Description
Native Americans legitimately claim their peoples have inhabited the Americas from time immemorial. Archaeology confirms their ancestors’ presence in the Southwest back into the late Pleistocene epoch. In this class, Allen Dart discusses and illustrates archaeological evidence of the earliest peoples in the American Southwest, from at least 11,000 and possibly as early as 21,000 BCE, up to the time agriculture was introduced to the region around 2100 BCE.
Archaeologist Allen Dart has worked in New Mexico and Arizona since 1975. A UNM graduate, he worked for the Museum of New Mexico and the Bureau of Indian Affairs before receiving his master’s in Arizona. Dart is the executive director of Tucson’s Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, a nonprofit he founded in 1993. He has received awards and honors from the National Park Service and other organizations for his efforts to bring archaeology and history to the public.