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

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.

The Las Vegas Valley in southern Nevada experienced unprecedented growth in the 1990's. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) was not immune to this progress and as a result began to attract the attention of top researchers, professors, and graduate students out west. The moment I arrived at UNLV in January 1994, through my graduation in 1997 and subsequent participation on several fieldwork efforts that crossed Y2K, Dr. Alan H. Simmons generously afforded me countless opportunities to better myself as an archaeologist and anthropologist. From the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Wadi Shu’eib and Ghwair I) to the island nation of Cyprus (Kholetria Ortos), evidence of a complex Neolithic package emerged across the Eastern Mediterranean Basin in various ecological landscapes. Dr. Simmons taught me many things in both the classroom setting and in the field, but no more important than not to drink his cognac when he wasn’t looking even though it was Christmas. And the other important life lesson I learned from Alan, don’t ever house sit for a professor on sabbatical.

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): 23191