Vance T. Holliday

Office: Haury 406 Phone: 520-621-4734
Vance Holliday
Email:
vthollid@email.arizona.edu
Degree:
Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder, 1982
Affiliation:

Professor, Department of Anthropology
Professor, Department of Geosciences
Executive Director, Argonaut Archaeological Research Fund

Interests:
Geoarchaeology, Paleoindian archaeology, Soils, Late Quaternary environments, Southwest and Great Plains
Classes:
ANTH/GEOS 561 Paleoindian Origins
ANTH/GEOS 512A Geoarchaeology
ANTH/GEOS 514 Quaternary Geology

Current Research:

Geoarchaeology of the Chispa Creek and Hot Tubb Paleoindian sites, TX;
Geoarchaeology of the Albuquerque Basin, NM; Quaternary geology and geoarchaeology of the San Augustin Basin, NM; Paleoenvironmental record of small playa basins, Southern High Plains; Paleoenvironmental record of the Odessa Meteor Crater, TX; Geoarchaeology of the Kostenki sites, Russia


Recent Major Publications:

2004 Soils in Archaeological Research, Oxford University Press.
2003 (with Jason LaBelle and David J. Meltzer) Early Holocene Paleoindian Deposits at Nall Playa, Oklahoma Panhandle. Geoarchaeology 18: 5-34.
2002

(with 18 co-authors) The Paleoindian-Archaic transition in North America: New evidence from Texas. Antiquity 76: 980-990.

2001

(editor with P. Goldberg and C. R. Ferring) Earth Science in Archaeology, Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers.

2000

Folsom drought and episodic drying on the Southern High Plains from 10,900-10,200 14C yr B.P. Quaternary Research 53:1-12.

2000

The Evolution of Paleoindian Geochronology and Typology on the Great Plains. Geoarchaeology 15: 227-290.

2000

Vance Haynes and Paleoindian geoarchaeology and geochronology of the Great Plains. Geoarchaeology 15: 511-522.

2000

History of Geoarchaeology on the Southern High Plains. In: R. Mandel (Editor), Geoarchaeological Research in the Great Plains. University of Oklahoma Press, p. 10-43.

1999

(with E. Johnson and T. W. Stafford, Jr.) AMS Radiocarbon dating of the type Plainview and Firstview (Paleoindian) assemblages. American Antiquity 64: 444-454.

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