Alternative Perspectives on the Peopling of the New World: A Symposium in Honor of Ruth Gruhn, the "First Lady" of First Americans Studies

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

Dr. Ruth Gruhn has long served as a proponent for alternative records and non-Clovis-centric models of the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas. Over her long career she conducted field-based Paleoindian research in the Intermountain West of North America, Baja California, Guatemala, and northern South America, and she became well-known and respected in nearly every country of the Western Hemisphere. The papers in this session commemorate Dr. Gruhn's contributions to non-Clovis Pleistocene archaeologies across the Western Hemisphere, Paleoindian studies in Latin America, and the concept of a Pacific coastal migration. We also celebrate her enduring, selfless role as Paleoindian archaeology’s ‘inter-continental’ ambassador.

Other Keywords
Paleoindian • Geoarchaeology • First Americans • Exploration • Fluted Points • Fishtail Points • stemmed points • Coastal • Pleistocene • Great Basin

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • South America • Department of Martinique (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Department of Guadeloupe (Country) • Antigua and Barbuda (Country) • Belize (Country) • Anguilla (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country) • Republic of Honduras (Country)

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  1. Attempt of Modelization of the First Settlements in America at Pleistocene Based on the New Archaeological Sequences in Piaui (Brazil) (2017)
  2. Discussing early societies Fishtail points and early social practices seen from the Southern Cone (2017)
  3. The Earliest Occupation of Colombia: Balance and Perspectives at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2017)
  4. The Emerging 13,000 to 15,000 cal yr B.P. Archaeological Record of North America South of the Continental Ice Sheets (2017)
  5. Fluted-point technology and the nature of its transmission in the Western Canadian Ice-free Corridor (2017)
  6. From Los Tapiales to Cuncaicha: Terminal Pleistocene humans in America’s high-elevation western mountains (2017)
  7. Late Pleistocene Archaeology in Argentina 47 years later (2017)
  8. On the Trail of the Stemmed Point: A Circum-Pacific Perspective (2017)
  9. Pre-Clovis Archaeology in the Frontiers of Research:Page-Ladson and the Importance of Submerged Sites to Understanding the First Americans (2017)
  10. Searching for the First Americans Along Oregon’s Ancient Coast: New Methods and Upcoming Research (2017)
  11. Southern Patagonia:coastal versus interior human migration (2017)
  12. Stemmed Points and ‘Expedient Stone Tools’: early post-glacial archaeology on the BC coast. (2017)
  13. Western Stemmed Occupations of the Northern Great Basin (2017)
  14. The Western Stemmed Tradition and the Glacier Peak Eruptions: a precautionary tale (2017)