David J. Meltzer | |
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| Born | 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Maryland University of Washington |
| Known for | Influential studies of Paleo-Indians and extinction of Pleistocene mammalian extinction |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Archaeology, Anthropology |
| Institutions | Southern Methodist University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Dunnell |
David Jeffrey Meltzer (born 1955) is an American archaeologist known for his influential studies of Paleo-Indians and Pleistocene mammalian extinction in the Americas. He is currently Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory at Southern Methodist University and Affiliate Professor at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen.[1]
Meltzer's scholarship on ancient human populations and fieldwork in the High Plains and Rocky Mountains have earned him widespread acclaim and "forced a revision of the received wisdom that Pleistocene people were exclusively big-game hunters or were responsible for Pleistocene mammalian extinction."[2] He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.[3]
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