Vance Holliday

Vance Holliday received a B.A. with Honors in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin (1972); an M.A. in Museum Science from Texas Tech University (1977); and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Colorado-Boulder (1982). He was on the faculty of the Departments of Geography and Anthropology at Texas A&M University (1984-1986), and Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1986-2002). Since 2002 he has been a professor in both the School of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona.

He is also Executive Director of the Argonaut Archaeological Research Fund (AARF) . As a student his initial interests were in Texas archaeology, in part spurred by field experience throughout the state as an employee of the Texas Archeological Salvage Project (renamed the Texas Archeological Survey; eventually subsumed by the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory). An opportunity to work at the Lubbock Lake archaeological site expanded his interest in Paleoindian archaeology and sparked an interest in soils and geoarchaeology. This led to PhD research on soils at Lubbock Lake.

His research now includes geoarchaeology, Paleoindian archaeology, soil-geomorphology, and Quaternary landscape evolution and paleoenvironments. Prior to joining the UA most of his work was on the Great Plains, working with Eileen Johnson at Texas Tech University (http://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/lll/) and David Meltzer at SMU (http://smu.edu/anthro/faculty/dmeltzer/dmeltzer.htm), but since joining the UA his research has turned to the Southwest U.S. and northwestern Mexico as part of AARF. Additional research included geoarchaeological field work on the Pampas of Argentina, and in the Don River Valley of Russia, and along the Dnieper River in Ukraine (see references below). He wrote three books, edited two others, authored or co-authored over 50 reviewed articles in journals and books, and wrote or co-authored another 20 articles and book chapters. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Geological Society of America, and the Leakey Foundation. Honors include the 1998 “Rip” Rapp Archaeological Geology Award of the G.S.A., and the 1998 Kirk Bryan Award of the G.S.A. (for one of the books). 

A Cosmic Catastrophe: The Great Clovis Comet Debate

A Rogue's Gallery of Field Assistants

PUBLICATIONS BY VANCE T. HOLLIDAY

BOOKS
Holliday, V.T., Editor (1992) Soils in Archaeology: Landscape Evolution and Human Occupation. Smithsonian

Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Holliday, V.T. (1995) Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of Late Quaternary Valley Fills on the Southern High Plains. Geological Society of America Memoir 186.

Holliday, V.T. (1997) Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Goldberg, P., V.T. Holliday, and C.R. Ferring, Editors (2001). Earth Science in Archaeology. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

Holliday, V.T. (2004) Soils and Archaeological Research.Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS
 

1980
Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, A Plainview Kill/Butchering Locale on the Llano Estacado: The Lubbock Lake Site. Plains Anthropologist 25:89-111. (.pdf)

1981
Holliday, Vance T. and Eileen Johnson, An Update on the Plainview Occupation at the Lubbock Lake Site. Plains Anthropologist 26:251-253. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T. and Curtis M. Welty, Lithic Tool Resources of the Eastern Llano Estacado. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 52:201-214. (.pdf)

Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, Late Paleoindian Activity at the Lubbock Lake Site. Plains Anthropologist26:173-193. (.pdf)

1982
Johnson, Eileen, Vance T. Holliday, and Raymond W. Neck, Lake Theo: Late Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Data and New Plainview (Paleoindian) Date. North American Archeologist 3:113-137. (.pdf)

1983
Holliday, Vance T., 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. (.pdf)

1985
Holliday, Vance T., Archaeological Geology of the Lubbock Lake Site, Southern High Plains of Texas. Geological Society of America Bulletin 96:1483-1492. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Early Holocene Soils at the Lubbock Lake Archaeological Site, Texas. Catena 12:61-78. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Holocene Soil-Geomorphological Relationships in a Semi-arid Environment: The Southern High Plains of Texas. In Soils and Quaternary Landscape Evolution, edited by John Boardman, pp. 325-357. John Wiley and Sons, England. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Morphology of Late Holocene Soils at the Lubbock Lake Archaeological Site Texas. Soil Science Society of America Journal 49:938-946. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., New Data on the Stratigraphy and Pedology of the Clovis and Plainview Sites, Southern High Plains. Quaternary Research 23:388-402. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Eileen Johnson, Herbert Haas, and Robert Stuckenrath, Radiocarbon Ages from the Lubbock Lake Site: 1981-1984. Plains Anthropologist 30:277-292. (.pdf)

1986
Haas, Herbert, 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. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T. and Eileen Johnson, Re-evaluation of the First Radiocarbon Age for the Folsom Culture. American Antiquity 51:332-338. (.pdf)

Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, The Archaic Record at Lubbock Lake. Plains Anthropologist Memoir 21:7-54.

1987
Holliday, Vance T., Cultural Chronology of Lubbock Lake. In Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains, edited by Eileen Johnson, pp. 22-25. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.

Holliday, Vance T., Eolian Processes and Sediments on the Great Plains. In Geomorphic Systems of North America, edited by W. Graff, pp. 195-202. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 2. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Geoarchaeology and Late Quaternary Geomorphology of the Middle South Platte River, Northeastern Colorado. Geoarchaeology 2:317-329. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., A Reexamination of Late-Pleistocene Boreal Forest Reconstructions for the Southern High Plains. Quaternary Research 28:238-244. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T. and B. L. Allen, Geology and Soils. In Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains, edited by Eileen Johnson, pp. 14-21. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.

Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, Introduction. In Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains, edited by Eileen Johnson, pp. 1-13. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. (.pdf)

Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, Lubbock Lake Lithic Assemblages. In Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains, edited by Eileen Johnson, pp. 100-119. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. (.pdf)

Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, Summary. In Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains, edited by Eileen Johnson, pp. 159-162. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. (.pdf)

1988
Dolliver, Paul N. and Vance T. Holliday, Ogallala and Post-Ogallala Sediments of the Southern High Plains, Blanco Canyon and Mt. Blanco, Texas. In Geological Society of America, Centennial Field Guide - South-Central Section, edited by O. T. Hayward, pp. 299-304. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Genesis of a Late-Holocene Soil Chronosequence at the Lubbock Lake Archaeological Site, Texas. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 78:594-610. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Late Pleistocene and Holocene Stratigraphy, Southern High Plains of Texas. InGeological Society of America, Centennial Field Guide - South-Central Section, edited by O. T. Hayward, pp. 293-298. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Mt. Blanco Revisited: Soil-geomorphic Implications for the Ages of the Upper Cenozoic Blanco and Blackwater Draw Formations. Geology 16:505-508. (.pdf)

1989
Holliday, Vance T., 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 Bulletin101:1598-1607. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Middle Holocene Drought on the Southern High Plains. Quaternary Research 31:74-82. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Paleopedology in Archeology. In Paleopedology: Nature and Applications of Paleosols, edited by A. Bronger and J. Catt. Catena Supplement 16:187-206. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T. and Julie K. Stein, Variability of Laboratory Procedures and Results in Geoarchaeology. Geoarchaeology 4:347-358. (.pdf)

Johnson, Eileen 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.

1990
Holliday, Vance T., Pedology in Archaeology. In Archaeological Geology of North America, edited by N.P. Lasca and J. Donahue, pp. 525-540. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 4. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Soils and Landscape Evolution of Eolian Plains: The Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. Geomorphology 3:489-515. (.pdf)

Thorson, Robert M. and Vance T. Holliday, Just What is Geoarchaeology? Geotimes 35:19-20. (.pdf)

1991
Holliday, Vance T., The Geologic Record of Wind Erosion, Eolian Deposition, and Aridity on the Southern High Plains. Great Plains Research 1:6-25. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T. and Thomas C. Gustavson, Quaternary Stratigraphy and Soils of the Southern High Plains. In Quaternary Nonglacial Geology: Conterminous United States, edited by Roger B. Morrison, pp. 479-484. Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume.

Holliday, Vance T., Earth Science and Archaeology (Review Essay). Reviews in Anthropology 16:35-45.

1992
Holliday, Vance T., Soil Formation, Time, and Archaeology. In Soils in Archaeology: Landscape Evolution and Human Occupation, edited by V. T. Holliday, pp. 107-117. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. (.pdf)

1993
Holliday, Vance T., C. Reid Ferring, and Paul Goldberg, The Scale of Soil Investigations in Archaeology. In Effects of Scale on Archaeological and Geoscientific Perspectives, edited by Julie K. Stein and Angela R. Linse, pp. 29-37. Geological Society of America Special Paper 283.

Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, Les Cultures Préhistoriques des Southern High Plains ( USA) Dans Leurs Contextes Stratigraphique et Paléoclimatique. L'Anthropologie, 97:651-673.

1994
Gustavson, Thomas C., Vance T. Holliday, and Susan D. Hovorka, Development of Playa Basins, Southern High Plains, Texas and New Mexico. In Proceedings of the Playa Basin Symposium, edited by L.V. Urban and A.W. Wyatt, pp. 5-14. Texas Tech University, Water Resources Center, Lubbock.

Holliday, Vance T., The "State Factor" Approach in Geoarchaeology. In Factors of Soil Formation - A Fiftieth Anniversary Perspective, edited by Ronald Amundson, pp. 65-86. Soil Science Society of America, Special Publication 33. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., 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. (.pdf)

1995
Gustavson, Thomas C., Vance T. Holliday, and Susan D. Hovorka, Origin and Development of Playa Basins, Sources of Recharge to the Ogallala Aquifer, Southern High Plains, Texas and New Mexico. The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigation 229.

Hill, Matthew G., Vance T. Holliday, and Dennis J. Stanford. A Further Evaluation of the San Jon site, New Mexico. Plains Anthropologist 40:369-390

Holliday, Vance T., Late Quaternary Stratigraphy of the Southern High Plains. In Ancient Peoples and Landscapes, edited by Eileen Johnson, pp. 289-313. Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, Archaeology and Late Quaternary Environments of the Southern High Plains. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 66:519-540.

Muhs, Daniel R. 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. (.pdf)

Sabin, Ty J. 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. (.pdf)

1996
Holliday, Vance T., Thomas C. Gustavson, and Susan D. Hovorka, Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Playa Fills on the Southern High Plains. Geological Society of America Bulletin 108:953-965. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T. and David J. Meltzer, Geoarchaeology of the Midland (Paleoindian) Site, Texas. American Antiquity 61:755-771. (.pdf)

1997
Holliday, Vance T., Origin and Evolution of Lunettes on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. Quaternary Research 47:54-69. (.pdf)

Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, Analysis of Paleoindian Bone Beds at the Clovis Site: New Data From Old Excavations. Plains Anthropologist 42:329-352. (.pdf)

1998
Dahms, Dennis and Vance T. Holliday, Soil Taxonomy and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction: A Critical Commentary. Quaternary International 51/52:109-114. (.pdf)

Dahms, Dennis, Vance T. Holliday, and Peter W. Birkeland, Technical Comment: Paleosols and Devonian Forests. Science 279:151. (.pdf)

Knudson, Ruthann, Eileen Johnson, and Vance T. Holliday, The 10,000-year-old Lubbock Artifact Assemblage. Plains Anthropologist 43:239-256. (.pdf)

1999
Gustavson, Thomas C. 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. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Eileen Johnson, and Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., AMS Radiocarbon Dating of the Type Plainview and Firstview (Paleoindian) Assemblages. American Antiquity 64:444-454. (.pdf)

2000
Holliday, Vance T., The Evolution of Paleoindian Geochronology and Typology on the Great Plains. Geoarchaeology 15:227-290. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Folsom Drought and Episodic Drying on the Southern High Plains From 10,900-10,200 14C yr B.P. Quaternary Research 53:1-12. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., History of Geoarchaeology on the Southern High Plains. In Geoarchaeological Research in the Great Plains, edited by R. Mandel, pp. 10-43. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Vance Haynes and Paleoindian Geoarchaeology and Geochronology of the Great Plains. Geoarchaeology 15:511-522. (.pdf)

2001
Holliday, Vance T., Quaternary Geoscience in Archaeology. In Earth Science in Archaeology, edited by P. Goldberg, V. T. Holliday, and C. R. Ferring, pp. 3-35. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., 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. (.pdf)

Muhs, Daniel R. 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. (.pdf)

2002
Bousman, C. Britt, 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, and Joseph F. Powell, The Palaeoindian-Archaic Transition in North America: New Evidence From Texas. Antiquity 76:980-990. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., James C. Knox, Garry L. Running IV, Rolfe D. Mandel, and C. Reid Ferring, The Central Lowlands and Great Plains. In The Physical Geography of North America, edited by Anthony Orme, pp. 335-362. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (.pdf)

Holliday, Vance T., Leslie D. McFadden, E. Arthur Bettis, and Peter W. Birkeland, Soil Survey and Soil-Geomorphology. In Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey, edited by Douglas Helms, Anne B.W. Effland, and Patricia J. Durana, pp. 233-274. Iowa State Press, Iowa City. (.pdf)

Meltzer, David J., Lawrence C. Todd, and Vance T. Holliday, The Folsom (Paleoindian) Type Site: Past Investigations, Current Studies. American Antiquity 67:5-36. (.pdf)

2003
LaBelle, Jason, Vance T. Holliday, and David J. Meltzer, Early Holocene Paleoindian Deposits at Nall Playa, Oklahoma Panhandle. Geoarchaeology 18:5-34. (.pdf)

Litwinionek, Luc, Eileen Johnson, and Vance T. Holliday, The Playas of the Southern High Plains: An Archipelago of Human Occupation for 12,000 Years on the North American Grasslands. In Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes, edited by Marcel Kornfeld and Alan J. Osborn, pp.21-43. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. (.pdf)

2004
Johnson, Eileen and Vance T. Holliday, Archaeology and Late Quaternary Environments of the Southern High Plains. In Prehistory of Texas, edited by T.K. Perttula, pp. 283-295. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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 (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

Vance T. Holliday and R. Mandel “Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Great Plains, Central Lowlands, and Southwestern U.S.” Book chapter for Environment, Origins, and Populations, Volume 3 of the Handbook of North American Indians , edited by D. Stanford. Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 23-46. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

James H. Mayer, George S. Burr, and Vance T. Holliday, “Comparisons and interpretations of charcoal and organic matter radiocarbon ages from buried soils in north-central Colorado.” Radiocarbon, v. 50, p. 331-346. (.pdf)

Hoffecker, John F., M.V. Anikovich, A.A. Sinitsyn, V.V. Popov, Vance T. Holliday, G. M. Levkovskaya,G.A. Pospelova, Steven L. Forman, Biagio Giaccio, S.N. Lisitsyn, “Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Eastern Europe” Journal of Human Evolution v. 55, p. 858-870. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

Vance T. Holliday, “Geoarchaeology and the Search for the First Americans” Catena v. 78, p. 310-322. (.pdf)

Todd Surovell, Vance T. 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. (.pdf)

François S. Paquay, Steven Goderis, Greg Ravizza, Frank Vanhaecke, Matthew Boyd, Todd Surovell, Vance T. Holliday, C. Vance Haynes, Philippe Claeys, “Absence of an extraterrestrial Platinum Group Element anomaly at the Bølling-Allerød/Younger Dryas transition”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. (.pdf) supplemental data (.pdf)

Jesse A.M. Ballenger and Vance T. Holliday, Editors, “Paleoindians in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.” Archaeology Southwest, v 23, n 3 (Summer) (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

Vance T. Holliday and David J. Meltzer “The 12.9ka Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians” Current Anthropology. v. 51, p. 575-585. (.pdf)

David J. Meltzer and Vance T. Holliday, “Response to comments on ‘The 12.9ka Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians’” Current Anthropology. v. 51, p. 599-602.

Vance T. Holliday, Denise Lawrence-Zuniga and Victor Buchli, “Prologue to uses of chemical residues to make statements about human activities.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, v. 17, pp. 175-182. (.pdf)

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. (.pdf)

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.(pdf), supporting material

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.(pdf)

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.(pdf)

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. (pdf)

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.(pdf)

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.(pdf)

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 (pdf)

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. (pdf)

2013
Vance T. Holliday, David Killick. "An early Paleoindian Bead from the Mockingbird Gap Site, New Mexico." Current Anthropology, 54:85-95. (pdf)

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, 78:248-265. (pdf)

Vance T. Holliday and D. Shane Miller, "The Clovis Landscape." In Paleoamerican Odyssey, K. E. Graf, C. V. Ketron, and M.R. Waters, eds., p. 221-245. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. (pdf)

D. Shane Miller, Vance T. Holliday, and Jordon Bright, "Clovis Across the Continent." In Paleoamerican Odyssey, K. E. Graf, C. V. Ketron, and M.R. Waters, eds., p. 207-220. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. (pdf)

2014
D.J. Meltzer, 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). (pdf) Supplemental data

Guadalupe Sanchez, 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). (pdf) Supplemental data

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. (pdf) Supplemental data

Laura R. Murphy, Stance C. Hurst, Vance T. Holliday, Eileen Johnson. "Late Quaternary landscape evolution, soil stratigraphy, and geoarchaeology of the Caprock Canyonlands, Northwest Texas, USA." Quaternary International 342: 57-72.

John F. Hoffecker, Vance T. Holliday, Vadim N. Stepanchuk, Alexis Brugère, Steven L. Forman, Paul Goldberg, Oleg Tubolzev and Igor Pisarev, "Geoarchaeological and bioarchaeological Studies at Mira, an Early Upper Paleolithic site in the Lower Dnepr Valley, Ukraine." Geoarchaeology 29:61-77. (pdf)

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, 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.

In Press:
Ballenger, Jesse A.M., Vance T. Holliday, and Guadalupe Sanchez, "The Earliest People in the American Southwest." Oxford University Press, New York.

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 Causation and Explanation: Demography, Movement, Historical Ecology, C. Herhahn and A. Ramenofsky, eds. University Press of Colorado, Boulder