We are seeking highly motivated graduate students to join the team. Contact Dr. Kurt Rademaker at rademaker@tamu.edu
The team's work will be featured at the upcoming PaleoAmerican Odyssey meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 13-176. Details here: https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/2026/07/31/save-the-date-paleoamerican-odyssey-2026/
Kurt Rademaker interview on the Seven Ages podcast:
https://sevenages.org/podcasts/paleoindian-peru-with-kurt-rademaker-saaj-90/
The Paleo Andes team excavated the iconic Lauricocha Cave in the Andes of central Peru in July and August.
The Paleo Andes team gave five presentations at the 91st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in San Francisco, California in April.
When and by which routes did Paleoindians enter the Americas, and how did they adapt to inhabit different ecological zones?
Our group seeks to understand the timing, routes, and environmental setting of the earliest human dispersals in western South America.
We integrate archaeology, physical anthropology, genetics, and Quaternary science to study prehistoric settlement systems - linked archaeological sites situated in multiple ecological zones from the Pacific coast to the high Andes.
This work provides information about the long-term history and co-evolution of humans and ecological systems, and the formation of landscapes.
