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Steve Bozarth Steven Bozarth
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Office: 420 Lindley Hall
Phone: 785-864-5143
Email: sbozarth@ku.edu
  • Ph.D., University of Kansas (1996)
Vita (pdf)

Courses Taught   Research Interests
Geog. 104: Introductory Laboratory in Physical Geography
Geog. 105: Topics in Physical Geography: Opal Phytolith Analysis
 
Palynology, opal phytolith analysis, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, ancient agriculture
Current Projects   Selected Publications
Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in West Central New Mexico
 
2003 Biosilicate Analysis of Residue in Maya Dedicatory Cache Vessels from Blue Creek, Belize, by Steven R. Bozarth and Thomas Guderjan. Journal of Archaeological Science, in press.

2002 Climate and Environmental Variability in the Rise of Maya Civilization - a Preliminary Perspective from Northern Peten, by Richard D. Hansen, Steven R. Bozarth, John Jacob, David Wahl, and Thomas Schreiner. Ancient Mesoamerica 13(2): 273-295.

1995 Analysis of Fossil Biosilicates from the Valley Fill. In Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of Late Quaternary Valley Fills on the Southern High Plains, edited by Vance Holliday, pp. 161-171. Geological Society of America Memoir 186.

1993 Maize (Zea mays) Cob Phytoliths from a Central Kansas Great Bend Aspect Archaeological Site. Plains Anthropologist 38(146):279-286.

1990 Diagnostic Opal Phytoliths from Pods of Selected Varieties of Common Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris). American Antiquity 55:98-104.