Center for the Study of the First Americans

Welcome to the Center for the Study of the First Americans

North, Central, and South America were the last continents to be populated by humans during the Ice Age.

When did the first people enter the Americas?

Who were the first immigrants?

How did they get here?

Explore this website to learn more about the first inhabitants of the Americas and how you can become involved!

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The Center for the Study of First Americans is housed in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University. For more information, contact:
CSFA, Texas A&M University, 4352 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4352. The main office number is 979-845-4046, Email: csfa@tamu.edu.

	Dr. Tom Dillehay, distinguished professor from Vanderbilt University, visiting on April 9 and 10, giving 2 lectures: Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology: Sacred Landscapes and Polity Formation among the Mapuche, Monday, April 9, 4:10-5:25pm, Rm 311 in the Glasscock Center, History Building. Modeling Early Social Complexity and Food Production: Concepts and Critiques from North Peru, Tuesday, April 10, 11:10am-12:25pm, Whitley Suite, Rm 105 university library.

	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)