From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America provides an overview of the present state of knowledge regarding this crucial transformative period in Native North America.
As associate professor of Anthropology at Texas State University–San Marcos and a GAES honorary research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, C. BRITT BOUSMAN has conducted archaeological research in the Southern Plains and peripheral areas since 1972.
BRADLEY J. VIERRA is a principal investigator at Statistical Research Inc. He has researched and written extensively on hunter-gatherer archaeology, stone tool technology, and origins of agriculture, with a special focus on the American Southwest.