Steven R Simm
Biographic Data
| ID | 87254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven R Simm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven R |
| FAMILY NAME | Simm |
| SIGNATURE | SIMM S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0624-1425 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Prehistoric Irrigation in Central Utah
In 1928, Noel Morss was shown 'irrigation ditches' along Pleasant Creek on the Dixie National Forest near Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, by a local guide who contended they were ancient. We relocated the site and mapped the route of an unusual mountain irrigation canal. We conducted excavations and employed OSL and AMS14C showing historic irrigation, and an earlier event between AD 1460 and 1636. Geomorphic evidence indicates that the canal ex…
Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau
Written to appeal to professional archaeologists, students, and the interested public alike, this book is a long overdue introduction to the ancient peoples of the Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau. Through detailed syntheses, the reader is drawn into the story of the habitation of the Great Basin from the entry of the first Native Americans through the arrival of Europeans. Ancient Peoples is a major contribution to Great Basin archaeolo…
On Prey Mobility, Prey Rank, and Foraging Goals
In their recent paper 'In Pursuit of Mobile Prey,' Bird, Bliege-Bird, and Codding (2009) identify a negative relationship between body size and post-encounter returns among Martu prey in western Australia, attributing the phenomena to the greater mobility of large animals and associated risk of hunting failure. While this phenomenon has implications for archaeological applications of foraging models that assume body size and on-encounter returns …
Paleoindian or Paleoarchaic? Great Basin Human Ecology at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition . Kelly E. Graf , Dave N. Schmitt
Scenes from the High Desert
The Fremont Complex
Tur Imdai Rockshelter
Excavation of a rockshelter in southern Jordan yielded a record of habitation by pastoralists beginning about A.C. 1650 and continuing to the present. Ethnography and oral history associate the site with the Bedul Bedouin of Petra over the past century. The 3.6 m deep deposits yielded seven radiocarbon dates, microbotanical remains, goat and sheep bones, and a variety of artifacts. There was a shift in use of the shelter in the late 17th century …
Plain-Ware Ceramics and Residential Mobility
Bedouin Hand Harvesting of Wheat and Barley
Archeology
"Nach'i-Wana, "The Big River
Journal Article Nach‘i-Wána, “The Big River”: Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land and Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico Get access Nach‘i-Wána, “The Big River”: Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. By Hunn Eugene S.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. xi + 378 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00.)Indians of the Rio Grande De…
Site Structure of the Orbit Inn
One goal of ethnoarchaeology is to strengthen archaeological inferences about the past. A fifteenth-century hunter-gatherer, open site in Utah is used to examine ethnoarchaeological contributions toward determining the use of space, duration of occupation, assemblage composition, and site function. Comparisons between macrorefuse and microrefuse patterning suggest that (1) the distribution of macrorefuse can help identify locations of ephemeral s…
The archaeological structure of a bedouin camp
Behavioral Ecology and Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: An example from the Great Basin
Anthropological Applications of Optimal Foraging Theory
Recent applications of models of optimal foraging behavior to human foraging economies are summarized and evaluated. These models predict patterns of prey choice, habitat use, time allocation, settlement pattern, and foraging group size that will maximize some objective currency (such as the net rate of energy capture while foraging) under the constraints of resource characteristics and forager capabilities pertaining to a particular situation. I…
The Fremont Complex
Plain-Ware Ceramics and Residential Mobility
The archaeological structure of a bedouin camp
Site Structure of the Orbit Inn
One goal of ethnoarchaeology is to strengthen archaeological inferences about the past. A fifteenth-century hunter-gatherer, open site in Utah is used to examine ethnoarchaeological contributions toward determining the use of space, duration of occupation, assemblage composition, and site function. Comparisons between macrorefuse and microrefuse patterning suggest that (1) the distribution of macrorefuse can help identify locations of ephemeral s…
Bedouin Hand Harvesting of Wheat and Barley
Prehistoric Irrigation in Central Utah
In 1928, Noel Morss was shown 'irrigation ditches' along Pleasant Creek on the Dixie National Forest near Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, by a local guide who contended they were ancient. We relocated the site and mapped the route of an unusual mountain irrigation canal. We conducted excavations and employed OSL and AMS14C showing historic irrigation, and an earlier event between AD 1460 and 1636. Geomorphic evidence indicates that the canal ex…
Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau
Written to appeal to professional archaeologists, students, and the interested public alike, this book is a long overdue introduction to the ancient peoples of the Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau. Through detailed syntheses, the reader is drawn into the story of the habitation of the Great Basin from the entry of the first Native Americans through the arrival of Europeans. Ancient Peoples is a major contribution to Great Basin archaeolo…
On Prey Mobility, Prey Rank, and Foraging Goals
In their recent paper 'In Pursuit of Mobile Prey,' Bird, Bliege-Bird, and Codding (2009) identify a negative relationship between body size and post-encounter returns among Martu prey in western Australia, attributing the phenomena to the greater mobility of large animals and associated risk of hunting failure. While this phenomenon has implications for archaeological applications of foraging models that assume body size and on-encounter returns …
Tur Imdai Rockshelter
Excavation of a rockshelter in southern Jordan yielded a record of habitation by pastoralists beginning about A.C. 1650 and continuing to the present. Ethnography and oral history associate the site with the Bedul Bedouin of Petra over the past century. The 3.6 m deep deposits yielded seven radiocarbon dates, microbotanical remains, goat and sheep bones, and a variety of artifacts. There was a shift in use of the shelter in the late 17th century …
Anthropological Applications of Optimal Foraging Theory
Recent applications of models of optimal foraging behavior to human foraging economies are summarized and evaluated. These models predict patterns of prey choice, habitat use, time allocation, settlement pattern, and foraging group size that will maximize some objective currency (such as the net rate of energy capture while foraging) under the constraints of resource characteristics and forager capabilities pertaining to a particular situation. I…
Behavioral Ecology and Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: An example from the Great Basin
The archaeological structure of a bedouin camp
Site Structure of the Orbit Inn
One goal of ethnoarchaeology is to strengthen archaeological inferences about the past. A fifteenth-century hunter-gatherer, open site in Utah is used to examine ethnoarchaeological contributions toward determining the use of space, duration of occupation, assemblage composition, and site function. Comparisons between macrorefuse and microrefuse patterning suggest that (1) the distribution of macrorefuse can help identify locations of ephemeral s…
"Nach'i-Wana, "The Big River
Journal Article Nach‘i-Wána, “The Big River”: Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land and Indians of the Rio Grande Delta: Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico Get access Nach‘i-Wána, “The Big River”: Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. By Hunn Eugene S.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. xi + 378 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00.)Indians of the Rio Grande De…
Archeology
Tur Imdai Rockshelter
Excavation of a rockshelter in southern Jordan yielded a record of habitation by pastoralists beginning about A.C. 1650 and continuing to the present. Ethnography and oral history associate the site with the Bedul Bedouin of Petra over the past century. The 3.6 m deep deposits yielded seven radiocarbon dates, microbotanical remains, goat and sheep bones, and a variety of artifacts. There was a shift in use of the shelter in the late 17th century …
Plain-Ware Ceramics and Residential Mobility
Bedouin Hand Harvesting of Wheat and Barley
The Fremont Complex
Scenes from the High Desert
Paleoindian or Paleoarchaic? Great Basin Human Ecology at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition . Kelly E. Graf , Dave N. Schmitt
On Prey Mobility, Prey Rank, and Foraging Goals
In their recent paper 'In Pursuit of Mobile Prey,' Bird, Bliege-Bird, and Codding (2009) identify a negative relationship between body size and post-encounter returns among Martu prey in western Australia, attributing the phenomena to the greater mobility of large animals and associated risk of hunting failure. While this phenomenon has implications for archaeological applications of foraging models that assume body size and on-encounter returns …
Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau
Written to appeal to professional archaeologists, students, and the interested public alike, this book is a long overdue introduction to the ancient peoples of the Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau. Through detailed syntheses, the reader is drawn into the story of the habitation of the Great Basin from the entry of the first Native Americans through the arrival of Europeans. Ancient Peoples is a major contribution to Great Basin archaeolo…
Prehistoric Irrigation in Central Utah
In 1928, Noel Morss was shown 'irrigation ditches' along Pleasant Creek on the Dixie National Forest near Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, by a local guide who contended they were ancient. We relocated the site and mapped the route of an unusual mountain irrigation canal. We conducted excavations and employed OSL and AMS14C showing historic irrigation, and an earlier event between AD 1460 and 1636. Geomorphic evidence indicates that the canal ex…
Archaeology (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Biology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Geology (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works)