Steven R. SimmsDepartment of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology

Utah State UniversityLogan, Utah 84322-0730

(435) 797-1277 s.simms@usu.edu

Education1984 Ph.D. in anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Committee: J. F. O’Connell, K. Hawkes, E. L. Charnov). 1978 University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.1976 M.A. in anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno.1973 B.A. in anthropology, Cum Laude. University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Professional InterestsArchaeology of the American Desert West; archaeological method and theory; history and theory of anthropology; human evolutionary ecology; hunter-gatherers; pastoralists; ethnoarchaeology; food and culture; paleoecology; museums; fieldwork in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Idaho, Wyoming, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi; Southwest Asia (Jordan).

Professional ExperienceAcademic and teaching positions:2018 Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Utah State University.

2015-18 Professor of Anthropology, Utah State University.

2009-15 Professor of Anthropology, Director of Graduate Studies in Anthropology, Utah State University.

2002-09 Professor of Anthropology, Utah State University.

2000 - 02 Professor of Anthropology, Utah State University. Co-director, Museum of Anthropology.

1998-00 Professor of Anthropology and Director, Museum of Anthropology, Utah State University.

1997-99 Professor of Anthropology. Director of Anthropology Program (to 1998) and Museum of Anthropology (1998-99), Utah State University.

1991-97 Associate Professor of Anthropology. Director, Anthropology Program 1995 - 98. Utah State University.

1988-91 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Utah State University.

1985-88 Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Director, Archaeological Technician Program, Weber State College, Ogden. 1981-85 Associate Instructor, University of Utah.

1980-83 University Graduate Research Fellow, University of Utah. 1982-83 Reader, University of Utah Correspondence Study.

1975-76 Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Nevada, Reno.

1975 Field School Teaching Assistant. University of Nevada Field School in Historic Archaeology.

Selected research and professional activities: 2015- Editor for “Pioneers” section for Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 2015 Jesse D. Jennings, 2016

Isabel Kelly and Julian Steward, 2017 Emma Lou Davis, 2018 in press Donald R. Tuohy, in press Robert F. Heizer.

2010- Fremont Irrigation Project. Re-discovery and documentation of Pre-Columbian irrigation system and agricultural economics, Pleasant Creek, Torrey, Utah. Five field sessions. Supported by USU CHaSS and URCO grants 2012-13, and National Geographic Society 2014-16. Report to USFS, December 2012 (see Selected Technical Reports). Final publication in preparation. Collaboration with T. Rittenour, USU Geology Department and M.B. Cannon, Remote Sensing, USU Anthropology.

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2014-15 Ute Trails Project. Collaboration with Domiguez Archaeological Research Group (DARG), Grand Junction, Colorado for study of historic Ute trails and associated rock art and wickiup sites. Tribal collaboration and ethnographic/oral history project. USU Archaeology Field School 2014. Supported by grant from the History Colorado State Historical Fund. Co-P.I. with DARG

2013-14 Dating the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Collaboration to date and interpret rock art.

2013-14 OSL Dating of Ancestral Puebloan Agricultural Terraces, Moab, Utah. Fieldwork and contract with Utah SITLA summer 2013. Analysis in progress. Co-P.I. with J. Pederson, USU Geology department.

2010-12 The Fremont, the Numic Spread, and the Shoshone: Ancient DNA, Skeletal Remains, and Quids. With Dennis O’Rourke and Shawn Carlyle, University of Utah. USU Catalyst grant funded. NSF proposal pending additional aDNA testing and methodological hurdles. Co-P.I.

2010-11 Sabbatical leave. Fieldwork and visiting scholar in San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina. Research and writing.

2009 Re-opening the case for Fremont big villages and social complexity. Writing of popular, photo essay book “Traces of Fremont” (April 2010) and analysis of stratigraphic and spatial data on Fremont archaeological sites for technical study of Fremont village size and social inequality. Society for American Archaeology meetings (2010).

2009 Sponsor for Visiting Professor, Adolfo Gil, Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina. August – November 2009.

2008-09 Consultant for U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office. Expert testimony for case before the United States District Court, 9th District, Nevada: Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe vs. U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

2001-06 Principal Investigator. Director, USU Archaeology Field Schools 2001, 2002, Principal Investigator for 13 contract archaeology projects (6 field months). Principal Investigator for contracts in Cultural Resource Management for student training.

2005 Program Chair, 70th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City. Conference of 1,500 papers and 3,500 attendees.

2004-2008 President, Great Basin Anthropological Association. Sponsor of the Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference.

2003-04 Sabbatical leave. Research and writing for book Ancient Peoples and Place: A Basin-Plateau Prehistory. Also continued contract archaeology and work with students.

2000 Program Chair for 27th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Eccles Conference Center Ogden, Utah. Conference of 250 papers and 500 attendees.

1999-04 Editor of Utah Archaeology. Refereed journal reaching professional and avocational audiences.

1996-00 Principal Investigator. Laboratory and field investigation of farmers and foragers, ceramics and mobility in the west deserts of Utah. Director, USU Archaeology Field Schools, U. S. Army, Dugway Proving Ground (2 field months).

1994-95 Sabbatical leave. Petra Ethnoarchaeology Project, Jordan. Research Fellow at the American Center for Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan. October – December 1994.

1989-95 Principal Investigator. The Great Salt Lake Wetlands Project. Survey, excavation, analyses of archaeological sites and human remains along the Great Salt Lake, Utah (6 field months).

1992 Principal Investigator. Archaeological investigations in the Jarbidge Mtns., Nevada. USU Archaeological Field School, contract with U. S. Forest Service (1 field month).

1991-94 Consultant for Dames and Moore, Santa Barbara, CA. Kern River Pipeline Project, Utah.

1986, 88 Co-Investigator, Petra Ethnoarchaeological Project, Jordan with K. W. Russell. Ethnography, and archaeology & 90 of Bidul Bedouin, Petra, Jordan. (6 field months).

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1987-89 Consultant and peer review for Intermountain Research, Inc., Silver City, Nevada. Carson-Stillwater Archaeological Investigations, western Nevada.

1986-87 Director, Weber State College Archaeological Field Schools. Excavation of Bustos wickiups, eastern Nevada and Orbit Inn, northern Utah. Included public program (4 field months).

1985-86 Principal Investigator, Study of site destruction in southeastern Utah. Field school, program for school teachers and production of educational videotape (2 field months).

1985 Principal Investigator, BLM Fieldwork at 42MD300 Paleoindian site in western Utah.

1985 Consultant and peer review for Gilbert/Commonwealth, Sevier Desert, western Utah.

1979-85 Project Director, University of Utah Archaeological Center. Duties: proposal preparation, direction & administration of fieldwork, analysis, reporting, editing (see list of CRM reports). Supervisors: R.N. Holmer and J.F. O'Connell (10 field months).

1982 Project Director, Esca-Tech Corporation. Direction of three field crews for BLM Class II Inventory, northeastern Utah. Supervisor: M.S. Berry (2 field months).

1980-82 Experimental replication of aboriginal gathering techniques for dissertation research.

1980 Crew Member, Nevada State Highway Department excavations in Pine Valley, central Nevada. Supervisor: T.H. Turner (2 field months).

1978 Crew Chief, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV. Eagle Lake Archaeological Project, CA and Intermountain Power Project, western UT. Supervisor: L. Pippin. (3 field months).

1976-77 Underground mining ventilation and safety technician, Atlas Minerals Mines, La Sal, Utah.

1972-76 Crew Chief, Crew Member, Draftsman on numerous survey and excavation projects including (partial list): historic sites, Nevada and Idaho; Tennessee Valley Authority in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi; Anasazi and various Fremont and hunter-gatherer sites in Utah and Nevada. University of Utah Archaeological Field School, Evans Site, Utah; Nevada State Museum. Supervisors: J.D. Jennings, D.R. Tuohy, D.L. Hardesty, J. Winter, C. H. Berry and M.S. Berry (20 + field months).

Refereed Publications (journals, book chapters, books)In preparation LatePrehistoric Irrigation in Central Utah: Agricultural Economics of Irrigation and A Case for Continuity Between

the Ancient and Modern Tribes. American Antiquity.

In review Looking for Houses: Making Whole the Lithic Scatter of the American Desert West. Utah Archaeology.

In press Excavations at Three Ancestral Puebloan Sites Near Kanab, Utah in 2001and 2002. Utah Archaeology.

2014 The Age of Barrier Canyon-Style Rock Art Constrained by Cross-cutting Relations and New OSL DatingTechniques. Pederson, J. L, M. S. Chapot, S. R. Simms, R. Sohbati, T. M. Rittenour, A. S. Murray, G. Cox. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 no. 36:12986–12991.

2014 Some Thoughts on Evolution, Ecology, and Archaeology in the Great Basin. Co-author with J.F. O’Connell and K.T. Jones. In Archaeology in the Great Basin and Southwest: Papers in Honor of Don D. Fowler, edited by N.J. Parezo and J.C. Janetski. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

2012 On Prey Mobility, Prey Rank, and Foraging Goals. American Antiquity 77:179-185. Co-author with A. Ugan. Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Davis, California.

2010 Book Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.Recipient Society for American Archaeology Book Award 2011 and Utah Book Award, nonfiction 2011.

2010 Reprinted articles, “Ceramics from Camels Back Cave and Mobility in Farmer-Forager Systems in the EasternGreat Basin” and “Bedouin Hand-Harvesting of Wheat and Barley: Implications for Early Cultivation in SouthwestAsia.” In Evolutionary Ecology and Archaeology: Applications to Problems in Human Evolution and Prehistory, edited by J. M. Broughton and M. Cannon. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

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2009 A Determination of Cultural Affiliation of Ancient Human Remains from Spirit Cave, Western Nevada. Prepared for Monograph the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office. Expert testimony for case before the United States

District Court, 9th District, Nevada: Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe vs. U.S. Bureau of Land Management. 2008 Making a Living the Desert West. In The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times, edited by

C. Fowler and D. Fowler. Popular Archaeology Series, School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.

2008 Book Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek California.

2005 Ceramics from Camels Back Cave and Mobility in Farmer-Forager Systems in the Eastern Great Basin. Co-author with J. Bright and A. Ugan. In The Archaeology of Camels Back Cave, by D. Schmitt and D. Madsen. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 125. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

2003 The Desert and the Sown: Observations from an Americanist. Mediterranean Archaeology 16:13-18. (Oct 04)

2002 Ancient American Indian Life in the Great Salt Lake Wetlands: Archaeological and Biological Evidence. Co-author with M. Stuart. In Great Salt Lake, Utah 1980 Through 1998, edited by J. Wallace Gwynn, Utah Geological Survey Publications, Salt Lake City.

1999 Playa View Dune: A Mid-Holocene Campsite in the Great Salt Lake Desert. Co-author with D. N. Schmitt and K. Jensen. Utah Archaeology 12:31-49.

1999 Farmers, Foragers, and Adaptive Diversity: The Great Salt Lake Wetlands Project. In UnderstandingPrehistoric Lifeways in the Great Basin Wetlands: Bioarchaeological Reconstruction and Interpretation, edited by B. E. Hemphill and C. S. Larsen, pp. 21-54. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

1999 No One Owns the Deceased! The Treatment of Human Remains from Three Great Basin Cases. Co-author with A. Raymond. In Understanding Prehistoric Lifeways in the Great Basin Wetlands: Bioarchaeological Reconstruction and Interpretation, edited by B. E. Hemphill and C. S. Larsen, pp. 8-20. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

1999 Modeling the Gastric: Great Basin Subsistence Studies Since 1982 and the Evolution of General Theory in Archaeology. Co-author w/D. Zeanah. In Models for the Millennium: The Current Status of Great Basin Anthropological Research, edited by C. Beck, pp. 118-140. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

1999 Chasing the Will-o’-the Wisp of Social Order. In Models for the Millennium: The Current Status of Great Basin Anthropological Research, edited by C. Beck, pp. 105-110. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

1998 The Fremont Complex: A Behavioral Perspective. Co-author with D. Madsen. Journal of World Prehistory 12:255-336.

1997 Tur Imdai Rockshelter: The Archaeology of Recent Pastoralists in Jordan. Co-author with K. Russell.Journal of Field Archaeology 24:459-472.

1997 Bedouin Hand-Harvesting of Wheat and Barley: Implications for Early Cultivation in Southwest Asia. Co-author with K. Russell. Current Anthropology 38:696-702.

1997 Plain-Ware Ceramics and Residential Mobility: A Case Study from the Great Basin. Co-author with A. Ugan and J. Bright. Journal of Archaeological Science 24:779-792.

1994 Unpacking the Numic Spread. In Across the West: Human Population Movement and the Expansion of the Numa, edited by D. Rhode and D. Madsen, pp. 76-83. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

1994 Archaeological Salvage Investigations at a Fremont Site in the Jordan River Delta. Co-author with D. N. Schmitt and G. P. Woodbury. Utah Archaeology 7:69-79.

1993 The Past as Commodity: Consultation and the Great Salt Lake Skeletons. Utah Archaeology 6:1-5

1992 An Obsidian Cache from the Great Salt Lake Wetlands, Weber County, Utah. Co-author with A. Cornell and M. Stuart. Utah Archaeology 5:154-159.

1992 Wilderness as A Human Landscape. In, Wilderness Tapestry: An Eclectic Approach to Preservation, edited by L.M. Vause, S.I. Zeveloff, and W.H. McVaugh. University of Nevada Press, Reno.

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1992 Ethnoarchaeology: Obnoxious Spectator, Trivial Pursuit, or the Keys to a Time Machine? In, Quandaries and Quests: Visions of Archaeology's Future, edited by L. Wandsnider. Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper No. 20, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

1990 Site Structure of the Orbit Inn: An Application of Ethnoarchaeology. Co-author with K. M. Heath. American Antiquity 55:797-812.

1990 Fremont Transitions. Utah Archaeology 3:1-18.

1989 The Structure of the Bustos Wickiup Site, Eastern Nevada. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 11:1-34.

1989 42MD300: An Early Holocene Site in the Sevier Desert. Co-author with L. Lindsay. Utah Archaeology: 2:56-65.

1988 Conceptualizing the Paleoindian and Archaic in the Great Basin. In, "Early Human Occupation in Western North America, 12,000 - 7,000 B.P.", edited by J. Willig and C.M. Aikens. Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers Number 21. Carson City.

1988 The Archaeological Structure of a Bedouin Camp. Journal of Archaeological Science 15:197-211.

1988 Some Theoretical Bases for Archaeological Research At Stillwater Marsh. In: Preliminary Investigations in the Stillwater Marsh: Human Prehistory and Geoarchaeology, edited by C. Raven and R. Elston. Cultural Resource Series, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 1. Portland, Oregon.

1987 Behavioral Ecology and Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: An Example from the Great Basin. BAR InternationalMonograph Series S381, Oxford.

1986 New Evidence for Fremont Adaptive Diversity. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 8:204-216.

1985 Pine Nut Use in the Great Basin: Data, Theory and a Fragmentary Material Record. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 7:166-175.

1985 Acquisition Cost and Nutritional Data on Great Basin Resources. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 7:117-125.

1984 Radiocarbon-dated Reconnaissance of Late Quaternary Hydrochronology in the Sevier Arm of the the Bonneville Basin, Utah. Co-author with M.C. Isgreen, D.R. Currey, M.S. Berry, D.B. Madsen. Encyclia 61:105-110.

1983 The Effects of Grinding Stone Reuse on the Archaeological Record in the Eastern Great Basin. Journal of California

and Great Basin Anthropology 5:98-102.

1983 Comments on Bettinger and Baumhoff's Explanation of the Numic Spread. American Antiquity 48:825-830.

1982 Some Thoughts on Prehistoric Archaeology in the Great Basin. Co-author with J.F. O'Connell and K.T. Jones. In, Man and Environment in the Great Basin, edited by D.B. Madsen and J.F. O'Connell. Society for American Archaeology Papers 2:227-240.

1979 Changing Patterns of Information and Material Flow at the Archaic-Woodland Transition in the Northeastern United States. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49:30-44.

1979 A Cultural Resource Inventory of the Glen Canyon to Sigurd Transmission Line, Arizona and Utah. Western Anasazi Reports 2.

1977 A Mid-Archaic Subsistence and Settlement Shift in the Northeastern Great Basin. In, Models and Great Basin Prehistory: A Symposium, edited by D.D. Fowler. Desert Research Institute Publications in the Social Sciences 12.

Other Articles, Book Reviews, Comments2018 Rock Art as Social Geography. Archaeology Southwest 32(1):18-19. In, Sacred and Threatened: The Cultural

Landscapes of Greater Bears Ears.

2018 Pioneers: Memories of Robert F. Heizer (1915-1979), with J. F. O’Connell and L.K. Napton. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 38: in press.

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2018 Pioneers: Memories of Donald R. Tuohy (1926-2012), with A. Dansie, R. G. Elston, and M. Brown. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 38: in press.

2017 Pioneers: Memories of Emma Lou Davis (1905-1988), with M.E. Basgall, R.L. Kaldenberg, and D.S. Whitley. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 37: in press.

2016 Pioneers: Memories of Isabel T. Kelly (1906-1982) and Julian H. Steward (1902-1972), with C.S. Fowler and V. Kerns. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 36(1):138-145.

2015 Pioneers: Memories of Jesse D. Jennings (1909-1997), with J.M. Adovasio, J. Bauman, C. Condie, K.T. Jones, W. Lipe, L. Sebastian. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 35(1):150-160.

2012 North American Prehistory and Early History of: The North American West. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology 2e, edited by Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford University Press.

2011 Book Review of “The Archaeology of Meaningful Places” edited by Brenda Bowser and Maria Nieves Zedeño. New Mexico Historical Review.86:273-274.

2011 Contributor to “The Ceramic Gap” Mammoth Trumpet 26(1) January.

2010 In Memoriam, Claudia F. Berry (1942-2010). Utah Archaeology 23: 1–4

2009 Foreward for reprint of The Fremont Culture by James Gunnerson (originally published in 1969 by Peabody Museum, Harvard University). University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

2009 Book Review of Paleoindian or Paleoarchaic? Great Basin Human Ecology at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition, edited by K. Graf and D. Schmitt. Journal of Anthropological Research 65:139-141.

2008 Book Review of House of Rain, by Craig Childs. Utah Archaeology.

2006 The Fremont. The World Book Encyclopedia. Print and online editions.

2004 Book Review of Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward’s Life and Theory, by Virginia Kerns. Western Historical Quarterly. Winter 2004.

2002 The Link Between the Fremont and Modern Tribes. Co-author with N. Coulam. Utah Archaeology 15:1-4.

2002 Human Influences on Biogeography w/ vignettes “Elk in Yellowstone,” and “The Wilderness Myth.” In Encyclopedia of Evolution, edited by M. Pagel. Oxford University Press.

2001 Book Review of The Art of the Shaman: Rock Art of California, by David Whitley. Utah Archaeology 14:49-51.

1998 Late Prehistoric in the Eastern Great Basin. In Archaeology of Prehistoric North America: An Encyclopedia, edited by G. Gibbon. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.

1997 Bidul Bedouin. In Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. Co-author with K. Russell, pp. 1503-1504. Blackwell, London.

1996 North American Prehistory and Early History of: The North American West. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by B. M. Fagan, pp. 523-525. Oxford University Press.

1996 Moveable Homes: Its A Temporary Thing. In Zinj: Dinosaurs, Fossils, Ancient People and Other Really Old Stuff (nationally distributed science magazine for children). Zinj Education Project, Salt Lake City, Utah.

1996 Torn By Ideals. Illinois Antiquity 31:11.

1996 Steven Simms, Archaeologist. In Cultural Anthropology: Understanding Ourselves and Others by R. Crapo. Brown and Benchmark, Dubuque, IA

1996 The Bedul Bedouin of Petra, Jordan: Traditions, Tourism, and an Uncertain Future. Co-author with D. Kooring. Cultural Survival Quarterly 19:22-25.

1995 Archaeologists and Native American Graves: A Clash of Ethics. Society for American Archaeology Bulletin.

1995 Prehistoric Life Along the Great Salt Lake. Friends of the Great Salt Lake 2(2).

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1994 A Human Wilderness. Petroglyph: A Journal of Creative Natural History Writing 5:42-44. Utah State University.

1994 Book Review of Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to Mobile Campsites, edited by C. Gamble and W. Boismier. American Antiquity 59:376.

1992 Book Review of Foragers in Context: Long-Term, Regional, and Historical Perspectives in Hunter-Gatherer Studies, edited by P. T. Miracle, L. E. Fisher, and J. Brown. American Anthropologist 95:201.

1992 Memorial for Kenneth W. Russell. Utah Archaeology 5.

1991 Book Reviews of Nch' i - Wa'na, The Big River, by E. S. Hunn and Indians of the Rio Grande Delta, by M. Salinas. Western Historical Quarterly 22:500-501.

1990 Book Review of Wetland Adaptations in the Great Basin, edited by J.C. Janetski and D.B. Madsen. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 12:286-287.

1990 Book Review of The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin, by S. Trimble. Western American Literature 25:250.

1983 Comment on "Anthropological Applications of Optimal Foraging Theory" by E. A. Smith. Current Anthropology 24:646.

Presented Papers, Symposia, Major Public LecturesSymposia chair and organizer:2010 Invited Symposium Chair, “Thinking Big About Re-thinking the Fremont”. Plenary Session 32nd Biennial Great

Basin Anthropological Conference, Layton, Utah.

2000 Conference Chair. 27th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. David Eccles Conference Center,Ogden, Utah. Chair of conference theme symposium, “Across the Boundaries: Bridging Multiple Voices, Publics, and Geographies”.

1997 Invited Symposium Chair, “The Role of Native Americans in Shaping Ecosystems,” a Conference Theme Symposium at the Ecological Society of America meetings. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1994 Symposium Chair, “The Great Salt Lake Wetlands Project: Studies in Late Holocene Bioarchaeology.” 24 th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Elko, Nevada.

1992 Symposium Co-Chair, “Investigating Archaeological Site Structure.” 23rd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Boise, Idaho.

1986 Symposium Co-Chair. “Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Great Basin.” 20 th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Las Vegas.

1983 Symposium Chair, “Evolutionary Theory and Archaeology: Issues and Applications.” 48 th annual meeting, Society for American Archaeology. Pittsburgh.

Inivited papers and lectures:2016 – 17 Pre-Columbian Irrigation in Central Utah: Continuity Between Fremont and the Historic Tribes? Public talk, Entrada

Institute, Torrey, Utah (Sept. 2016) and presentation at Utah Professional Archaeological Council (March 2017).

2015- 17 “Dating Barrier Canyon Rock Art at the Great Gallery: Later Than We Thought and Implications for the Ancient History of Utah”. Zion Canyon Field Institute, Springdale, Utah (May 2015) and Utah Archaeology Week, Moab (May 2017).

2015 “The Faces of Intensification: An Application of Selection Thinking”. Co-author with A. Ugan. Symposium: “A Sense of Question: Papers in Honor of James F. O’Connell”, 80th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. San Francisco.

2014 “The Fremont Culture: Lessons from Ancient Life in a Past Time of Climate Change”. Friends of Great Salt Lake, Great Salt Lake Issues Forum, Ft. Douglas, Salt Lake City, May.

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2013 “Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah”. Zion Canyon Field Institute, Springdale Utah, April. Nevada Rock Art Foundation, Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. October.

2012 “Maize at the Margins: Observations and Insights from a Comparison of Farming and Subsistence in Western Argentina and the Great Basin” Co-author with A. Ugan. Plenary Session, “Archaeology of the Great Basin and Central-Western Argentina”. 33rd Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Stateline, Nevada.

2012 “Some Thoughts on Evolution, Ecology, and Archaeology in the Great Basin”. Co-author with J. F. O’Connell. Symposium in our honor, “30 Years On: Archaeology and Behavioral Ecology in the Great Basin”, organized by: L. Louderback, M. Cannon, J. Broughton. 33rd Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Stateline, Nevada.

2010 “Las Aldeas Fremont y la Complejidad Cultural: Como y por que?” Presentation at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. November.

2010 “Ethnoarqueologia Beduina: Almacenamiento y Poder entré los Fremont” and “Agricultura, Lenguaje, e Inmigrantes: El origen de las poblaciones el Suroeste de EE.UU y Fremont”. Presentations at the Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael, San Rafael, Argentina. November.

2010 Guest Visiting Professor, Utah Valley University Capitol Reef Field Station. October.

2010 “Traces of Fremont”. Keynote presentation, annual symposium of the Utah Rock Art Research Association. Blanding, Utah. October. Also invited guest, Friends of the Marriott Library, University of Utah. December.

2009 “The Fremont in Continental Context,” Keynote presentation, State Convention of the Utah Statewide Archaeological Society. Ogden, Utah. June.

2003 “Cultural Tradition and Plasticity in the Ancient Desert West.” Keynote presentation for Colorado Archaeology Week, Montrose, Colorado.

2002 “What Ancient Indians Near the Great Salt Lake Tell Us About the Human – Environment Relationship”. Great Salt Lake Issues Forum. Salt Lake City. Sponsor: Friends of Great Salt Lake.

2000 “The Precolumbian Wasatch Front.” 3rd Annual Conference, The Great Salt Lake: Achieving a Sustainable Future. Sponsors: Utah Wetlands and Riparian Center, University of Utah, the Nature Conservancy, Kennecott Copper, U.S. Geological Survey, Salt Lake County. Salt Lake City.

1999 “Ancient Indians of the Wasatch Front and Humanizing the Past.” Annual convention of the Utah Statewide Archaeological Society. Ogden, Utah.

1998 “The Great Salt Lake Fremont: Evidence for a Behavioral Perspective.” Annual convention of the Idaho Archaeological Society, Boise.

1997 “Recent Pastoralists at Petra: Insights into Nabataean Infrastructure, Predecessors, and Legacies.” Invited participant in symposium “Petra and the Nabataeans,” an international conference organized to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

1996 “Modeling the Gastric.” Invited participant in Plenary Session, Current Models in Great Basin Anthropology. 25 th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Lake Tahoe, California.

1995 “The Desert, the Sown, and Glimpses of Variability from an Ethnoarchaeology.” Invited participant in symposium of The American Schools of Oriental Research. American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature. Philadelphia.

1995 “Pre-Columbian America, the Concept of Wilderness and Environmental Policy.” Invited Convocations Series lecture, Southern Utah University, Cedar City.

1994 “The Petra Ethnoarchaeology Project: 1986-94.” American Center for Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan.

1993 “A Human Wilderness: 1492 On the Wasatch Front.” Lecture series, "500 Years At the Edge," sponsored by Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City.

1992 Invited participant in two day "Numic Roundtable," on the origins of Numic-speaking Indians in the Great Basin. Sponsored by the U. S. Bureau of Land Management. Lake Tahoe, California.

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1990 Invited discussant for symposium, “Selection Thinking in Current Great Basin Anthropological Research.” 22nd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Reno, Nevada.

1990 “Current Archaeological Investigations on the Great Salt Lake.” Invited speaker, annual convention of the Utah Statewide Archaeological Society. Vernal, Utah.

1990 “Reflections of a Vanishing Web: Ancient Trails in Utah.” Utah State Historical Society, Utah Humanities Council program and traveling exhibit "Trails Through Time.” Salt Lake City.

1990 “Ethnoarchaeology: Obnoxious Spectator, Self-Serving Bastard, or the Keys to Our Time Machine?” Visiting Scholars Conference, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

1989 “Fremont Transitions.” Utah Museum of Natural History, Utah Humanities Council exhibit and lecture series, "Exploring the Fremont." Invited public lecture, Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Utah.

1989 “The Bustos Site, Eastern Nevada.” Utah Statewide Archaeological Society Convention, St. George (June) and

Nevada Archaeological Society, Ely, Nevada (August).

1988 “Stereotypes Are Comforting but What About the Problems of Life? The Example of Wetlands, the Fremont and Afterwards in Northern Utah.” Invited lecture for Plenary Session, 21st Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Park City, Utah.

1988 Invited discussant for symposium, “Investigations In Stillwater Marsh.” 21st Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Park City, Utah.

Presented conference papers:2018 Sixteenth Century Irrigation in Central Utah: Chronology, Agricultural Economics, and Continuity Between Ancient

and Modern Tribes. Co-authored with T. M. Rittenour, M. Boeka Cannon, C. Kuehn. Paper presentation, 36th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2014 “The Geoarchaeology of Late Prehistoric Irrigation in Central Utah”. Co-author with A. Lugo Mendez, M. Boeka Cannon, T. M. Rittenour, N. K. Pierson, B. Jensen Allred. Poster presentation, 34th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Boise, Idaho.

2012 “The Archaeology of Ancient Fremont Irrigation” Co-author with C. Kuehn, N.K. Harrison. Poster presentation. 33rd Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Stateline, Nevada.

2010 “Bedouin Ethnoarchaeology and Fremont Storage, Power, and Display”. Plenary Session paper, 32nd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Layton, Utah.

2010 “Fremont Villages and Complexity: How and Why?” Co-author with J. Bright. Poster presentation at the 32nd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Layton, Utah.

2010 Discussant for symposium, “It Takes a Village: Multi-Scalar Investigations of Fremont Communities” chaired by C. Watkins. 32nd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Layton, Utah.

2010 “The Case for Fremont Villages and Cultural Complexity”. 75th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. St. Louis, Missouri.

2009, 2010 “Central Western Argentina and the Great Basin/Intermountain Region: Parallels in Culture Process and Interests in Archaeological Method and Theory”. Poster presentation at the 9th Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Gunnison, Colorado. Co-author with A. Gil and G. Neme. Also presented at the 32nd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Layton, Utah.

2008 The Numic Spread Problem: Reconciling the Lines of Evidence. Meetings of the Utah Professional Archaeological Council. Salt Lake City, Utah (Jan.). 31st Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Portland, Oregon (Oct).

2005, 2006 “Excavations at Two Wickiup Sites: Dugway Proving Ground and West Tavaputs Plateau.” Co-author with B. Benson & L. Profaizer. Poster presentation at the 7th Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference. Park City, Utah. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, March 2006. 30th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Las Vegas, October 2006.

2005 “Field Archaeology and Utah State University.” Co-author with B. Benson and L. Profaizer. Poster presentation at

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the 7th Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference. Park City, Utah.

2004 “A Fremont Behavioral Dynamic.” 77th annual Pecos Conference. Bluff, Utah.2003 “Ancient Indians of the Wasatch Front.” 22nd Annual International Submerged Lands Management Conference. Park

City, Utah.

2002 “A Lightweight “Pithouse” and a Large Ramada for Group Tasks Elucidate Behavioral Variability in the Western Anasazi.” Co-author with R. Ralls and B. Benson. 67th annual meeting, Society for American Archaeology. Denver.

2000 “A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush: A Predictive Model of Forager Movement in Skull Valley, Utah.” Co-author with T. King & P. Box, Department of Geography and Earth Resources, Utah State University.Poster presentation at the 27th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Ogden, Utah.

1999 “Forager Archaeology at Dugway Proving Ground.” Meetings of the Utah Professional Archaeological Council. Price, Utah.

1999 New Data on Plain Gray Ceramics and Residential Mobility in Utah's West Deserts. Co-author with J. Bright and A. Ugan. Poster presentation at the 4th Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

1998 “Playa View Dune: A Mid-Holocene Campsite at the Edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert, Dugway, Utah. Co-author with J. Jensen, K. Jensen, M. Memmott. Poster presentation at the 26th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Bend, Oregon.

1998 “Plain Gray Ceramics and Residential Mobility in Utah's West Deserts” Co-author with J. Bright, A. Ugan, M. Memmott. Poster presentation at the 26th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Bend, Oregon.

1996 “Bedouin Hand-Harvesting of Cultivated Cereals: Implications for Domestication in Southwest Asia.” Poster presentation. 61st annual meeting, Society for American Archaeology. New Orleans.

1994 “Foragers and Farmers in the Late Holocene Eastern Great Basin.” 24th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Elko, Nevada.

1994 “Great Basin Plainware Ceramics: Teasing Apart Mobility Behavior and Typological Significance.” Co-author with A. Ugan. 24th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Elko, Nevada.

1994 “X-Ray Diffraction of Ceramic Temper: Inferences About Mobility and Implications for Typology.” Co-author with J. Bright. 24th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Elko, Nevada.

1994 “Chasing the Will-o'-the Wisp of Social Order: Implications for the Study of Fremont Adaptive Diversity.” 24 th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Elko, Nevada.

1994 “Farmers and Foragers in the Great Salt Lake Wetlands at the Fremont to Late Prehistoric Transition.” 59 th annual meeting, Society for American Archaeology. Anaheim, California.

1992 “Looking for Houses.” 23rd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Boise, Idaho.

1992 “Ownership of the Past? The Consultation Process in the Case of the Great Salt Lake Skeletons.” 23rd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Boise, Idaho.

1991-92 “Cases of Site Structure Study in the Great Basin.” Utah Professional Archaeological Council, Salt Lake City. Also at the meetings of the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Grand Junction.

1990 “The Fremont/Late Prehistoric Transition as Seen From the Great Salt Lake Marshes.” Society For American Archaeology, Las Vegas, Nevada.

1990 “The Bustos Wickiups: An 18th Century Shoshoni Pine Nut Camp, Eastern Nevada.” Poster session (w/ R. Milovich). 55th annual meeting, Society For American Archaeology. Las Vegas, Nevada.

1990 “The Petra Ethnoarchaeological Project.” Co-author with K. W. Russell. Poster presentation. 15th International Congress on the History of Bilad Ash-Sham, University of Jordan, Amman.

1989 “Wilderness as A Human Landscape.” Interdisciplinary Conference on Wilderness, Weber State College. Also at the Mountain West Center For Regional Studies, Utah State University.

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1988 “Site Structure of the Orbit Inn: An Archaeological Application of Ethnoarchaeology.” Co-author with K. M. Heath. 21st Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Park City, Utah.

1986 “Intra-Site Spatial Organization at the Bustos Site, Eastern Nevada.” 20 th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Las Vegas.

1986 “The Clovis-Archaic Interface in the Eastern Great Basin.” 51st annual meeting, Society For American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1983 “The Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: A Great Basin Case.” 48 th annual meeting, Society For American Archaeology. Pittsburgh.

1982 “Experimentally Derived Cost-Benefit Data for Use in Models of Optimal Foraging.” 18th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Reno.

1980 “Models of Optimal Foraging and Aboriginal Great Basin Subsistence.” Co-author with K. Jones. 17th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Salt Lake City.

1976 “A Mid-Archaic Subsistence and Settlement Shift in the Northeastern Great Basin.” 15 th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference. Las Vegas.

Selected Technical Reports in CRM (Over 90 field projects, director of over 60 since 1972)2012 The Archaeology of Ancient Fremont Irrigation: Initial Investigations at the Pleasant Creek Site. Senior author with

C. Kuehn. Report to the Fishlake National Forest and Antiquities Section, Utah Division of State History.

2008 Cloudrock Project First Stage Mitigation, Grand County, Utah. Co-author with Leticia Neal. Report for Utah Schoolmonograph and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2007 A Prehistoric Anasazi Burial from the Sand Flat site, 42Gr2682, near Moab, Utah. Co-author withP. Lambert. Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2006 Post Inventory Testing and Evaluation of Archaeological Sites on the Big Plain Junction Parcel, Washington Co., Utah. Co-author with C. Kiahtipes. Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2006 Cultural Resource Inventory of the East Bench and Lion’s Back Sales Parcels, Grand Co., Utah. Co-author with C. Kiahtipes. Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2006 Cultural Resource Inventory of the Circleville East Sale Parcel, Garfield Co., Utah. Co-author with C. Kiahtipes. Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2005 Cultural Resource Inventory of the Green River South Parcels, Grand and Emery Counties, Utah. Co-author with B. Benson. Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2003 Cultural Resource Inventory of Cedar Ridge, Bishop Ridge, and Flat Canyon Parcels on the West Tavaputs Plateau, Carbon County, Utah. Co-author with B. Benson. Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2005 The Government Pass Folsom Site, Millard County, Utah. Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2004 Cultural Resource Inventory of the White Rock East Sale Parcel, San Juan County, Utah. Co-author with B. Benson.

Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2003 Archaeological Survey and Test Excavations, Johnson’s Up on Top, Moab, Utah. Co-author with R. J. Ralls, B. Benson, and B. Beesley. Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2003 Cultural Resource Inventories Near Simpson Springs and Vernon Hills, Tooele County, Utah for the Great Basin Ecosystem Restoration Research Project. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake Field Office, Utah.

2003 Archaeology and Analysis of Prehistoric Human Remains Near Willard Bay, Utah. Co-author with P. M. Lambert. Utah State University Contributions to Anthropology No. 33. Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands.

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2002 Cultural Resource Inventory of White Sage Wash, Shinarump Cliffs, and Dry Lake Parcels, Kane Co., Utah. Report for Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.

2000 Report of Archaeological Excavation and Survey for the Environmental Program, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

1998 Report of Excavation and Survey and Report of Prehistoric Ceramics and Mobility in the West Deserts of Utah for the Environmental Program, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

1993 Archaeological Test Excavations in the Great Salt Lake Wetlands and Associated Analyses, Weber and Box monograph Elder Counties, Utah. Co-author with W. Fawcett. Utah State University Contributions to Anthropology No. 14.

1993 Archaeological Investigations in the Jarbidge Mountains, Humboldt National Forest, Nevada. Report for the U. S. Forest Service. Elko, Nevada.

1991 Prehistoric Human Skeletal Remains and the Prehistory of the Great Salt Lake Wetlands. Co-author with C. monograph Loveland and M. Stuart. Utah Department Natural Resources.

1990 Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Lower Bear River Marshes. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Utah Division of State History.

1990 Archaeological Survey and Excavation of a Historic Period Cabin at Bear Lake, Utah. Co-author with S. Beckstead. Utah State University Archaeological Reports.

1986 Cultural Resource Investigations in Southeastern Utah To Aid in the Assessment of Archaeologicalmonograph Vandalism. Weber State College Archaeological Technician Program Reports.

1985 Radiocarbon Dates From 42MD300, Sevier Desert, Western Utah. Report for U. S. Bureau of Land Management.

1984 Archaeological Excavations in the Sevier and Escalante Deserts, Western Utah: The Inter mountain Powermonograph Project. Editor and co-author with M.C. Isgreen. University of Utah Archaeological Center Reports of

Investigations 83-12.

1984 The MX Intuitive Surveys, 1980-81. Co-author with L.W. Lindsay. In, Prehistoric and Historic Settlementin the Southeastern Great Basin, edited by R.N. Holmer and J.F. O'Connell. University of Utah Archaeological Center Reports of Investigations 82-28.

1980 The Archaeology of the Bayhorse Mining District, Custer Co., Idaho. University of Utah Archaeological Center Reports of Investigations 80-11.

1980 A Cultural Resource Survey for Northwest Pipeline Corporation, Grand Co., Utah. Co-author with R. Rauch. University of Utah Archaeological Center Reports of Investigations 80-7.

1980 A Cultural Resource Survey of a Right-of-Way for a Telephone Line, southwestern Wyoming. Co-author with R. Rauch and K. Day-Holmer. University of Utah Archaeological Center Reports of Investigations 80-5.

1979 High Altitude Archaeology in Utah: A Report on Eleven Inventory Projects and a Test Excavation in the Fishlake National Forest, Utah. University of Utah Archaeological Center Reports of Investigations 79-36.

Grants and Contracts (principal investigator unless otherwise noted)2016 Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration. Analysis and write-up for Three Ancestral Puebloan Sites

Near Kanab, Utah.

2013-15 National Geographic Society Research and Exploration Grant. The Archaeology of Prehistoric Fremont Irrigation, Central Utah.

2013-14 History Colorado State Historical Fund. Ute Trails Project with Dominguez Archaeological Research Group, Grand Junction Colorado. Co-P.I.

2013-14 Utah School and Institutional and Trust Lands Administration. Spanish Valley Terraces: Undocumented Ancestral Puebloan Walls Under Known CCC-Era Wall Features? OSL dating of terraces near Moab, Utah.

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2013-14 Utah State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences travel and data collection grant for fieldwork ,and Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities grant for Fremont Irrigation Project..

2012 Utah State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences travel and data collection grant for travel and research presentations with five graduate and undergraduate students at the 33rd Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Stateline, Nevada. October.

2012 Utah State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences travel and data collection grant, and Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities grant for Fremont Irrigation Project.

2010 Utah State University College of HASS Travel Grant for paper presentation and book signing (Traces) at the Society for American Archaeology meetings, St. Louis.

2009 Utah State University College of HASS Travel Grant for poster presentation at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Gunnison, Colorado.

2009 Utah State University Vice President for Research Catalyst Grant for “The Fremont, the Numic Spread, and the Shoshone: Ancient DNA, Skeletal Remains, and Quids.”

2008 Expert testimony for Spirit Cave Man mummy, western Nevada. Preparation of report evaluating scientific evidencefor the cultural affiliation of these remains in terms of the Native American Graves Repatriation Act.

2008 Eagle Rock Landscape and Design. Archaeological evaluation in Tooele County, Utah.

2007-08 Utah School and Institutional and Trust Lands Administration: First stage mitigation for the Cloudrock Project, Moab, Utah.

2006-08 Utah State University Innovations Fund Grant P.I. with Co P.I.’s Patricia Lambert and Bonnie Pitblado.

2006 Utah School and Institutional and Trust Lands Administration: archaeological excavation near Moab.

2004-05 Utah School and Institutional and Trust Lands Administration: archaeological surveys near Green River, Enterprise, Beaver, Hansel Valley, Circleville and Moab.

2003-04 Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Surveys in Utah’s West Deserts. Utah School and Institutional and Trust Lands Administration: 1. archaeological survey and excavation on the West Tavaputs Plateau and 2. archaeological surveys near Panguitch, Richfield, Monticello, Hansel Valley, Zion, Cove Fort.

2002-03 Utah School and Institutional and Trust Lands Administration for: 1. Archaeological studies near Kanab and Moab, Utah. $44,164 and; 2. Resurvey and survey of state trust lands.

2000-08 Annual private donations from Richard Shipley for archaeology at Utah State University.

2001-02 Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands for recording and recovery of prehistoric skeletal remains near Willard Bay, Utah.

2001-02 Utah School and Institutional and Trust Lands Administration for: 1. Archaeological study near Kanab, Utah. $27,000 and; 2. Archaeological survey near Moab, Utah.

1999 Private donation from Boyd Hayward for book project “Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.”

1999-00 Marie Eccles Caine Foundation. Exhibit development and internships, USU Museum of Anthropology.

1999-00 US Army, Dugway Proving Grounds. Cultural Resources Study. Supports USU Archaeology Field School.

1998-99 US Army, Dugway Proving Grounds. Prehistoric Ceramics and Mobility: Context for the Management of Cultural Resources at Dugway Proving Grounds. Co-P. I. with J. Bright.

1996-98 US Army, Dugway Proving Grounds for: 1. Study of ceramics and mobility in western Utah; 2. Archaeological Field School.

1994-95 L. S. B. Leakey Foundation. Behavioral Ecology and Ethnoarchaeology of the Bedul Bedouin, Jordan.

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1994-95 Fellowship, American Center for Oriental Research/United States Information Agency. Amman, Jordan, October - December.

1992-94 National Science Foundation (Anthropology: Biological Sciences Division) grant for DNA variation, archaeology, and the Numic migration. Senior P. I. w/ D. H. O'Rourke.

1993 Utah Division of State History. Study of human remains.

1992-93 U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. Archaeological study near Willard Bay, Utah.

1992 U. S. Forest Service. Archaeology in Jarbidge Mountains, Nevada.

1991 Utah State University. Testing the Numic Expansion Model.

1990 Utah Department of Natural Resources. Rrecovery of human skeletons along the Great Salt Lake.

1990 Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Survey of cultural resources near Duchesne, Utah.

1990 U. S. Forest Service. Grant for poster display for USFS offices around Nevada.

1990 Nevada Humanities Committee, Reno. Grant for poster displays for White Pine Public Museum, Ely and one for NHC Resource Center, Las Vegas to tour state.

1989 Gibbons and Crow Engineers, Logan, Utah. Archaeology at Bear Lake.

1989 Smithfield City, Utah. Archaeological inventory.

1989 Utah State University. Prehistoric Human Ecology, Wasatch Front Wetlands.

1989 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Archaeological study in the Bear River Wildlife Refuge, Utah.

1989 Utah Division of State History. Archaeology on Great Salt Lake, Utah.

1988 Weber State College. Petra Ethnoarchaeological Project.

1987 Utah Department of Transportation. Archaeology for northern Utah region.

1987 Weber State College. Analysis of data from the Orbit Inn and Bustos sites.

1986-87 Weber State College Computing Committee.

1986 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Archaeology at Jordanelle Reservoir.

1986 Weber State College. Ethnoarchaeological study in Jordan. Co-P. I. with K. W. Russell and R. Holt.

1986 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. Petra Basin Ethnoarchaeological Project, Jordan. Co-P. I. with K. W. Russell.

1985 U.S. Forest Service. Anasazi Archaeological Vandalism Project, Utah.

1985 Bureau of Land Management. Archaeology at 42MD300, western Utah.

1981-82 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. Advisor, J. F. O'Connell

Honors and Awards2011 Utah Book Award, Nonfiction category for Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah.2011 Society for American Archaeology Book Award, Public Audience Category for Traces of Fremont.2008 Nominee for D. Wynne Thorne Research Award. Top research award at Utah State University.2005 Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Utah State University.2004 Inducted as a Fellow of the Utah Professional Archaeological Council (one of seven).2004 Special Appreciation award for service as Editor of Utah Archaeology. Utah Statewide Archaeological Society.2001 Nominee for D. Wynne Thorne Research Award. Top research award at Utah State University.1994, 96 Who's Who in American Teaching (student nominations).1994 Cache Valley Historical Society, Historic Preservation, Landscape Preservation Award.

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1993, 96 Honors Professor, Utah State University.1993- Who's Who In the West.1991 Researcher of the Year, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Utah State University.1988 Archaeology Preservation Award. Utah Statewide Archaeological Society.1981-83 The Bancroft Fund (award for dissertation research). 1980-82 University of Utah Graduate Research Fellowships (2 years).1975 The Knudtsen Award for Research on Great Basin Anthropology (Regents, University of Nevada).1975 Amateur Archaeologists of Nevada Scholarship.

Memberships, and Professional Committees & OfficesEditorial Advisory Board, American Archaeology, the magazine of the Archaeological Conservancy. 2013-2016Editorial Advisory Board, American Antiquity 2012-2015Editorial Advisory Board for Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies 2009-13Judge, Utah Book Award, nonfiction 2012Editor at Large, University of Utah Press 2009 - 2013President, Great Basin Anthropological Association 2004 - 2008Government Affairs Committee, Society for American Archaeology 2002 – 2005Program Chair, Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City 2005Editor of Utah Archaeology. Annual, refereed journal. 1999-2004Program Chair, Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Ogden, Utah 2000Scientific Advisory Board, Friends of Great Salt Lake 1995-Editorial Advisory Board for Kiva: the Journal of Southwestern Archaeology and History. 1999-2010Utah Professional Archaeological Council 1979- ( President 1992-94; Vice President for Government Affairs 1989-91; Vice-President for Membership and Ethics, 1986-87)Society for American Archaeology 1972- Great Basin Anthropological Association/Conference member 1976- Board Member 2000 - 2008Utah Statewide Archaeological Society 1985-Sigma Xi 1989-Nevada Archaeological Society 1989-Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 1986-1990

Government CommitteesNative American Remains Review Committee, Utah Division of Indian Affairs. 2012Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Great Salt Lake Advisory Council 2008 - 09Member, Critical Lands Subcommittee, Utah Quality Growth Commission, Utah Governors Office 2001-04Native American Remains Review Committee, Utah Division of Indian Affairs 1995-97Board of State History Antiquities Task Force 1992Utah Governors Norman Bangerter and Michael Leavitt Advisory Committee on Native American Burials 1990-91State Board of Review for Utah Department of Transportation Cultural Resource Program 1989-90 Utah Governor's Task Force on Historic Preservation 1984-85

University/College /Department CommitteesSearch Committee chair for two Assistant Professors of Anthropology 2012Mentor, New Faculty Teaching Academy 2011-12Graduate Council, College of Humanities and Social Science 2009-Post-Tenure Review Committee, Graduate Council, College of Humanities and Social Science 2011-12Search committee member for Curator of Archaeology, Prehistoric Museum at CEU/USU 2011Team Global core curriculum committee, College of Humanities and Social Science 2011-12Search committee member for Director, Prehistoric Museum, College of Eastern Utah. 2010Anthropology Search Committees chair and member (2 positions) 2007-08Utah State University Central Promotion and Tenure Committee 2006-2008.Academic Rights and Responsibilities Sub-Committee on “Accommodation Policy” 2005-06Anthropology Search Committee 2001-02Co-Director, Museum of Anthropology, Utah State University 2001-02Faculty Senator, Utah State University 1998-01Faculty Senate Executive Committee 2000-01Professional Responsibilities and Procedures Committee 1998-00. Vice-Chair 1999-00, Chair 2000-01.Acting Director, Museum of Anthropology, Utah State University 1997-99. Dean’s Advisory Council, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 1997-99; 2002 -04Academic Standards Subcommittee of University Educational Policy Committee 1996-98Chair, Dept. committee on faculty work loads 1996-98Coordinator, Anthropology Program 1995-99Chair, Anthropology Search Committee 1996, Chair, LASP Legacies Cluster 1996-97

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Department, Administrative Advisory Committee 1995-99Chair, Dept. committee on faculty work loads 1993-94; 2003Anthropology Search Committee 1992-93Chair, Anthropology Search Committee 1991, 2002Dept. committee to revise merit assessment system 1990-91Dept. Library Committee 1989-93. Chair 1991-93Dept. committee on Sociology Graduate Program, Task Force 3 1990College undergraduate tuition waiver committee 1989Social Work Search Committee 1988Faculty Senate Alternate, WSC 1988Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, WSC 1987-88Sociology Search Committee 1987Honors Faculty Advisory Committee 1986-88Research and Professional Growth Committee, WSC 1987-88Chair and member of numerous Promotion and Tenure committees 1992-

Educational VideotapesProduction, direction, scripting of educational videotapes in anthropology (review samples available). Partner in 20/50 Media, Inc. Titles include: Our Vanishing Heritage: Archaeological Vandalism In Utah; Traces: Campsite Archaeology; Ancient Stone Tools.

Courses TaughtIntroduction to Anthropology Introduction to Field ArchaeologyWorld Archaeology Aboriginal TechnologyArchaeology in North America Indians of North AmericaAncient Desert West/Utah Archaeology Nature of Science Archaeology Field School Human Sociobiology (team)Archaeology Lab Techniques Food and CultureArchaeological Method and Theory History and Theories of AnthropologyAnthropology: Lessons For the Modern World Native Peoples of the Great Basin (team)Museum Development Ancient Humans and the Environment (Human Behavioral Ecology)Archaeology and Paleoenvironments Archaeology and Paleoenvironments Field TripArchaeology of the Western United States

Public ArchaeologyProfessional Advisor, Promontory-Tubadüka Chapter, Utah Statewide Archaeological Society since 1985. Public participation

programs in field and lab archaeology 1985-88, 90, 91, 97.Intrigue of the Past, Instructor (Utah teacher education program) 1991.Laboratory tours and programs for elementary schools.Traveling museum/poster displays for Nevada Humanities Committee and Weber County Library.Photo display, Utah Arts Council and Utah State University Merrill Library.Exhibits for USU Museum of Anthropology: Great Basin Archaeology; Rock Art: Ancient Petra, Jordan; Tree-Ring Dating.Newspaper/Radio/TV/Film (interviews, articles, etc.) 30 since 1985Public talks (schools, civic groups etc.) 50 + since 1985.