Grant Snitker

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor (appointed via Letter of Academic Title)
Director, Cultural Resource Sciences Program, New Mexico Consortium
New Mexico Consortium
PhD, Arizona State University (2019)

Education:

BA, University of Oregon (2006)

MA, Arizona State University (2013)

PhD, Arizona State University (2019)

Dissertation: "Anthropogenic Fire and the Development of Agricultural Landscapes: Connecting Archaeology, Paleoecology, and Fire Science to Evaluate Human Impacts on Fire Regimes”

Research:

Environmental Archaeology, Anthropogenic Fire and Fuels, Technology and Big Data in CRM, Fire Effects on Cultural Resources,     Charcoal Analysis, Paleoecology / Global Paleofire, Computational Modeling in Archaeology

Recent Publications:

Cegielski, Wendy, Grant Snitker, C. Michael Barton, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Sean Bergin, Agustín Diez Castillo. (2023). A multi-method approach with machine learning to evaluating the distribution and intensity of prehistoric land use in Eastern Iberia. Quaternary International 677–678, 78–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.08.011

 

Bergin, Sean and Grant Snitker. (2023). ArchaeoSRP: An R Package for Extracting and Synthesizing Federal Cultural Resources Data for Research and Management. Advances in Archaeological Practice 11(4): 402–412. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2023.22

Servera-Vives, Gabriel, Maurici Mus Amezquita, Grant Snitker, Assunta Florenzano, Paola Torri, Maurici Ruiz, Anna Maria Mercuri. (2023). Human-impact gradients through anthropogenic pollen indicators in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands). Sustainability 15 (11), 8807. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118807

 

Servera-Vives, Gabriel, Cristina Ricucci, and Grant Snitker. (2023). OLEAtool: An open-source software for morphopalynological research in Olea europaea L. pollen. Open Research Europe 3, 29. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15309.1

 

Snitker, Grant, Christopher I. Roos, Alan P. Sullivan, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Douglas W. Bird, Michael R. Coughlan, Kelly M. Derr, Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, and Rachel A. Loehman. (2022). A collaborative agenda for archaeology and fire science. Nature: Ecology & Evolution 6, 835–839. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01759-2

 

Servera-Vives, Gabriel, Maurici Mus Amezquita, Grant Snitker, Assunta Florenzano, Paola Torri, Joan Estrany, and Anna Maria Mercuri. (2022). Modern pollen analogues for the understanding of pollen-vegetation relationships in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean). The Holocene 32(7):716–734. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221088229

 

Snitker, Grant, Jason Moser, Bobby Southerlin, and Christina Stewart. (2022). Detecting historic tar kilns and tar production sites using high-resolution, aerial LiDAR derived digital elevation models: introducing the Tar Kiln Feature Detection workflow (TKFD using open-access R and FIJI software. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41, 103340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103340

 

Snitker, Grant. (2022). The Charcoal Quantification Tool (CharTool): A Suite of Open-source Tools for Quantifying Charcoal Fragments and Sediment Properties in Archaeological and Paleoecological Analysis. Ethnobiology Letters 11(1):103–115. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.11.1.2020.1653