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The Center for the Study of the First Americans requires major funding to cover basic costs, attract and sponsor outstanding graduate students, and disseminate research results through its publication program. While the Center secures funding through membership and extramural granting agencies (ex: National Geographic Society and National Science Foundation), to accomplish our mission we must generate significant additional funding through private donors like you. Vision and generosity of fellow donors has propelled the Center to the forefront in first Americans research. Your gifts and involvement will permit us to continue along this path to leadership in our field, advancing knowledge in peopling of the Americas studies and making significant new results available to a broad audience through our publications and conferences.

	Upcoming Field School Opportunity! CSFA Summer Field School in Beringian Archaeology in Tanana Valley, North Alaska Range, Alaska July 8 - August 10, 2013

	Congratulations to nominee John Blong for receiving a Vision 2020 Dissertation Enhancement Award from the College of Liberal Arts, valued at $5,000!

	Check out the new special edition of Current Research in the Pleistocene Southbound: Late Pleistocene Peopling of Latin America, available from the CSFA (cannot be ordered through TAMU Press).

	Congratulations to John Blong, Heather Smith, and Angela Younie for each being awarded the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant!

	Additional kudos to Angela Younie for receiving the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant!

	Check out the new CSFA sponsored Peopling of the Americas Publication Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast, edited by Claude Chapdelaine, now available from TAMU Press.

	Jesse Tune and co-authors publish article in Tennessee Archaeology on excavations and dating of Late Pleistocene and Paleoindian deposits at the Coats-Hines site, Williamson County, Tennessee (pdf)

	Ted Goebel co-organized the "Symposium on the Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Palaeolithic Asia", held in Tokyo, Japan, Nov.29-Dec.1, He and Kelly Graf presented lectures.

	Ted Goebel and Lawrence Straus co-edit recent issue of Quaternary International featuring 23 papers on Humans and the Younger Dryas. Vol. 242 Issue 2 15 October 2011 ISSN 1040-6182.

	Ted Goebel was recently interviewed (Prof Helping To Unravel Causes Of Ice Age Extinctions)about a collaborative project trying to solve the mystery of the extinction of the megafauna at the end of the last Ice Age that is described in a recent article in Nature. (2011-11-04)

	Ted Goebel, Kelly Graf and co-authors publish article in Nature on responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans (pdf)

	Michael Waters and co-authors publish article in Science (Volume 334, October) on Pre-Clovis Mastodon Hunting 13,800 Years Ago at the Manis Site, Washington (pdf)

	Ted Goebel and co-authors publish article in Quaternary International (Volume 242) on Climate, Environment, and Humans in North America’s Great Basin during the Younger Dryas, 12,900-11,600 calendar years ago (pdf)

	Kelly Graf and Nancy Bigelow publish article in Quaternary International (Volume 242) on Human Response to Climate during the Younger Dryas Chronozone in Central Alaska (pdf)

	Tom Jennings publishes article in Journal of Archaeological Science (in press) on the Experimental Production of Bending and Radial Flake Fractures and Implications for Lithic Technologies (pdf)