Dennis Stanford | |
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Born |
Dennis J. Stanford May 13, 1943 Cherokee, Iowa, United States |
Occupation | Archaeologist |
Dennis J. Stanford (born 13 May 1943 in Cherokee, Iowa) is an archaeologist and Director of the Paleoindian/Paleoecology Program at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution.
Along with Prof. Bruce Bradley, Stanford is known for advocating the Solutrean hypothesis, which contends that stone tool technology of the Solutrean culture in prehistoric Europe may have influenced the development of the later Clovis tool-making culture in the Americas by way of an earlier trans-atlantic European migration to North America during the Last Glacial Maximum.