James M. Adovasio

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PhD Anthropology University of Utah
Masters Anthropology University of Arizona
Bachelors Anthropology University of Arizona

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According to Wikipedia, James M. Adovasio is an American archaeologist and one of the foremost experts in perishable artifacts . He was formerly the Provost, Dean of the Zurn School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, Adovasio is best known for his work at Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania and for his subsequent role in the "Clovis First" debate. He has published nearly 400 books, monographs, articles, and papers in his field.

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The “Venus” Figurines: Textiles, Basketry, Gender, and Status in the Upper Paleolithic (2000) (160)
Upper Palaeolithic fibre technology: interlaced woven finds from Pavlov I, Czech Republic, c. 26,000 years ago (1996) (108)
Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade [and Comments and Replies] (1974) (108)
Basketry Technology: A Guide to Identification and Analysis (1977) (90)
On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil (1994) (88)
The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery (2002) (87)
Identification of the Species of Origin of Residual Blood on Lithic Material (1990) (85)
The “Venus” Figurines (2000) (79)
The Meadowcroft Rockshelter Radiocarbon Chronology 1975-1990 (1990) (76)
Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru (2017) (69)
Monte Verde and the antiquity of humankind in the Americas (1997) (64)
Meadowcroft Rockshelter, 1977: An Overview (1978) (61)
Palaeolithic perishables made permanent (2000) (53)
The Role of Archaeology in the Recovery and Interpretation of Human Remains from an Outdoor Forensic Setting (1997) (49)
Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago (2012) (43)
A Late Paleoindian Animal Trapping Net from Northern Wyoming (1986) (41)
Cordage, Textiles, and the Late Pleistocene Peopling of the Andes (2011) (40)
Two Decades of Debate on Meadowcroft Rockshelter (1999) (34)
Yes Virginia, It Really is That Old: A Reply to Haynes and Mead (1980) (34)
Perishable Industries from Dirty Shame Rockshelter (1977) (28)
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America (2012) (28)
The archaeology of Monitor Valley. 2, Gatecliff Shelter. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 59, pt. 1 (1983) (27)
Perishable technologies and the genesis of the EasternGravettian. (1998) (26)
Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975: The Early Periods (1986) (25)
Textile and Basketry Impressions from Icehouse Bottom, Tennessee (1977) (25)
Prehistoric psychotropic drug use in Northeastern Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas (2008) (25)
Cultural stratigraphy at Mezhirich, an Upper Palaeolithic site in Ukraine with multiple occupations (1997) (24)
Swallow Shelter and associated sites (1977) (23)
A Central Asian Village at the Dawn of Civilization , Excavations at Anau , Turkmenistan (2016) (22)
Peyote Alkaloids: Identification in a Prehistoric Specimen of Lophophora from Coahuila, Mexico (1978) (22)
The Ones that Will Not Go Away (1993) (20)
Evolution of sandstone rockshelters in eastern North America; A geoarchaeological perspective (1990) (20)
Never Say Never Again: Some Thoughts on Could Haves and Might Have Beens (1992) (19)
Appearance of Cultigens in the Upper Ohio Valley: a View from Meadowcroft Rockshelter (1980) (19)
Perishable industries from Dolní Věstonice I: New insights intothe nature and origin of the Gravettian. (2001) (19)
Excavations at Sparks Rockshelter (15-Jo-19) Johnson County, Kentucky (1977) (18)
Perishable Industries from Dirty Shame Rockshelter, Malheur County, Oregon (1986) (17)
Perishable Industries From Hinds Cave, Val Verde County, Texas (1980) (17)
Preceramic Textiles and Cordage From Guitarrero Cave, Peru (1973) (16)
Perishable Industries from the Windover Bog: An Unexpected Window into the Florida Archaic (2001) (14)
The Textile and Basketry Impressions from Jarmo (1975) (14)
The meadowcroft rockshelter. (1988) (13)
Netting Technology and the Antiquity of Fish Exploitation in Eastern North America (1984) (13)
What We Learned at the Old Vero Site (8IR009), Vero Beach, Florida: 2014–2017 (2019) (12)
Prehistoric Basketry of Western North America and Mexico (1980) (12)
The Great Journey (2006) (12)
Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands: The Geoarcheology of an Ancient Society. Curtis E. Larsen. Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology Series, the University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 339 + xx, 1983. $20.00, hardback; $9.00 paperback (1986) (11)
Meadowcroft Rockshelter — Retrospect 1977: Part 1 (1979) (11)
Cordage, Basketry, and Textiles (1980) (11)
An Indian Hunters' Camp for 20,000 Years (1984) (10)
Perishable Fiber Artifacts and Paleoindians: New Implications (2014) (10)
Some Observations On Theputative Fremont ”Presence” In Southern Idaho (1982) (9)
Comment by Adovasio (1979) (8)
Coiled Basketry From Northern Wyoming (1986) (8)
Some thoughts on cultural resource management archaeology in the United States (1988) (8)
Paleosols and prehistoric populations in the high plains (1986) (7)
Basketry Technology: A Guide to Identification and Analysis, Updated Edition (2016) (7)
Meadowcroft Rockshelter — Retrospect 1977: Part 2 (1980) (7)
An “Outsider” Look at Forensic Anthropology (2012) (6)
Shades of Gray: The Paleoindian–Early Archaic “Transition” in the Northeast (2009) (6)
Perishable Technology and the Successful Peopling of South America (2020) (5)
Basketry and Miscellaneous Perishable Artifacts from Walpi Pueblo, Arizona (1989) (5)
Fifty years with baskets (2020) (4)
"Prehistoric and historic settlement patterns in western Cyprus", J. M. Adovasio, G. F. Fry, J. D. Gunn and R. F. Maslowski, "World Archaeology", t. 6: 1975 : [recenzja] / Przemysław Urbańczyk. (1977) (4)
Selected Perishable Artifacts from Bâb edh-Dhrâʿ (1982) (4)
Archaeology, Mass Graves, and Resolving Commingling Issues through Spatial Analysis (2012) (3)
Tools of the Spinner, Weaver, and Mat Maker (2003) (3)
Textile and Related Perishable Remains from the Windover Site (8BR246) (1988) (3)
The Mexican Connection: Another Look at “Perishable” Relationships between Mexico and Points North (2005) (3)
Minor League? a Reply To Glenna Williams-Dean (1986) (3)
Perishable Industries from Nan Ranch Ruin, New Mexico: A Unique Window into Mimbreño Fiber Technology (2005) (3)
1 On Monte Verde : Fiedel ’ s Confusions and Misrepresentations (2000) (3)
Knotted Cordage from Squaw Rochshelter (33CU34): Aurora Run, Cuyahoga County (1989) (2)
“Their Fingers Were too Fat to Weave”: Ancient Textiles and Academic Politics Today (2014) (2)
Perishable artifacts from Last Canyon Cave, Montana (2021) (2)
Radiocarbon analyses of four perishable artifacts from Ghost and Pictograph caves, Montana (2014) (2)
Preliminary Assessment of Recent Research at the Old Vero Site (8IR009), Vero Beach, Florida (2018) (2)
The Prehistory of the Paintsville Reservoir, Johnson and Morgan Counties, Kentucky (1982) (2)
Corn, Cucurbits, Cordage, and Colonization: An Absolute Chronology for the Appearance of Mesoamerican Domesticates and Perishables in the Jornada Basin, New Mexico (2005) (2)
Archaeological Researches in the Bluestone Reservoir, Summers County, West Virginia (1983) (1)
The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past by David Meltzer Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. 670 pp. (2017) (1)
Acknowledgment of Guest Editors, 2019 (2019) (1)
Excavations at Meadowcroft Rockshelter 1973-1976: a Program Report (1976) (1)
Down the Rabbit Hole: Comment on Sundstrom and Walker (2021) (2022) (1)
Basketry and Miscellaneous Perishable Artifacts from Walpi (1980) (1)
Textiles and basketry in the Paleolithic - what then is theNeolithic? (1998) (1)
Moments in Time: Differential Site Use Patterns at Meadowcroft Rockshelter (36WH297) (2010) (1)
Conservation of the Windover (8Br246) Textiles (1990) (1)
Archaeological Data Recovery at Three Rockshelters in the Tombigbee River Multi-Resource District, Alabama and Mississippi (1981) (1)
Hinds Cave, Again! (1988) (1)
ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY DATING OF MEADOWCROFT ROCKSHELTER MAIZE (2022) (1)
Interim Phase I Cultural Resources Recon Report, on the Berne, Station 20, and 25 Discharges, Capacity Restoration Program, Marshall County, West Virginia and Green and Chester Counties, Pennsylvania (1988) (0)
Phase I Cultural Resource Management Survey of Proposed Tetco Line 1-X Reconnection, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (1986) (0)
Phase III Cultural Resource Management Excavations at Site 36Co9, Columbia County, Pennsylvania: An Interim Report (1984) (0)
Environment and Excavations (1996) (0)
Perishable Artifacts from the Old Vero Site (8IR009), Indian River County, Florida (2017) (0)
CONCLUSION: Not Invisible After All (2016) (0)
Phase I Cultural Resource Management Report, Mid-Centre County Authority, Unionville Sanitary Sewer Extension, Centre County, Pennsylvania (1986) (0)
Meadowcroft Rock Shelter. In: Early Man in America from a Circum-Pacific Perspective (1978) (0)
UDOT, Mitig. of I-70, Rattlesnake Bench-Castle V. (1988) (0)
TEN: Seamstresses of the Far North (2016) (0)
ONE: The Stories We Have Been Told (2016) (0)
Archaeology of the Superconducting Super Collider (1992) (0)
Freemont Basketry: Redux! (2015) (0)
Walpi Archaeological Project - Phase II: Volume 6, Textiles, Basketry, and Shell Remains (1979) (0)
CORRECTING FIEDEL, ONCE AGAIN: MONTE VERDE AND THE PEOPLING OF SOUTH AMERICA (2022) (0)
Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley/Archaeology of the Middle Green River Region, Kentucky/The Hoko River Archaeological Site Complex: The Rockshelter (45CA21), 1,000-100 B.P (2006) (0)
Fencing is perishable: reply to “Don’t fence them in” (2022) (0)
Recovery and Preparation (2016) (0)
The Vero Site (8IR009): Current Investigations Suggest Pleistocene Human Occupation (2018) (0)
Phase I / Phase II Archaeological Examination of a Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline Right-Of-Way in Somerset and Milford Townships, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (1983) (0)
Pothunter Found Guilty in Jury Trial (1988) (0)
Oversize Illustration Folio for Volume 1: Environment and Excavations (1996) (0)
Phase I Cultural Resource Management Report for the Chelyan Bridge Replacement Project Kanawha County, West Virginia (1987) (0)
FOUR: Who Brought Home the Bacon? (2016) (0)
Marriage Patterns and Material Culture: A Pueblo/Fremont Test Case Using Basketry (2016) (0)
Archaeological Survey and Test Excavations in Upper Choptank River, Marshyhope Creek, and Upper Nanticoke River Watersheds, Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware (1979) (0)
A Fabric-Impressed Potsherd from San Andrés, Tabasco, Mexico (2019) (0)
Forensic Geoarchaeology: Three Case Studies (1991) (0)
Robert Stuckenrath, 1927-1994 (1995) (0)
Preliminary Investigations at Brownstone, an Underwater Site Adjacent to the Inundated Paleo-Suwannee River Channel, Florida (2015) (0)
FIVE: Gray Matter and Language (2016) (0)
Peopling of the Americas (2020) (0)
Weaving a Legacy: Indian Baskets and the People of Owens Valley, California. Sharon E. Dean , Peggy S. Ratcheson , Judith W. Finger , Ellen F. Daus , Craig D. Bates (2005) (0)
Surficial Archaeology and Aboriginal Lithic Technology of the Burnsville Reservoir, Braxton County, West Virginia (1980) (0)
EIGHT: The Fashioning of Women (2016) (0)
Site 46SU3 Revisited (1978) (0)
The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America. By Brian M. Fagan. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987. 288 pp. $19.95.) (1988) (0)
R. L. Andrews 1953-1990 (1994) (0)
Phase I Cultural Resource Management Report On Deactivation of Number 5 Pipeline Project, Wharton County, Texas (1985) (0)
The 1982 Archaeological Investigations in the Paintsville Reservoir Study Area, Johnson and Morgan Counties, Kentucky (1983) (0)
The Archaeology of Hidden Cave, Nevada. David Hurst Thomas, Editor and Contributor, 1985, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 61 (1), New York, 430 Pages, $41.00, Paperback (1987) (0)
Coiled Basketry and Cordage from Lakeside Cave (42BU385), Utah (1988) (0)
Shawnee Minisink: A Stratified Paleoindian-Archaic Site in the Upper Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania. Charles W. Mcnett, Jr., editor. Academic Press, Orlando, 1985. xii + 329 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $60.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). (1987) (0)
Adobe Walls: The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading Post. By T. Lindsay Baker and Billy R. Harrison. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986. xxi + 413 pp. $39.50.) (1986) (0)
Archaeological Testing at Two Rockshelters in the Tombigbee River Multi-Resource District Alabama and Mississippi (1980) (0)
Searching for the First Americans: A 500-Year Quest (2002) (0)
Book Reviews: Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine, Models for the Millennium: Great Basin Anthropology Today (2003) (0)
The Agricultural Evolution (2016) (0)
Coiled Basket from Garfield Peak, Chiricauhua National Monument, Arizona (1981) (0)
Phase I Cultural Resource Management Report, Fairview Sewer Project, Fairview Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania (1986) (0)
Publications of Interest (1988) (0)
Archaeological Testing at the Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Mason County, West Virginia (1983) (0)
ABSTRACT Documentary and Archaeological Evidence of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Petroleum in Pennsylvania (2001) (0)
Some Memories of the Dark Lord (2015) (0)
SIX: Leaving the African Cradle (2016) (0)
Excavations at Dameron Rockshelter (15JO23A) Johnson County, Kentucky (1979) (0)
THREE: The Importance of Being Upright (2016) (0)
Letter Report: Summary of Archaeological Research in Somerset County, Pennsylvania (1983) (0)
ELEVEN: Settling Down in America (2016) (0)
Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Main Stem of the Big Sandy River, Wayne County, West Virginia; Boyd and Lawrence Counties, Kentucky and the Levisa Fork, Johnson County, Kentucky (1983) (0)
Geoarchaeological explorations on the inner-continental shelf of the Florida Gulf of Mexico (2009) (0)
Phase I Cultural Resource Management Investigation for the Chelyan Bridge Replacement Project, Kanawha County, West Virginia: Draft Preliminary Report (1984) (0)
An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Main Stem of the Big Sandy River, Wayne County, West Virginia; Boyd and Lawrence Counties, Kentucky and the Levisa Fork, Johnson County, Kentucky: An Interim Report (1984) (0)
Archaeological Excavations in the Cross Creek Drainage, Project PA 661 (1976) (0)
Catawissa Bridge Replacement Project: a Progress Report On Phase III Archaeology at Site 36Co9 (1984) (0)
Introduction: Another Kind of Battle (2005) (0)
NESAT X: The North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X. Ancient Textiles Series, Vol. 5. Eva Andersson Strand , Margarita Gleba , Ulla Mannering , Cherine Munkholt , Maj Ringgaard (2011) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology 3: Symposium Held April 27‐May 1, 1992, San Francisco, CA. Pamela B. Vandiver, James R. Druzik, George Segan Wheeler, and Ian C. Free (1994) (0)
Appendix D A Basketry/Textile Impression from Anau North (2003) (0)
NINE: Cakes, Fish, and Matrilineality (2016) (0)
Cordage, textiles, and the Late Pleistocene of the Andes (2011) (0)
The Old Vero Man Site (8IR009): Current Investigations indicate a Late Pleistocene Human Occupation (2016) (0)
Paintsville Reservoir, Kentucky, Revisited: the 1982 Archeological Investigations (1987) (0)
A textile/basketry impression from the Neolithic site of Lulec (Central Moravia) (2003) (0)
Phase I archaeological reconnaissance of the Shades Beach Park study area (1994) (0)
Symposium Abstracts: History of Petroleum Reservoirs (2001) (0)
Another F-----g Basket Baper: Decorated Specimens from Huaca Prieta, Peru (2016) (0)
Phase I and II Cultural Resource Management Report On the Athens and Station 18 Discharge Loops, Muskingum and Noble Counties, Ohio (1985) (0)
Almost Altogether Truly Modern Humans (2016) (0)
Phase III Cultural Resource Management Excavations at Site 36Co9, Columbia County, Pennsylvania: Graphic Presentations of Data (1985) (0)
Meadowcroft: Geography and Culture (2020) (0)
Sandals from Coahuila Caves. Walter W. Taylor, Jr. , Nicholas J. Demerath , Mary C. Kennedy , Patty Jo Watson (2004) (0)

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