Departmental News

Posted:  Apr 23, 2014 - 11:00am

Archaeology graduate student Chris Merriman has just been awarded the Society for American Archaeology's Fred Plog Memorial Fellowship for dissertation work in the American Southwest. The fellowship will support his research on Paleoindian responses to climate change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Northern Jornada del Muerto Basin of central New Mexico. He will receive his award at the 79th Annual Meeting of the SAA in Austin.