Vance T. Holliday

Who is Vance T. Holliday?

Vance T. Holliday 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. 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 based in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. 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.