Papers:

Hall, Roberta L., Donna McCarthy, and Don Alan Hall. 2002. How Were North American Sites of the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary Discovered? North American Archaeologist 23(2): 145-156.

Hall, Roberta and Loren Davis. 2003. Locating Sites of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition on Oregon's Southern Coast. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 27 (3/4): 7-11.

Hall, Roberta, Loren Davis, and Michele Punke. 2003. Late Pleistocene Site on Oregon's Southern Coast. The Midden (published by the Archaeological Society of British Columbia) Vol. 35(1): 5-8.

Punke, Michele L. and Loren G. Davis. 2004. Finding Late Pleistocene Sites in Coastal River Valleys: Geoarchaeological Insights from the Southern Oregon Coast. Current Research in the Pleistocene Vol. 20: 66-68.

Willis, Samuel C. 2004. The Preliminary View of a Late Pleistocene Lithic Assemblage at Indian Sands (35CU67C). Current Research in the Pleistocene Vol. 20: 83-85.

Davis, Loren G., Michele L. Punke, Roberta L. Hall, Matthew Fillmore, and Samuel C. Willis. 2004. Evidence for a Late Pleistocene Occupation of the Southern Northwest Coast. Journal of Field Archaeology 29:1-10.

Hall, Roberta, Diana Roy, and David Boling. 2004. Pleistocene Migration Routes into the Americas: Human Biological Adaptations and Environmental Constraints. Evolutionary Anthropology 13(4):132-144.

Hall, Roberta, Loren Davis, and Samuel Willis, and Matthew Fillmore. 2005. Radiocarbon, Soil, and Artifact Chronologies for an Early Southern Oregon Coastal Site. Radiocarbon 47:383-394

Punke, Michele L. and Loren G. Davis. 2006. Problems and Prospects in the Preservation of Late Pleistocene Cultural Sites in Southern Oregon Coastal River Valleys: Implications for Evaluating Coastal Migration Routes. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal. Vol. 21 (4):333-350.

Davis, Loren G. 2006. Geoarchaeological Insights from Indian Sands, a Late Pleistocene Site on the Southern Northwest Coast, USA. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal. Vol. 21 (4):351-361.

Davis, Loren G., Roberta L. Hall, and Samuel C. Willis. 2006. Response to Moss et al. "An Early Holocene/Late Pleistocene Archaeological Site on the Oregon Coast? Comments on Hall et al. (2005)" Radiocarbon Vol. 48 (3): 469-472.

Theses:

Punke, Michele. 2002. Predictive Locational Modeling of Late Pleistocene Archaeological Sites on the Southern Oregon Coast Using a Geographic Information System (GIS). MAIS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Willis, Samuel. 2005. A Late Pleistocene Lithic Assemblage at Indian Sands (35CU67C). MA, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Punke, Michele. 2005. Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of an Active Margin Coast from the Pleistocene to the Present: Examples from Southwest Oregon. Ph.D. Thesis, Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Presentations:

2001:

March 29-31. Predictive Locational Modeling of Late Pleistocene Archaeological Sites on the Southern Oregon Coast Using a Geographic Information System (GIS), Northwest Anthropology Conference, Moscow, Idaho (Punke). Abstract is published in the Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 2002, Vol. 36 (1): 94.

May. Overview of the Locating Sites Project, at the Dunal Landscape Workshop organized by Curt Peterson, Charleston, Oregon (Hall).

May. Tour-leader to site 35-CS-43, Bandon, Oregon, at the annual Coquille Indian Cultural Preservation Conference (Hall). Participation in the conference by Ford, Hall and Punke.

2002:

April 8. The Locating Sites Field Research Project and its Multi-disciplinary Components, Oregon Sea Grant Extension meeting, Corvallis, Oregon (Davis and Punke).

May 13. Geoarchaeological Implications of Late Quaternary Deposition and Erosion on Southern Oregon Coastal Uplands. Paper at the Geological Society of America's 98th Cordilleran Section Meeting, in Curt Peterson's theme session entitled Coastal Paleodune Landscapes (Davis).

May 7. Why Know Bones? a lecture concerning the role of osteology in studying prehistory, specifically coastal Oregon work. Oregon Archaeological Association meeting at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland (Hall).

May 19-21. Coquille Cultural Preservation Conference, North Bend, Oregon; individual and forum discussions concerning the locating sites project and other topics concerning cultural preservation (Davis, Fluharty, and Hall).

June 25. Archaeological Studies of the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition, a talk to the field crew at Woodburn's Hermanos II paleontological site project organized by the Oregon Archaeological Society and the OSU Science Education Department (Hall).

October 11. Presentation to and discussion with city and state police in Newport Oregon concerning the importance of archaeological sites in general and in the study of the peopling of the coast (Hall).

October 24. Locating sites project overview and findings, meeting of the OSU Sea Grant Advisory Board (Hall and Punke).

2003:

Feb. 15. Archaeology: Our Key to Understanding Past Environments and Human Ecology, lecture at the South Slough Estuarine Sanctuary, near Charleston, Oregon, as part of the Friends of South Slough Winter Lecture Series (Hall).

March 20. Symposium: New Developments and Directions in Southern Oregon Coast Archaeology, organized by Loren Davis, Northwest Anthropological Conference, sponsored by Western Washington State, Bellingham. Papers: Old Estuaries and New Rivers: Archaeology and a Changing Pacific Shoreline in Southern Cascadia (R. Scott Byram and Donald B. Ivy, Coquille Indian Tribe Cultural Resource Program); How Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archaeological Sites are Discovered: Implications for Oregon's Southern Coast (Roberta Hall, OSU); The Geoarchaeological Context of Early Occupation at Indian Sands (35-CU-67C), Southern Oregon Coast (Loren Davis, OSU); A Preliminary View of the Lithic Assemblage at 35-CU-67C, a Late Pleistocene Period Site on the Southern Northwest Coast (Samuel Willis, OSU); and Predictive Modeling of Early Archaeological Sites on the Southern Oregon Coast: Lessons Learned (Michele Punke, OSU). Abstracts are published in the Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 2003, Vol. 37 (2): Byram and Ivy, p. 171, Davis, pp. 174-5, Hall, p. 180, Punke, p. 196, and Willis p. 204.

May 17. Locating Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Sites; lecture for the Archaeological Society of Central Oregon in Bend, Oregon (Davis).

May 18-20. Coquille Cultural Conference in North Bend, Oregon; participation by Hall, Davis, Punke, and Fluharty, including a field trip to Crook Point, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife-managed property, to consider the area's potential for early prehistoric sites, together with tribal cultural resource staff, local people interested in prehistory, U.S. Fish and Wildlife archaeologists, and other tribal, agency, and university personnel.

Oct. 6. Mini-symposium: Locating Late Pleistocene Sites on the Southern Oregon Coast; part of the Oregon Archaeological Heritage festival. At OSU, these talks gave an update on our research for consultants, friends, and interested members of the public. Four talks and discussions: Roberta Hall, New Approaches and New Data Concerning a Possible Coastal Migration; Loren Davis, Recent Investigations at Indian Sands, Oregon's Earliest Coastal Site; Michele Punke, Dynamic Sea Level Studies; Sam Willis, Lithic Technology at a Late Pleistocene Site on the Southern Oregon Coast.

Nov. 2. Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington, in the session: The Peopling of the New World: Geology, Archaeology, and Paleoenvironments. Session chair, Vance Holliday of the University of Arizona. Authors are preparing papers for publication of the symposium. Two papers from our team: Loren Davis, Geoarcheology of Late Pleistocene Occupation at the Indian Sands Site, Southern Northwest Coast; Michele Punke and Loren Davis, Coastal Migration into the New World: Challenges to Early Archaeological Site Discovery in Coastal River Valleys.

2004:

Northwest Anthropology Conference, Eugene, Oregon, sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management and University of Oregon, March 25-27. Northwest Coast Prehistory Session: Samuel Willis, Technology and Mobility at Indian Sands (35-CU-67C): Late Pleistocene Activity on the Southern Oregon Coast. In a session on Paleoclimate of the Late Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene: Roberta Hall, A Human Ecology Approach to Coastal Migration Theory. Abstracts are published in the Journal of Northwest Anthropology.

American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Tampa, Florida, April 14-17. Roberta Hall, What does the Human Biological Perspective Suggest Concerning Migration Routes into the Americas? Abstract is published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2004, Supplement 38: 106-7.

Kiwanis Club, Albany, Oregon, April 1. The Case for an Early Coastal Migration into the Americas (Roberta Hall).

Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, Oregon, May 8. The Case for an Early Coastal Migration into the Americas (Roberta Hall).

May 16-19. North Bend, Oregon, Coquille Cultural Conference; participation by Roberta Hall, Loren Davis, Sam Willis and Suzanne Fluharty.

2005:

June 14. Ashland, Oregon. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Paleoecology and Human Biological models for the Pacific Northwest Coast in the Late Pleistocene (Hall.) In symposium "Ice Age Peoples of the Pacific Northwest" organized by Nina Jablonski (pp 22 and 57, AAAS P.D. abstracts)