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PhD Anthropology University of Arizona
Masters Anthropology University of Arizona
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According to Wikipedia, Jan F. Simek is an American archaeologist and educator who was the interim president of the University of Tennessee system from 2009 to 2010. A faculty member in the department of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Simek's research interests include Paleolithic archaeology, human evolution, quantitative analysis, spatial analysis, archaeology of the southeastern United States, and cave archaeology. He has been involved in the discovery and exploration of numerous “Unnamed Caves”, a naming practice used to protect their location, in the Cumberland Plateau for the past fifteen years. He has been instrumental in the discovery of prehistoric artwork; dating back thousands of years. He has also conducted important research in France at Neanderthal habitation sites.

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Jan Simek's Published Works

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Ash Bones and Guano: a Study of the Minerals and Phytoliths in the Sediments of Grotte XVI, Dordogne, France (2002) (140)
Explaining the development of dietary dominance by a single ungulate taxon at Grotte XVI (2001) (110)
Artifact Size and Plowzone Processes (1995) (67)
Mousterian fires from Grotte XVI (Dordogne, France) (1995) (51)
The Evolution of the Capacity for Culture: Sociobiology, Structuralism, and Cultural Selectionism [and Comments and Replies] (1986) (51)
Chronological changes in stone tool assemblages from Krapina (Croatia). (1997) (41)
Artifact size and spatial process: Macro‐ and microartifacts in a mississippian house (1995) (39)
The recognition of multiple spatial patterns: a case study from the French upper paleolithic (1983) (36)
Integrating pattern and context in spatial archaeology (1984) (33)
Interpreting Spatial Patterns at the Grotte XV A Multiple-Method Approach (1991) (33)
A K-means approach to the analysis of spatial structure in Upper Paleolithic habitation sites : Le Flageolet I and Pincevent section 36 (1984) (31)
Arms Too Short to Box with God (1987) (18)
Les Derniers Chasseurs de Rennes du Monde Pyrénéen. L'Abri Dufaure: Un Gisement Tardiglaciaire en Gascogne. Lawrence Guy Straus. 1995. Société Préhistorique Française, Paris. 163 figures, 11 photos, 97 tables; summaries in English, French, and Spanish. 290 FF (paper). (1998) (17)
Interpreting Spatial Patterns at the Grotte XV (1991) (17)
Sacred landscapes of the south-eastern USA: prehistoric rock and cave art in Tennessee (2013) (14)
The Context of Early Southeastern Prehistoric Cave Art: A Report on the Archaeology of 3rd Unnamed Cave (1998) (13)
The Châtelperronian of Grotte XVI, Cénac-et-Saint-Julien (Dordogne, France) (2007) (12)
8: Chronological Change in Perigord Lithic Assemblage Diversity (1991) (10)
Partitioning chi-square for the analysis of frequency table data: an archaeological application (1983) (8)
1st Unnamed Cave: a Mississippian period cave art site in east Tennessee, USA (1996) (7)
Talking stones: Cherokee syllabary in Manitou Cave, Alabama (2019) (6)
Core Refitting and the Accuracy of Aggregate Lithic Analysis Techniques: The Case of 3rd Unnamed Cave, Tennessee (2008) (6)
THE PREHISTORIC CAVE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF DUNBAR CAVE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TENNESSEE (2012) (5)
Materiality and cultural landscapes in Native America (2018) (4)
The middle stone age at Klasies River Mouth in South Africa: By Ronald Singer and John Wymer, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1982, vi + 234 pp., 72 figs (1983) (4)
PREHISTORIC ROCK ART FROM PAINTED BLUFF AND THE LANDSCAPE OF NORTH ALABAMA ROCK ART (2013) (3)
Prehistoric rock art, social boundaries, and cultural landscapes on the Cumberland Plateau of southeast North America (2018) (3)
Steps to an evolution of mind (1998) (2)
What does the archaeological record mean (1984) (2)
A Paleolithic Sculpture from the Abri Labattut in the American Museum of Natural History Collection (1986) (2)
The Red Bird River Shelter (15CY52) Revisited: The Archaeology of the Cherokee Syllabary and of Sequoyah in Kentucky (2019) (2)
The Aurignacian and Gravettian in northern Aquitaine: the contribution of Flageolet I (2016) (2)
Issues in the study of southeastern prehistoric cave art (2001) (2)
Caves as Mortuary Contexts in the Southeast (2010) (1)
Discovering ancient cave art using 3D photogrammetry: pre-contact Native American mud glyphs from 19th Unnamed Cave, Alabama (2022) (1)
In the Morning House: The Redhorn Cycle Depicted in Rock Art from Kentucky (2018) (0)
There Is No Cherokee Syllabary at Red Bird River Shelter (15CY52): Reply to Tankersley and Weeks (2020) (0)
Sacred Animal Images in Precontact Southeastern Rock Art (2018) (0)
Archeology: La Riera Cave: Stone Age Hunter‐Gatherer Adaptations in Northern Spain. Lawrence G. Straus and Geoffrey A. Clark, eds (1988) (0)
Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Coast Ridge Subdivision, Lot 7, Block 2, Tract Number 462, Carmel, Monterey County, California (1975) (0)
Neanderthal archaeology (1997) (0)
First Reported Samples from the Radiocarbon Laboratory of the University of Tennessee Center for Archaeometry and Geochronology: Dates from the Mccrosky Island Archaeological Site (40SV43), Sevier County, Tennessee, USA (2008) (0)
The Protection and Management of Prehistoric Cave Art in the Southeast (2002) (0)
The Middle Paleolithic: Adaptation, Behavior, and Variability. Harold L. Dibble and Paul Mellars, editors. University Museum Monograph 72, Symposium Series IV. The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1992. x + 216 pp., figures, tables, references cited. $50.00 (cloth). (1995) (0)
P. Allsworth-Jones. The Szeletian and the transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Central Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. xx + 412 pp., 20 pls., 30 tables, 50 figs., 9 maps. £55. (1987) (0)
3D Photogrammetry and Woodland Mud Glyphs from 19th Unnamed Cave, Alabama (2019) (0)
Tennessee Valley Authority Conservation and Management Initiatives at Painted Bluff, Alabama (2015) (0)
Neanderthal cognition and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition (2020) (0)
Landscapes of Mississippian Rock Art in the Southeast (2016) (0)
A Techno-morphological Analysis of Gravettian Stone Tools from La Grotte Seize and La Ferrassie, Dordogne, France (2016) (0)
New approaches to new data (1984) (0)
Archaeological Evaluation of a Prehistoric Cultural Resource, CA-MNT-16, Located On Block B-12, Lot 32, Oceanview Avenue and Stewart Way, Carmel, California (1975) (0)
Non-Destructive Analysis of Pictographs at Painted Bluff: Understanding Prehistoric Paint Recipes in the Southeastern United States (2016) (0)
Through a Mirror, Darkly: Using Multi-Sensor Imaging Surveys as Basic Data for 3D Spatial Analysis of Cave and Open-Air Rock Art (2016) (0)
Prehistoric Cave Art from Florida (2009) (0)
A Regional Perspective on Mud Glyph Cave Art in Southeastern North America. (2015) (0)
A Real Man of Style: The Life and Contributions of James R. Sackett (1933–2019) (2020) (0)
Handbook of Rock Art Research (2004) (0)
Talking Stone: Cherokee Syllabary Inscriptions in Dark Zone Caves (2016) (0)
Deep Passage 8 7 N Î Entrance (2009) (0)

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