Southwest Seminars Presents

Perspectives on Paleo-Indians: Origins & Issues

Monday, April 12, 2010, 6-8 PM at Hotel Santa Fe

A Lively Panel Discussion Featuring:

Dr. Eske Willerslev: Evolutionary Biologist and Professor, Natural History Museum of Denmark and Professor, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr. Bruce Bradley: Paleo-Indian Archaeologist, Flintknapper, and Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Dr. Michael B. Collins: Paleo-Indian Archaeologist, Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas State University-San Marcos

Dr. Jane Hill: Historical Linguist, Anthropologist and Regent's Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona (ret.)

Dr. Eric Blinman: Moderator, Archaeologist and Director, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico

In the last several years higher technology, research, plus emerging interpretations of earlier data have pointed to different and intriguing possibilities regarding the Peopling of the Americas and the Paleo-Indians who migrated to the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Our panel of prominent scholars represent experts who have spent decades attempting to shed informed light on these questions. Enjoy short presentations by each followed by insightful dialogue, debate, and discussion of some of the most interesting questions of American history being studied in Physical Anthropology, Historical Linguistics, Lithics, & Paleo-Indian Archaeology.

$25 per person at the door

Offered as a benefit for The Archaeological Conservancy