Vance Holliday
About Vance Holliday
Vance Holliday is both an archaeologist and geologist who has spent much of his career reconstructing and interpreting the landscapes and environments in which past societies lived, and how these conditions evolved. Most of his geoarchaeological research has focused on Paleoindian archaeology on the Great Plains, in the Southwest, and in northwest Mexico, but also included Paleolithic sites in Russia and Ukraine. This research and interest culminated in his joining the UA faculty to direct the Argonaut Archaeological Research Fund (AARF), which is devoted to research on the geoarchaeology of the Paleoindian people of the Southwest. Since 2002 a professor in both the School of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona, and Adjunct Professor in Geography & Regional Development. Honors include the "Rip" Rapp Archaeological Geology Award of the Geological Society of America, and the Kirk Bryan Award of the G.S.A., and the Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research from the Society for American Archaeology.
Selected Publications
PUBLICATIONS -- BOOKS
V.T. Holliday, E. Johnson, and R. Knudson, co-editors, 2017. Plainview: The Enigmatic Paleoindian Artifact Style of the Great Plains. University of Utah Press.
A. Gilbert, P. Goldberg, V.T. Holliday, R. Mandel, and R. Sternberg, co-editors, 2016. Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology. Springer.
V. T. Holliday, 2004. Soils and Archaeological Research. Oxford University Press, 448 p.
P. Goldberg, V. T. Holliday, and C. R. Ferring, co-editors, 2001. Earth Science in Archaeology, Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, 513 p.
V.T. Holliday, 1997. Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains, University of Texas Press, 297 p.
V.T. Holliday, 1995. "Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of Late Quaternary Valley Fills on the Southern High Plains.” Geological Society of America Memoir 186, 136 p. Winner of the 1998 Kirk Bryan Award of the Geological Society of America.
V.T. Holliday, Ed., 1992. Soils in Archaeology: Landscape Evolution and Human Occupation. Smithsonian Institution Press, 254 p.
A. Gilbert, V. T. Holliday, R. Mandel, R. Sternberg, co-editors, 2016. Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology. Springer, 1046 pp.
PUBLICATIONS -- ARTICLES and CHAPTERS
(*peer reviewed)
2017 *V.T. Holliday, E. Johnson, J. Warnica, C.V. Haynes, B. Buchanan, The Williamson-Plainview and Type Milnesand
Sites on the Southern High Plains, New Mexico. PaleoAmerica 3:122-149.
2016 *Mary M. Prasciunas, Vance T. Holliday, and Jesse A. M. Ballenger, “Terminal Pleistocene Paleoindian
Ecology and Demography: A View from the Southwestern United States.” In Exploring Cause and
Explanantion: Historical Ecology, Demography, and Movement in the American Southwest, pp. 29-45. C.
Herhahn and A. Ramenofsky, eds. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
*Vance T. Holliday, C. Vance Haynes, Jr., and Ruthann Knudson. The Plainview Site: 1962 Discoveries.
PaleoAmerica 2:32-39.
*Vance T. Holliday, Todd Surovell, Eileen Johnson, A Blind Test of the Younger Dryas Impact
Hypothesis, PLoS ONE 11(7): e0155470. doi:10.1371/journal. Pone. 0155470
Vance T. Holliday, “Soils and Stratigraphy of the Lindenmeier Site.” In Stones, Bones and Profiles:
Exploring Archaeological Context, Early American Hunter-Gatherers, and Bison, edited by Marcel
Kornfeld and Bruce B. Huckell, pp 209-234. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
*John Hoffecker, Vance T. Holliday, and 12 others, Kostenki 1 and the early Upper Paleolithic of Eastern
Europe, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 5:307-326.
2015 Vance T. Holliday, Clovis Landscapes in the Greater Southwest of North America. In Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding, edited by Ashley M. Smallwood and Thomas A. Jennings, pp. 205-241. Texas A&M University Press.
Guadalupe Sanchez, Vance T. Holliday, John Carpenter, and Edmund P. Gaines, Sonora Clovis groups. In
Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding, edited by Ashley M. Smallwood and Thomas A. Jennings,
pp. 243-261. Texas A&M University Press.
2014 *Meltzer, D.J., V.T. Holliday, M.D. Cannon and D.S. Miller. Chronological evidence fails to support
claim of an isochronous widespread layer of cosmic impact indicators dated to 12,800 years ago.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences E2162-E2171 (doi:10.1073/pnas.1401150111).
*Sanchez, Guadalupe, Vance T. Holliday, Edmund P. Gaines, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Natalia Martínez-
Tagüeña, Andrew Kowler, Todd Lange, Gregory W. L. Hodgins, Susan M. Mentzer, and Ismael Sanchez-
Morales. Human (Clovis) gomphothere (Cuvieronius sp.) association ~13,390 calibrated yr BP in Sonora,
Mexico Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: 10972-10977
(doi/10.1073/pnas.1404546111).
*Vance T. Holliday, Todd Surovell, David J. Meltzer, Donald K. Grayson, Mark Boslough, The Younger Dryas Impact
Hypothesis: A Cosmic Catastrophe. Journal of Quaternary Sciences, 29:525-530.
*John F. Hoffecker, Vance T. Holliday, Vadim N. Stepanchuk, Alexis Brugère, Steven L. Forman, Paul
Goldberg, Oleg Tubolzev and Igor Pisarev, 2014. Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological Studies at
Mira, an Early Upper Paleolithic Site in the Lower Dnepr Valley, Ukraine. Geoarchaeology 29:61–77.
2013 *Vance T. Holliday, David Killick. An early Paleoindian Bead from the Mockingbird Gap Site, New Mexico. Current Anthropology, 54:85-95.
*Marcus J. Hamilton, Briggs Buchanan, Bruce B. Huckell, Vance T. Holliday, “Clovis paleoecology and lithic technology in the Central Rio Grande Rift Region, New Mexico.” American Antiquity.
Vance T. Holliday and D. Shane Miller, “The Clovis Landscape” In: PaleoAmerican Odyssey, K.E. Graf, C.V. Ketron, M.R. Waters eds., pp. 221-245. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
D. Shane Miller, Vance T. Holliday, and Jordon Bright, “Clovis across the continent,” In: PaleoAmerican Odyssey, K.E. Graf, C.V. Ketron, M.R. Waters eds., pp. 207-220. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
2012 Vance T. Holliday and Nan A. Rothschild, “Archaeological research and the academic process.” In: Archaeology in Society: Its Relevance in the Modern World, edited by M. Rockman & J. Flatman, pp. 77-88. Springer, New York.
*E. Johnson, V.T. Holliday, G.Martínez, M. Gutiérrez, G. Politis, E. Johnson et al, Paso Otero, "Geochronology and landscape development in the Middle Río Quenquén Grande at the Paso Otero Locality, Pampa Interserrana, Argentina." Geoarchaeology, 27:300-323.
Maarten Blaauw, Vance T. Holliday, Jacquelyn L. Gill, and Kathleen Nicoll Age models and the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; doi:10.1073/pnas.1206143109
M. Boslough, K. Nicoll, V. T. Holliday, T. L. Daulton, D. Meltzer, N. Pinter, A. C. Scott, T. Surovell, Ph. Claeys, J. Gill, F. Paquay, J. Marlon, P. Bartlein, C. Whitlock, D. Grayson, T. Jull, Arguments and Evidence against a Younger Dryas Impact Event. Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations. Geophysical Monograph Series 198, p. 13-26. American Geophysical Union.
2011 *Ben A. Potter, Joel D. Irish, Joshua D. Reuther, Carol Gelvin-Reymiller, Vance T. Holliday, A Terminal Pleistocene Child Cremation and Residential Structure from Eastern Beringia, Science 331, 1058-1062.
*Mathew E. Hill, Jr., and Vance T. Holliday, “Paleoindian and Later Occupations along the Paleoshorelines in the San Agustin Plains, West-central New Mexico” Journal of Field Archaeology, 35: 363-381.
*Vance T. Holliday, David J. Meltzer , and Rolfe Mandel, Stratigraphy of the Younger Dryas Chronozone and paleoenvironmental implications: Central and Southern Great Plains. Quaternary International, 242, 520-533.
*Jesse A.M. Ballenger , Vance T. Holliday, Andrew L. Kowler, William T. Reitze, Mary M. Prasciunas, D. Shane Miller, and Jason D. Windingstad, Evidence for Younger Dryas global climate oscillation and human response in the American Southwest, Quaternary International, 242, 502-519.
2010 *John F. Hoffecker, I.E. Kuz'mina, E.V. Syromyatnikova, M.V. Anikovich, A.A. Sinitsyn, V.V. Popov, Vance T. Holliday. Evidence for kill-butchery events of early Upper Paleolithic age at Kostenki, Russia. Journal of Archaeological Science, v 37, pp 1073-1089
*Christine Hatté, Gregory Hodgins, Vance T Holliday, A J Timothy Jull, Dating human occupation on diatom-phytolith-rich sediment: Case studies of Mustang Spring and Lubbock Lake, Texas, USA. Radiocarbon, v 52, p 13-24.
*David J. Meltzer and Vance T. Holliday, “Would North American Paleoindians have noticed Younger Dryas age climate changes?” Journal of World Prehistory, v. 23, p 1-41.
*Vance T. Holliday and David J. Meltzer “The 12.9ka Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians” Current Anthropology. v. 51, p. 575-585
*Stance Hurst, Eileen Johnson, Vance T. Holliday and Sophie Butler, “Playa archaeology on the Southern High Plains of Texas: A spatial analysis of hunter-gatherer occupations at Tahoka-Walker (41LY53). Plains Anthropologist, 55, pp. 195-214.
2009 *Edmund P. Gaines, Guadalupe Sanchez-Miranda, and Vance T. Holliday, “Paleoindian Archaeology in Northern and Central Sonora, Mexico: A Review and Update. KIVA v. 74, p. 305-335.
*Vance T. Holliday, Bruce B. Huckell, Marcus Hamilton, Robert H. Weber, William R. Reitze, and James H. Mayer, “Geoarchaeology of the Mockingbird Gap (Clovis) Site, Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico” Geoarchaeology. v. 24, p. 438-370.
*Vance T. Holliday, “Geoarchaeology and the Search for the First Americans” Catena v. 78, p. 310-322.
*Todd Surovell, Vance Holliday, Joseph Gingerich, Caroline Ketron, C Vance Haynes, Ilene Hilman, Daniel Wagner, Eileen Johnson, Phillippe Claeys, "An Independent Evaluation of the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Hypothesis" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v. 106, p. 18155-18158.
*François S. Paquay, Steven Goderis, Greg Ravizza, Frank Vanhaecke, Matthew Boyd, Todd Surovell, Vance T. Holliday, C. Vance Haynes, Philippe Claeys, “Absence of geochemical evidence for an impact event at the Bølling–Allerød/Younger Dryas transition" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 106, p. 21505-21510.
2008 *Vance T. Holliday, James H. Mayer, and Glen Fredlund, “Geochronology and Stratigraphy of Playa Fills on the Southern High Plains” Quaternary Research, 70: 11-25.
*Hoffecker, John F.,Vance T. Holliday, M.V. Anikovich, A.A. Sinitsyn, V.V. Popov,S.N., Lisitsyn,G.M. Levkovskaya, G.A. Pospelova, Steven L. Forman and Biagio Giaccio, From the Bay of Naples to the River Don: the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Eastern Europe. Journal of Human Evolution v. 55, p. 858-870
2007 *Vance T. Holliday and W. G. Gartner, Soil Phosphorus and Archaeology: A Review and Comparison of Methods. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34:301-333.
*M. V. Anikovich, A. A. Sinitsyn, J. F. Hoffecker, Vance T. Holliday, V. V. Popov, S. N. Lisitsyn, S. L. Forman, G. M. Levkovskaya, G. A. Pospelova, I. E. Kuz’mina, N. D. Burova, P. Goldberg, R. I. Macphail, B. Giaccio & N. D. Praslov, “Early Upper Palaeolithic in eastern Europe and implications for the dispersal of modern humans” Science, 315: 223-226.
*Vance T. Holliday, J. F. Hoffecker, P. Goldberg, R. I. Macphail, S. L. Forman, M. Anikovich, and A. Sinitsyn Geoarchaeology of the Kostenki-Borshchevo Sites, Don River, Russia. Geoarchaeology, 22: 181-228.
2006 *Vance T. Holliday and J. Elmo Rawling, Soil-geomorphic Relations of Lamellae in Eolian Sand on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, U.S.A. Geoderma 131:154-180.
*Vance T. Holliday, A History of Soil-Geomorphology in the United States. in Footprints in the Soil: People and Ideas in Soil History edited by B.P. Warkenton, Elsevier Press, p. 187-254.
*James K. Feathers, Vance T. Holliday, and David J. Meltzer, OSL Dating of Sediments at Paleoindian and Archaic Sites on the Southern High Plains. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1651-1665
David J. Meltzer with Vance T. Holliday, Geology, Paleotopography, Stratigraphy, and Geochronology. In Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill, by D. J. Meltzer, University of California Press, p. 112-153.
*Vance T. Holliday, B.B. Huckell, James M. Mayer, and S.L. Forman, Geoarchaeology of the Boca Negra Wash Area, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico. Geoarchaeology, 21:765-802.
Vance T. Holliday and R. Mandel “Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Great Plains, Central Lowlands, and Southwestern U.S.” In: Environment, Origins, and Populations, Volume 3 of the Handbook of North American Indians, edited by D.H. Ubelaker, p. 23-46. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
2005 *Vance T. Holliday, David A. Kring, James H. Mayer, and Ronald J. Goble, Age and effects of the Odessa meteorite impact, western Texas, USA. Geology 33:945-947
Vance T. Holliday, Ice Age Peopling of New Mexico in New Mexico’s Ice Ages edited by S. G. Lucas, G. S. Morgan, and K. E. Zeigler. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 28, p. 263-276.
2004 Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Archaeology and late Quaternary environments of the Southern High Plains in Prehistory of Texas, edited by T.K. Pertulla, p. 283-295. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
2003 *Jason LaBelle, Vance T. Holliday, and David J. Meltzer, Early Holocene Paleoindian Deposits at Nall Playa, Oklahoma Panhandle. Geoarchaeology, 18:5-34.
Luc Litwinionek, Eileen Johnson, and Vance T. Holliday, The playas of the Southern High Plains: An archipelago of human occupation for 12,000 years on th North American grasslands. IN M. Kornfeld and A. J. Osborn (Eds.) Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes, University of Utah Press, p. 21-43.
2002 *Vance T. Holliday, James C. Knox, Garry L. Running IV, Rolfe D. Mandel, and C. Reid Ferring. The Central Lowlands and Great Plains. IN Anthony Orme, ed., The Physical Geography of North America. Oxford University Press, p. 335-362.
*David J. Meltzer, Lawrence C. Todd, and Vance T. Holliday, The Folsom (Paleoindian) Type Site: Past Investigations, Current Studies, American Antiquity, 67:5-36.
Vance T. Holliday, Leslie D. McFadden, E. Arthur Bettis, and Peter W. Birkeland, Soil survey and soil- geomorphology. IN Douglas Helms, Anne B.W. Effland, and Patricia J. Durana, eds, Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey, Iowa State Press, p. 233-274.
*C. Britt Bousman, Michael B. Collins, Paul Goldberg, Thomas Stafford, Jan Guy, Barry W. Baker, D. Gentry Steele, Marvin Kay, Anne Kerr, Glen Fredlund, Phil Dering, Vance Holliday, Diane Wilson, Wulf Gose, Susan Dial, Paul Takac, Robin Balinsky, Marilyn Masson & Joseph F. Powell, 2002. The Palaeoindian- Archaic transition in North America: New evidence from Texas. Antiquity, 76:980-990.
2001 *Vance T. Holliday, Quaternary geoscience in archaeology. IN P. Goldberg, V. T. Holliday, and C. R. Ferring (Eds.), Earth Science in Archaeology, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, p. 3-35.
*Vance T. Holliday, Stratigraphy and geochronology of upper Quaternary eolian sand on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, U.S.A. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113:88-108.
*Daniel R. Muhs and Vance T. Holliday, Origin of late Quaternary dune fields on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113:75-87.
2000 *Vance T. Holliday, Folsom drought and episodic drying on the Southern High Plains from 10,900-10,200 14C yr B.P. Quaternary Research, 53:1-12.
*Vance T. Holliday, The Evolution of Paleoindian Geochronology and Typology on the Great Plains. Geoarchaeology, 15:227-290.
*Vance T. Holliday, Vance Haynes and Paleoindian geoarchaeology and geochronology of the Great Plains. Geoarchaeology, 15:511-522.
Vance T. Holliday. History of Geoarchaeology on the Southern High Plains. In: R. Mandel (Editor), Geoarchaeological Research in the Great Plains. University of Oklahoma Press, p. 10-43.
1999 *Vance T. Holliday, Eileen Johnson, and Thomas W. Stafford, Jr. AMS Radiocarbon dating of the type Plainview and Firstview (Paleoindian) assemblages. American Antiquity, 64:444-454.
*Thomas C. Gustavson and Vance T. Holliday, Eolian sedimentation and soil development on a semiarid to subhumid grassland, Tertiary Ogallala and Quaternary Blackwater Draw Formations, Texas and New Mexico High Plains. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 69:622-634.
1998 *Ruthann Knudson, Eileen Johnson, and Vance T. Holliday. The 10,000-year-old Lubbock artifact assemblage. Plains Anthropologist, 43:239-256.
Vance T. Holliday, Thoughts on the classification and stratigraphic terminology of paleosols. Quaternary International 51/52:21-22
Goldberg, Paul, and Vance T. Holliday, 1998. Geology and stratigraphy. In: M.B. Collins (Editor), Wilson-Leonard: An 11,000-Year Archeological Record of Hunter-Gatherers in Central Texas, Volume I: Introduction, Background, and Syntheses. The University of Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, Studies in Archeology 31; Texas Department of Transportation, Environmental Affairs Division, Archeology Studies Program Report 10, p. 77-121.
1997 *Vance T. Holliday, Origin and evolution of lunettes on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. Quaternary Research 47:54-69.
*Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Analysis of Paleoindian bone beds at the Clovis site: New data from old excavations. Plains Anthropologist, 42:329-352.
1996 *Vance T. Holliday, Gustavson, Thomas C., and Susan D. Hovorka, Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Playa Fills on the Southern High Plains. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 108: 953-965.
*Vance T. Holliday and David J. Meltzer, Geoarchaeology of the Midland (Paleoindian) site, Texas. American Antiquity, 61:755-771.
1995 *Daniel R. Muhs and Vance T. Holliday, Active dune sand on the Great Plains in the 19th century: Evidence from accounts of early explorers. Quaternary Research, 43:198-208.
*Ty J. Sabin and Vance T. Holliday, Morphometric and spatial relationships of playas and lunettes on the Southern High Plains. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85:286-305.
*Matthew G. Hill, Vance T. Holliday, and Dennis J. Stanford. A further evaluation of the San Jon site, New Mexico. Plains Anthropologist 40:369-390
Vance T. Holliday, Late Quaternary stratigraphy of the Southern High Plains. In: Eileen Johnson (ed.), Ancient Peoples and Landscapes, Museum of Texas Tech University, p. 289-313.
Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Archaeology and Late Quaternary Environments of the Southern High Plains. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 66:519-540.
1994 Vance T. Holliday, The "State Factor" approach in geoarchaeology. In: Ronald Amundson (ed.), Factors of Soil Formation - A Fiftieth Anniversary Perspective. Soil Science Society of America, Special Publication 33:65-86.
*Vance T. Holliday, C. Vance Haynes, Jr., Jack L. Hofman, and David J. Meltzer, Geoarchaeology and geochronology of the Miami (Clovis) site, Southern High Plains of Texas. Quaternary Research, 41:234-244.
1993 *Vance T. Holliday, C. Reid Ferring, and Paul Goldberg, The scale of soil investigations in archaeology. In: Julie K. Stein and Angela R. Linse (eds.) Effects of Scale on Archaeological and Geological Perspectives, Geological Society of America Special Paper 283, p. 29-37.
Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Les cultures préhistoriques des Southern High Plains (USA) dans leurs contextes stratigraphique et paléoclimatique. L'Anthropologie, 97: 651-673.
1992 Vance T. Holliday, Soil Formation, Time, and Archaeology. In: V. T. Holliday (ed.), Soils in Archaeology: Landscape Evolution and Human Occupation. Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 101-117.
1991 *Vance T. Holliday and Thomas C. Gustavson, Quaternary Stratigraphy and Soils of the Southern High Plains. In: Roger B. Morrison (ed.), Quaternary Nonglacial Geology: Conterminous United States, p. 479-484. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume.
1990 *Vance T. Holliday, Pedology in Archaeology. In: N.P. Lasca and J. Donahue (eds.), Archaeological
Geology of North America. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 4:525-540.
*Vance T. Holliday, Soils and landscape evolution of eolian plains: the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. In: P.L.K. Knuepfer and L.D. McFadden (eds.), "Soils and Landscape Evolution", Geomorphology, 3:489-515.
1989 *Vance T. Holliday, Middle Holocene drought on the Southern High Plains. Quaternary Research, 31:74- 82.
*Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary cultural and environmental change on the Southern High Plains, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science, 4:145-165.
*Vance T. Holliday and Julie K. Stein, Variability of laboratory procedures and results in geoarchaeology. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 4:347-358.
Vance T. Holliday, Paleopedology in archeology. In: A. Bronger and J. Catt (eds.), Paleopedology: Nature and Applications of Paleosols, Catena Supplement 16:187-206.
*Vance T. Holliday, The Blackwater Draw Formation (Quaternary): A 1.4+ m.y. record of eolian sedimentation and soil formation on the Southern High Plains. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 101:1598-1607.
1988 *Vance T. Holliday, Mt. Blanco revisited: soil-geomorphic implications for the ages of the upper Cenozoic Blanco and Blackwater Draw formations. Geology, 16:505-508.
*Vance T. Holliday, Genesis of a late-Holocene soil chronosequence at the Lubbock Lake archaeological site, Texas. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 78:594-610.
1987 *Vance T. Holliday, Eolian Processes and Sediments on the Great Plains. In: W. Graff (ed.), Geomorphic
Systems of North America. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 2, p. 195-202.
*Vance T. Holliday, A reexamination of late-Pleistocene boreal forest reconstructions for the Southern High Plains. Quaternary Research, 28:238-244.
*Vance T. Holliday, Geoarchaeology and late Quaternary geomorphology of the Middle South Platte River, Northeastern Colorado. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 2:317-329.
Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Introduction. In: Eileen Johnson (ed.), Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains. Texas A&M University Press, p. 1-13.
Vance T. Holliday and B. L. Allen, Geology and Soils. In: Eileen Johnson (ed.), Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains. Texas A&M University Press, p. 14-21.
Vance T. Holliday, Cultural Chronology of Lubbock Lake. In: Eileen Johnson (ed.), Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains. Texas A&M University Press, p. 22-25.
Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Lubbock Lake Lithic Assemblages. In: Eileen Johnson (ed.), Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains. Texas A&M University Press, p. 100-119.
Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Summary. In: Eileen Johnson (ed.), Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains. Texas A&M University Press, p. 159-162.
1986 *Herbert Haas, Vance T. Holliday and Robert Stuckenrath, Dating of Holocene Stratigraphy with Soluble and Insoluble Organic Fractions at the Lubbock Lake Archaeological Site, Texas: An Ideal Case Study. Radiocarbon, 28(2A): 473-485.
*Vance T. Holliday and Eileen Johnson, Re-evaluation of the First Radiocarbon Age for the Folsom Culture. American Antiquity, 51:332-338.
*Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, The Archaic Record at Lubbock Lake. Plains Anthropologist Memoir, 21:7-54.
1985 *Vance T. Holliday, Holocene Soil-Geomorphological Relationships in a Semi-arid Environment: The Southern High Plains of Texas. In: John Boardman (ed.), Soils and Quaternary Landscape Evolution, pp. 325-357. John Wiley and Sons, England.
*Vance T. Holliday, New Data on the Stratigraphy and Pedology of the Clovis and Plainview Sites, Southern High Plains. Quaternary Research, 23:388-402.
*Vance T. Holliday, Early Holocene Soils at the Lubbock Lake Archaeological Site, Texas. Catena, 12:61-78.
*Vance T. Holliday, Morphology of Late Holocene Soils at the Lubbock Lake Archaeological Site, Texas Soil Science Society of America Journal, 49:938-946.
*Vance T. Holliday, Eileen Johnson, Herbert Haas, and Robert Stuckenrath, Radiocarbon Ages from the Lubbock Lake Site: 1981-1984. Plains Anthropologist, 30:277-292.
*Vance T. Holliday, Archaeological Geology of the Lubbock Lake Site, Southern High Plains of Texas. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 96:1483-1492.
1984 *Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Comments on "Large Springs and Early American Indians" Plains Anthropologist, 29:65-70.
1983 *Vance T. Holliday and Eileen Johnson, Comments on Stafford's "Alluvial Geology and Archaeological Potential of the Texas Southern High Plains" American Antiquity, 48:151-154.
*Vance T. Holliday, Eileen Johnson, Herbert Haas, and Robert Stuckenrath, Radiocarbon Ages from the Lubbock Lake Site, 1950-1980: Framework for Cultural and Ecological Change on the Southern High Plains. Plains Anthropologist, 28:165-182.
1982 Eileen Johnson, Vance T. Holliday, and Raymond W. Neck, Lake Theo: Late Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Data and New Plainview (Paleoindian) Date. North American Archeologist, 3:113-137.
1981 *Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, Late Paleoindian Activity at the Lubbock Lake Site. Plains Anthropologist, 26:173-193.
*Vance T. Holliday and Eileen Johnson, An Update on the Plainview Occupation at the Lubbock Lake Site. Plains Anthropologist, 26:251-253.
*Vance T. Holliday and Curtis M. Welty, Lithic Tool Resources of the Eastern Llano Estacado. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 52:201-214.
1980 *Eileen Johnson and Vance T. Holliday, A Plainview Kill/Butchering Locale on the Llano Estacado: The Lubbock Lake Site. Plains Anthropologist, 25:89-111.
1977 *Eileen Johnson, Vance T. Holliday, Michael J. Kaczor, and Robert Stuckenrath, The Garza Occupation at the Lubbock Lake Site. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, 48:83-109.
Courses Taught
ANTH 160A1: Patterns in Prehistory
Anth 332: Environmental Archaeology
Anth/Geos 512A: Geoarchaeology
Geos/Anth 514: Quaternary Geology
Anth/Geos 561: Paleoindian Origins
Areas of Study
See web site: http://www.argonaut.arizona.edu/
Projects
See web site: http://www.argonaut.arizona.edu/
Research Interests
Geoarchaeology, Paleoindian archaeology, soil-geomorphology, and Quaternary landscape evolution and paleoenvironments. Prior to moving to UA, most research was on the Great Plains, but has since focused on the Southwest U.S. and Northwest Mexico. Other research has included Paleolithic sites in southwestern Russia and in Ukraine. In addition to AARF, research was funded by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, the Geological Society of America, and the Leakey Foundation.