The World as His Oyster: Our Journey with Alan Simmons

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Pushing the Envelope, Chasing Stone Age Sailors and Early Agriculture: Papers in Honor of the Career of Alan H. Simmons" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Our journey with Alan Simmons began in Tucson, Arizona as graduate students at different institutions working for the Arizona State Museum. Through time we grew together personally and professionally and maintained contact even though often separated by space. Alan recognized early on that to get ahead he had to act on opportunities that came his way, a characteristic that would help define career. We worked together for the Navajo Nation Archaeology Program located on the Colorado Plateau, an arid region of striking beauty with a splendid archaeological record and still-living Native peoples. Here, Alan was able to pursue his interests in the Southwestern Archaic period and the origins of agriculture; among his contributions was the discovery of maize pollen in an early temporal context that was reported in American Antiquity. Subsequent opportunities took him to Kansas and Nevada. For years he worked in both the New and Old Worlds, but eventually the sway of the Old World won out and by the time he joined the faculty at UNLV in the early 1990s he had returned full time to his interests in the Near East and the Mediterranean. It has been a journey of places, people, work and fun.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Pushing the Envelope, Chasing Stone Age Sailors and Early Agriculture: Papers in Honor of the Career of Alan H. Simmons

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Abstract Id(s): 24432