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The President's Invited Forum on Important Topics in American Archaeology

A moderated conversation among experts in the field

This year's topic

Peopling the Americas

Forum participants

• David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University
• Theodore Schurr, University of Pennsylvania
• John Hoffecker, University of Colorado

The Peopling of the Americas is one of the central abiding issues for Americanist Archaeology regardless of individual archaeologist’s research or intellectual emphases. The topic is also one in which it is difficult to stay reasonably current, giving widely scattered publishing venues and rapidly evolving fields such as the use of DNA evidence. This forum brings together three experts in the fields of archaeology, genetics and paleoenvironments to discuss their take on the topic and where they see research heading and/or where it should be going.

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