Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference Presentations
October 16, 2013 (Wednesday)
Registration
Welcoming reception at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center
October 17, 2013 (Thursday)
8:00-8:30 Conference Introduction and Native American Blessing
| The Archaeology of late Pleistocene Beringia
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8:30-9:00 |
Yana RHS site, earliest occupation of Siberia (Vladimir Pitulko, Pavel Nikolskiy, Aleksandr Basilyan and Elena Pavlova) |
9:00-9:30 |
Human Technological and Behavioral Adaptation to Landscape Changes Before, During, and After the Last Glacial Maximum in Japan (Masami Izuho) |
9:30-10:00 |
Late Pleistocene Siberia: Setting the Stage for the Peopling of the Americas (Kelly Graf) |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
10:30-11:00 |
Technology and Economy Among The Earliest Prehistoric Foragers in Interior Eastern Beringia (Ben Potter, Chuck Holmes, and David Yesner) |
11:00-11:30 |
Biface Traditions in Alaska and their Role in the Peopling of the Americas (Ted Goebel, Jeff Rasic, and Heather Smith) |
11:30-12:00 |
Discussion–all presenters Q&A |
12:00-1:30 |
Lunch
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| Late Pleistocene Migration Routes and the Origins of the First Americans |
1:30-2:00 |
After Clovis-First Collapsed: Reimagining the Peopling of the Americas (Jon M. Erlandson) |
2:00-2:30 |
Searching for Pleistocene-Aged Submerged Archaeological Sites Along Western North America's Pacific Coast: Current Research and Future Needs (Quentin Mackie, Loren G. Davis, Daryl Fedje, Duncan McLaren and Amy E. Gusick) |
2:30-3:00 |
The Chesapeake Bifaces: Evidence for an LGM Occupation of the Mid-Atlantic Region of North America? (Dennis Stanford, Darrin Lowery, Margaret Jodry, Bruce Bradley, Marvin Kay and Robert J. Speakman) |
3:00-3:30 |
Vectors, Vestiges and Valhallas? Rethinking the Corridor (John W. Ives and Duane Froese) |
3:30-4:00 |
Break |
4:00-4:30 |
Three Stage Colonization Model for the Peopling of the Americas (Connie Mulligan and Andrew Kitchen) |
4:30-5:00 |
A Genomic Sequence of a Clovis Individual (Eske Willerslev) |
5:00-5:30 |
The Late Pleistocene Human Settlement of Interior North America:
The Role of Physiography and Sea Level Change (David G. Anderson, Thaddeus G. Bissett, and Stephen J. Yerka) |
5:30-6:00 |
Discussion–all presenters Q&A |
October 18, 2013 (Friday)
| The Clovis Archaeological Complex |
| 8:00-8:30 |
Clovis Across the Continent: Distribution, Chronology, and Climate (Vance T. Holliday and Shane Miller) |
| 8:30-9:00 |
Clovis Technology: A Beautiful Complexity (Bruce A. Bradley and Michael B. Collins) |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Clovis-Era Subsistence: Continental Patterning and Regional Variability (Gary Haynes) |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Break |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Clovis Caches: An Update and Consideration of Their Role in the Colonization of New Lands (David Kilby and Bruce Huckell) |
| 10:30-11:00 |
The Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) Cosmic Impact Hypothesis, 12.9 ka: A Review (James P. Kennett, Allen West, Ted Bunch, and Wendy Wolbach) |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Pleistocene Extinctions: The State of Evidence and the Structure of Debate (Nicole M. Waguespack) |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Discussion-all presenters Q&A |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
| Late Pleistocene Achaeology of Western North America and South America, and the Biological Evidence for the Peopling of the Americas |
| 1:30-2:00 |
The Increasing Complexity of the Colonization Process: A View from the North American West (Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones) |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Bioarchaeological Biographies of Ancient Americans (Douglas W. Owsley) |
| 2:30-3:00 |
The First Humans in the Yucatan Peninsula Found in Drowned Caves: The Days of the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene in a Changing Tropic (Arturo H. Gonzalez Gonzalez, A. Terrazas, W. Stinnesbeck, M. Benavente, J. Avilés, C. Rojas, J.M. Padilla, A. Velasquez, E. Acevez, and E. Frey) |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Break |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Rethinking Early Objects and Landscapes in the Southern Cone (Nora Flegenheimer, Laura Miotti and Natalia Mazzia) |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Late Pleistocene Economic and Cultural Diversity in North Peru (Tom D. Dillehay) |
| 4:30-5:00 |
The First Colonization of South America Eastern Lowlands: Brazilian Archaeological Contributions to Settlement of America Models (Adriana Schmidt Dias and Lucas Bueno) |
| 5:00-5:30 |
Early Human Occupation of Lagoa Santa, Central Brazil: Implications for the Dispersion and Adaptation of Early Human Groups in South America (Mark Hubbe, Walter Neves, Danilo Bernardo, André Strauss, Astolfo Araujo, and Renato Kipnis with Neves) |
| 5:30-6:00 |
Discussion-all presenters Q&A |
October 19, 2013 (Saturday)
| The Older-Than-Clovis Archaeological Record of North and South America |
| 8:00-8:30 |
Adaptations along the Ice Margin: Analysis, Interpretation and Implications of Four Pre-Clovis Megafauna Butchery Sites in the Western Great Lakes Region (Daniel J. Joyce) |
| 8:30-9:00 |
Paisley Caves: 14,500 Years of Human Occupations in the Northern Great Basin (Dennis L. Jenkins) |
| 9:00-9:30 |
In Search of the First Americans? What the Friedkin Site, Texas, and Manis Site, Washington Tell us About the First Americans (Michael Waters) |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Break |
| 10:00-10:30 |
The Ones that Still Won't Go Away (J. M. Adovasio and D. R. Pedler) |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Topper, An Early Paleoamerican Site in South Carolina (Albert C. Goodyear, Douglas A. Sain, Megan Hoak King, Derek T. Anderson, and M. Scott Harris) |
| 11:00-11:30 |
The Mammoth Steppe Hypothesis: The Mid Wisconsin (OIS 3) Peopling of the Americas (Steven R. Holen and Kathleen Holen) |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Discussion-all presenters Q&A |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:30-2:00 |
The Pleistocene Human Occupation of Piaui: An Unacceptable Reality? And Nevertheless they are Old! (Eric Boëda) |
| 2:00-2:30 |
North America Before Clovis: Variance in Temporal/Spatial Cultural Patterns, 24,000 to 13,000 BP (Michael B. Collins, Dennis J. Stanford, and Darrin L. Lowery) |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Fingerprinting Stone Tool Production Processes: Towards an Identification of Human Artifact Characteristics (William Andrefsky, Jr.) |
| 3:00-3:30 |
A Geoarchaeological Approach to the Search for Pre-Clovis Sites in North America: An Example from the Central Plains (Rolfe D. Mandel) |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Geochronology, Stratigraphy and Taphonomy as the Foundations for Pre-Clovis Research (Thomas W. Stafford, Jr.) |
| 4:00-5:30 |
Panel Discussion (Luis Alberto Borrero,
Robert L. Kelly,
Dennis H. O'Rourke, and
Bonnie Pitblado) |
| 5:30-6:00 |
Closing Statements, Native American Blessing |
| Banquet | Occupying New Lands: Global Migrations and Cultural Diversification with Particular Reference to Australia (Peter Hiscock) |
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