New Discoveries in the American Paleolithic: The Pre-16,000BP Archaeological Record

New Discoveries in the American Paleolithic
The Pre-16,000BP Archaeological Record

Thursday, January 10, 2019 – Saturday, January 12, 2019
UCI Research Center and Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center
Borrego Springs, CA 92004

The Anza Borrego Foundation, California State Parks, and sponsors announce New Discoveries in the American Paleolithic: The Pre-16,000BP Archaeological Record, a conference on Thursday, January 10, 2019, at 5:00 pm through Saturday, January 12, 2019, 5:00 pm This conference will be held at the UCI Research Center and the Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center in Borrego Springs, CA 92004. Admission is $35. Please register at http://www.theabf.org/new-discoveries-american-paleolithic

The conference will present diverse sites and types of evidence from throughout the Americas that demonstrate the presence of a wide-spread human occupation much earlier than was previously recognized. The conference will focus on new sites and discoveries older than 16,000 BP as well as innovative methodological advances in dating.

Thursday evening at 5 pm, there will be a meet & greet and poster session at the UCI Research Center. Oral presentations and discussions will be held on Friday and Saturday at the Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center. Space is limited; please register as soon as possible.

This conference is sponsored by Center for American Paleolithic Research, California State Parks, Anza-Borrego State Park, Begole Archaeological Research Center & the Stout Research Center Paleontology Lab, Anza-Borrego Foundation, Colorado Desert Archaeology Society, Anza-Borrego Desert Paleontology Society, and San Diego Archaeological Center.

For more information, please contact California State Parks Associate Archaeologist Robin Connors at robin.connors@parks.ca.gov