Resources on the Web

The following websites provide useful information about First Americans archaeology, Late Pleistocene environments & animals, and geoarchaeology.

First Americans archaeology

1) The Paleoindian Database of the Americas (PIDBA) - http://pidba.utk.edu/main.htm
2) A Journey to a New Land - http://www.sfu.museum/journey
3) Texas Beyond History: Prehistoric Texas - http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/prehistoric
4) Tony Baker's Paleoindian Website: http://www.ele.net
5) Florida Historical Contexts: The Paleoindian Period - http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/facts/reports/contexts/paleo.cfm
6) Kenosha County, Wisconsin Mammoth Website - http://www.woollymammoth.org
7) The Paleo End Scraper - http://www.ele.net/pes/pesintro.htm
8) Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center - http://www.beringia.com/
9) James David Kilby, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology, ENMU - http://academic.enmu.edu/kilbyd/index.html

Late Pleistocene environments & animals

1) Columbian and Woolly Mammoth Information - http://www.mammothsite.com
2) Illinois State Museum Faunmap - http://www.museum.state.il.us/research/faunmap
3) Paleoenvironmental Atlas of Beringia - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/atlas/beringia
4) Postglacial Flooding of the Bering Land Bridge - http://instaar.colorado.edu/QGISL/bering_land_bridge
5) NOAA Paleoclimatology - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
6) Alaska Quaternary Center - http://www.uaf.edu/aqc/
7) The American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) - http://www.amqua.org/
8) International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) - http://www.inqua.tcd.ie/

Geoarchaeology

1) Archaeological Geology Division - http://rock.geosociety.org/arch
2) Soil Micromorphology Website - https://www.soils.org/membership/divisions/s09/micromorph
3) Radiocarbon-related Information Sources - http://www.radiocarbon.org/Info

	Upcoming Field School Opportunity! CSFA Summer Field School in Beringian Archaeology in Tanana Valley, North Alaska Range, Alaska July 8 - August 10, 2013

	Congratulations to nominee John Blong for receiving a Vision 2020 Dissertation Enhancement Award from the College of Liberal Arts, valued at $5,000!

	Check out the new special edition of Current Research in the Pleistocene Southbound: Late Pleistocene Peopling of Latin America, available from the CSFA (cannot be ordered through TAMU Press).

	Congratulations to John Blong, Heather Smith, and Angela Younie for each being awarded the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant!

	Additional kudos to Angela Younie for receiving the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant!

	Check out the new CSFA sponsored Peopling of the Americas Publication Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast, edited by Claude Chapdelaine, now available from TAMU Press.

	Jesse Tune and co-authors publish article in Tennessee Archaeology on excavations and dating of Late Pleistocene and Paleoindian deposits at the Coats-Hines site, Williamson County, Tennessee (pdf)

	Ted Goebel co-organized the "Symposium on the Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Palaeolithic Asia", held in Tokyo, Japan, Nov.29-Dec.1, He and Kelly Graf presented lectures.

	Ted Goebel and Lawrence Straus co-edit recent issue of Quaternary International featuring 23 papers on Humans and the Younger Dryas. Vol. 242 Issue 2 15 October 2011 ISSN 1040-6182.

	Ted Goebel was recently interviewed (Prof Helping To Unravel Causes Of Ice Age Extinctions)about a collaborative project trying to solve the mystery of the extinction of the megafauna at the end of the last Ice Age that is described in a recent article in Nature. (2011-11-04)

	Ted Goebel, Kelly Graf and co-authors publish article in Nature on responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans (pdf)

	Michael Waters and co-authors publish article in Science (Volume 334, October) on Pre-Clovis Mastodon Hunting 13,800 Years Ago at the Manis Site, Washington (pdf)

	Ted Goebel and co-authors publish article in Quaternary International (Volume 242) on Climate, Environment, and Humans in North America’s Great Basin during the Younger Dryas, 12,900-11,600 calendar years ago (pdf)

	Kelly Graf and Nancy Bigelow publish article in Quaternary International (Volume 242) on Human Response to Climate during the Younger Dryas Chronozone in Central Alaska (pdf)

	Tom Jennings publishes article in Journal of Archaeological Science (in press) on the Experimental Production of Bending and Radial Flake Fractures and Implications for Lithic Technologies (pdf)