Archaeology Cafe: Tracking the First Americans
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Tuesday, Feb 3, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
Archaeology Southwest
300 N Ash Ave
Details
Join us in-person downtown at the Archaeology Southwest headquarters, Tuesday, February 3, 2026, when Vance T. Holliday (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology & Geosciences, University of Arizona) will discuss “Tracking the First Americans.” Recent research in White Sands National Park supports interpretations that human tracks found there date to 23,000 to 21,000 years ago. The tracks are the oldest in the Americas in one of the oldest archaeological sites in the Americas. The new investigations also show that people were walking across a floodplain within a few hundred meters of a large lake and wetland complex that offered a wide range of plant and animal resources.
