Docuseries like “Ancient Apocalypse” attribute finds to aliens or others. This lecture highlights the actual activities of
the human beings who populated the Western Hemisphere more than 12,000 and maybe as many as 20,000 or more
years ago. This an AIA National lecture and FREE to all.

Bonnie Pitblado is Professor of Anthropology and the Robert and Virginia Bell Endowed Chair in Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, and she holds her degrees from Carleton College and the University of Arizona (MA and PhD).  Her research interests include the archaeology of the Paleoindian period, particularly the initial peopling of the New World more than 13,000 years ago, and the initial peopling of the Rocky Mountains.  Her current publication project is Peopling of the Americas: Central Controversies of the 21st Century for the Society of American Archaeology’s “Current Perspective” book series (due out in 2019).