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Scott M. Fitzpatrick's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara
Masters Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Scott M. Fitzpatrick is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Director for Research and Collections at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon. He is a specialist in the prehistory and historical ecology of island and coastal regions of the Pacific and Caribbean. His research has focused on colonization events, seafaring strategies, adaptations to smaller islands, exchange systems, and human impacts on ancient environments. He has conducted archaeological research in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands with other projects having taken place in Panama, the Florida Keys, and Oregon Coast. He has published several books and more than 140 journal articles and book chapters. Fitzpatrick is the founding co-editor of The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology , an Associate Editor for Archaeology in Oceania, a Review Editor for Frontiers in Human Dynamics, and serves on the editorial boards for the Caribbean Journal of Science and Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Fitzpatrick is also a Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and a Research Affiliate at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use (2019) (296)
Oceans, Islands, and Coasts: Current Perspectives on the Role of the Sea in Human Prehistory (2006) (180)
Human impacts and adaptations in the Caribbean Islands: an historical ecology approach (2007) (131)
Archeology, deep history, and the human transformation of island ecosystems (2013) (88)
A Critical Approach to 14C Dating in the Caribbean: Using Chronometric Hygiene to Evaluate Chronological Control and Prehistoric Settlement (2006) (78)
The Role of Small Islands in Marine Subsistence Strategies: Case Studies from the Caribbean (2008) (75)
Early human burials in the western Pacific: evidence for c.3000 year old occupation on Palau (2003) (69)
New records for prehistoric introduction of Neotropical mammals to the West Indies: evidence from Carriacou, Lesser Antilles (2012) (60)
Archaeology, historical ecology and anthropogenic island ecosystems (2017) (56)
Islands of Isolation: Archaeology and the Power of Aquatic Perimeters (2008) (55)
Evidence for size increase in an exploited mollusc: humped conch (Strombus gibberulus) at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau from ca. 3000―0 BP (2010) (53)
Reevaluating human colonization of the Caribbean using chronometric hygiene and Bayesian modeling (2019) (52)
Prehistoric migration in the Caribbean: past perspectives, new models and the ideal free distribution of West Indian colonization (2014) (49)
Coastal Erosion and Site Destruction on Carriacou, West Indies (2006) (49)
Intensifying collection and size increase of the tessellated nerite snail (Nerita tessellata) at the Coconut Walk site, Nevis, northern Lesser Antilles, AD 890–1440 (2013) (49)
Using seafaring simulations and shortest-hop trajectories to model the prehistoric colonization of Remote Oceania (2016) (45)
Marginalization of the Margins: The Importance of Smaller Islands in Human Prehistory (2016) (44)
Prehistoric fishing in Palau, Micronesia: evidence from the Northern Rock Islands (2005) (43)
The Pre-Columbian Caribbean: Colonization, Population Dispersal, and Island Adaptations (2015) (42)
Recent Progress, Trends, and Developments in Island and Coastal Archaeology (2015) (41)
Were Hominins in California ∼130,000 Years Ago? (2017) (34)
Anthropogenic impacts to coral reefs in Palau, western Micronesia during the Late Holocene (2007) (33)
On the shoals of giants: natural catastrophes and the overall destruction of the Caribbean’s archaeological record (2012) (32)
Precolumbian Settlements on Carriacou, West Indies (2009) (32)
Sr and Pb isotopic investigation of mammal introductions: Pre-Columbian zoogeographic records from the Lesser Antilles, West Indies (2016) (31)
Examining dispersal mechanisms for the translocation of chicken (Gallus gallus) from Polynesia to South America (2009) (29)
Origin of pre-Columbian guinea pigs from Caribbean archeological sites revealed through genetic analysis (2016) (29)
Archaeological investigation of Omis Cave: a Yapese stone money quarry in Palau (2001) (29)
Seafaring Capabilities in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean (2013) (28)
Preliminary investigations of the Chelechol ra Orrak Cemetery, Republic of Palau: I, skeletal biology and paleopathology (2006) (27)
Estimating trajectories of colonisation to the Mariana Islands, western Pacific (2013) (27)
7. Human Impacts On Marine Environments In The West Indies During The Middle To Late Holocene (2008) (27)
Verification of an Archaic Age Occupation on Barbados, Southern Lesser Antilles (2011) (26)
Temporal trends in prehistoric fishing in Palau, Micronesia over the last 1500 years (2011) (26)
Evidence for inter-island transport of heirlooms: luminescence dating and petrographic analysis of ceramic inhaling bowls from Carriacou, West Indies (2009) (26)
Ceramic petrography and cultural interaction in Palau, Micronesia (2003) (25)
Examining Prehistoric Migration Patterns in the Palauan Archipelago: A Computer Simulated Analysis of Drift Voyaging (2008) (25)
A Radiocarbon Chronology of Yapese Stone Money Quarries in Palau (2002) (25)
Seafaring simulations and the origin of prehistoric settlers to Madagascar (2008) (25)
Straw Boats and the Proverbial Sea: A Response to ‘Island Archaeology: In Search of a New Horizon’ (2007) (25)
Human Paleodiet at Grand Bay, Carriacou, Lesser Antilles (2013) (23)
A Preliminary Report on the Excavation at Grand Bay, Carriacou, West Indies, June 28th-July 31st 2004 (2004) (23)
Maritime interregional interaction in Micronesia: Deciphering multi-group contacts and exchange systems through time (2008) (23)
From Limestone Caves to Concrete Graves: 3000 Years of Mortuary Practice in the Palauan Archipelago, Micronesia (2008) (23)
Petrography and Provenance of Sand Temper Within Ceramic Sherds from Carriacou, Southern Grenadines, West Indies (2013) (23)
On the Relative Isolation of a Micronesian Archipelago during the Historic Period: the Palau Case‐Study (2007) (22)
Island Archaeology, Model Systems, the Anthropocene, and How the Past Informs the Future (2018) (22)
A Radiocarbon Sequence for the Sabazan Site, Carriacou, West Indies (2004) (21)
Prey body size and anthropogenic resource depression: The decline of prehistoric fishing at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau (2016) (20)
No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival (2021) (20)
The southward route hypothesis : examining Carriacou's chronological position in Antillean prehistory (2010) (20)
From west to east: Environmental influences on the rate and pathways of Polynesian colonization (2014) (19)
AMS Dating of Human Bone from Palau: New Evidence for a Pre-2000 BP Settlement (2002) (19)
Ancient Psychoactive Substances (2018) (18)
The Southward Route Hypothesis (2013) (18)
Stones of the butterfly : an archaeological investigation of Yapese stone money quarries in Palau, western Caroline Islands, Micronesia (2003) (17)
Testing the efficacy and reliability of common zooarchaeological sampling strategies: a case study from the Caribbean (2013) (17)
An Anthropocene Without Archaeology—Should We Care? (2014) (17)
Continued Archaeological Investigations at Grand Bay, Carriacou, West Indies (May 23rd-July 22nd 2005), and the Impact of Hurricanes and Other Erosive Processes (2005) (17)
New Radiocarbon Dates for the Grenadine Islands (West Indies) (2011) (17)
Archaeology and coastal conservation (2012) (16)
The maritime transport of prehistoric megaliths in Micronesia. (2006) (16)
The Antiquity of Pearl Shell (Pinctada Sp.) Burial Artifacts in Palau, Western Micronesia (2002) (16)
Intensified mollusk exploitation on Nevis (West Indies) reveals ~six centuries of sustainable exploitation (2015) (15)
Archaeology's Contribution to Island Studies (2007) (15)
Preliminary Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of Prehistoric Ceramics from Carriacou, West Indies (2008) (15)
Marine reservoir corrections for the Caribbean demonstrate high intra- and inter-island variability in local reservoir offsets (2021) (15)
Banking on Stone Money: Ancient Antecedents to Bitcoin (2019) (15)
A Critique of the ‘AD 1300 Event’, with Particular Reference to Palau (2010) (14)
The Prehistoric Chewing of Betel Nut (Areca catechu) in Western Micronesia (2003) (13)
The Neolithic of the Kurile Islands (Russian Far East): Current State and Future Prospects (2012) (13)
Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling of one of Remote Oceania's oldest cemeteries at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau (2018) (13)
Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution (2020) (12)
Viewing the Sea from the Reefs. Comment and Forum Synthesis on Julio Baisre's “Setting a Baseline for Caribbean Fisheries” (2010) (11)
Small Scattered Fragments Do Not a Dwarf Make: Biological and Archaeological Data Indicate that Prehistoric Inhabitants of Palau Were Normal Sized (2008) (10)
Metal Tools and the Transformation of an Oceanic Exchange System (2006) (10)
Petrographic analysis of Pre-Columbian pottery from four islands in the Lesser Antilles and implications for inter-island transport and interactions (2016) (10)
Compositional analysis of Yayoi‐Heian period ceramics from Okinawa: Examining the potential for provenance study (2006) (10)
Tropical islands of the Anthropocene: Deep histories of anthropogenic terrestrial–marine entanglement in the Pacific and Caribbean (2021) (10)
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists (2022) (10)
Characterisation of aluminium release by the enFlow® fluid‐warming system in crystalloids and blood products (2019) (10)
First Radiocarbon Chronology for Mwoakilloa (Mokil) Atoll, Eastern Caroline Islands, Micronesia (2016) (8)
Archaeological Research in the Grenadine Islands, West Indies (2007) (7)
Beyond Time Team: Archaeological Investigations at Coconut Walk, Nevis, West Indies, 1st July–4th August 2010 (2010) (7)
Banking on stone money (2004) (7)
A Decade of Archaeological Research on Carriacou, Grenadine Islands, West Indies (2014) (7)
Magellan's Crossing of the Pacific: (2008) (7)
The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Turns Six (2011) (7)
Reconstructing prehistoric fishing zones in Palau, Micronesia using fish remains: a blind test of inter-analyst correspondence (2017) (7)
JICA Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary (2015) (6)
Purposeful commingling of adult and child cranial elements from the Chelechol ra Orrak Cemetery, Palau (2011) (6)
Bowls and Burials – an Update from Grand Bay, Carriacou, West Indies: May–June 2011 (2012) (6)
Introduction: Archaeology and Historical Ecology in the Pacific Basin1 (2009) (6)
δ18O analysis of Donax denticulatus: Evaluating a proxy for sea surface temperature and nearshore paleoenvironmental reconstructions for the northern Caribbean (2016) (5)
Island Worlds Apart: Interaction and Remoteness on Seas and Oceans (2008) (5)
Defending the Defensible or Offending the Sensible? A Response to Nunn & Hunter-Anderson (2011) (5)
Disproving claims for small-bodied humans in the Palauan archipelago (2017) (5)
Ongoing Archaeological Investigations on Carriacou, West Indies: 2nd July – 3rd August 2007 (2007) (5)
Adapting to Palau (2015) (5)
The Archaeology of Islands and Coastlines (2006) (4)
Magellan's Crossing of the Pacific: Using Computer Simulations to Examine Oceanographic Effects on One of the World's Greatest Voyages (2008) (4)
Introduction:: Drugs from a Deep Time Perspective (2018) (4)
Preliminary Investigation of Pre-Columbian Sites on the Islands of Mustique and Union in the Grenadines, West Indies (2013) (4)
The Archaeology of Western Micronesia (2014) (3)
Author Correction: Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution (2020) (3)
Impact of Hurricanes and Other Erosive Processes (2005) (3)
Petrographic analysis of Pre-Columbian pottery from Nevis, Eastern Caribbean (2019) (3)
Life among the tides : recent archaeology on the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Sixth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 20-22, 2011. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 98) (2013) (3)
New Investigations of Early Prehistoric Settlement on Yap, Western Caroline Islands (2019) (3)
Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean (2011) (2)
Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology: A first look at the dental morphometrics of early Palauans (2013) (2)
A comparative study of pre-colonial farming in the Caribbean vis-à-vis the Pacific (2018) (2)
δ18O Analyses of the Humpbacked Conch (Gibberulus gibberulus): Evaluating a Proxy for Reconstructing Sea-Surface Temperature at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau (2018) (2)
Caribbean and circum-Caribbean farmers : An introduction (2018) (2)
Palau Five Year Historical and Cultural Preservation Plan: 1998-2003 (1997) (2)
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai‘i by Patrick Vinton Kirch (2014) (2)
New archaeological insights from petrographic analysis of ceramics from the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama (2018) (2)
In Support of Sustainability: The Historical Ecology of Vertebrate Biodiversity and Native American Harvest Practices in the Florida Keys, USA (2022) (2)
Analysis on the elemental composition of ceramics in Barbados during the Saladoid and Suazoid period (1996) (2)
Ancient aquaculture and the rise of social complexity (2020) (2)
Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Diet at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau (2019) (2)
Collagen fingerprinting of Caribbean archaeological fish bones: Methodological implications for historical fisheries baselines and anthropogenic change (2022) (2)
Determining Ancestry of Unprovenienced Human Remains from the Grenadines, Southern Caribbean: Dental Morphology and Craniometric (2016) (2)
Eight and Counting (2013) (2)
Islands, Zooarchaeology, and Historical Ecology (2009) (2)
Correction to Equation in “Coastal Erosion and Site Destruction on Carriacou, West Indies” (2007) (1)
Archaeological Reconnaissance and the First Radiocarbon Dates From Simbo Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands (2018) (1)
Island and Coastal Archaeology: Innovation, Change, and New Directions (2010) (1)
Craniofacial morphology does not support a pre-contact Carib “invasion” of the northern Caribbean (2021) (1)
Editor’s Corner: Island and Coastal Archaeology as Salvage Archaeology (2019) (1)
New Archaeological Research on Curaçao (2017) (1)
Isotopic Analysis of Prehistoric Human Diet at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau (2016) (1)
Using GPS in American Samoa: Implications for Conservation Work in the Pacific (2001) (1)
Comparative perspectives on pre-Columbian farming in the Caribbean as seen through the lens of historical ecology (2018) (1)
Nutritional Implications in 19 th Century Portugal : A LEH Study of Frequency and Duration . ( Under the direction of Dr (2012) (1)
Holocene book review: Daniel H. Sandweiss and Jeffrey Quilter (editors) El Niño, Catastrophism, and Culture Change in Ancient America Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009. 290 pp. US$55.00, £40.95, hardback. ISBN 978-0-88402-353-1 (2011) (0)
Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico. Peter E. Siegel, editor. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 2005. 423 pp., figures, bibliography, index. $36.95 (paper). (2007) (0)
Abstract RECTENWALD, KRISTEN RENÉE. Relative Long Bone Proportions and Developmental Stress in a Modern Thai Population. (Under the direction of D (2012) (0)
Prehistoric Population Mobility in the Caribbean: Genetic and Isotopic Investigations at Grand Bay, Carriacou, West Indies (2015) (0)
Environmental Influences on the Prehistoric Movement of Modern Humans through Wallacea (2017) (0)
Geomorphological Development and Implications for Human Settlement of Southern Yap, Western Caroline Islands (2019) (0)
Pre-Columbian Vertebrate Remains from the Coconut Walk Site, Nevis, West Indies (2015) (0)
A massive undertaking: examining stone money in its archaeological context (2002) (0)
BILL DICKINSON’S PETROGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN THE LESSER ANTILLES, CARIBBEAN (2016) (0)
New Ancient DNA from Palau Shed Light on Early Micronesian Settlement (2018) (0)
Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Coral Reef Small Islands: A History of Human Adaptation in the Florida Keys (2016) (0)
X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Morphological Analysis of Trade Beads from Palau, Micronesia (2017) (0)
Preliminary Petrographic Analysis of Ceramics from the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama (2015) (0)
A probable case of leprosy from colonial period St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Southeastern Caribbean. (2021) (0)
A Mentality for Monumentality? Monumental Architecture and Hierarchical Social Organization on Subtropical and Tropical Islands (2016) (0)
Extinction & Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds (review) (2009) (0)
Tracking Changes in Nearshore Ecology over 2000 Years in Southern Yap, Western Caroline Islands (2018) (0)
Banking on Stone Money: The Influence of Traditional "Currencies" on Blockchain Technology (2018) (0)
Subsistence Strategies and Small Island Adaptations: New Evidence from the Florida Keys (2016) (0)
The Pre-Columbian Exchange: The Anthropogenic Zoogeography of Insular Caribbean Translocations (2016) (0)
Highlighting the Significance of Island and Coastal Archaeology (2007) (0)
Carriacou (2022) (0)
Early Settlement of Atolls in Eastern Micronesia: Investigations on Mwoakilloa Atoll (2015) (0)
The Effects of ENSO on Travel along the Pacific Coast of the Americas (2019) (0)
A Methodological Analysis of Vertebrate Remains from Coconut Walk, Nevis, West Indies (2016) (0)
Agouti commensalism? An open question in the prehistoric Lesser Antilles, West Indies (2017) (0)
Island Chain Coastlines (2019) (0)
From Sea to Shining Sea: The Influence of Bill Dickinson’s Pacific Island Ceramic Petrography on Caribbean Research (2015) (0)
Prehistoric Mobility and Population Movements in Palau: New Data from aDNA and Stable Isotope (Sr, Pb) Analysis (2015) (0)
When foragers are managers (2018) (0)
Exploring Manufacturing Variability in Calcareous Sand Tempered Pottery on Yap, Western Caroline Islands (2018) (0)
New Archaeological Site Recording and Assessment Along the Southern Oregon Coast (2017) (0)
Siegel, PeterE. (ed.): Island Historical Ecology. Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. 427 pp. ISBN 978-1-78533-763-5. Price: $ 130.00 (2019) (0)
Temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau. (2020) (0)
Drugs and Psychotropics (2018) (0)
Ancient DNA and Isotopic analyses of human skeletal remains from Chelechol ra Orrak, Republic of Palau (2015) (0)
Colonization of the Land of Stone Money: Resolving the Unclear Origins of Early Settlements of Yap, Western Caroline Islands (2017) (0)
Evaluating the efficacy of the mollusc T ridacna crocea for reconstructing ancient sea‐surface temperatures in the Rock Islands of Palau, Micronesia (2019) (0)
Working with Historic Preservation Offices in the Pacific Islands (2008) (0)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FROM PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM THE BOCAS DEL TORO ARCHIPELAGO, PANAMA (2017) (0)
Paul Rainbird: The Archaeology of Islands (2009) (0)
Possible Prehistoric Translocation of Non-human Primates to Remote Oceania (2019) (0)
Stable Oxygen Isotope δ18O Analysis of Crocus Clam (Tridacna crocea) from Palau, Micronesia: Evaluating a Proxy for Sea-surface Temperature Reconstruction (2017) (0)
Rescue recovery of the earliest known burials from Barbuda, West Indies (ca. 3560–3220 cal years BP) (2021) (0)
Island Chain Coastlines: (2019) (0)
Chemical analysis of glass beads in Palau, western Micronesia reveals 19th century inter-island exchange systems in transition (2022) (0)
Burial patterns at the Chelechol ra Orrak cemetery, Republic of Palau (2013) (0)
Petrography and Provenance of Pottery Sherds from Islands in the Southern Lesser Antilles, Caribbean (2016) (0)
EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF STABLE ISOTOPE AND X-RAY FLUORESCENCE (XRF) ANALYSES IN PROVENANCE STUDIES OF YAPESE STONE MONEY (2018) (0)
Ghost of the Navigator: Tracking Initial Human Population Dispersal to the Palauan Archipelago (2016) (0)
Archaeology, Historical Ecology, and Marginality (2019) (0)
Archaeology as Sustainability Science: Perspectives from Ancient Island Societies (2022) (0)
Face in the Sand: Island Rules, Biogeography, and the Fallacy of Palauan Hobbits (2017) (0)
Measuring Human Impacts on Islands Relative to Size (2017) (0)
Buried in the Sand: Investigations at Ucheliungs Cave, Palau, Micronesia (2017) (0)
Archaeological exploration of Oceanic worlds (2008) (0)
First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective. Peter Bellwood. 2013. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, UK. xvii + 308 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN-978-1-4051-8908-8. (2014) (0)
Prehistoric Fishing Declines at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau: Resolving Issues of Anthropogenic Impacts and Long-Term Resource Sustainability (2015) (0)
Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo‐Pacific Regions Edited by Rintaro Ono, Alex Morrison and David Addison Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2013. Terra Australis 39. ISBN: 978‐1‐925‐02125‐7 paper; 978‐1‐925‐02126‐4 ebook. Pp. 204. $A55 print (free on line). (2014) (0)
What Is the Most Parsimonious Explanation for Where Pre-Columbian Caribbean Peoples Originated? (2021) (0)
Seafaring Capabilities in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean (2013) (0)
Crossing the Caribbean Divide Integrating Anthropological Analyses in the Study of Pre-Columbian Cultures (2017) (0)
Editor's Corner (2009) (0)
Theory beyond the calm ocean? (2020) (0)
Revisiting the Ideal-Free settlement of the Caribbean islands (2019) (0)

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