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Dr. Heather Lynn Smith

  • Associate Professor at Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Kilby, J. D., Lohse, J. C., Smith, H. L., & Rademaker, K. (2025). The Earliest Lithic Traditions of the Pacific Coast of the Americas: A High-Altitude View as of 2025 (Древнейшие каменные традиции тихоокеанского побережья Америки) (pp. 99–110). Vladivostok, Russia: Far Eastern Federal University.

2024

  • Smith, H. L., Jennings, T. J., & Smallwood, A. M. (2024). The Third Dimension of Stone Points: 2D vs. 3D Geometric Morphometric Shape Analysis. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

2023

  • Smith, H. L. (2023). Clovis Lifeways Set in Stone: The Contribution of Fluted-Point Morphological Variation. PaleoAmerica. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2268999
  • Smith, H. L., & Smallwood, A. (2023). Current Research from Center for the Study of the First Americans Scholars. PaleoAmerica, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2291601
  • Buchanan, B., Hamilton, M., Gala, N., Smith, H. L., Wilson, M., Eren, M., & Walker, R. (2023). Comparing Clovis and Folsom fluting via scaling analysis. Archaeometry. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12921
  • Eren, M., Diez-Martin, F., Tarrino, A., Smith, H. L., Buchanan, B., Miller, L., … Slobodin, S. (2023). Toolstone characterization, description, morphometrics, and microwear of the lithic assemblage from Uptar, Magadan Oblast, Northeastern Siberia, Russia. Archaeological Research in Asia, 35, 100465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2023.100465
  • Jennings, T., Smallwood, A., Ray, J., Harvey, V., Scott, S., Smith, H. L., … Stephens, D. (2023). Early Archaic Landscape Use, Cultural Transmission, and Aggregation in the Lower Ohio River Valley Southeastern Archaeology. Southeastern Archaeology, 42(1), 12–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2022.2163121

2022

  • Smith, H. L., & Reid, A. E. (2022). Evaluating the Fluted Points from Spring Lake, Texas: A Geometric Morphometric Shape Analysis of Clovis Affinity. PaleoAmerica, 8(4), 340–351. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2022.2090728
  • Smallwood, A., Jennings, T., Smith, H. L., Pevny, C., Waters, M., Loebel, T., … Stephens, D. (2022). Using 3D Models to Understand the Changing Role of Fluting in Paleoindian Point Technology from Clovis to Dalton. American Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2022.19

2021

  • Smith, H. L. (2021). Cultural Resource Survey of Areas Associated with Hot Spring Geothermal Features in Taos, New Mexico.
  • Smith, H. L. (2021). Cultural Resource Survey of Areas Associated with a Hot Spring Geothermal Feature in Socorro County, New Mexico.
  • Smith, H. L. (2021, September). Review of The Influence of Lithic Raw Material Selection on Regional Morphological Variability of Clovis Fluted Points. American Antiquity. https://doi.org/doi:10.1017/aaq.2021.85
  • Smith, H. L., Jennings, T., & Smallwood, A. (2021). Do Early Paleoindian Point Blades Carry Culturally Significant Shape Information? Modules versus Complete Points using Geometric Morphometrics. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103245

2020

  • Smith, H. L., & Goebel, T. (2020). Происхождение и Распространение Традиции Желобчатых Наконечников на Территории Канадского Свободного ото Льда Коридора и Восточной Берингии. Археология Арктики, 7, 115–146.
  • Smith, H. L., Kuzminsky, S. C., & Linderholm, A. (2020). Discerning Dispersals along the Pacific and Interior Corridors: Contributions of Geometric Morphometrics to the Peopling of the Americas. PaleoAmerica, 6(1), 109–130. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2019.1696149
  • Smith, G. M., Duke, D., Jenkins, D. L., Goebel, T., Davis, L. G., O’Grady, P., … Smith, H. L. (2020). The Western Stemmed Tradition: Problems and Prospects in Paleoindian Archaeology in the Intermountain West. PaleoAmerica, 6(1), 23–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2019.1653153

2019

  • Smith, H. L. (2019). The Manufacture of Northern Fluted Points: A Production Sequence Hypothesis. PaleoAmerica, 5(2), 169–180. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2019.1600183
  • Smith, H. L., & Tune, J. W. (2019). Variation in Fluted-point Technology: Investigations across Space and Time. PaleoAmerica, 5(2), 105–108. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2019.1618176

2018

  • Smith, H. L., & Goebel, T. (2018). Origins and spread of fluted-point technology in the Canadian Ice-Free Corridor and eastern Beringia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(16), 4116–4121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800312115
  • Smallwood, A., Smith, H. L., Pevny, C., & Jennings, T. (2018). The Convergent Evolution of Serrated Points in the Southern Plains-Woodland Border in Central North America. In Convergent Evolution and Stone Tool Technology (pp. 203–227). Cambridge, MA, USA: The MIT Press. Retrieved from https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/convergent-evolution-stone-tool-technology

2017

  • Smith, H. L., & DeWitt, T. J. (2017). The northern fluted point complex: technological and morphological evidence of adaptation and risk in the late Pleistocene-early Holocene Arctic. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 9(8), 1799–1823. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0335-y
  • Graf, K., DiPietro, L., Krasinski, K., Culleton, B., Kennet, D., Gore, A., & Smith, H. L. (2017). New Geoarchaeology and Geochronology at Dry Creek. In Dry Creek: Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp. College Station, Texas, USA: Texas A&M University Press. Retrieved from https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623495381/dry-creek/
  • Graf, K. E., DiPietro, L. M., Krasinski, K. E., Gore, A. K., Smith, H. L., Culleton, B. J., … Rhode, D. (2017). Dry Creek Revisited: New Excavations, Radiocarbon Dates, and Site Formation Inform on the Peopling of Eastern Beringia. American Antiquity, 80(4), 671–694. https://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.80.4.671

2016

  • Teten’kin, A. V., Smith, H. L., & Henry, A. (2016). Archaeological Evidence for the Construction of Features at the Kovrizhka Site, Siberia, during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition. PaleoAmerica, 2(4), 343–361. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2016.1204842

2014

  • Smith, H. L., Rasic, J., & Goebel, T. (2014). Biface Traditions of Northern Alaska and Their Role in the Peopling of the Americas. In Paleoamerican Odyssey. College Station, Texas, USA: Texas A&M Press. Retrieved from https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623491925/paleoamerican-odyssey/
  • Smith, H. L., Smallwood, A., & DeWitt, T. (2014). A Geometric Morphometric Exploration of Clovis Fluted-Point Shape Variability. In Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding. College Station, Texas, USA: Texas A&M University Press. Retrieved from https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623492014/clovis/

2013

  • Goebel, T., Smith, H. L., DiPietro, L., Waters, M. R., Hockett, B., Graf, K. E., … Rhode, D. (2013). Serpentine Hot Springs, Alaska: results of excavations and implications for the age and significance of northern fluted points. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40(12), 4222–4233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.027

2012

  • Smith, H. L. (2012). Geometric Morphometrics and the Effects of Raw Material Quality on Clovis Point Shape. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 28.