2025 Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, David Singer, Chloe Pearson, Jeffrey Ortiz, Briggs Buchanan, Dominik Chlachula, R. Dellmour, Roman Garba, Vitaly Usyk, Anthony E. Marks, and Jeffrey I. Rose
Examining the distribution of Middle Paleolithic Nubian cores relative to chert quality in southern (Nejd, Dhofar) and south-central (Duqm, Al Wusta), Oman. Geoarchaeology, 40(1):e22019.
2025 Rose, Jeffrey I., Yamandú H. Hilbert, Vitaly I. Usyk, Michelle R. Bebber, Amir Beshkani, Briggs Buchanan, João Cascalheira, Dominik Chlachula, Rudolf Dellmour, Metin I. Eren, Roman Garba, Emily Hallinan, Li Li, Robert S. Walker, and Anthony E. Marks
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: a case study from Dhofar, Oman. Journal of Archaeological Science, 173:106117.
2024 Bebber, Michelle R., Nam C. Kim, Simone Tripoli, Russell Quick, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S. Walker, Jonathan Paige, Jacob Baldino, Scott McKinny, Jaymes Taylor, and Metin I. Eren
The gravity of Paleolithic hunting. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 59:104785.
2024 Buchanan, Briggs, Marcus Hamilton, Nicholas Gala, Heather Smith, Michael Wilson, Metin Eren, and Robert S. Walker
Comparing Clovis and Folsom fluting via scaling analysis. Archaeometry, 66:266-281.
2024 Eren, Metin, I., Briggs Buchanan, and Michelle Bebber
Description, microwear, and morphometrics of Clovis and possible-Clovis artifacts from the Kasten site, Erie County, Ohio, U.S.A. Lithic Technology, in press.
2024 Eren, Metin, I., Jay Romans, Robert S. Walker, Briggs Buchanan, and Alastair Key
Bullet ricochet mark plan-view morphology in concrete: an experimental assessment of five bullet types and two distances using machine learning. Forensic Sciences Research, 9(1):owad051.
2024 Eren, Metin I., G. Logan Miller, Brett Story, Michael Wilson, Michelle R. Bebber, and Briggs Buchanan
North American Clovis point form and performance IV: an experimental assessment of knife edge effectiveness and wear. Lithic Technology, 49:1-12.
2024 Eren, Metin I., Lawrence Mukusha, G. Logan Miller, Andrew Smith, Michelle R. Bebber, Linda Spurlock, John Gerrath, Joseph Ortiz, Michael Wilson, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Boulanger, and David J. Meltzer
Hit or miss: do microscopic linear impact traces (MLITs) form on Clovis stone tips launched via atlatl into foliage and sediment? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 55:104517.
2024 Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, Lawrence Mukusha, Michael Wilson, Andrew R. Boehm, Briggs Buchanan, G. Logan Miller, Matt Skoglun, John Hayes, Max Barta, Samantha Bates, Ryan Callaghan, Chester Floyd, Seth Morris, Spencer Neauharth, Clay Newcomb, Steve Rinella, Corinne Schneider, Mary Smith, Anne Parfitt, and David Meltzer
Experimental bison butchery using replica hafted Clovis fluted points and large handheld flakes. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 55:104480.
2024 Hamilton, Marcus J., Robert S. Walker, and Briggs Buchanan
Institutional complexity emerges from socioecological complexity in small-scale human societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291:20240246.
Data from: Jorgensen's Western Indians database and R code for running a Bayesian network model [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gb5mkkwz3
2024 Hamilton, Marcus J., J. David Kilby, Christopher Merriman, and Briggs Buchanan
Reconstructing Clovis landscape use at multiple spatial scales from the Mockingbird Gap site, New Mexico. In: The Paleoindian Southwest, edited by J. David Kilby and Bruce B. Huckell. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, in press.
2024 Hamilton, Marcus J., Briggs Buchanan, Jose Lobo, and Robert S. Walker
Food storage reduces movement frequency but not mobility costs in hunter-gatherers. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 54:10441.
2024 Key, Alastair, Metin I. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber, Briggs Buchanan, Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Carmen Martin-Ramos, Paloma de la Peña, Cameron A. Petrie, Tomos Proffitt, John Robb, and Konstantina-Eleni Michelaki, and Ivan Jarić
Identifying accurate artefact morphological ranges using optimal linear estimation: Method validation, case studies, and code. Journal of Archaeological Science, 162:105921.
2024 Paige, Jonathan, Robert S. Walker, Briggs Buchanan, Robert Berg, Cheryll Berg, Jacob Baldino, Scott McKinny, Metin I. Eren, and Michelle R. Bebber
Copper- versus stone-tipped dart relative functional efficiency: a “naturalistic” experiment assessing penetration depth utilizing human atlatlists and hog carcasses. In: From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America, edited by Michelle R. Bebber and Christopher Wolff, Berghahn Press, New York, in press.
2024 Samuels A., D. Holly, Michelle M. Bebber, Metin I. Eren, Briggs Buchanan, Robert Walker, Jonathan Paige, and Christopher Wolff
Using experimental archaeology to think about the impact of European colonialism on North American Indigenous technology: a case study on the Beothuk of Newfoundland, Canada. In: From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America, edited by Michelle M. Bebber and Christopher Wolff. Berghahn Press, New York, in press.
2024 Smith, Andrew, Charles Stephens, David Mielke, Andy Wilson, Tom Debolt, Fred Groseclose, Paul Hothem, Matthew Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, G. Logan Miller, Michelle Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
Newly reported Clovis points and possible preforms from or near the Welling, Mielke, and Debolt Farm sites, Ohio. Northeast Anthropology, 91-92:52-78.
2024 Wilson, Michael, Briggs Buchanan, Michael Fisch, Michelle R. Bebber, Metin I. Eren, and Justin Pargeter
Controlled comparative tensile tests of backed versus non-backed edges’ adhesion: inferences into stone tool functional properties. Archaeometry, in press.
2023 Baldino, Jacob, Scott McKinny, Jaymes Taylor, Michael Wilson, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S. Walker, Brett Story, Michelle R. Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
North American Clovis point form and performance V: an experimental assessment of spear thrusting penetration depth and entry wound size. Lithic Technology, 49:295-310.
2023 Bebber, Michelle, Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren, and Robert S. Walker
Atlatl use equalizes female and male projectile weapon velocity. Scientific Reports, 13:13349.
2023 Buchanan, Briggs, and Marcus J. Hamilton
Networks and cultural transmission in hunter-gatherer societies. In: The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research, edited by Tom Brughmans, Barbara J. Mills, Jessica Munson, and Matt A. Peeples, Oxford University Press, pp. 459-474.
2023 Buchanan, Briggs, Marcus J. Hamilton, Danielle Macdonald, James Blinkhorn, Huw S. Groucutt, Metin I. Eren, and Steven L. Kuhn
Geometric morphometric analyses of Levallois points from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic do not support functional specialization. Lithic Technology, 48:437-451.
2023 Conrad, Grace, Savannah Hough, Nicholas Gala, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S. Walker, Alastair Key, Brian Redmond, Michelle R. Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
Clovis bone versus stone weapon tip penetration: thinking about relative costs and benefits, experimental assumptions, and archaeological unknowns at Sheriden Cave, Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 52:104295.
2023 Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, Matthew Wendel, G. Logan Miller, and Briggs Buchanan
Description, morphometrics, and microwear of two Paleoindian fluted points from Nebraska and Illinois. Lithic Technology, 48:318-326.
2023 Eren, Metin I., Fernando Diez-Martin, Antonio Tarriño, Heather Smith, Briggs Buchanan, G. Logan Miller, Matthew Boulanger, and Sergei Slobodin
Toolstone characterization, description, morphometrics, and microwear of a lithic sample from Uptar, Magadan Oblast, Northeastern Siberia, Russia. Archaeological Research in Asia, 35:100465.
2023 Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, Briggs Buchanan, Anne Grunow, Alastair Key, Stephen J. Lycett, Erica Maletic, and Teal Riley
Antarctica as a ‘natural laboratory’ for the critical assessment of the archaeological validity of early stone tool sites. Antiquity, 97:472-482.
2023 Khaksar, Somaye, Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren, and Gil Tostevin
Exploring the gross edge curvature of experimentally produced Preferential Levallois debitage. Lithic Technology, 48:408-421.
2023 Mika, Anna, Julie Lierenz, Andrew Smith, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S. Walker, Metin I. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber, and Alastair Key
Hafted technologies likely reduced stone tool-related selective pressures acting on the hominin hand. Scientific Reports, 13:15582.
2023 Mullen, Damon, Jase Sitton, Brett Story, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S. Walker, Metin I. Eren, and Michelle R. Bebber
Comparison of four ballistic and thrusting target materials: an experimental and Bayesian approach using static testing of stone and steel arrow tips. Archaeometry, 65(5):1108-1124.
2023 Sitton, Jase, Christopher Stenzel, Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren, and Brett Story
Static penetration assessment of stone weapon tip geometry metrics and comparison of static penetration required energy to dynamic penetration depths. Archaeometry, 65(3):463-479.
2023 Walker, Robert, Jeffrey R. Ferguson , Angelica Olmeda, Marcus J. Hamilton, Jim Elghammer, and Briggs Buchanan
Predicting the geographic distribution of ancient Amazonian archaeological sites with machine learning. PeerJ, 11:e15137.
2022 Andrews, Brian, N., Metin I. Eren, Ryan Breslawski, Susan Mentzer, Briggs Buchanan, David J. Meltzer
Investigations at Goodson Shelter, Oklahoma. Plains Anthropologist, 67(264):372-404.
2022 Bebber, Michelle R., Briggs Buchanan, and Jacob Holland-Lulewicz
Refining the chronology of North America’s copper using traditions: A macroscalar approach via Bayesian modeling. PLoS One, 17(4):e0266908.
2022 Boulanger, Matthew T., Briggs Buchanan, G. Logan Miller, Brian G. Redmond, Bob Christy, Brandi L. MacDonald, David Mielke, Ryun Mielke, Connie Mielke, Tate Mauer, Bruce Meyer, Monty Meyer, Brian Trego, Andy Wilson, Pete Cartwright, Leo Ott, Michelle R. Bebber, David J. Meltzer, and Metin I. Eren
The Mielke Clovis site (33SH26), western Ohio, U.S.A., geochemical sourcing, technological descriptions, artifact morphometrics, and microwear. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 47(1):69-102.
2022 Buchanan, Briggs, and Metin I. Eren
On the challenges of measuring diversity in archaeology. In: Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology, edited by Metin I. Eren and Briggs Buchanan. Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 1-25.
2022 Buchanan, Briggs, and Marcus J. Hamilton
Spatial scaling of Folsom Paleoindian hunter-gatherer camps in western North America. In: Intrasite Spatial Analysis of Mobile and Semisedentary Peoples, edited by Amy E. Clark and Joseph A. M. Gingerich. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp. 36-43.
2022 Buchanan, Briggs, J. David Kilby, Jason LaBelle, Todd A. Surovell, Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, and Marcus J. Hamilton
Bayesian modeling of the Clovis and Folsom radiocarbon records indicates a 200-year multi-generational transition. American Antiquity, 87:567-580.
2022 Buchanan, Briggs, Robert S. Walker, Marcus J. Hamilton, Brett Story, Michelle Bebber, Dan Wilcox, and Metin I. Eren
Experimental assessment of lanceolate projectile point and haft robustness. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 42:103399.
2022 Eren, Metin I., and Briggs Buchanan
Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology. Berghahn Books, New York.
2022 Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, Edward J. Knell, Brett Story, and Briggs Buchanan
Plains Paleoindian projectile point penetration potential. Journal of Anthropological Research, 42:103399.
2022 Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, Dan Wilcox, Brett Story, and Briggs Buchanan
North American Clovis point form and performance II: an experimental assessment of point, haft, and shaft durability. Lithic Technology, 47:38-51.
2022 Eren, Metin I., David J. Meltzer, Brett Story, Briggs Buchanan, Don Yeager, Michelle R. Bebber
Not just for proboscidean hunting: on the efficacy and functions of Clovis fluted points. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 45:103601.
2022 Eren, Metin I., Lawrence Mukusha, Julie Lierenz, Michael Wilson, Michelle R. Bebber, Michael Fisch, Trent True, Michael Kavaulic, Robert S. Walker, Briggs Buchanan, and Alastair Key
Another tool in the experimental toolbox: On the use of aluminum as a substitute for chert in North American prehistoric ballistics research and beyond. North American Archaeologist,43(2):151-176.
2022 Gala, Nicholas, Anna Mika, Michael Wilson, Jeremy Williams, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S. Walker, Michelle Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
Experimental assessment of obsidian versus chert lanceolate projectile point durability and robusticity: semi-static fracture strength and dynamic impact. Archaeometry, 64(6):1307-1324.
2022 Lewis, Angela, Jeremy Williams, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S. Walker, Michelle Bebber, Metin I. Eren
Knapping quality of local versus exotic Upper Mercer chert (Ohio, U.S.A.) during the Holocene. Geoarchaeology, 37(3):486-496.
2022 Mika, Anna, Briggs Buchanan, Robert Walker, Alastair Key, Brett Story, Michelle Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
North American Clovis point form and performance III: An experimental assessment of knife cutting efficiency. Lithic Technology, 47(3):203-220.
2022 Mukusha, Lawrence, G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Boulanger, Ron I. Marvin, Sarah E. Fisher, Robert Kunst, Michelle R. Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
Thinking about artifact description, collections, access, and replicability: Clovis and possible-Clovis artifacts from the Wyandot County and Portage County Historical Societies, Ohio. Northeast Anthropology, 90:1-25.
2022 Pargeter, Justin, Caleb Chen, Briggs Buchanan, Michael Fisch, Michelle Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
Stone tool backing and adhesion in hunting weaponry: first results of an experimental program. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 45:103639.
2021 Boulanger, Matthew, Robert J. Patten, Brian N. Andrews, Michelle R. Bebber, Briggs Buchanan, Ian Jorgenson, G. Logan Miller, Metin I. Eren, and David J. Meltzer
Antelope Springs: a Folsom site in South Park, Colorado. PaleoAmerica, 7:114-132.
2021 Buchanan, Briggs, and Marcus J. Hamilton
Scaling laws of Paleoindian projectile point design. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 28:580-602.
2021 Buchanan, Briggs, J. David Kilby, Marcus J. Hamilton, Jason M. LaBelle, Kelton A. Meyer, Jacob Holland-Lulewiscz, Brian Andrews, Brooke M. Morgan, Brendon Asher, Vance T. Holliday, Gregory W.L. Hodgins, and Todd A. Surovell
Bayesian revision of the Folsom age range using IntCal20. PaleoAmerica, 7:133-144.
2021 Diez-Martin, Fernando, Briggs Buchanan, James D. Norris, and Metin I. Eren
Was Welling, Ohio (33-Co-2), a Clovis basecamp or lithic workshop? Employing experimental models to interpret old collections. American Antiquity, 86:183-198.
2021 Eren, Metin I., Jay Romans, Briggs Buchanan, and Michelle R. Bebber
Validating chronograph photo sensor measurement accuracy of stone-tipped projectile velocity. Measurement: Sensors, 13:100037.
2021 Eren, Metin I., David J. Meltzer, Brett Story, Briggs Buchanan, Don Yeager, and Michelle R. Bebber
On the efficacy of Clovis fluted points for hunting proboscideans. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 39:103166.
2021 Eren, Metin I., Damon Mullen, Linda Spurlock, Bob Christy, G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Jennifer Bush, and Michelle R. Bebber
Technical descriptions of artifacts from the Dresden Mound Cache, Ohio. Current Research in Ohio Archaeology, www.ohioarchaeology.org, 1-30.
2021 Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, Anna Mika, Kat Flood, Leanna Maguire, Dusty Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Damon A. Mullen, Scott Centea, Chase Centea, Bob Christy, Rami Daud, Jermaine Jackson, Robert J. Patten, Brian G. Redmond, Briggs Buchanan, Richard Haythorn, G. Logan Miller, Mark A. Conaway, Rebecca E. Biermann Gürbüz, Stephen J. Lycett, J. David Kilby, Brian Andrews, Brandi MacDonald, Matthew Boulanger, and David J. Meltzer
The Nelson Stone Tool Cache, North-Central Ohio, U.S.A.: Assessing Its Cultural Affiliation. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 37:102972.
2021 Maguire, Leanna, Briggs Buchanan, Michael Wilson, and Metin I. Eren
The effect of isometric scaling on flaked stone projectile point impact durability: an experimental assessment. Lithic Technology, 46(4):260-269.
2021 Mullen, Damon, Timothy Matney, Alex Morrison, Michael Fisch, Briggs Buchanan, and Michelle R. Bebber
Experimental assessment of Neo-Assyrian bronze arrowhead penetration: an initial study comparing bilobate versus trilobate morphologies. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 35:102765.
2021 Mullen, Damon, G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Fernando Diez-Martin, Todd St. John, Metin I. Eren, and Michelle R. Bebber
Late Archaic and Early Woodland stone tools from Killbuck, Holmes County, Ohio. Current Research in Ohio Archaeology, www.ohioarchaeology.org, 1-11.
2020 Bebber, Michelle R., Michael Wilson, Andrew Kramer, Richard S. Meindl, Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren
The non-invention of the ceramic arrowhead in world archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 31:102283.
2020 Buchanan, Briggs, Mark Collard, and Michael J. O’Brien
Geometric morphometric analyses support incorporating the Goshen point type into Plainview. American Antiquity, 85:171-181.
2020 Eren, Metin I., Brett Story, Alyssa Perrone, Michelle Bebber, Marcus J. Hamilton, Robert S. Walker, and Briggs Buchanan
North American Clovis point form and function: an experimental assessment of penetration depth. Lithic Technology, 45(4):263-282.
2020 Hamilton, Marcus J., Robert S. Walker, Briggs Buchanan, and David S. Sandeford
Scaling human sociopolitical complexity. PLoS One, 15(7):e0234615.
2020 Macdonald, Danielle, Kyleigh Royal, and Briggs Buchanan
Evaluating the effects of parallax in archaeological geometric morphometric analyses. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12:149.
2020 Mika, Anna, Kat Flood, James Norris, Michael Wilson, Alastair J.M. Key, Briggs Buchanan, Brian G. Redmond, Justin Pargeter, Michelle Rae Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
Miniaturization optimized weapon killing power during the social stress of late pre-contact Eastern North America (AD 600-1600). PLoS One, 15(3):e0230348.
2020 Perrone, Alyssa, Michael Wilson, Michael Fisch, Briggs Buchanan, Michelle R. Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
Human behavior or taphonomy? On the breakage of eastern North American Paleoindian endscrapers. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12:161.
2020 Perrone, Alyssa, Michelle Bebber, Matthew Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, G. Logan Miller, Brian G. Redmond, and Metin I. Eren
Description, geometric morphometrics, and microwear of five Clovis fluted projectile points from Lucas and Wood Counties, Northwest Ohio, USA. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 3:1034-1047.
2020 Sitton, Jase, Briggs Buchanan, Brett Story, and Metin I. Eren
Tip cross-sectional geometry predicts the penetration depth of stone-tipped projectiles. Scientific Reports, 10:13289.
2019 Buchanan, Briggs, Marcus J. Hamilton, and J. David Kilby
The small world topology of Clovis lithic networks. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11:3537-3548.
2019 Buchanan, Briggs, Brian Andrews, J. David Kilby, and Metin I. Eren
Settling into the country: comparison of Clovis and Folsom lithic networks in western North America shows increasing redundancy of toolstone use. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 53:32-42.
2019 Buchanan, Briggs, Marcus J. Hamilton. James Hartley, and Steven L. Kuhn
Investigating the scale of prehistoric social networks using culture, language, and point types in western North America. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11:199-207.
2019 Eren, Metin I., G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Michelle R. Bebber, Brian G. Redmond, Charles Stephens, Lisa Coates, Patricia Boser, Becky Sponseller, and Matt Slicker
The Black Diamond site, northeast Ohio, U.S.A.: A new Clovis occupation in a proposed secondary staging area. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2:211-233.
2019 Hamilton, Marcus J., Briggs Buchanan, and Robert S. Walker
Spatiotemporal diversification of projectile point types in western North America over 13,000 years. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 24:486-495.
2019 Miller, Logan G., Michelle R. Bebber, Ashley Rutoski, Richard Haythorn, Matthew T. Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, Jennifer Bush, C. Owen Lovejoy, and Metin I. Eren
Hunter-gatherer gatherings: Stone-tool microwear from the Welling Site (33-Co-2), Ohio, U.S.A. supports Clovis use of outcrop-related base camps during the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas. World Archaeology, 51:47-75.
2019 Mraz, Veronica, Michael Fisch, Metin I. Eren, C. Owen Lovejoy, and Briggs Buchanan
Thermal engineering of stone increased prehistoric toolmaking skill. Scientific Reports, 9:14591 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51139-3).
2019 Norris, James D., Alyssa Perrone, G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Robert J. Patten, Michelle R. Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
Description, morphometrics, and microwear of two Clovis points from Pandale, Val Verde County, Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 89:121-128.
2019 Story, Brett, Metin I. Eren, Kaitlyn Thomas, Briggs Buchanan, and David J. Meltzer
Why are Clovis fluted points more resilient than non-fluted lanceolate points? A quantitative assessment of breakage patterns between experimental models. Archaeometry, 61:1-13.
2019 Williams, Jeremy C., Diana M. Simone, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Michelle R. Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
Nine thousand years of optimal toolstone selection through the North American Holocene. Antiquity, 93:313-324.
2018 Buchanan, Briggs, Michael J. O’Brien, and Metin I. Eren
Assessing the likelihood of convergence among North American projectile-point types. In: Convergent Evolution in Stone-tool Technology, edited by O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren. MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 275-287.
2018 Buchanan, Briggs, Brian Andrews, Michael J. O’Brien, and Metin I. Eren
An assessment of stone weapon tip standardization during the Clovis-Folsom transition in the western United States. American Antiquity, 83:721-734.
2018 Eren, Metin I., and Briggs Buchanan
A formal test of the effect of distance to stone source on Great Lakes Clovis unifacial tool form. In: In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, Volume 2, edited by Joseph A. M. Gingerich. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp. 359-366.
2018 Eren, Metin I., Briggs Buchanan, and Michael J. O’Brien
Why convergence should be a potential hypothesis for the emergence and occurrence of stone-tool form and production processes: An illustration using replication. In: Convergent Evolution in Stone-tool Technology, edited by O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren. MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 61-71.
2018 Eren, Metin I., Michelle R. Bebber, G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Boulanger, and Robert J. Patten
Description, morphometrics, and microwear of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene artifacts from Southwestern Kentucky, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 20:516-523.
2018 Eren, Metin I., Briggs Buchanan, Brian G. Redmond, James K. Feathers, G. Logan Miller, and Brian N. Andrews
Thermoluminescence (TL) and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of two burned Clovis Wyandotte chert lithic specimens from Paleo Crossing (33ME274), Ohio, USA. Lithic Technology, 43:18-25.
2018 Eren, Metin I., Brain G. Redmond, G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Brooke Morgan, and Michael J. O’Brien
Paleo Crossing (33ME274): A Clovis site in northeastern Ohio. In: In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, Volume 2, edited by Joseph A. M. Gingerich. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp. 186-209.
2018 Hamilton, Marcus J., Briggs Buchanan, and Robert S. Walker
The size, structure, and dynamics of residentially mobile hunter-gatherer camps. American Antiquity, 83:701-720.
2018 Haythorn, Richard, Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren
A new look at flaked stone projectiles from the Mixter Site (33-ER-4), Erie County, Ohio, U.S.A. Lithic Technology, 43:166-171.
2018 Maguire, Leanna, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Brian G. Redmond, and Metin I. Eren
On the Late Paleoindian temporal assignment for the Honey Run Site (33-Co-3), Coshocton County, Ohio: A morphometric assessment of flaked stone lanceolate projectile points. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 20:588-595.
2018 O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren
Convergent Evolution in Stone-tool Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
2018 O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren
Issues in archaeological studies of convergence. In: Convergent Evolution in Stone-tool Technology, edited by O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren. MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 3-20.
2018 Ragan, Kathryn, and Briggs Buchanan
Assessing collector bias: a geometric morphometric analysis of a collection of isolated Clovis points from the midcontinent. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 43:91-111.
2017 Buchanan, Briggs, Michael J. O’Brien, and Mark Collard
A geometric morphometrics-based assessment of point types on the Southern High Plains during Plainview times. In: Plainview: The Enigmatic Paleoindian Artifact Style of the Great Plains, edited by Vance T. Holliday, Eileen Johnson, and Ruthann Knudson. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp. 274-284.
2017 Buchanan, Briggs, Anne Chao, Chun-Huo Chiu, Robert K. Colwell, Michael J. O’Brien, Angelia Werner, Metin I. Eren
Environment-induced changes in selective constraints on social learning during the peopling of the Americas. Scientific Reports, 7:44431 (DOI:10.1038/srep44431).
2017 O’Brien, Michael J., and Briggs Buchanan
Cultural learning and the Clovis colonization of North America. Evolutionary Anthropology, 26:270-284.
2017 Thomas, Kaitlyn A., Brett A. Story, Metin I. Eren, Briggs Buchanan, Brian N. Andrews, Michael J. O’Brien, and David J. Meltzer
Explaining the origin of fluting in North American Pleistocene weaponry. Journal of Archaeological Science, 83:23-30.
2017 Werner, Angelia, Kathleen Jones, G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Alastair J. M. Key, Crystal Reedy, Michelle R. Bebber, and Metin I. Eren
The morphometrics and microwear of a small Clovis assemblage from Guernsey County, Southeastern Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 15:318-329.
2016 Buchanan, Briggs, Veronica Mraz, and Metin I. Eren
On identifying stone tool production techniques: An experimental and statistical assessment of pressure versus soft hammer percussion flake form. American Antiquity, 81:737-751.
2016 Buchanan, Briggs, Michael J. O’Brien, and Mark Collard
Drivers of technological richness in prehistoric Texas: An archaeological test of the risk and population size hypotheses. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 8:625-634.
2016 Buchanan, Briggs, Marcus J. Hamilton, J. David Kilby, and Joseph A. M. Gingerich
Lithic networks reveal early regionalization in Late Pleistocene North America. Journal of Archaeological Science, 65:114-121.
2016 Eren, Metin I., and Briggs Buchanan
Clovis technology. In: eLS (Encyclopedia of Life Sciences), John Wiley & Sons, pp. 1-9.
2016 Eren, Metin I., Stephen J. Lycett, Robert J. Patten, Briggs Buchanan, Justin Pargeter, and Michael J. O'Brien
Test, model, and method validation: the role of experimental stone artifact replication in hypothesis-driven archaeology. Ethnoarchaeology, 8:103-136.
2016 Eren, Metin I., Brian G. Redmond, G. Logan Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Ashley Hall, and Lee Hall
The Wauseon Clovis fluted point preform, Northwest Ohio, U.S.A.: Observations, geometric morphometrics, microwear, and toolstone procurement distance. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10:147-154.
2016 Eren, Metin I., Anne Chao, Chun-Huo Chiu, Robert Colwell, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, John Darwent, and Michael J. O'Brien
Statistical analyses of paradigmatic class richness supports greater Paleoindian projectile-point diversity in the Southeast. American Antiquity, 81:174-192.
2016 O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren
Clovis colonization of eastern North America: A phylogenetic approach. Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 2:67-89.
2016 O’Brien, Michael J., R. Lee Lyman, Briggs Buchanan, and Mark Collard
A review of late Pleistocene North American bone and ivory tools. In: Osseous Projectile Weaponry: Towards an Understanding of Pleistocene Cultural Variability, edited by Michelle C. Langley. Springer Press, New York, pp. 221-235.
2016 O’Brien, Michael J., Matthew T. Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, R. Alexander Bentley, R. Lee Lyman, Carl P. Lipo, Mark E. Madsen, and Metin I. Eren
Design space and cultural transmission: case studies from Paleoindian eastern North America. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23:692-740.
2015 Boulanger, Matthew T., Briggs Buchanan, Michael J O’Brien, Brian G. Redmond, Michael D. Glascock, and Metin I. Eren
Neutron activation analysis of 12,900-year-old stone artifacts confirms 450-510+ kilometer Clovis tool-stone acquisition at Paleo Crossing (33ME274), northeast Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science, 53:550-558.
2015 Buchanan, Briggs, Susan Buchanan, and Eileen Johnson
Taphonomic analysis of the Folsom bonebed at Lake Theo, Texas. North American Archaeologist, 36:170-196.
2015 Buchanan, Briggs, Metin I. Eren, Matthew T. Boulanger, and Michael J. O’Brien
Size, shape, scars, and spatial patterning: A quantitative assessment of late Pleistocene (Clovis) point resharpening. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 3:11-21.
2015 Eren, Metin I., Briggs Buchanan, and Michael J. O’Brien
Social learning and technological evolution during the Clovis colonization of the New World. Journal of Human Evolution, 80:159-170.
2015 Gurtov, Alia N., Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren
"Dissecting" quartzite and basalt bipolar flake shape: a morphometric comparison of experimental replications from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Lithic Technology, 40:332-341.
2015 O’Brien, Michael J., Matthew T. Boulanger, R. Lee Lyman, and Briggs Buchanan
Phylogenetic systematics. In: Mathematics and Archaeology, edited by J.A. Barceló and Igor Bogdanovic. Science Publishers, CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 225-239.
2015 O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger, Alex Mesoudi, Mark Collard, Metin I. Eren, R. Alexander Bentley, and R. Lee Lyman
Transmission of cultural variants in the North American Paleolithic. In: Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic, edited by A. Mesoudi and K. Aoki, Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Human Series, Springer Press, New York, pp. 121-142.
2014 Buchanan, Briggs, Mark Collard, and Michael J. O’Brien
Continent-wide or region-specific? A geometric morphometrics-based assessment of variation in Clovis point shape. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 6:145-162.
2014 O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, and Mark Collard
On the cutting edge: new methods and theory for analyzing stone tools. An Amerind Foundation Symposium. Evolutionary Anthropology, 23:128-129.
2014 O’Brien, Michael J., Matthew T. Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, Mark Collard, R. Lee Lyman, and John Darwent
Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 34:100-119.
2014 O’Brien, Michael J., Matthew T. Boulanger, Mark Collard, Briggs Buchanan, Lia Tarle, Lawrence G. Straus, and Metin I. Eren
On thin ice: problems with Stanford and Bradley’s proposed Solutrean colonisation of North America. Antiquity, 88:606-613.
2013 Collard, Mark, Briggs Buchanan, and Michael J. O'Brien
Population size as an explanation for patterns in the Paleolithic archaeological record. Current Anthropology, 54, Supplement 8, S388-S396.
2013 Collard, Mark, Briggs Buchanan, Michael J. O’Brien, and Jonathan Scholnick
Risk, mobility, or population size? Drivers of technological richness among contact-period western North American hunter-gatherers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 368:20120412.
2013 Collard, Mark, April Ruttle, Briggs Buchanan, and Michael J. O’Brien
Population size and cultural evolution in nonindustrial food-producing societies. PLoS One, 8:1-6 (e72628).
2013 Hamilton, Marcus J., Briggs Buchanan, Bruce B. Huckell, Vance T. Holliday, M. Steven Shackley, and Matthew E. Hill
Clovis paleoecology and lithic technology in the central Rio Grande Rift region, New Mexico. American Antiquity, 78:248-265.
2013 Mesoudi, Alex, Kevin N. Laland, Robert Boyd, Briggs Buchanan, Emma Flynn, Robert N. McCauley, Jürgen Renn, Victoria Reyes-García, Stephen Shennan, Dietrich Stout, and Claudio Tennie
The cultural evolution of technology and science. In: Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion, edited by Peter J. Richerson and Morten H. Christiansen. Strüngmann Forum Reports, Vol. 12, MIT Press, pp. 193-216.
2013 O’Brien, Michael J., Mark Collard, Briggs Buchanan, and Mathew T. Boulanger
Trees, thickets, or something in between? Recent theoretical and empirical work in cultural phylogeny. Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution, 59:45-61.
2012 Buchanan, Briggs, J. David Kilby, Bruce B. Huckell, Michael J. O’Brien, and Mark Collard
A morphometric assessment of the intended function of cached Clovis points. PLoS One, 7:1-13 (e30530).
2012 Buchanan, Briggs, Michael J. O’Brien, J. David Kilby, Bruce B. Huckell, and Mark Collard
An assessment of the impact of hafting on Paleoindian projectile point variability. PLoS One, 7:1-7(e36364).
2012 Collard, Mark, April Ruttle, Briggs Buchanan, and Michael J. O’Brien
Risk of resource failure and toolkit variation in small-scale farmers and herders. PLoS One, 7:1-8 (e40975).
2012 O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, Mark Collard, and Matthew T. Boulanger
Cultural cladistics and the early prehistory of North America. In: Evolutionary Biology: Mechanisms and Trends, edited by Pierre Pontarotti. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 23-42.
2011 Buchanan, Briggs
Paleoindians. In: Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, edited by K. A. Brosnan. Facts on File, New York, volume 3, pp. 756-758.
2011 Buchanan, Briggs, Mark Collard, Marcus J. Hamilton, and Michael J. O’Brien
Points and prey: an evaluation of the hypothesis that prey size predicts early Paleoindian projectile point form. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38:852-864.
2011 Buchanan, Briggs, Marcus Hamilton, Kevan Edinborough, Michael J. O’Brien, and Mark Collard
A comment on Steele’s (2010) “Radiocarbon dates as data: quantitative strategies for estimating colonization front speeds and event densities.” Journal of Archaeological Science, 38:2116-2122.
2011 Collard, Mark, Briggs Buchanan, Jesse Morin, and Andre Costopoulos
What drives the evolution of hunter-gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366:1129-1138.
Reprinted in: Culture Evolves, edited by Andrew Whiten, Robert A. Hinde, Christopher B. Stringer, and Kevin N. Laland. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 341-358.
2011 Collard, Mark, Briggs Buchanan, April Ruttle, and Michael J. O’Brien
Niche construction and the toolkits of hunter-gatherers and food producers. Biological Theory, 6:251-259.
2010 Buchanan, Briggs, and Mark Collard
A geometric morphometrics-based assessment of blade shape differences among Paleoindian projectile point types from western North America. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37:350-359.
2010 Buchanan, Briggs, and Mark Collard
An assessment of the impact of resharpening on Paleoindian projectile point blade shape using geometric morphometric techniques. In: New Perspectives on Old Stones: Analytical Approaches to Paleolithic Technologies, edited by Stephen J. Lycett and Parth R. Chauhan. Springer Press, New York, pp. 255-273.
2010 Collard, Mark, and Briggs Buchanan
Comment on “The 12.9ka ET impact hypothesis and North American Paleoindians” by V.T. Holliday and D.J. Meltzer. Current Anthropology, 51:587-588.
2010 Collard, Mark, Briggs Buchanan, Marcus J. Hamilton, and Michael J. O’Brien
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the Clovis-Folsom transition. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37:2513-2519.
2010 Hamilton, Marcus J., and Briggs Buchanan
Archaeological support for the three-stage expansion of Modern Humans across northeastern Eurasia and into the Americas. PLoS One, 5:1-9 (e12472).
2010 Lewis, Patrick J., Eileen Johnson, Briggs Buchanan, and Steven E. Churchill
The impact of changing grasslands on Late Quaternary bison of the Southern Plains. Quaternary International, 217:117-130.
2009 Buchanan, Briggs, and Marcus J. Hamilton
A formal test of the origin of variation in North American early Paleoindian projectile points. American Antiquity, 74:279-298.
2009 Hamilton, Marcus J., and Briggs Buchanan
The accumulation of stochastic copying errors causes drift in culturally transmitted technologies: quantifying Clovis evolutionary dynamics. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 28:55-69.
2009 Hamilton, Marcus J., and Briggs Buchanan
Archaeological and Paleobiological problems with the case for the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact event. Journal of Cosmology, 2:290-294.
2008 Buchanan, Briggs, and Mark Collard
Phenetics, cladistics, and the search for the Alaskan ancestors of the Paleoindians: a reassessment of relationships among the Clovis, Nenana, and Denali archaeological complexes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35:1683-1694.
2008 Buchanan, Briggs, and Mark Collard
Testing models of early Paleoindian colonization and adaptation using cladistics. In: Cultural Transmission and Archaeology: Some Fundamental Issues and Case Studies, edited by Michael J. O’Brien. Society for American Archaeology Press, pp. 59-76.
2008 Buchanan, Briggs, Mark Collard, and Kevan Edinborough
Paleoindian demography and the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 105:11651-11654.
2008 Collard, Mark, Briggs Buchanan, and Kevan Edinborough
Reply to Anderson et al.; Jones; J. Kennett and West; Culleton; and D. Kennett et al.: further evidence against the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 105:E112-E114.
2008 Collard, Mark, Stephen Shennan, Briggs Buchanan, and R. Alexander Bentley
Evolutionary biological methods and cultural data. In: Handbook of Archaeological Theories, edited by R. Alexander Bentley, Herbert D. G. Maschner, and Christopher Chippindale. Altamira Press, Lanham, Maryland, pp. 203-223.
2007 Buchanan, Briggs, and Mark Collard
Investigating the peopling of North America through cladistic analyses of early Paleoindian projectile points. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 26:366-393.
2007 Buchanan, Briggs, Eileen Johnson, Richard Strauss, and Patrick J. Lewis
A morphometric approach to assessing late Paleoindian projectile point variability on the Southern High Plains. Plains Anthropologist, 52:279-299.
2007 Hamilton, Marcus J., and Briggs Buchanan
Spatial gradients in Clovis-age radiocarbon dates across North America suggest rapid colonization from the north. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 104:15625-15630.
2007 Lewis, Patrick, J., Eileen Johnson, Briggs Buchanan, and Steven E. Churchill
The evolution of Bison bison: a view from the Southern Plains. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 78:197-204.
2006 Buchanan, Briggs
An analysis of Folsom projectile point resharpening using quantitative comparisons of form and allometry. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33:185-199.
2006 Lewis, Patrick J., Briggs Buchanan, Eileen Johnson, and Leland Bement
Sexing Cooper bison metapodials: a test of the PCA method. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 23:191-192.
2006 Lewis, Patrick J., Eileen Johnson, Briggs Buchanan, and Leland Bement
Evidence of a Bison antiquus-size cline on the Southern Plains. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 23:167-169.
2005 Backhouse, Paul, Eileen Johnson, Alex Brackenreed-Johnston, and Briggs Buchanan
Experimental hearths and the thermal alteration of caliche on the Southern High Plains. Geoarchaeology, 20:695-716.
2005 Lewis, Patrick, J., Briggs Buchanan, and Eileen Johnson
Sexing bison metapodials using principal component analysis. Plains Anthropologist, 50:159-172.
2003 Buchanan, Briggs
The effects of sample bias on Paleoindian fluted point recovery in the United States. North American Archaeologist, 24:311-338.
2003 Holliday, Vance T., Gustavo Martinez, Eileen Johnson, and Briggs Buchanan
Geoarchaeology of Paso Otero 5 (Pampas of Argentina). In: Where the South Winds Blow: Ancient Evidence for Paleo South Americans, edited by L. Miotti, M. Salemme, and N. Flegenheimer. Center for the Study of First Americans and Texas A&M University Press, College Station, pp. 37-43.
2003 Lewis, Patrick, J., Briggs Buchanan, Eileen Johnson, Leland Bement, and Laura Gruss
Size variation in Southern Plains Bison antiquus from the Lubbock Lake and Cooper sites. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 19:108-110.
2002 Buchanan, Briggs
Folsom lithic procurement, tool use, and replacement at the Lake Theo site, Texas. Plains Anthropologist, 47:121-146.
2002 Huckell, Bruce B., J. David Kilby, Briggs Buchanan, Marcus J. Hamilton, and Susan Ruth
2001 excavations at the Boca Negra Wash Folsom site, north-central New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 19:39-41.
2002 Johnson, Eileen, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew Gill, Patrick J. Lewis, Corrine L. MacEwan, Stuart M. Selwood, Susan E. Baxevanis, Karen Hicks, and Karen L. O’Brien
Late Holocene investigations at the Lubbock Lake Landmark with the Texas Archeological Society Field School. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 73:69-97.
2001 Buchanan, Briggs, Eileen Johnson, and Vance T. Holliday
The 1948 and 1999 excavations of stratum 2 Paleoindian bone beds in Station E at Lubbock Lake. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 18:83-85.
1997 Baxevanis, Susan E., Eileen Johnson, Briggs Buchanan, and William Shannon
Test excavations within the plow zone at the Hogue Site (41TY2), a playa site on the Southern High Plains of Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 68:337-386.
1996 Buchanan, Briggs, Luc Litwinionek, Eileen Johnson, Vance T. Holliday, and J. Kent Hicks
Renewed investigations at Milnesand and Ted Williamson Paleoindian sites, Southern High Plains. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 13:8-10.