CURRICULUM VITAE
SCOTT E. SIMMONS
328 Holiday
Hills Drive
Wilmington, North Carolina 28409
910.962.3429; simmonss@uncw.edu
Education:
1996 Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder
Anthropology
1991 M.A. University of Massachusetts, Boston
Historical Archaeology
1984 B.A. State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Major: Anthropology; Minor: Archaeology
Current Academic Position:
May 2007-Present
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Courses taught at UNCW:
Introduction to Anthropology, Archaeology, New World Archaeology,
Archaeology Laboratory Methods, The Ancient Maya, Environmental Anthropology,
Field Methods in Archaeology, Advanced Field Methods in Archaeology, Life in Ancient Britain & Ireland,
Ancient Mesoamerica, Historical Archaeology, Archaeology and the Media,
Plantation Archaeology & History, Honors in Anthropology
August 2001-May 2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Previous Teaching Experience:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
World Prehistory, Spring 2000
Field Methods in Archaeology, Summer 1999
The Ancient Maya, Spring 1999
Exploring Archaeology, Fall 1998, Fall 1999
Louisiana Plantation Archaeology and History, Spring & Fall 1999, Spring & Fall 2000
Archaeological Field Methods, Summer1988 and 1989, archaeology field schools
Graduate Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado, Boulder
Exploring a Non-Western Culture: The Maya, Summer & Fall 1994, Spring & Fall 1995
Field and Lab Archaeological Methods, Fall 1992 and Spring 1993
Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Fall 1992 and Spring 1993
Additional Teaching Experience:
1990–1992 Instructor, Student Science Seminar Program, Maryland Academy of Sciences.
Teaching Awards:
2009 University of North Carolina Wilmington Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Award
Archaeological Research Projects:
1999 - Present
Co-Principal Investigator, Field School Director-Lamanai Archaeological Project, Belize.
I am currently conducting on-going research on the maintenance of social and economic complexity following the “collapse” of Maya civilization in the Southern Lowland area. As Principal Investigator of the Maya Archaeometallurgy Project, I am directing an investigation of the relationships between Late Postclassic and Spanish Colonial period craft specialization, specifically copper metallurgy, and status and power in Maya society. This research entails documenting the advent of copper metallurgy and elucidating the technological nature of copper production at Lamanai. A prominent goal of the Maya Archaeometallurgy Project is to identify the organizational structure of copper metallurgy by specifically examining the social and economic relationships that existed just prior to and during the Spanish Colonial Period between producers and consumers. I directed summer field schools in Maya archaeology at Lamanai in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2008.
1/2000 – 5/2001
Director, Greater New Orleans Archaeology Program, University of New Orleans
I directed an educational program in archaeology and cultural history at the University of New Orleans. As Director of the GNOAP, I developed and administered a variety of public education projects in archaeology, history and culture in the New Orleans metropolitan area. My responsibilities included teaching archaeological field and laboratory methods to volunteers and students, directing all aspects of field investigations, and securing funding for the program through the acquisition of contracts, grants and other monies. I was engaged in various projects that combined public education and research archaeology at several Mississippi River French Colonial and antebellum period plantation sites. As Director of the Greater New Orleans Archaeology Program, I worked to help scholars and the public alike better understand the rich and diverse prehistoric and historic period cultural resources that are present in the New Orleans area.
Cultural Resource Management Experience:
1996-1998
Project Manager for R. Christopher Goodwin & Assoc., Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana.
My primary responsibility was to manage a variety of cultural resource management projects in the southeastern United States. I created technical and cost proposals for such projects, and directed the field survey and inventory of a variety of cultural resources, including both archaeological sites and historic structures. I managed National Register of Historic Places significance and eligibility testing projects, directed laboratory analysis of artifacts and samples, wrote and edited reports on the results of projects, interacted regularly with clients and other individuals involved in construction undertakings, and supervised the work of field archaeologists, laboratory personnel and other researchers.
1994-1995
Project Manager for Native Cultural Services, Boulder, Colorado. I managed several archaeological survey and assessment projects in Colorado, including a 3,100 acre survey for the City of Boulder Department of Open Space. I directed a number of other survey and assessment projects along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. I created research designs and developed appropriate field methodologies, directed survey and recording of historic and prehistoric archaeological sites, and completed reports for each project.
1990-1992
Supervisory Archaeologist for Greenhorne & O'Mara, Greenbelt, Maryland. I supervised survey and testing phases of cultural resource management studies in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The work included creating research designs and developing appropriate field methodologies for various projects, conducting archival research using a variety of records, directing field and lab work, and writing and editing of final reports. Job responsibilities included coordinating and planning with private, state and federal contractors and agencies and preparing technical and cost proposals for contract projects.
1986-1990
Field Director for the Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology, Baltimore, Maryland. I directed the investigation of historic archaeological sites in Baltimore City. Responsibilities included writing and editing of archaeological and archival research reports, supervising lab work, and teaching archaeology to the general public and to students of all ages.
1984- Field Technician for the Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology, Baltimore, Maryland. My 1985 responsibilities included conducting all phases of archaeological field investigations, processing and analyzing artifacts, and teaching archaeology in the Center's public archaeology program to the general public and to students of all ages.
Research Associations:
Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Materials Research & Education, 2006-2007.
Academic Publications:
Maya Metals: The Context and Significance of Copper Artifacts in Postclassic and Early Historic Lamanai, Belize. Co-authored with David Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham. Journal of Field Archaeology 34(1):57-75. 2009.
The Context, Significance and Technology of Copper Metallurgy at Late Postclassic- Spanish Colonial Period Lamanai, Belize. Principal author with Aaron N. Shugar. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 5:125-134. 2008.
Divination and Community Ritual in Southern Mesoamerica: Perspectives from Cerén, El Salvador. Manuscript on file in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Investigations in the Church Zone: Maya Archaeometallurgy at Spanish Colonial Lamanai, Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 2:231-239. 2005.
Late Postclassic-Spanish Colonial Period Stone Tool Technology in the Southern Maya Lowland Area: The View from Lamanai and Tipu, Belize. Lithic Technology. 27(1): 47-72. 2002.
Household Production of Extra-Household Ritual at the Cerén Site, El Salvador. Co-Authored (with Linda Brown and Payson Sheets) in Domestic Ritual in Mesoamerica, edited by Patricia Plunket, pp. 83-92. Monograph 46. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles. 2002.
Divination at Cerén: The Evidence from Structure 12. Co-authored (with Payson D. Sheets) in Before the Volcano Erupted: The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America, edited by Payson D. Sheets, pp. 104-116. University of Texas Press, Austin. 2002.
Household Production and Specialization at Cerén. Co-authored (with Payson D. Sheets) in Before the Volcano Erupted: The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America, edited by Payson D. Sheets, pp. 178-183. University of Texas Press, Austin. 2002.
Ancient Home and Garden: The View from Household 1 at Cerén. Co-authored with Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett and David Tucker. In Before the Volcano Erupted: The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America, edited by Payson D. Sheets, pp. 43-57. University of Texas Press, Austin. 2002.
The Households of Cerén: Form and Function in Middle Classic Period El Salvador. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor. 1996.
Maya Resistance, Maya Resolve: The Tools of Autonomy from Tipu, Belize. Ancient Mesoamerica 6:135-146. 1995.
Technical Reports (primary author):
Preliminary Report of the 2008 Field Season at Lamanai, Belize: The Lamanai Archaeological Project. Report edited by Scott E. Simmons and submitted by the University of North Carolina Wilmington, University College London and the Lamanai Archaeological Project to the Belize Institute of Archaeology. 2009.
Preliminary Report of the 2007 Field Season at Lamanai, Belize: The Lamanai Archaeological Project. Report edited by Scott E. Simmons and submitted by the University of North Carolina Wilmington, University College London and the Lamanai Archaeological Project to the Belize Institute of Archaeology. 2007.
Preliminary Report of the 2006 Field Season at Lamanai, Belize: The Maya Archaeometallurgy Project. UNCW Anthropological Papers, 7. Papers of the Maya Archaeometallurgy Project, 4. 2006.
Preliminary Report of the 2005 Field Season at Lamanai, Belize: The Maya Archaeometallurgy Project. UNCW Anthropological Papers, 5. Papers of the Maya Archaeometallurgy Project, 3. 2005.
Preliminary Report of the 2004 Field Season at Lamanai, Belize: The Maya Archaeometallurgy Project. UNCW Anthropological Papers, 2. Papers of the Maya Archaeometallurgy Project, 2. 2004.
Preliminary Report of the 2001-2002 Field Seasons at Lamanai, Belize: The Maya Archaeometallurgy Project. UNCW Anthropological Papers, 1. Papers of the Maya Archaeometallurgy Project, 1. 2003.
Archaeological Investigations at the Live Oak Plantation Site (16JE25), Waggaman, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Report submitted to the Jefferson Parish President’s Office, Harahan, Louisiana by the Greater New Orleans Archaeology Program, College of Urban & Public Affairs, University of New Orleans. 2002.
The Maya Archaeometallurgy Project, Lamanai, Belize, 1999. Report submitted to the H. John Heinz III Fund for Latin American Archaeology, Pittsburgh and on file at Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize. 1999.
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Assessment of the Oaklands Mansion, Black Fox Spring and Nickajack Trace/Lytle Creek Project Areas. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District by R. Christopher Goodwin & Assoc, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana. 1999.
Cultural Resource Assessment, Survey and Testing at Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge, Stewart County, Tennessee. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District by R. Christopher Goodwin & Assoc., New Orleans, Louisiana. 1998.
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of SR 263 from Tennessee Street to I-10, Leon County, Florida. Report submitted to the Florida Department of Transportation, R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana. 1997.
Archival/Cultural Resource Assessment, Survey, and Testing, J. Percy Priest Lake, Rutherford County, Tennessee. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District by R. Christopher Goodwin & Assoc, Inc., New Orleans, La. 1997.
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of SR 20, SR 61 to Chaires Crossroads (CR 1543), Leon County, Florida. Report submitted to the Florida Department of Transportation by R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, New Orleans, Louisiana. 1997.
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of SR 20/SR 366 from Aenon Church Road to Appleyard Drive, Leon County, Florida. Report submitted to the Florida Department of Transportation by R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, New Orleans, Louisiana. 1997.
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Assessment of the Proposed Murfree Spring Wetlands Preservation and Environmental Education Center. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District by R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana. 1997.
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of State Road No. 83 (US 331), US 98 to Pavement Change South of I-10, Walton County, Florida. Report submitted to the Florida Department of Transportation by R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, New Orleans, Louisiana. 1996.
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of State Road No. 87, SR 30 (US 98) to SR 10 (US 90), Santa Rosa County, Florida. Report submitted to the Florida Department of Transportation by R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, New Orleans, Louisiana. 1996.
Cultural Resources of City of Boulder Open Space: Marshall - Davidson Mesa and Associated Parcels, Boulder County, Colorado. Report Submitted to the City of Boulder Dept. of Open Space by Native Cultural Services, Boulder, Colorado. 1995.
Archeological Investigations at the Tommy Jones Stage Stop, Boulder County, Colorado. Report Submitted to the City of Boulder Department of Open Space by Native Cultural Services, Boulder, Colorado. 1994.
Summary Report on the John Martin Reservoir Archeological Site Reassessments, Bent County, Colorado. Report Submitted to the Albuquerque District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 1994.
Phase II Archeological Investigations of Site 18GA304 in Western Garret County, Maryland. Report Submitted to the United States Air Force by Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland. 1992.
Phase II Archeological Investigation of the Payne Site, 44KG105, At Dahlgren Naval Surface Warfare Center King George County, Virginia. Report submitted to the United States Navy by Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland. 1992.
A Phase I Archeological Identification Survey of State Road 58, Lee County, Virginia. Report Submitted to the Virginia Department of Transportation by Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland. 1991.
An Investigation of the Archaeological Resources Associated with Piers 5 and 6 and the Harrison's at Pier 5 Complex (18BC62 & 18BC63) Baltimore, Maryland. Report submitted to Center City-Inner Harbor Development Company, Inc. by the Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology, Baltimore, Maryland. 1990.
A Phase I Archeological Identification Survey of Two Alternative Gwen Tower Sites in Western Garrett County, Maryland. Report submitted to the United States Air Force by Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland. 1990.
Intensive Archeological Identification Survey of the Maryland Route 45 Improvements, Between Maryland Route 145 and Belfast Road. Baltimore County, Maryland. Report submitted to the Maryland Department of Transportation by Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland. 1990.
Selected Presented Papers & Posters:
“Archaeometallurgy at Lamanai, Belize: Maya Technological Innovation in Late Postclassic-Spanish Colonial Times.” Poster presented at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland. June 29-July 4, 2008.
“Current Archaeometallurgical Research in Mesoamerica: New Approaches, Discoveries and Perspectives.” Working Group Co-Organized with Aaron N. Shugar for the 73rd annual Society for American Archaeology conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 26-30, 2008.
“Technological Persistence and Change in Postclassic Period Maya Metallurgy.” Paper presented in the symposium “Technological Persistence and Change in Ancient Mesoamerica” at the 73rd annual Society for American Archaeology conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 26-30, 2008.
"The Context, Significance and Technology of Copper Metallurgy at Late Postclassic- Spanish Colonial Period Lamanai, Belize.” Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Belize Archaeology Symposium: Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands in Belize City, Belize. July 3-6, 2007.
“The Late Postclassic-Spanish Colonial Period Political Economy of Lamanai, Belize: Insights from the Maya Archaeometallurgy Project.” Paper presented at the 71st Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in San Juan, P.R., April 26-30, 2006.
“Maya Metallurgy and the Political Economy of Late Postclassic-Spanish Colonial Lamanai, Belize.” Poster presented at the 70th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Salt Lake City, March 30-April 3, 2005.
“Recent Archaeological Research in the Church Zone, Lamanai, Belize.” Paper presented at the First Annual Southeast Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory at the University of South Florida, Tampa, February 11-12, 2005.
"The Maya Archaeometallurgy Project at Lamanai." Paper presented at the Second Annual Belize Archaeology Symposium: Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands in Belize City, Belize. July 7-9, 2004.
“Investigations at Str. N11-18: Maya Metallurgy and the Cacique’s House at Spanish Colonial Lamanai, Belize.” Poster presented at the Thirty-seventh annual conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology in St. Louis, January 7-11, 2004.
“The Maya Archaeometallurgy Project at Lamanai, Belize: Excavations at Str. N11-18, the Cacique’s House.” Invited paper at Lehigh University, Department of Anthropology, November 2003.
“Excavations at Structure N11-18, Lamanai, Belize. Paper presented at the Sixty-seventh annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver, Colorado, March 20-24, 2002.
“Public Archaeology at Evergreen Plantation: Excavations in the Quarters Area.” Paper Presented in the symposium “From the Ground Up: Archaeology in and around New Orleans.” The Arsenal, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2001.
“Copper Metallurgy at Lamanai, Belize: A Preliminary View on Context and Meaning.” Paper presented at the sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2001.
“Public Education and Research Archaeology: Marrying the two at Evergreen Plantation.” Paper presented at the 2000 annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Metairie, Louisiana, February 2000.
“The Cerén Site, El Salvador: Household Archaeology and Craft Specialization.” Invited paper at Louisiana State University, Department of Geography and Anthropology. October 1999.
"Building Relationships at Cerén: The View of Intracommunity Production and Exchange from Household 4." Presented in the symposium "Current Research in El Salvador." Paper presented at the Sixty-second annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Nashville, Tennessee, April 2-6, 1997.
"Colonial Period Maya Stone Tools from Tipu, Lamanai and San Pedro: A Contact Period Perspective on Technology and Change." Presented in the symposium "Integrative Approaches to the Recovery of Mind, Meaning and Social Identity in Maya Archaeology." Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 3-7, 1995.
Book Reviews for Academic Journals:
The Ancient Maya of the Belize River Valley. Edited by James F. Garber. University Press of Florida, 2004. Review in Southeastern Archaeology, Volume 24, Number 2, Winter 2005, pp. 238-239.
Stone Tool Traditions in the Contact Era. Edited by Charles R. Cobb. University of Alabama Press, 2003. Review in American Antiquity, Volume 71(4):788-789. October 2006.
Manuscript Reviews for Peer-Reviewed Journals:
Inter-Assemblage Variation and the Organization of Chipped Chert Technology at Four Maya Sites in Belize by W. James Stemp. Reviewed for Lithic Technology. November 2007.
Metallurgy, Mayapan, and the Postclassic Mesoamerican World System by Elizabeth H. Paris. Reviewed for Ancient Mesoamerica. May 2007.
Book Reviews for College Textbook Publishers:
World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction. By Brian M. Fagan. Pearson Prentice Hall Publishers, April 2004. Authored questions for the course companion website.
In the Beginning. By Brian M. Fagan. Pearson Prentice Hall Publishers, May 2004.
World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways through Time. Michael Chazan. Allyn and Bacon Publishers, December 2004.
Archaeology: An Evolutionary Approach. By John W. Hoopes. February 2004.
Grant Reviews:
“Community Organization in the Itza Core Region: Tayasal, Guatemala” by Timothy Pugh. National Science Foundation proposal, November 2005.
“The San Pedro Maya and the British Colonial Enterprise in Belize, 1847-1936” by Jason Yaeger. National Endowment for the Humanities proposal, December 2003.
Awards, Research Grants and Scholarships:
1994 Earl H. Morris Award, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado.
1993 Alice Hamilton Scholarship, The Colorado Archaeological Society
1999 H. John Heinz III Grant for Latin American Archaeology of $7,600.00 for
“Copper Production in the Southern Maya Lowlands.”
1999 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities research grant of $14,669.00 for “Archaeology at Evergreen Plantation: Educating the Public, Learning about the Past.”
2001 H. John Heinz III Grant for Latin American Archaeology of $8,010.00 for
“Craft Production and Socioeconomic Complexity: Provenance Studies of Copper Ore Deposits and Analyses of Copper Artifacts from Lamanai, Belize Maya.”
Membership in Professional Organizations:
Society for American Archaeology, Board of Directors (2006-2009)
American Anthropological Association
Society for Historical Archaeology
Register of Professional Archaeologists
References:
Dr. Patricia B. Lerch, Chair Dr. Elizabeth A. Graham
Department of Anthropology Institute of Archaeology
University of North Carolina Wilmington University College London
601 South College Road 31-34 Gordon Square
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-5907 London, England
(910) 962-3705 WC1H 0PY
20 7792 3108
Dr. Payson D. Sheets
Department of Anthropology
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado 80309
(303) 492-7302