Jerry D Spangler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerry D Spangler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerry D |
| FAMILY NAME | Spangler |
| SIGNATURE | SPANGLER J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0316-310X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Targeted explorations of Pleistocene-Holocene transition archaeology on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah
A reconstruction of the Indigenous maize farming niche of Utah
Machine learning reconstructs the Indigenous maize farming niche of Utah. • Early Utah farmers balanced elevation-driven precipitation and the growing season. • Farmers mitigate this trade-off by diverting perennial streams in drier regions. • Early Utah farmers settled in an ideal distribution model way. Maize ( Zea mays L . ) was one of the most widespread domesticated plants in the Americas before European colonization. Despite its widespread …
Can we reliably detect adaptive responses of hunter-gatherers to past climate change? Examining the impact of Mid-Holocene drought on Archaic settlement in the Basin-Plateau Region of North America
The Fremont Frontier: Living at the Margins of Maize Farming
The Fremont provide an important case study to examine the resilience of ancient farmers to climatic downturns, because they lived at the far northern margin of intensive maize agriculture in the American West, where the constraints on maize production are made abundantly clear. Using a tree-ring and simulation-based reconstruction of average annual precipitation and maize growing degree days, along with cost-distance to perennial streams, we mod…
A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. Here, we discuss the process used to compile ages, general characteristics of the database, and lessons learned from this exercise in 'big data' compilation
Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region
The spread of agriculture is a major driver of social and environmental change throughout the Holocene, yet experimental and ethnographic data indicate that farming is less profitable than foraging, so why would individuals choose to adopt agriculture leading to its expansion? Ideal distribution models offer one framework to answer this question: Individuals should adopt less profitable subsistence strategies and occupy more marginal environments…
Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition
How might subsistence strategies structure the costs and benefits of habitat selection and, therefore, drive settlement patterning? We explore this question within an Ideal Distribution framework, arguing that (i) a habitat can be decomposed into its environmental covariates, (ii) their relative contributions to suitability can vary as a function of subsistence strategy, and (iii) the resulting differences will in turn lead to different populatio…
The Crimson Cowboys: The Remarkable Odyssey of the 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition
Nine Mile Canyon: The Archaeological History of an American Treasure
With an estimated 10,000 ancient rock art sites, Nine Mile Canyon has long captivated people the world over. The author takes the reader on a journey into Nine Mile Canyon through the eyes of the generations of archaeologists who have gone there only to leave bewildered by what it all means
Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition
How might subsistence strategies structure the costs and benefits of habitat selection and, therefore, drive settlement patterning? We explore this question within an Ideal Distribution framework, arguing that (i) a habitat can be decomposed into its environmental covariates, (ii) their relative contributions to suitability can vary as a function of subsistence strategy, and (iii) the resulting differences will in turn lead to different populatio…
A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. Here, we discuss the process used to compile ages, general characteristics of the database, and lessons learned from this exercise in 'big data' compilation
Nine Mile Canyon: The Archaeological History of an American Treasure
With an estimated 10,000 ancient rock art sites, Nine Mile Canyon has long captivated people the world over. The author takes the reader on a journey into Nine Mile Canyon through the eyes of the generations of archaeologists who have gone there only to leave bewildered by what it all means
The Fremont Frontier: Living at the Margins of Maize Farming
The Fremont provide an important case study to examine the resilience of ancient farmers to climatic downturns, because they lived at the far northern margin of intensive maize agriculture in the American West, where the constraints on maize production are made abundantly clear. Using a tree-ring and simulation-based reconstruction of average annual precipitation and maize growing degree days, along with cost-distance to perennial streams, we mod…
Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region
The spread of agriculture is a major driver of social and environmental change throughout the Holocene, yet experimental and ethnographic data indicate that farming is less profitable than foraging, so why would individuals choose to adopt agriculture leading to its expansion? Ideal distribution models offer one framework to answer this question: Individuals should adopt less profitable subsistence strategies and occupy more marginal environments…
Nine Mile Canyon: The Archaeological History of an American Treasure
With an estimated 10,000 ancient rock art sites, Nine Mile Canyon has long captivated people the world over. The author takes the reader on a journey into Nine Mile Canyon through the eyes of the generations of archaeologists who have gone there only to leave bewildered by what it all means
The Crimson Cowboys: The Remarkable Odyssey of the 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition
Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition
How might subsistence strategies structure the costs and benefits of habitat selection and, therefore, drive settlement patterning? We explore this question within an Ideal Distribution framework, arguing that (i) a habitat can be decomposed into its environmental covariates, (ii) their relative contributions to suitability can vary as a function of subsistence strategy, and (iii) the resulting differences will in turn lead to different populatio…
Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region
The spread of agriculture is a major driver of social and environmental change throughout the Holocene, yet experimental and ethnographic data indicate that farming is less profitable than foraging, so why would individuals choose to adopt agriculture leading to its expansion? Ideal distribution models offer one framework to answer this question: Individuals should adopt less profitable subsistence strategies and occupy more marginal environments…
A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. Here, we discuss the process used to compile ages, general characteristics of the database, and lessons learned from this exercise in 'big data' compilation
Can we reliably detect adaptive responses of hunter-gatherers to past climate change? Examining the impact of Mid-Holocene drought on Archaic settlement in the Basin-Plateau Region of North America
The Fremont Frontier: Living at the Margins of Maize Farming
The Fremont provide an important case study to examine the resilience of ancient farmers to climatic downturns, because they lived at the far northern margin of intensive maize agriculture in the American West, where the constraints on maize production are made abundantly clear. Using a tree-ring and simulation-based reconstruction of average annual precipitation and maize growing degree days, along with cost-distance to perennial streams, we mod…
Targeted explorations of Pleistocene-Holocene transition archaeology on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah
A reconstruction of the Indigenous maize farming niche of Utah
Machine learning reconstructs the Indigenous maize farming niche of Utah. • Early Utah farmers balanced elevation-driven precipitation and the growing season. • Farmers mitigate this trade-off by diverting perennial streams in drier regions. • Early Utah farmers settled in an ideal distribution model way. Maize ( Zea mays L . ) was one of the most widespread domesticated plants in the Americas before European colonization. Despite its widespread …
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Population (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Habitat (3 works) · History (3 works)