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Vance T. Holliday (born 1950) currently serves as a professor in the School of Anthropology and the department of Geosciences as well as an adjunct professor in the department of Geography at the University of Arizona in Tucson.〔Holliday, Vance T. (Homepage ), University of Arizona, 2002, accessed 24 March 2011〕 His professional research interests include geoarchaeology, Paleoindian archaeology, soil-geomorphology as well as Quaternary landscape evolution and paleoenvironment with a current emphasis on the southwestern United States and northwest Mexico.〔 Prior research areas have included the Great Plains as well as Paleolithic sites in southwestern Russia.〔 Holliday currently serves as the Executive Director of the Argonaut Archaeological Research Fund (AARF) based in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.〔(Holliday, Vance T ), Argonaut Archaeological Research Fund, University of Arizona, Dept. of Anthropology, January 2009, accesssed March 24, 2011〕 His most recent research, outlined in a 2011 Journal of Field Archaeology article, has focused on understanding the Paleoindian occupation around large paleo-lakes in the Southern landscape at the end of the Pleistocene. ==Background== After graduating from Winston Churchill High School in San Antonio, Texas Holliday began his undergraduate education at a local junior college where he studied architecture. During his sophomore year Holliday viewed a TV program called “The Man Hunters" hosted by actor E.G. Marshall about interdisciplinary research in understanding human evolution. After watching this program, Holliday realized his dream of working in archaeology and transferred to the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors in Anthropology (1972).〔 Holliday went on to earn a Master of Art (M.A.)in Museum Science from Texas Tech University (1977).〔 As an undergraduate his main interests were focused on Texas archaeology. This can be attributed to his extensive field experience as an employee of the Texas Archeological Salvage Project (which was later renamed the Texas Archaeological Survey and eventually replaced by the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory.)〔 During his time at Texas Tech University and his work on the Lubbock Lake Project, Holliday’s archaeological interests shifted to focus on soils, landscapes and geoarchaeology.〔〔 These newfound interests led Holliday to pursue and earn a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1982).〔 His past education has led to a remarkable career devoted to reconstructing and interpreting the landscapes and environments in which Paleoindians lived, and how these conditions evolved.〔 During his time at Texas Tech University Holliday worked closely with Dr. Eileen Johnson of the Museum of Texas Tech University on the Lubbock Lake Project located in northwestern Texas.〔Johnson, Eileen; Holliday, Vance T. "A Plainview Kill/Butchering Locale on the Lllano Estacado-The Lubbock Lake Site. Plains Anthropologist: Journal of the Plains Conference, 25:89-111. 1980.〕 One of the most notable findings at the Lubbock Site is the discovery of cultural features which span the Paleo-Indian period.〔〔("Significance of Site" ) Lubbock Lake Landmark. March 24, 2011.〕 Holliday has written several journal articles on the Lubbock Site focusing on inventorying and describing Plainview complex material located at the kill/butchery locales〔 detailing the dating of the Plainview occupation at the site;〔Holliday, Vance T.; Johnson, Eileen. "An Update on the Plainview Occupation at the Lubbock Lake Site." Plains Anthropologist, 26: 251-253. 1981.〕 as well as discussing multiple camping occasions and activities of the Paleo-Indians at the area.〔Johnson, EIleen; Holliday, Vance T. "Late Paleoindian Activity at the Lubbock Lake Site." Plains Anthropologist, 26:173-193. 1981.〕 After completion of his Ph.D, Holliday accepted a position as visiting professor and assistant professor at Texas A&M University in 1984 where his archaeological interests became more focused.〔 The theme of Holliday’s journal articles began to heavily focus on the soil and geologic make-up of the Lubbock Lake Site, based on his Ph.D. dissertation. Some of Holliday’s later journal articles included discussing the archaeological geology〔Holliday, Vance T. "Archaeology Geology of the Lubbock Lake Site, Southern High Plains of Texas." Geological Society of America Bulletin, 96: 1483-1492. 1985.〕 and early Holocene soils〔Holliday, Vance T. "Early Holocene Soils at the Lubbock Lake Archaeological Site, Texas." Cantena, 12:61-78. 1985.〕 at the site; as well as the excellent stratigraphy found at Lubbock〔Haas, Herbert; Holliday, Vance T.; Stuckenrath, Robert. "Dating of Holocene Stratigraphy with Soluble and Insoluble Organic Fractions at the Lubbock Lake Archaeological Site, Texas: An Ideal Case Study." Radiocarbon, 28:473-485. 1986.〕 In addition to these journal articles Holliday also focused some of his writings on the lithics found at the site.〔Johnson, Eileen; Holliday, Vance T. "Lubbock Lake Lithic Assemblages." Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains: 1-13. 1987.〕 Dr. Holliday fondness for Lubbock Lake stems from the many lasting records of plant and animal communities, geology, climate and human activities available at the site.〔Holliday, Vance T. ( Lubbock Lake Landmark ). Museum of Texas Tech University. 2003.〕 In 1986, following a two-year stint as a professor at Texas A&M University, Holliday joined the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the Geography department, where he remained until 2002.〔 During his time at the University of Wisconsin, Holliday continued to write about the Lubbock Lake Site but many of his journal articles also focused on other sites and geo-archaeological and Quaternary geologic aspects of the southern Great Plains area.〔 While Holliday worked at the University of Wisconsin, he received several National Science Foundation grants to investigate aspects of the late Quaternary landscape evolution of the Southern High Plains. He used this research to broaden his understanding of stratigraphy and geo-chronology of archaeological and non-archaeological sites. Holliday also spent his time in Madison, Wisconsin pursuing his interests in Paleoindian archaeology. This resulted in a series of papers on late Quaternary stratigraphy, paleoenvironments and Paleoindian geo-archaeology. This series of papers gave way to Holliday’s 1995 Geological Society of America book, Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of Late Quaternary Valley Fills, as well as his 1997 book titled Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains. Holliday also devoted some of time to the application of his ideas on using soils in geoarchaeological research, on which he wrote a book, Soils in Archaeological Research, which was published in 2004 after arriving at the University of Arizona. Since 2002 Holliday has been a professor in both the School of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences as well as an adjunct professor in the department of Geography at the University of Arizona at Tucson.〔 In 2002 Holliday also accepted the position of Executive Director of the Argonaut Archaeological Research Fund (AARF), a long-term research program focused on the earliest peopling of the Southwest U.S. and northwestern Mexico.〔 Since the establishment of AARF, Holliday has been involved in many site excavations in the southwest, more specifically in Mexico and New Mexico. The Mockingbird Gap site discovered in the 1950s southeast of Socorro, New Mexico is described as “one of the largest and perhaps least known Clovis sites in the southwestern United States.” Initial excavations revealed hundreds of Clovis artifacts such as projectile point bases, fluted point preforms and gravers from an area 800 meters by 80–150 meters. A 2004 visit led the Holliday and collaborator B.B. Huckell (University of New Mexico) to believe there was more to be learned from the site about Clovis occupation and in 2005 excavationsbegan which continued throughout the 2006 and 2007 field seasons. Their initial beliefs were validated when results of these excavations show significant Clovis age deposits at the site.〔 Research with B.B. Huckell was also carried out at several Folsom sites on the West Mesa area of the Albuquerque Basin. The work documented the spatial patterning of paleoenvironmental context of Folsom occupations around several small lake basins. :In Sonora, field work in collaboration with M.G.Sanchez (INAH) focused on a series of Clovis sites, most prominently an in-situ Clovis/Gomphothere kill site and an extensive camping area on the adjacent uplands. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vance T. Holliday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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