Suzanne Fish

Office: ASM 213N Phone: 520-626-8290
Suzanne Fish
Email:
 sfish@email.arizona.edu
Degree:
 Ph. D University of Arizona, Arid Lands Resource Sciences, 1993
Affiliation:

Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Interests:
 Archaeology, Southwest US and Northwest Mexico, Brazil, Settlement Patterns, Subsistence Studies, Traditional Agriculture, Ethnobotany, Archaeological Palynology.
Classes:

ANTH/ARL 469/569 Ethnobotany
ANTH 442a,b; 542a,b Archaeological Field School
ARL 595A Arid Lands Research (Colloquium)

Current Research:

 Borderlands Archaeology Program (Marana Platform Mound Excavations, Trincheras Studies, Snaketown Mortuary Analysis), Shell Mound Excavations in Brazil, Hohokam Agave Cultivation.

 

Recent Major Publications:

2004 Corn, crops, and cultivation in the Greater Southwest. In People and Plants of Ancient Western N orth America, edited by Paul Minnis, pp. 115-166. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington , D.C.
2001

Farming, foraging and gender in Southwestern prehistory. In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest, edited by Patricia Crown, pp. 169-196. SAR Press, Santa Fe.

2001 (with P. Fish) The institutional contexts of Hohokam complexity and inequality. In Alternative Leadership Strategies in the Prehistoric Southwest, edited by Barbara J. Mills, pp. 154-167. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2000 (with P. Fish) Civic-territorial organization and the roots of Hohokam complexity. In The Hohokam Village Revisited, edited by D. Doyel, S. Fish and P. Fish, pp. 373-390. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Glenwood Springs, CO.
1999 How complex were the Southwestern great town polities? In Great Towns and Regional Polities in the Prehistoric American Southwest and Southeast, edited by J. Neitzel, pp. 45-58. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
1999 (with N. Yoffee and G. Milner) Communidades, Ritualities, Chiefdoms: Social Evolution in the American Southwest and Southeast. In Great Towns and Regional Polities in the Prehistoric American Southwest and Southeast, edited by J. Neitzel, pp. 261-272. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
1999 Conclusions: the settlement pattern concept from an Americanist perspective. In Settlement Pattern Studies in the Americas: Fifty Years since Viru, edited by Brian Billman and Gary Feinman, pp. 181-186. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

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