The Lord-Collins Site (MAS# 3.12): A Late Pleistocene Human Use of Southeastern Maine, USA

Field report on test excavations of a possible Late Pleistocene locality.British Academ

The Two Cs: Cola de Pescado and Clovis

© 2015 W. S. Maney & Son Ltd and the Center for the Study of the First Americans. Author's accepted version deposited in accordance with publisher guidelines. The definitive version is available at http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/2055556315Z.00000000014.Perspecitves on the origin of fishtail point technology in South America

Ohio Customers and Their Roadside Markets

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Concurrent Session, Evolution of Successful Learning Communities

This session will explore how one large university is approaching the issue of retention and student success through smaller scale efforts in 3 of its colleges. The College of Science and Mathematics, the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Management each have learning communities geared toward student support to help them stay on track for graduation. The presenter will share basic structural design of learning communities as well specific elements of the three different. Participants will have the opportunity to develop an outline for a learning community on their own campus

Aesthetic, Spiritual, and Flow Experiences: Contrasts and Educational Implications

The purpose of this paper is to cross-examine Dewey’s ideas on religious and aesthetic experiences, and Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow experience. To achieve this end, we offer an analytic framework for evaluating experiences: triggers, characterizations, and import. In using this framework, we not only more deeply examine these ideas of experience, but we also discuss what educators may learn from the intersection of these three important theories of experience

SACSIM: An applied activity-based model system with fine-level spatial and temporal resolution

AbstractThis paper presents the regional travel forecasting model system (SACSIM) being used by the Sacramento (California) Area Council of Governments (SACOG). Within SACSIM an integrated activity-based disaggregate econometric model (DaySim) simulates each resident's full-day activity and travel schedule. Sensitivity to neighborhood scale is enhanced through disaggregation of the modeled outcomes in three key dimensions: purpose, time, and space. Each activity episode is associated with one of seven specific purposes, and with a particular parcel location at which it occurs. The beginning and ending times of all activity and travel episodes are identified within a specific 30-minute time period. Within SACSIM, DaySim equilibrates iteratively with traditional traffic assignment models. SACSIM was calibrated and tested for a base year of 2000 and for forecasts to the years 2005 and 2035, and was subjected to a formal peer-review. It was used to provide forecasts for the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and continues to be used for various policy analyses.The paper explains the model system structure and components, the integration with the traffic assignment model, calibration and validation, sensitivity tests, model application and Federal peer review results. We conclude that it is possible to create and apply a regional demand model system using parcel-level geography and half-hour time of day periods. Experiences thus far have pointed to major benefits of using detailed land use variables and urban design variables, but also to new challenges in providing parcel-level land use inputs for future years

Solutrean hypothesis: genetics, the mammoth in the room

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in World Archaeology on 31/10/2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00438243.2014.966273.The Solutrean Hypothesis for the origin of the Clovis archaeological culture has received numerous challenges and critiques. Oft-repeated contra-assertions, predominantly from archaeologists, range from: “NO genetic evidence”, to: it must have been either a sole Beringian or European origin, so Beringia wins, to: the troublesome fifth American mtDNA lineage “X2a” overlanded from West-Eurasia to Beringia, leaving no trace en-route, to: there is no evidence from the rest of the genome to parallel X2a. We refute these contra-assertions, detailing published contrary evidence, supporting a West-Eurasian origin for some Native American ancestors, mainly found in north-eastern America, in parallel to the majority arriving from Beringia. Specifically this includes mtDNA-X2a found in ancient and modern Native American populations, with no evidence to support migration of X2a through Siberia. Prima facie (i.e. under-researched) published evidence also exists for equivalent levels of West-Eurasian Y-chromosomes and autosomal markers in the same regions