Recent APL-Lab Publications And Presentations

  • Peck, Katherine, and Grant Snitker. 2026. Evaluating a task and map-based digital recording workflow for pedestrian archaeological survey. SocArXiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/tz82c_v1
  • Katherine Peck, Claudine Gravel-Miguel, Grant Snitker, Matthew Helmer. 2026. Using Simulated Training Data to Locate Archaeological Sites with Machine Learning. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 14, 179–197 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2025.10130
  • C. Wade Ross, E. Louise Loudermilk, Steven A. Flanagan, Grant Snitker, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O’Brien. 2025. Wildfire Severity Reduction Through Prescribed Burning in the Southeastern United States. Sustainability 17 (13), 6230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su17136230.
  • Gravel-Miguel, C., Snitker, G., Hirniak, J.N., Peck, K., Fetterhoff, A., 2025. Semantic Segmentation of Archaeological Features on Public Lands: Case Study of Historical Cotton Terraces within the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia, USA. Adv. archaeol. pract. 13, 291–314. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2025.1
  • Ross, C. Wade, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Grant Snitker. 2024. Lidar-derived structural-complexity data across four experimental forests. Data in Brief, Vol. 57, 2024, 110955, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110955.
  • Katelyn N. McDonough, Daniel G. Gavin, Richard L. Rosencrance, Loren G. Davis, Stephen C. Kuehn, Morgan F. Smith, Grant Snitker, Chantel V. Saban, Ryan Szymanski. 2024. Multi-proxy paleoenvironmental data from Paulina Marsh inform human-environmental dynamics in the Northern Great Basin U.S.A. Quaternary Science Advances, Vol. 14, June 2024, 100184, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100184.
  • Cegielski, Wendy, Grant Snitker, C. Michael Barton, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Sean Bergin, Agustín Diez Castillo. 2023. A multi-method approach with machine learning to evaluating the distribution and intensity of prehistoric land use in Eastern Iberia. Quaternary International, 677–678, 78–94. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.08.011.
  • Bergin, Sean and Grant Snitker. 2023. ArchaeoSRP: An R Package for Extracting and Synthesizing Federal Cultural Resources Data for Research and Management. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 11(4): 402–412, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2023.22.
  • Southerlin, Bobby, Brooke Brilliant, Jason D. Moser, Grant Snitker, Christina Stewart. 2023. The Archaeology of Tar and Pitch Production Sites in Francis Marion National Forest. South Carolina Antiquities, 53, 76–96.
  • Servera-Vives, Gabriel, Maurici Mus Amezquita, Grant Snitker, Assunta Florenzano, Paola Torri, Maurici Ruiz, Anna Maria Mercuri. 2023. Human-impact gradients through anthropogenic pollen indicators in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands). Sustainability, 15 (11), 8807, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118807.
  • Servera-Vives, Gabriel, Cristina Ricucci, and Grant Snitker. 2023. OLEAtool: An open-source software for morphopalynological research in Olea europaea L. pollen. Open Research Europe, 3, 29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15309.1.
  • Snitker, Grant, Christopher I. Roos, Alan P. Sullivan, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Douglas W. Bird, Michael R. Coughlan, Kelly M. Derr, Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, Rachel A. Loehman. 2022. A collaborative agenda for archaeology and fire science. Nature: Ecology & Evolution, (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01759-2. Read-Only Version
  • Servera-Vives, Gabriel, Maurici Mus Amezquita, Grant Snitker, Assunta Florenzano, Paola Torri, Joan Estrany, and Anna Maria Mercuri. 2022. Modern pollen analogues for the understanding of pollen-vegetation relationships in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean). The Holocene, 32(7):716–734. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221088229
  • Snitker, Grant, Jason Moser, Bobby Southerlin, and Christina Stewart. 2022. Detecting historic tar kilns and tar production sites using high-resolution, aerial LiDAR derived digital elevation models: introducing the Tar Kiln Feature Detection workflow (TKFD) using open-access R and FIJI software. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 41, 103340. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103340.
  • Snitker, Grant. 2020. The Charcoal Quantification Tool (CharTool): A Suite of Open-source Tools for Quantifying Charcoal Fragments and Sediment Properties in Archaeological and Paleoecological Analysis. Ethnobiology Letters, 11, 103–115. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.11.1.2020.1653.
  • Helmer, Matthew, Jennifer Lipton, Grant Snitker, Steve Hackenberger, Mallory Triplett, andLee Cerveny. 2020. Mapping Heritage Ecosystem Services in Ecological Restoration Areas: A Case Study from the East Cascades, Washington. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 31(2020): 100314. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2020.100314.
  • Strawhacker, Colleen, Grant Snitker, Matthew Peeples, Ann Kinzig, Keith Kintigh, Kyle Bocinsky, Brad Butterfield, Jacob Freeman, Sarah Oas, Margaret Nelson, Jonathan Sandor, and Katherine Spielmann. 2020. A Landscape Perspective on Climate-Driven Risks to Food Security: Exploring the Relationship between Climate and Social Transformations in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest. American Antiquity, 58(3): 427-451. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.35.
  • Levi, Matthew, Erik Krueger, Grant Snitker, Tyson Ochsner, Miguel Villarreal, Emile Elias, and Dannele Peck. 2019. Enhancing Fire Danger Ratings from the Ground up using Soil Moisture. Eos: Earth and Space Science News, 100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO137858.
  • Snitker, Grant. 2018. Identifying Natural and Anthropogenic Prehistoric Fire Regimes through Simulated Charcoal Proxy Records. Journal of Archaeological Science, 95: 1–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.04.009.

A complete list of publications can be found via Google Scholar or ORCID.