R. E. Taylor currently chairs the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside, where he directs the radiocarbon laboratory. Taylor received his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1970. He has written extensively on the application of radiocarbon and other dating methods in archaeology, with particular emphasis on issues surrounding the peopling of the New World. Address: Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521. Internet: retaylor@citus.ucr.edu.