Pushing the Envelope, Chasing Stone Age Sailors and Early Agriculture: Papers in Honor of the Career of Alan H. Simmons

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Pushing the Envelope, Chasing Stone Age Sailors and Early Agriculture: Papers in Honor of the Career of Alan H. Simmons," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This symposium honors the career of Dr. Alan H. Simmons and his scholarly contributions to the studies of the origins and consequences of agriculture, arid lands adaptations, lithic analysis, and island colonization with geographic foci in the American Southwest, mainland Near East, and Cyprus. Simmons began his career working on projects in North America, Lebanon, and Israel, and went on to run field projects in numerous places around the world including Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, Nevada, and Colorado. In addition, Dr. Simmons helped build a community of North American scholars who work on Cyprus. Along the way, Dr. Simmons has been an incredible friend, mentor, and colleague to people all around the world. This session honors Dr. Simmons’ dynamic career by bringing together papers from former and current students and colleagues which cover a range of topics. The diverse temporal and geographic contexts covered by these papers highlights the broad impact Dr. Simmons has had on the careers of so many archaeologists and scholars over the last several decades.