Research Affiliate

Joan S. Schneider

joan.schneider@ucr.edu

Dr. Schneider's research interests include the prehistory and ecology of the California deserts; hunter-gatherer economic systems; and evaluation of the applications of geochemical and geophysical techniques used for dating surface archaeological remains; She has conducted extensive archaeological research in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, and has extended research interest to the Middle East. She is especially interested in the acquisition of materials and the production of stone tools used by women in prehistory. Dr. Schneider works closely with National Park Service and California State Parks cultural resources programs, with Native Americans, and in the promotion of Public Archaeology (trains volunteer archaeologists and gives courses through UC Extension).

Selected publications: Geological Constraints on Ground Stone Production and Consumption in the Southern Levant. In: New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts, edited by Y. Rowan and J. Ebling. London: Equinox Publishing, Ltd. (in press, 2006, with P. C. LaPorta); Milling Tool Design, Stone Textures, and Function. In: Moudre et Broyer: L’interprétation fonctionnelle de l’outillage de mouture et de broyage dans la Préhistoire et l’Antiquité, Vol. 1 Méthodes, H.. Procopiou and R. Treuil, eds., pp. 31-53. Paris: Editions CTHS (2002); Stone Textures and Function: a Relationship between Milling Tools and Subsistence as Derived from Western American Quarries Data. In: ASMOSIA 5, Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone – Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1998, J. Herrmann, N. Herz, and R. Newman, eds., pp. 381-393. London: Archetype Publications (2002); Early Bronze Age Milling Stone Production and Exchange in the Negev: Preliminary Conclusions. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 31:201-212 (2001, with S.A. Rosen); Of Stones and Spirits. Pursuing the Past of Antelope Hill. Tucson: Statistical Research, Inc. and University of Arizona Press (2000, with J. H. Altschul, eds.); Analysis of Ground Stone Artifacts, in Archaeological Laboratory Methods: an Introduction (3rd edition, 2002, by M. Q. Sutton and B. S. Arkush); Surface Dating Using Rock Varnish (with P. R. Beirman), in Chronometric Dating in Archaeology (1997, edited by R. E. Taylor and M. J. Aitkens); Archaeological Investigations at Guapiabit: CA-SBR-1913, San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly (1997, with M. Q. Sutton); Quarrying and Production of Aboriginal Milling Implements at Antelope Hill, Arizona, Journal of Field Archaeology (1996); A Milling-Implement Quarry at Elephant Mountain, California, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (1995, with M. K. Lerch and G. A. Smith); The Siphon Site, a Millingstone Horizon Site in Summit Valley, California, San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly (1993, with M. Sutton and R. Yohe II); Immunological Identification of Small-Mammal Proteins on Aboriginal Milling Equipment, American Antiquity (1991, with R. Yohe II, and M. Newman); The Desert Tortoise (Xerobates agassizii) in the Prehistory of the Southwestern Great Basin, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (1989, with G. Everson); The Archaeology of the Afton Canyon Site, San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly (1989);