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Reply to O'Brien et al.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Dennis Stanford  and
Bruce Bradley
Dennis Stanford
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20560, USA
Bruce Bradley
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK
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Across Atlantic ice (AAI) sets out specifically to propose an alternative hypothesis of early human entry into the Americas and to stimulate research (Stanford & Bradley 2012: 16). O'Brien et al.'s response (above) primarily contains an unsupported dismissal of the evidence and these ideas. Unfortunately, to date, no work equivalent to AAI has been presented for any other Clovis origin hypothesis; this would be most welcome, especially from those who critique and reject the Solutrean hypothesis with unsupported assertions.

For convenience we respond to each of O'Brien et al.'s critiques in the order in which they appear.

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Antiquity , Volume 88 , Issue 340 , 01 June 2014 , pp. 614 - 621
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2014 

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