melcholsky, John J., Bourne, Gerald, Hulbert, Richard C., Jr., MacFadden, Bruce J., Church, Krista L., Warren, Michael W., Jorstad, Thomas F., Stanford, Dennis J., Wachowiak, Melvin J., Wachowiak, S., and Speakman, Robert J. 2011. "Earliest Art in the Americas: Incesed Image of a Proboscidean on a Mineralized Extinct Animal Bone from Vero Beach, Florida." Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, (11) 2980–2913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.022.
  • Lowery, Darrin L., O'Neal, Michael A., Wah, John S., Wagner, Daniel P., and Stanford, Dennis J. 2010. "Late Pleistocene upland stratigraphy of the western Delmarva Peninsula, USA." Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, (11-12) 1472–1480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.03.007.
  • Stanley, Daniel J., Jorstad, Thomas F., Bernasconi, Maria Pia, Stanford, Dennis J., and Jodry, Margaret. 2008. "Predynastic human presence discovered by core drilling at the northern Nile delta coast, Egypt." Geology, 36, (8) 599–602. https://doi.org/10.1130/G24803A.1.
  • Kornfeld, M., Larson, M. L., Arnold, A., Wiewel, A., Toft, M., and Stanford, Dennis J. 2007. "The Nelson Site, a Cody occupation in Northeastern Colorado= Le site Nelson, une occupation Cody dans le nord-est du Colorado." Plains Anthropologist, 52, (203) 257-278.
  • Bradley, B. and Stanford, Dennis J. 2006. "The Solutrean-Clovis connection: reply to Straus, Meltzer and Goebel." World Archaeology, 38, (4) 704-715. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240601022001.
  • Bradley, Bruce A. and Stanford, Dennis J. 2006. "Reply to Straus, Meltzer and Goebel." World Archaeology, 38, (4) 451–463.
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Canales, E. Leon, Broster, J., and Norton, M. 2006. "Clovis Blade Manufacture: Some Preliminary Data from the Carson-Conn-Short Site (40Bn190), Tennessee." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 23 24–27.
  • Bradley, Bruce A. and Stanford, Dennis J. 2004. "The North Atlantic Ice-edge Corridor: A Possible Palaeolithic Route to the New World." World Archaeology, 36, (4) 459–478.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Jodry, Margaret. 2004. "Key Points from Paleo notes and Collections." Southwestern Lore, 70, (3) 79–89.
  • Stafford, M. D., Frison, George C., Stanford, Dennis J., and Zeimans, G. 2003. "Digging for the color of life: Paleoindian red ochre mining at the Powars II site, Platte County, Wyoming, USA." Geoarchaeology-an International Journal, 18, (1) 71–90. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.10051.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 2003. "Mammoth Renderings: Remembering Robert Humphrey (1939-2002)." Mammoth Trumpet, 18, (2) 10–12.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Bradley, B. 2002. "Ocean trails and prairie paths? Thoughts about Clovis origins." The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World, 27 255-71.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Bradley, B. 2000. "The Solutrean Solution: Did Some Ancient Americans Come from Europe?" Scientific American Discovering Archaeology, 2, (1) 54–55.
  • Killion, T., Sturtevant, William C., Stanford, Dennis J., and Hunt, David R. 1999. "The Facts about Ishi's Brain." Anthropology News, 40, (6) 9.
  • Collins, M., Stanford, Dennis J., Hofman, Jack L., Jodry, Margaret, Rose, R., Todd, L., Kibler, K., and Blackmar, J. 1997. "Cody down South: The Seminole-Rose Site in West Texas." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 14 15–18.
  • Meltzer, D. J., Grayson, D. K., Ardila, G., Barker, A. W., Dincauze, D. F., Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., Mena, F., nez, L. Nú\textbackslash, and Stanford, Dennis J. 1997. "On the Pleistocene antiquity of Monte Verde, southern Chile." American Antiquity, 62, (4) 659-663.
  • Jodry, Margaret, Turner, M., Spero, V., Turner, J., and Stanford, Dennis J. 1996. "Folsom in the Colorado High Country: The Black Mountain Site." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 13 25–27.
  • Nami, Hugo G., Norton, M., Stanford, Dennis J., and Brewster, B. 1996. "Evidence of Clovis Heat Treating Technology from the Carson-Conn-Short Site, Tennessee." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 13 62–64.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1996. "Forershaft Sockets as Possible Clovis Hafting Devices." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 13 44–46.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1996. "Hannah Marie Wormington." American Antiquity, 61 274–278.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1996. "Waldo R. Wedel." Anthropology Newsletter, 37, (7) 8.
  • Hill, M. G., Holliday, V. T., and Stanford, Dennis J. 1995. "A further evaluation of the San Jon site, New Mexico." Plains Anthropologist, 40 369-390.
  • Hill, Matthew Glenn, Holliday, Vance T., and Stanford, Dennis J. 1995. "A further Evaluation of the San Jon Site, New Mexico." Plains Anthropologist, 40, (154) 369–390.
  • Broster, J., Norton, M., and Stanford, Dennis J. 1994. "Comments on Roberts' Investigations at San Jon, New Mexico." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 11 12–14.
  • Broster, J., Norton, M., Stanford, Dennis J., Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., and Jodry, Margaret. 1994. "Eastern Clovis Adaptations in the Tennessee River Valley." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 11 12–14.
  • Hill, M. G., Holliday, V. T., and Stanford, Dennis J. 1994. "Reinvestigations at the San Jon Site, New Mexico." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 11 35–36.
  • Hill, M. G., Holliday, Vance T., and Stanford, Dennis J. 1994. "Comments on Roberts' Investigations at San Jon, New Mexico." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 11 35–37.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1994. "Hannah Marie Wormington: Pioneer Archaeologist." Monarch Society.
  • Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., Stanford, Dennis J., Saunders, J., and Agogino, G. 1992. "Reply to F. E. Green's Comments on the Clovis Site." American Antiquity, 57, (2) 338–344.
  • Hester, T., Collins, M., Dee, Ann Story, Turner, E., Brown, K., Banks, L., Stanford, Dennis J., and Long, R. 1992. "Paleoindian Archaeology at McFaddin Beach, Texas." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 9 20–22.
  • Saunders, J. J., Haynes, C. V., Jr., Stanford, Dennis J., and Agogino, G. A. 1990. "A mammoth-ivory semifabricate from Blackwater Locality No. 1, New Mexico." American antiquity, 55, (1) 112-119.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1990. "Archaeological Research in the San Luis Valley." San Luis Valley Historian, 22 33–39.
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Jordon, J., Dixon, E. J., and Jodry, Margaret. 1990. "Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, Northwest Alaska." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 7 44–47.
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Kearns, T., and Dorn, R. 1990. "Flat Top Mountain and Initial Observations on Desert Varnish Cation Ratio Values from Southeastern Utah." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 7 84–88.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1989. "Linguistic Anthropology: El Inga: A Paleo-Indian Site in the Sierra of Northern Ecuador. William J. Mayer-Oakes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 76, Pt. 4." American Anthropologist, 91, (2) 483-484.
  • Jodry, Margaret and Stanford, Dennis J. 1988. "Stewart's Cattle Guard: A Folsom Site in South-Central Colorado." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 5 11–13.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Jodry, Margaret. 1988. "The Drake Clovis Cache." Current Research in the Pleistocene, 5 21–22.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1987. "The 1st Americans .11. the Ginsberg Experiment." Natural History, 96, (9) 10.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1987. "The Ginsberg Experiment: Archeology can be Bone Breaking Work." Natural History, 96 10–16.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1987. "Review of Geoarchaeology, an international journal." SAS Newsletter, 10, (3) 10.
  • Gillette, D., Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., Saunders, J., and Stanford, Dennis J. 1985. "Preliminary Report on the Occurrence of Mammuthus sp. in Mora County, New Mexico." New Mexico Geological Society 36th Field Conference, 48–50.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Graham, R. 1985. "Archaeological Investigations of the Selby and Dutton Mammoth Kill Sites, Yuma County, Colorado." National Geographic Society Research Reports, 19 519–541.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1984. "The Jones-Miller Site: A Study of Hell Gap Bison Procurement and Processing." National Geographic Society Research Reports, 16 615–635.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Haynes, G. 1984. "On the Possible Utilization of Camelops by Early Man in North America." Quaternary Research, 22, (2) 216–230.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Patten, Robert. 1984. "R-6, A Preliminary Report of a Cody Site in North-Central New Mexico." New Mexico Anthropological Proceedings, 6, (1) 187–199.
  • Graham, R. and Stanford, Dennis J. 1983. "A Report on Karst Studies in the Peoples' Republic of China." The National Speleological Society Bulletin, 45 79–81.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1983. "Pleistocene Studies in Northeast China and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado: A Joint US - China Research Program on New World Cultural Origins." China News Exchange, 11 6–8.
  • Emery, Sloan and Stanford, D. 1982. "Preliminary report on archaeological investigations of the Cattle Guard site, Alamosa County, Colorado." Southwestern Lore, 48, (1) 10–20.
  • Emory, Sloan and Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. "Preliminary Report of Archaeological Investigations at the Cattle Guard Site, Alamosa Country, Colorado." Southwestern Lore, 48, (1) 10–20.
  • Fulgham, T. and Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. "The Frasca Site: A Preliminary Report." Southwestern Lore, 48, (1) 1–9.
  • Rancier, J., Haynes, G., and Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. "1981 Investigations of Lamb Spring." Southwestern Lore, 48, (2) 1–17.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. "Archeology: Folsom Tools and Technology at the Hanson Site, Wyoming, George C. Frison and Bruce A. Bradley.: A Report on the Banting and Hussey Sites. Two Paleo-Indian Campsites in Simcoe County, Southern Ontario. PL Storck.: Pleistocene Bone Technology in the Beringian Refugium. Robson Bonnichsen.: Early Man in America From a Circum-Pacific Perspective. Alan Lyle Bryan." American Anthropologist, 84, (2) 447-449.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1981. "Who's on First?" Science 81, 2, (5) 91–92.
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Bonnichsen, R., and Morlan, R. E. 1981. "The Ginsberg Experiment: Modern and Prehistoric Evidence of a Bone Flaking Technology." Science, 212 438–440.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Broilo, F. 1981. "Frank’s Folsom Campsite In M. Foster, editor, Archaeological Essays in Honor of Mark Wimberly." The Artifact, 19 1–13.
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Wedel, Waldo R., and Scott, Glenn R. 1981. "Archaeological Investigations of the Lamb Spring Site." Southwestern Lore, 47, (1) 14–27.
  • Stanford, Dennis and Broilo, F. 1981. "Frank's Folsom Campsite." The Artifact: Archaeological Essays in Honor of Mark Wimberly, 19 1–13.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1979. "Ice Age Hunters." National Geographic, 155 114–119.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1979. "Carving Up a “Mammoth” Stone Age Style." National Geographic, 155 121–122.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1978. "Comments on Cody Flaking Technology." Flintknappers Exchange, (1) 20–22.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1977. "Comments of Push vs. Pull Technique of Lithic Reduction." Flintknapers Exchange, 1, (1) 20–22.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1976. "A Paleoindian site on the High Plains of Eastern Colorado, United States." Actas del XII Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, (3) 516–525.
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Larichev, V. Y., and Laricheva, I. P. 1976. "PaleoIndian/Paleolithic Engravings of Mammoths." Archaeology of Eurasia (in Russian), 126–139.
  • Dawson, Jerry and Stanford, Dennis J. 1975. "The Linger Site: A Reinvestigation." Southwestern Lore, 41, (4) 11–16.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1975. "The 1975 Excavations at the Jones-Miller Site, Yuma County, Colorado." Southwestern Lore, 41, (4) 34–38.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1975. "Preliminary Report of the Excavation of the Jones-Miller Hell Gap Site, Yuma County, Colorado." Southwestern Lore, 40, (3) 29.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Albanese, J. 1975. "Preliminary results of the Smithsonian Institution excavation at the Claypool site, Washington County, Colorado." Southwestern Lore, 41 22-28.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1974. "Preliminary Report of the Excavations of the Jones-Miller Site, Yuma County, Colorado." Southwestern Lore, 40, (3/4) 29–36.
Book Chapter
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Lowery, Darrin, Jodry, Margaret, Bradley, Bruce A., Kay, Marvin, Stafford, Thomas W., Jr., and Speakman, Robert J. 2014. "New Evidence for a Possible Paleolithic Occupation of the Eastern North American Continental Shelf at the Last Glacial Maximum." In Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf. Evans, Amanda M., Flatman, Joseph C., and Flemming, Nicholas C., editors. 73–93. Springer New York.
  • Carr, Kurt W., Stewart, R. M., Stanford, Dennis J., and Frank, Michael. 2013. "The Flint Run Complex: A Quarry Related Paleoindian Complex in the Great Valley of Northern Virginia." In In The Eastern Fluted Point Tradition. Gingerich, Joseph A. M., editor. 156–217. Salt Lake City: Univeristy of Utah Press.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 2006. "Paleo-Indian Introduction." In Environment, Origins, and Population. Ubelaker, Douglas H., Stanford, Dennis J., Smith, Bruce D., and Szathmáry, J. E., editors. 16–23. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol., 3 Smithsonian Institution.
  • Ubelaker, Douglas H., Stanford, Dennis J., Smith, Bruce D., and Szathmáry, J. E. 2006. "Introduction." In Handbook of North American Indians. 1–3. 3
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Bonnichsen, R., Meggers, Betty J., and Steele, G. 2005. "Paleoamerican Origins: Models, Evidence and Future Directions." In Paleoamerican Origins: Beyond Clovis. Bonnichsen, R., Lepper, B., Stanford, Dennis J., and Waters, M., editors. 313–355. Texas A & M Press.
  • Selig, R. O. and Stanford, Dennis J. 2004. "Researching The First Americans: One Archaeologist's Journey." In Anthropology Explored: Revised and Expanded. Selig, R. O., London, M. L., and Kaupp, P. Ann, editors. 228–239. Smithsonian Books.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1999. "Paleoindian archaeology and late Pleistocene environments in the Plains and southwestern United States." In Ice Age People of North America: Environments, Origins, and Adaptations. Bonnichsen, R. and Turnmire, K., editors. 281–339. Corvallis: Center for the Study of the First Americans.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1998. "The Drake Cache: A Clovis Site from North Central Colorado." In Les Paleoindiens des Grandes Plaines. Montet-White, Anta, editor. 36–39. Solutre, France: Musee Departemental de Prehistorire de Solutre.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1998. "Bones and Stones-or Sheep?" In Smithsonian Anthronotes: Learning about Humankind. Selig, R., Brooks, A., Lanonette, J., and London, M., editors. 150–159. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Anthronotes.
  • Jodry, Margaret and Stanford, Dennis J. 1997. "Changing Hydrologic Regimes and Prehistoric Landscape Use in the Northern San Luis Valley, Colorado." In Geologic Excursions to the Rocky Mountains and Beyond, Field Trip Guidebook for the 1996 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, Denver. Thompson, Ren A., Hudson, Mark R., and Pillmore, Charles L., editors. Denver, Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey. 44 in Special publications.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1997. "The Walsh Cache." In Les Paleoindiens des Grandes Plaines. 40–43. Solutre, France: Musee Departemental de Prehistorire de Solutre.
  • Broster, J., Norton, M., Stanford, Dennis J., Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., and Jodry, Margaret. 1996. "Stratified Fluted Point Deposits in the Western Valley of Tennessee." In Proceeding of the 14th Annual Mid-South Archaeological Conference. Walling, R., Wharey, C., and Stanley, C., editors. 1–11. Memphis, TN: Panamerican Consultants. In Special publication (Panamerican Consultants, Inc.).
  • Jodry, M. A. and Stanford, Dennis J. 1996. "Changing hydrologic regimes and prehistoric landscape use in the northern San Luis Valley, Colorado." In Hydrogeology of the San Luis Valley and environmental issues downstream from the Summittville Mine, South-Central Colorado. 1–11. Colorado Geological Survey.
  • Lane, L., Stanford, Dennis J., Dillehay, T., Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., Shields, C., and French, M. 1995. "Early Paleoindians and Eastern U.S. Rockshelters: Findings and Implications of Test Excavations at Wolfe Shelter (15CU21)." In Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky, Volume 3. Doershuk, John F., Bergman, Christopher A., and Pollack, David, editors. 1–22. Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Heritage Council.
  • Stanford, Dennis. 1995. "Forward." In The Public Trust and the First Americans. vii–viii. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
  • Jodry, Margaret and Stanford, Dennis J. 1992. "Stewart's Cattle Guard Site: An Analysis of Bison Remains in a Folsom Kill-Butchery Campsite." In Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies. Stanford, Dennis J. and Day, Jane S. , editors. 101–168. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1992. "Introduction." In Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies. Stanford, Dennis J. and Day, Jane S. , editors. 1–5. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
  • Todd, L. and Stanford, Dennis J. 1992. "Applications of Conjoined Bone Data to Site Structural Studies." In Piecing Together the Past: Applications of Refitting Studies in Archaeology. Hofman, Jack L. and Enloe, James G., editors. 21–36. Oxford, England: Tempus Reparatum. In BAR International series (no. 578).
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1991. "Clovis Origins and Adaptations: An Introductory Perspective." In Clovis : origins and adaptations. Bonnichsen, Robson and Turnmire, Karen L., editors. 1–13. Corvallis, OR: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Oregon State University. In Peopling of the Americas.
  • Kornfeld, M., Larson, M. L., and Stanford, Dennis J. 1990. "Human Paleoecology of the Central High Plains of North America: The Hutton-Pinkham Site and Vicinity." In Paleoecology of Pleistocene-Holocene of Northern Asia and America. Drozdov, N., editor. 201–213. Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences, USSR.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1990. "Foreword." In History of the Stone Age Fair. Yeager, C. G., editor. ii–iv. Loveland, Colorado: Loveland Archaeological Society.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1990. "Paleoindian-Possible Asian Ancestors." In McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Klein, R., editor. 45–47. McGraw-Hill.
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., Saunders, G., Agogino, G., and Boldurian, A. 1990. "Blackwater Draw Locality 1: History, Current Research, and Interpretations." In Fifty Years of Discovery: The Lubbock Lake Landmark. Holliday, Vance T. and Johnson, Eileen, editors. 105–153. Lubbock: Museum of Texas Tech University. In Lubbock Lake Landmark Quaternary Research Center Series (no. 2).
  • Jodry, Margaret, Shafer, D., Stanford, Dennis J., and Davis, O. 1989. "Late Quaternary Environments and Human Adaptation in the San Luis Valley, South-Central Colorado." In Water in the Valley. Harmon, E., editor. 189–209. Lakewood, Colorado: Colorado Ground Water Association.
  • Bonnichsen, R., Stanford, Dennis J., and Fastook, J. L. 1987. "Environmental Change and Developmental History 0f Human Adaptive Patterns: The Paleoindian Case Example." In The Geology of North America. North America and Adjacent Oceans during the Last Deglaciation, K-3. Ruddian, W., editor. 403–424. Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America, Boulder.
  • Bradley, Bruce and Stanford, Dennis J. 1987. "The Claypool Study." In The Horner Site: The Type Site of the Cody Cultural Complex. Frison, George C. and Todd, Lawrence C., editors. 405–435. New York, NY: Academic Press.
  • Stanford, Dennis J., Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., Saunders, J., and Agogino, G. 1986. "Blackwater Draw Locality 1: History, Current Research and Interpretations." In Guidebook to the Archaeological Geology of Classic Paleoindian Sites on the Southern High Plains, Texas and New Mexico. Holliday, Vance T., editor. 82–112. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1985. "Sandia Cave: Its Significance to Early Man Studies in the New World." In Geochronology of Sandia Cave. Haynes, C. Vance, Jr. and Agogino, G., editors. v–vi. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology (30).
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Patten, R. 1984. "A Preliminary Report of a Cody Complex Site in North Central New Mexico." In Papers of the Philmont Conference on the Archeology of North Eastern New Mexico. Condie, Carol J., editor. 187–199. In Proceedings / New Mexico Archeological Council.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1983. "Evidence for Pre-Clovis Human Occupation South of the Ice-Sheets in North America." In Early Man in the New World. Shutler, Richard, editor. 65–72. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications Inc.
  • Frison, George C. and Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. "Summary and Conclusions." In The Agate Basin Site A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains. Frison, George C. and Stanford, Dennis J., editors. 361–370. New York: Academic Press.
  • Frison, George C. and Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. "The Agate Basin Components at the Agate Basin Site." In The Agate Basin Site A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains. Frison, George C. and Stanford, Dennis J., editors. 76–135. New York, NY: Academic Press.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. "A Critical Review of Archaeological Evidence Relating to the Antiquity of the Human Occupation of the New World." In Plains Indian Studies A Collection of Essays in Honor of John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedel. Ubelaker, Douglas H. and Viola, Herman J., editors. 202–218. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology (no. 30).
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1979. "Afterword: Resolving the Question of New World Origins." In Pre-Llano Cultures of the Americas: Paradoxes and Possibilities. Humphrey, R. L. and Stanford, Dennis J., editors. 147–150. Washington, D.C.: The Anthropological Society of Washington.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1979. "The Selby and Dutton Sites: Evidence for a Possible Pre-Clovis Occupation of the High Plains." In Pre-Llano Cultures of the Americas: Paradoxes and Possibilities. Humphrey, Robert L. and Stanford, Dennis J., editors. 101–123. Washington, D.C.: The Anthropological Society of Washington.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1978. "The Jones-Miller Site: An Example of Hell Gap Bison Procurement Strategy." In Bison Procurement and Utilization: A Symposium. Davis, Leslie B. and Wilson, Michael, editors. 90–97. In Plains Anthropologist. Memoir (no. 14).
Book
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Bradley, Bruce. 2012. Across Atlantic Ice: The Origins of America's Clovis Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Owsley, Douglas W., Jodry, Margaret, Stafford, Thomas W., Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., and Stanford, Dennis J. 2010. Arch Lake Woman Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology, Goebel, Ted, editor. College Station, Texas: Texas A and M University Press.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. and Day, Jane S. , editors. 1992. Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies. Boulder, Colorado: Denver Museum of Natural History and University Press of Colorado.
  • Frison, George C. and Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. The Agate Basin Site A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains. New York, NY: Academic Press. In The Agate Basin Site A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains.
  • Humphrey, R. L. and Stanford, Dennis J., editors. 1979. Pre-Llano cultures of the Americas: paradoxes and possibilities. Washington, D.C.: The Antropological Society of Washington.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1976. Walakkpa Site Alaska: Its Place in the Birnirk and Thule Cultures, Horn, Joan, editor. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 20. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.20.1.
Book Review
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 2007. [Book review] "Archaeology: Folsom Points." Science, 316, (5831), 1569. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1129537.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1990. [Book review] "El Inga: A Paleoindian Site in the Sierra of Northern Ecuador, by W. Mayer-Oakes." American Anthropologist, 91, 183–184.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1989. [Book review] "The Colby Mammoth Site Taphonomy and Archaeology of a Clovis Kill in Northern Wyoming, by G. Frison and L. Todd." American Anthropologist, 90, 174–175.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1988. [Book review] "How to Deep-Freeze a Mammoth, by B. Kurten." American Anthropologist, 90, 174–175.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1988. [Book review] "On the Track of Ice Age Mammals, by A. Sutcliffe." American Anthropologist, 90, 174–175.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1983. [Book review] "Folsom Tools and Technology at the Hanson Site, Wyoming, by G. Frison and B. Bradley." American Anthropologist, 89, 447–449.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. [Book review] "Early Man in America from a Circum-Pacific Perspective, edited by A. Bryan." American Anthropologist, 89, 447–449.
  • Stanford, Dennis J. 1982. [Book review] "Pleistocene Bone Technology in the Beringian Refugium, by R. Bonnichsen." American Anthropologist, 89, 447–449.
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