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.
Other Keywords
Neolithic •
Lithic Analysis •
Survey •
Landscape Archaeology •
Settlement patterns •
Archaic •
Material Culture and Technology •
demography •
mortuary •
Geoarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
Republic of Turkey (Country) •
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Country) •
State of Israel (Country) •
Lebanese Republic (Country) •
Syrian Arab Republic (Country) •
West Bank (Country) •
Republic of Cyprus (Country) •
Gaza Strip (Country) •
Republic of Iraq (Country) •
Islamic Republic of Iran (Country)
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- Documents (14)
- Becoming Cypriot: Identity Formation, Negotiation and Renegotiation on Bronze Age Cyprus (2019)
- Characteristics of an Upland Cypro-PPNB Ground Stone Assemblage (2019)
- Filling the Envelope: a History of Archaeobotanical Research in Cyprus (2019)
- Hippos, Cows and CAARI: Alan Simmons’ impact on Cypriot Archaeology (2019)
- Landscape and Super-Regional Scale Interaction within the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus (2019)
- Maize Pollen but No Hippos: Alan Simmons' Contributions to our understanding of the Adoption of Agriculture in the U.S. Southwest (2019)
- Neolithic Group Sizes – Further Thoughts (2019)
- Neolithic Tales from the Eastern Mediterranean Basin: A Graduate Student’s Experience under Dr. Alan H. Simmons at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in the 1990s (2019)
- The Old Stone Age in the Shammakh-to-Ayl Archaeological Survey Area, west-central Jordan (2019)
- The Road More Traveled: ‘Ain Ghazal and the Peopling of the Black Desert (2019)
- Signs of Shared Identity: Neolithic Incised Stones in Cyprus and Beyond (2019)
- Simmons at DRI: Years of Famine and Triumph (2019)
- Stop the Press!!!: Settlement Hierarchies in the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic? Not… (2019)
- The World as His Oyster: Our Journey with Alan Simmons (2019)