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| Steven Holen Curator of Archaeology Denver Museum of Nature & Science |
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| Steven Holen, Ph.D., is curator of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS). He joined the Museum in 2001. Dr. Holen received his bachelor’s and masters’s degrees from the University of Nebraska and his doctoral degree from the University of Kansas. Dr. Holen has more than 30 years experience in Great Plains archaeology and extensive experience with late Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeological and paleontological sites in the central Great Plains. His research has focused on the Clovis people, the earliest well-known North American human culture about 11,000 years old. He has studied Clovis use and long‑distance movement of stone tools in the Central Great Plains of North America. He has also excavated several pre-Clovis mammoth sites that date between 14,000 and 19,000 years old. Other areas of interest include climate change, extinctions, and geomorphology.
He formerly served as a research assistant professor and public archaeologist at the Nebraska Archaeological Survey at the University of Nebraska State Museum. Dr. Holen directed the archaeological research program and administered a major cooperative agreement between the museum and the U.S Bureau of Reclamation to conduct surveys and excavations in Nebraska and Kansas. He also worked closely with public groups including amateur archaeologists, museum members, students, local historical societies and the general public. |
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