Center for the Study of the First Americans

Check out the Poster Symposium, Opening the Gateway: Emerging Perspectives on the Early Human Occupation of Northwestern South America, that will be presented at the Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference! Here is the link to register!

https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/conference-registration/

1. Beneath the Jungle and Rock: Mapping Caves in the Darién Gap using Machine Learning and GIS
Tomás Arce

2. Bifacial multi-functional tools as markers of an early human presence in western Colombia Martha C. Cano, Carlos E. López

3. Extending the chronology of human presence and rock art in Chiribiquete (Colombian Amazon): new radiocarbon dates and archaeological evidence from Poza Roja
Carlos Castaño-Uribe, Pablo Aristizábal Espinosa, Carlos A. Monsalve, Saán Flórez Correa, Laura Reales Herrera, Gilberto Artioli, Gregorio Dal Sasso, Andrea Busnardo, Roberta Olivero Neilson, Giulia Ricci, Lara Maritan, Brunella Muttillo, Francesco Sauro

4. First evidence of Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae) in archaeological context of Serranía de la Lindosa (Colombian Amazon) associated with the Early Holocene
Danna Camila Cifuentes-Fandiño, Gaspar Morcote-Ríos, Francisco Javier Aceituno, José Iriarte

5. The archaeological signal of the early peopling of Northwestern South America: Radiocarbon chronology and paleoenvironmental diversity
Miguel Delgado, Angélica Triana

6. El Abra 1: Multiproxy Evidence of Late Pleistocene Human Occupation in the Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia
Juan Miguel Kosztura, Ana María Aguirre Ocampo, Javier Aceituno, José Iriarte, Gaspar Morcote

7. Revisiting the Early Archaeological Contexts of the Magdalena Valley (Colombia): Recent Advances in Early Peopling Research
Carlos E. López, Martha C. Cano

8. Paleobotanical evidence of Brosimum lactescens (Moraceae) associated with Late Pleistocene archaeological sites (12.6 cal ka BP) in the Serranía de la Lindosa (Colombian Amazon)
Gaspar Morcote-Ríos, José Iriarte, Francisco Javier Aceituno

9. Two Valleys, Two Worlds: Contemporaneity and Technological Variability in Early Colombia
Brunella Muttillo, Giuseppe Lembo, Kurt Rademaker, Martha C. Cano, Carlos E. López

10. Archaeological Survey in the Ubaté Valley (Colombian Andean highlands): Exploring the Potential for Preceramic Occupation
Brunella Muttillo, Pedro Alexander Rivera Pérez, Giuseppe Lembo

11. Taphonomic Reassessment of a Possible Pleistocene Megafauna-Human Association at Tibitó, Colombia
Jo Osborn, Brunella Muttillo, Kurt Rademaker

Learn more about the 14,400-year-old Monte Verde site, Chile.

Read three critiques of a recent article suggesting the site dates to the Holocene and not the late Pleistocene. Also, to learn more about the Monte Verde site you can follow the links in the critiques to a 104-page report with detail information about Monte Verde. These letters and the report set the record straight.

https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/2026/05/08/learn-more-about-the-14400-year-old-monte-verde-site-chile/

https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/call-for-posters/

The 91st Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, April 29, 2026 – May 3, 2026 in San Francisco, CA

Battle of the States! Who will bring the most people to The PaleoAmerican Odyssey Conference in Santa Fe? Register today!!!

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Current top states -
New Mexico 29
Colorado 29
Texas 23
California 10
Arizona 8
Virginia 8

Virginia is impressive on the East Coast!! (Archeological Society of Virginia)

Our 200th registrant is coming all the way from Denmark!

Don't miss the PaleoAmerican Odyssey Conference!

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The Center for the Study of the First Americans is accepting applications for individual poster presentations and poster symposia for the Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference, October 14-17 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/call-for-posters/

Brand new book in the Peopling of the Americas Publications Series! Check it out today!

Flaked Stone Artifacts from the East Wenatchee Clovis Cache
By Bruce Huckell, Bruce A. Bradley and Peter J. Mehringer Jr.

Foreword by Joe Watkins

Contributions by J. David Kilby

Flaked Stone Artifacts from the East Wenatchee Clovis Cache In 1987, workers installing irrigation pipes in an apple orchard in East Wenatchee, Washington, discovered a cache of Clovis materials. The uncovered bifaces...

Still thinking about registering for the Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference? Check out the program to see the exciting sessions and speakers waiting for you—and register today.