ABSTRACT
Some years ago, Lawrence Todd and I argued that some facets of North American Paleoindian archaeology might be accounted for by the fact that Paleoindians may not have known their landscapes very well (Kelly and Todd 1988). We took some flak for this claim from several individuals who pointed out that “all hunter-gatherers know their landscape well.” This is, of course, true enough for ethnographically known hunter-gatherers, people who have lived someplace for a long time. I would be surprised if they did not know their landscape very well.
