January 19
Introduction
Readings: Lahr 1997

January 26
History of the Discovery of Human Antiquity in the New World
Readings: Cook 1928; Holmes 1894; Huddleston, 1972; Meltzer 1994; Stewart and Newman 1951; Wright 1897

February 2
Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Paleoenvironments
Readings: Kutzbach and Webb 1993; Maleoletko 1998

February 9
Methods for the Study of Paleoindians
Readings: Ferring 1994; Goddard and Campbell 1994; Hagelberg 1994; Relethford 1995; Steele and Powell 1993; Taylor 1991; Toth 1991

February 16
Old World Human Biology and the Peopling of the New World
Readings: Brace and Tracer 1993; Kamminga and Wright 1988; Lahr 1995; Turner 1985, 1990; Greenberg et al. 1986

February 23
Beringian Prehistory and Adaptations
Readings: Clark 1991; Derev’anko 1998a,b; Goebel and Bigelow 1991; Kunz and Reanier 1995; West 1996

March 2
Molecular Genetics of Modern Populations
Readings: Ballinger et al. 1992; Kolman et al. 1996; Stariskovskaya et al. 1998; Williams et al. 1985; Merriwether et al. 1995;

March 9
North American Paleoindians I
Readings: Bryan 1988; Frison 1992; Hofman and Graham 1998; Kelly and Todd 1988; Meltzer 1993; Stone and Stoneking1998; Turner 1992

March 14 – 21
SPRING BREAK

March 23
North American Paleoindians II
Readings: Anderson 1996; Anderson and Sassaman 1996; Anderson et al. 1996; Jantz and Ousley 1997; Johnson 1996; Steele and Powell 1994

March 30
Mesoamerican and South American Paleoindians
Readings: Ardila 1991; Neves and Pucciarelli 1989, 1991; Ranere and Cooke 1991; Roosevelt et al. 1996; Turner and Bird 1981;

April 6
Pre-Clovis in North America
Readings: Adovasio 1993; Simpson et al. 1986; Stanford 1979; Stevens and Agogino 1975; Reeves and Pohl 1986

April 13
Pre-Clovis in Mesoamerica and South America
Readings: Dillehay 1989; Lynch 1990; Meltzer et al. 1997

April 20
Paleoindian-Archaic Transition
Readings:; Driskell 1996; Gunn 1996; Huckell 1996; Kuehn 1998; Powell and Steele 1994; Meltzer and Smith 1986

April 27
The Future of Paleoindian Studies
Readings: Bonnichsen 1991; Bryan 1991; Meltzer 1995; Stone and Stoneking 1995

May 4
Student paper presentations

May 11
Student paper presentations