Sam L. VanLandingham
Consulting Environmentalist/Geologist
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VanLandingham, S. L., 2009c. Alleged unconformity at the Hueyatlaco archaeological site (Puebla, Mexico) advocated by the Center for the Study of the First Americans is negated by 37 lines of diatom correlation. 20th North American Diatom Symposium, September 23-27, 2009. Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, Milford, Iowa, Program & Abstracts. [Abstract only]
VanLandingham, S. L., 2009b. Extraordinary examples of deception in peer reviewing: Concoction of the Dorenberg skull hoax and related misconduct. International Symposium on Peer Reviewing 2009 (held jointly with) 13th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, July 10-13, Orlando, Florida, USA, Proceedings Volume 1, pp. 291-5.
VanLandingham,
S. L., 2011. Lessons of a renegade researcher about suppression in science. Corrected and reprinted from T. Parks (ed.), 2009,
Mosaic: A summer anthology of good reading. Marble Press, 244 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2847,
New York, NY 10001, p. 29-42.
VanLandingham, S. L., 2010b. Use of diatoms in determining age and paleoenvironment of the Valsequillo (Hueyatlaco) early man site, Puebla, Mexico, with corroboration by Chrysophyta cysts for a maximum Yarmouthian (430,000-500,000 yr BP) age of the artifacts. Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 136: 127-138.
VanLandingham, S. L., 2010a. Diatom and chrysophyte (cyst) evidence of an age before the Last Ice Age (>80,000 years ago) for the artifacts at the Hueyatlaco site, Valsequillo area, Puebla, Mexico and the case against ignoring this evidence. Pleistocene Coalition News 2(2): 1-3.
VanLandingham, S. L., 2009a. Use of diatom biostratigraphy in determining a minimum (Sangamonian = 80,000-ca. 220,000 yr. BP) and a maximum (Illinoian = ca. 220,000-430,000 yr. BP) age for the Hueyatlaco artifacts, Puebla, Mexico. Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 135: 15-36. [3MB pdf file; may load slowly.]
VanLandingham, S. L., 2008. Diatoms and chrysophyte cysts [chrysomonads]: Powerful tools for determining age and paleoenvironment of the Hueyatlaco early man site, Puebla, Mexico. Presentation at the 2008 Geological Society of America Joint Annual Meeting, Oct. 5-9, Houston, Texas. [This is the complete paper. Abstract is published in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 40 (6): 241.]
VanLandingham, S. L., 2006. Diatom evidence for autochthonous artifact deposition in the Valsequillo region, Puebla, Mexico during the Sangamonian (sensu lato = 80,000 to ca. 220,000 yr BP and Illinoian (220,000 to 430,000 yr BP)). Journal of Paleolimnology, 36: 101-16.
VanLandingham,
S. L., 2004. Corroboration of Sangamonian age of artifacts from the
VanLandingham, S. L., 2002. Corroboration of Sangamonian interglacial age artifacts at the Valsequillo archaeological area, Puebla Mexico, by means of paleoecology and biostratigraphy of chrysophyta cysts. Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies, 37th Annual Meeting, April 6-7, 2001. Published by Midland Archaeological Society, Midland Texas, pp. 1-14.
VanLandingham, S. L., 2000. Sangamonian Interglacial (Middle Pleistocene) environments of deposition of artifacts at the Valsequillo archaeological site, Puebla, Mexico. Transactions of the 35th Regional Archaeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas, pp. 81-98.
VanLandingham, S. L., 2008a. Chrysophyte cysts and diatoms: Powerful tools for determining the paleoenvironment and age of the Hueyatlaco early man site, Puebla, Mexico. 7th International Chrysophyte Symposium, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. June 22-27, 2008, p.10.
VanLandingham, S. L., 2008b. Yarmouthian (430,000-500,000 yr BP) chrysophyte cyst assemblages aid in corraborating a maximum Illinoian (ca. 220,000-430,000 yr BP) Age for the artifacts at the Hueyatlaco site, Puebla, Mexico. 7th International Chrysophyte Symposium, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. June 22-27, 2008, p.11.
VanLandingham, S. L., 2005. Paleoecological Correlations of Sangamonian (sensu lato = 80,000 to ca. 220,000 yr BP) strata and evidence of autocthonous deposition of artifacts in the Valsequillo region, Puebla, Mexico. 18th North American diatom Symposium, Mobile, Alabama, November 1-4, 2005.
VanLandingham, S. L., 2003. Diatom biostratigraphy and paleoecology of Sangamonian Interglacial (sensu lato = 80,000 to ca. 220,000 yr BP) artifact bearing deposits in the Valsequillo region, Puebla, Mexico. 17th North American diatom Symposium, Islamorada, Florida, October 21-26, 2003, p. 44-45.
Other publications
VanLandingham, S. L., 1991. Precision dating by means of traditional biostratigraphic methods for the middle Miocene diatomaceous interbeds within the middle Yakima (Wanapum) Basalt of south-central Washington (U. S. A.). Nova Hedwigia, 53(3/4): 349-68.
VanLandingham, S. L., 1990. Observations on the biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene diatomites from the Terrebonne district, Deschutes County, Oregon. Micropaleontology, 36: 182-96.
VanLandingham, S. L., 1988. Comment on "Late Miocene reactivation of ancestral Rocky Mountain structure in the Texas Panhandle: a response to Basin and Range extension." Geology, 16: 283-4.