Curriculum Vitae
GAYLE JEANNINE FRITZ
CURRENT STATUS: Associate Professor, Department of
Anthropology, with Joint Appointment in Department of
Biology, Washington University in St. Louis.
DEGREES HELD:
Ph.D., Anthropology, Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986.
M.A., Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1975.
A.B., Classical Archaeology, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS RECEIVED:
1994 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
1994 Faculty Research Grant, Washington University in St.
Louis
1993 National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate
Education, Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement
Grant (Fritz is P.I.; P. J. Watson is Co-P.I.)
1991 C. B. Moore Award "For Excellence in Archaeology by a
Young Scholar in Southeastern Studies"
1986-1987 Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship
1985-1986 N.S.F., Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant,
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1984 Dissertation Research Fellowship, Graduate School,
U.N.C., Chapel Hill (R. A. Yarnell was P.I.)
1981-1982 Biomedical Research Award, Graduate School,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1969 Degree from University of Michigan "With Distinction"
COURSES TAUGHT:
At Washington University in St. Louis: Ethnobotany and
Archaeobotany; North American Indian Societies; North
American Prehistory; Experimental Ethnobotany; Advanced
Paleoethnobotany; Excavation Techniques; Seminars in
Eastern North American Prehistory
At the University of Michigan: Prehistory of North America;
Introduction to Archaeology; Seminar on Culture Change
in the Prehistoric Southeastern U.S.; Seminar on
Domestication of Indigenous North American Plants
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
Introduction to General Anthropology, the Four Fields
(two semesters)
FIELDWORK:
1992, Summer Test Excavations at three sites in Tensas
Parish, Louisiana
1991, Summer Work at sites in Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma
1991, Spring Excavations at Mound 1, Cahokia, Illinois. As
instructor of Excavation Techniques (Anthro.
390)
1989, Summer Excavations at the Osceola Site, Louisiana.
Project Paleoethnobotanist for the Harvard
Univ.-Peabody Museum Coles Creek Subsistence
Expedition
1988, Summer Visits to conduct flotation at the Toltec Mounds
Site in central Arkansas and at the Josh Paulk
Site in eastern Louisiana
1981, Summer Excavations at Huntsville Mounds (Season Two);
Asst. to Field School Director, Arkansas
Archeological Survey
1980, Summer Excavations at the Huntsville Mounds Site, NW
Arkansas; Asst. to Field School Director,
Arkansas Archeological Survey
1978-1980 Site survey and testing as regular part of job
(Asst. Survey Archeologist, Arkansas
Archaeological Survey)
1975, Summer Survey of the Mimbres River Valley, New Mexico;
Crew member for the Mimbres Foundation
1974, Spring Survey of prairie zone in central Illinois Crew
member for the Foundation for Illinois
Archaeology
1972, Fall Survey of Matagorda Bay, Texas; Project
Director for the Texas Archeological Survey
1971, Summer Excavations at Gomolava, Yugoslavia; Crew member
for the Museum of Vojvodina
EMPLOYMENT:
1996-pres Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Washington University in St. Louis
1990-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Washington University in St. Louis
1987-1990 Visiting Assistant Professor and Visiting
Curator, Museum of Anthropology, Univ. of
Michigan
1986-1987 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1981-1985 Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Teaching
Asst., Research Asst., and Instructor)
1978-1980 Assistant to the Survey Archeologist, Arkansas
Archeological Survey, Fayetteville
1976-1978 Survey Registrar, Arkansas Archeological Survey
1972-1973 Staff Archeologist, Texas Archeological Survey
1971-1972 Research Assistant, Environmental Planning
Division, Texas General Land Office, Austin
1970-1971 Student Guide, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Anthropological Association, Society for American
Archaeology, Society of Ethnobiology, Southeastern
Archaeological Conference, Society for Economic Botany,
Illinois Archaeological Survey.
EDITORIAL BOARDS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Editorial Board, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
Editorial Assistant, Journal of Ethnobiology (1994)
For the Society for American Archaeology's Fryxell Committee:
Organizer of the Fryxell Symposium at the 57th Annual Meeting
of the S.A.A., 1992, Pittsburgh.
INVITED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:
1996 Discussant, Symposium on the Archaeobotany of the
Northeastern U.S., organized by John P. Hart, to be held
at the New York State Museum, Albany, April 24-27. (I
agreed to participate as a Discussant.)
1996 Presenter of paper entitled "The Development of Native
Agricultural Economies in the Lower Mississippi Valley"
in the Symposium entitled The Natchez District in the
Old, Old South, to be held at the Historic Natchez
Conference, Natchez, Mississippi, Jan. 31-Feb. 4.
1994 Participant, Workshop on Integrating Molecular and
Anthropological Approaches to Understanding the
Co-evolution of Maize and Human Cultures, sponsored by
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., August 29-31, Ames,
Iowa.
1993 Presenter of paper entitled "New Dates and New Data on
Ancient Plant Use" in the Missouri Botanical Garden's
40th Annual Systematics Symposium (on the topic of
Economic Botany), October 8-10, 1993, St. Louis.
1993 Participant, Avery Island Conference on Lower Mississippi
Valley Archaeology, sponsored by the Peabody Museum of
Harvard University, September 23-26, Avery Island,
Louisiana.
1993 Participant, Workshop on Current Research in the Cahokia
Area, sponsored by the Illinois Historic Preservation
Office and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville,
July, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.
1992 Presenter of paper entitled "The Value of Archaeological
Plant Remains for Paleodietary Reconstruction" at the
Conference on Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health of
Prehistoric Americans, sponsored by the Center for
Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale, March 27-28, 1992.
1992 Participant, Second Paleoethnobotany Workshop, sponsored
by the Missouri Archaeological Society, October 10, Lyman
Research Center, University of Missouri at Columbia.
1987 Organizer (with Bruce D. Smith), Workshop on Indications
of Domestication in Indigenous North American Plants,
sponsored by the National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, May 28-30, Washington, D.C.
PUBLICATIONS (* = Peer Reviewed)
*n.d. A Three Thousand Year Old Cache of Crop Seeds from Marble
Bluff, Arkansas. In People, Plants, and Landscapes: Case
Studies in Paleoethnobotany edited by K. J. Gremillion, in
press. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
n.d. Chenopod; Corn; Sumpweed; Sunflower (four separate
entries). In Encyclopedia of North American Prehistory,
edited by Guy Gibbon, in press. Garland Press, New York.
*1995 New Dates and Data on Early Agriculture: The Legacy of
Complex Hunter-Gatherers. Annals of the Missouri Botanical
Garden 82:3-15. (Proceedings of the 40th Annual Systematics
Symposium, held October, 1993).
1994 On the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World (Reply
to Piperno). Current Anthropology 35(5):639-643.
1994 Are the First American Farmers Getting Younger? Current
Anthropology 35(3):305-309.
*1994 Precolumbian Cucurbita argyrosperma ssp. argyrosperma
(Cucurbitaceae) in the Eastern Woodlands of North America.
Economic Botany 48(3):280-292.
*1994 The Value of Archaeological Plant Remains for
Paleodietary Reconstruction. In Paleonutrition: The Diet
and Health of Prehistoric Americans, edited by K. D.
Sobolik, pp. 21-33. Center for Archaeological
Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
Occasional Paper No. 22.
1994 In Color and in Time: Prehistoric Ozark Agriculture. In
Agricultural Origins and Development in the Midcontinent,
edited by William Green, pp. 105-126. University of Iowa,
Office of the State Archaeologist, Report 19.
*1993 (G. J. Fritz and T. R. Kidder) Recent Investigations
into Lower Mississippi Valley Agriculture. Southeastern
Archaeology 12(1):1-14.
*1993 (T. R. Kidder and G. J. Fritz) Investigating Subsistence
and Social Change in the Lower Mississippi Valley: The 1989
and 1990 Excavations at the Reno Brake and Osceola Sites,
Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Journal of Field Archaeology,
20(3):281-297.
*1993 Archeobotanical Remains from the Cobb-Pool Site, a Late
Prehistoric Farmstead in North Central Texas. Bulletin of
the Texas Archeological Society 64:227-246. (Volume devoted
to research on North Central Texas archaeology, edited by T.
K. Perttula.)
*1993 Early and Middle Woodland Period Paleoethnobotany. In
Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands, edited by C.
M. Scarry, pp. 39-56. Ripley P. Bullen Monographs in
Anthropology and History, University of Florida Press,
Gainesville.
1992 "Newer, Better" Maize and the Mississippian Emergence: A
Critique of Prime Mover Explanations. In Late Prehistoric
Agriculture: Observations from the Midwest, edited by
William Woods, pp. 19-43. Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 8, Springfield.
*1990 Multiple Pathways to Farming in Precontact Eastern North
America. Journal of World Prehistory 4(4):387-435.
1989 Evidence of Plant Use from Copple Mound at the Spiro Site.
In Contributions to Spiro Archeology: Mound Excavations and
Regional Perspectives, edited by J. D. Rogers, D. O.
Wyckoff, and D. A. Peterson, pp. 65-87. Oklahoma
Archeological Survey Studies in Oklahoma's Past No. 16.
1988 (G. J. Fritz and B. D. Smith) Old Collections and New
Technology: Documenting the Domestication of Chenopodium in
Eastern North America. Midcontinental Journal of
Archaeology 13(l):13-29.
*1987 (C. M. Niquette, R. D. Boedy, and G. J. Fritz) The
Calloway Site (15MT8): A Woodland Camp in Martin County,
Kentucky. West Virginia Archeologist 39:21-51.
1986 Mounds in Northwest Arkansas: A More Positive Approach to
Late Prehistory in the Ozarks. In Contributions to Ozark
Prehistory, edited by George Sabo III, pp. 49-54. Arkansas
Archeological Survey Research Series No. 27.
1986 Desiccated Botanical Remains From Three Bluffshelter Sites
in the Pine Mountain Project Area, Crawford County,
Arkansas. In Contributions to Ozark Prehistory, edited by
George Sabo III, pp. 86-97. Arkansas Archeological Survey
Research Series No. 27.
*1984 Identification of Cultigen Amaranth and Chenopod from
Rockshelter Sites in Northwest Arkansas. American Antiquity
49:558-572.
*1982 (G. J. Fritz and R. H. Ray) Rock Art Sites in the
Southern Arkansas Ozarks and Arkansas River Valley. In
Arkansas Archeology in Review, edited by N. L. Trubowitz and
M. D. Jeter, pp. 240-276. Arkansas Archeological Survey
Research Series No. 14.
1979 Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains from the Montgomery
Farm, Barry County, Missouri. The Arkansas Archeologist
20:69-78.
REVIEWS
n.d. Review of Archaeology of the Southeastern United States,
by J. A. Bense. American Antiquity, in press.
1993 Review of Rivers of Change, Essays on Early Agriculture in
Eastern North America, by B. D. Smith. Economic Botany
47(4):425.
1993 Review of Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory, ed. by
A. B. Gebauer and T. D. Price. American Anthropologist
95(2):482-483.
1991 Review of Current Paleoethnobotany, ed. by C. A. Hastorf
and V. S. Popper. American Antiquity, 56(1):166-167.
1987 Review of Prehistoric Rock Art of the Cross Timbers,
Management Unit, East Central Okalahoma: An Introductory
Study, by C. D. Neel and K. Sampson. Southeastern
Archaeology 6(1):70.
1985 Peer Review. In The Alexander Site, Conway County,
Arkansas, edited by E. T. Hemmings and J. House, pp.
133-134. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No.
24.
THESES
1986 Prehistoric Ozark Agriculture, the University of Arkansas
Rockshelter Collections. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of
Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1975 Analysis of Ceramic Pipes, Ear Ornaments, and Effigies
from the George C. Davis Site, Cherokee County, Texas. M.A.
thesis, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas at
Austin.