Current Research
Peopling of the New World
Since retiring from the University of Exeter, Department of Archaeology in 2017 I am focussing my research efforts in several areas; Peopling of the New World, The Origins of the Clovis Culture and the presence of the Chaco Phenomenon in Southwestern Colorado.
In terms peopling I continue to research evidence that there may have been people arriving in North America from Souhwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) between 22,000 and 18,000 years ago. This has become known as the 'Solutrean Hypothesis'. I have co-authored several publications, primarily with Dr. Dennis Stanford, on this topic and made many presentations to academic and public audiences around the world (watch a lecture given in Cordoba, Argentina). The following is a list of publications with links to those that aren't in copyright.
Bradley, B., D. Stanford
2004 The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: a possible Palaeolithic route to the New World.
World Archaeology 36(4):459-478, Routledge.
2006 The Solutrean-Clovis connection: reply to Straus, Meltzer and Goebel.
World Archaeology 38(4):704-714, Routledge.
Oppenheimer, Stephen, Bruce Bradley, Dennis Joe Stanford
2014 Solutrean hypothesis: genetics, the mammoth in the room.
World Archaeology 46(5):752-774, Routledge.
Stanford, Dennis and Bruce Bradley
2012 Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
University of California Press.
Stanford, Dennis, Darrin Lowery, Margaret Jodry, Bruce A. Bradley,Marvin Kay,Thomas W. Stafford and Robert J.Speakman
2014 New Evidence for aPossible Paleolithic Occupation of the eastern North American Continental Shelf at the Last GlacialMaximum. In Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf, Springer, Editors A.Evans, J. Flatman and N.Flemming, Chapter 5.
Collins, M.B., Dennis Joe Stanford, Darrin Lowery and Bruce Bradley
2014 North America before Clovis: Variance in temporal/spatial cultural patterns, 27,000-13,000 cal yr BP. In Paleoamerican Odyssey, Center for the Study of the First Americans, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University. Editors Kelly E.Graff, Caroline V.Ketron and Michael R.Waters
Stanford, Dennis Joe, Bruce Bradley
2002 Ocean Trails and Prairie Paths? Thoughts About Clovis Origins.
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In book: The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World
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California Academy of Sciences, Edition: No. 27, Editor: Nina G. Jablonski
Bradley, Bruce, Arthur Spiess
2017 The Lord-Collins Site (Site 3.12): A Late Pleistocene Site in Sanford, Maine.
The Maine Archaeological Society Inc. Bulletin 57(1):21-37.
