Grant Snitker
School of Social Sciences
Assistant Professor
Educational Background
Biography
Dr. Grant Snitker is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology program at Utah State University. Dr. Snitker received a PhD in Anthropology from Arizona State University in 2019 and has held post-doctoral appointments in archaeology and fire ecology at the University of Georgia and the USDA Forest Service’s Southern Research Station. He is an environmental archaeologist, specializing in charcoal analysis, computational and analytical proxy modeling, and quantitative methods to understand the dynamic relationship between fire, humans, and long-term environmental change. He also works to improve methods and tools in cultural resource management and fire archaeology, including LiDAR data collection and analysis. He works primarily in the Western and Southern United States, as well as the Western Mediterranean.
- Barton, C., Ullah, I.I, Gauthier, N., Miller, N., Snitker, G., Esteban, I., Bernabeu Aubán, J., Heimsath, A., (2021). 'Digital Proxies' for Validating Models of Past Socio-Ecological Systems in the Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project: Simulating the Transition to Agriculture and Its Ecological and Cultural Consequences.
- Snitker, G., (2021). Identifying the influence of Neolithic agro-pastoral land-use on Holocene fire regimes through simulated sedimentary charcoal records: Case studies from Eastern Spain: Simulating the Transition to Agriculture and Its Ecological and Cultural Consequences. Springer
- Strawhacker, C., Snitker, G., Spielmann, K.A, Wasiolek, M., Sandor, J., Kinzig, A., Kintigh, K., (2017). Risk landscapes and domesticated landscapes: Food security in the Salinas Province: Landscapes of Social Transformation in the Salinas Province and the Eastern Pueblo World. University of Arizona Press
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Ross, C.W, Loudermilk, E.L, Flanagan, S.A, Snitker, G., Hiers, J.K, O’Brien, J.J, (2025). Wildfire Severity Reduction Through Prescribed Burning in the Southeastern United States. Sustainability, 17:13, doi: 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. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 13:2, 291-314. doi: 10.1017/aap.2025.1
- Reitz, E.J, Hadden, C.S, Zierden, M.A, Reinberger, K.L, Smith, H.R, Snitker, G., Perrotti, A.G, (2024). The Emergence and Evolution of Charleston, South Carolina’s (U.S.A.) Colonial Economy. Historical Archaeology, 58:4, 820-835. doi: 10.1007/s41636-024-00542-3
- Ross, C.W, Loudermilk, E.L, O’Brien, J.J, Flanagan, S.A, Snitker, G., Hiers, J.K, (2024). Wildfire Severity to Valued Resources Mitigated by Prescribed Fire in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Remote Sensing, 16:24, doi: 10.3390/rs16244708
- McDonough, K.N, Gavin, D.G, Rosencrance, R.L, Davis, L.G, Kuehn, S.C, Smith, M.F, Snitker, G., Saban, C.V, Szymanski, R., (2024). Multi-proxy paleoenvironmental data from Paulina Marsh inform human-environmental dynamics in the Northern Great Basin U.S.A.. Quaternary Science Advances, 14, doi: 10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100184
- Servera-Vives, G., Ricucci, C., Snitker, G., (2024). OLEAtool: An open-source software for morphopalynological research in Olea europaea L. pollen. Open Research Europe, 3, doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.15309.2
- Southerlin, B., Brilliant, B., Jason, M.D, Snitker, G., Stewart, C., (2023). The Archaeology of Tar and Pitch Production Sites in Francis Marion National Forest. South Carolina Antiquities, 53, 76-96.
- Cegielski, W., Snitker, G., Barton, C.M, Bernabeu Aubán, J., Cortell-Nicolau, A., Pardo-Gordó, S., Bergin, S., Castillo, A.D, (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: 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.08.011
- Bergin, S., Snitker, G., (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: 10.1017/aap.2023.22
- Servera-Vives, G., Mus Amezquita, M., Snitker, G., Florenzano, A., Torri, P., Ruiz, M., Mercuri, A.M, (2023). Human-Impact Gradients through Anthropogenic Pollen Indicators in a Mediterranean Mosaic Landscape (Balearic Islands). Sustainability, 15:11, doi: 10.3390/su15118807
- Servera-Vives, G., Mus Amezquita, M., Snitker, G., Florenzano, A., Torri, P., Estrany Bertos, J., Mercuri, A.M, (2022). Modern analogs for understanding pollen-vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean). The Holocene, 32:7, 716-734. doi: 10.1177/09596836221088229
- Snitker, G., Roos, C.I, Sullivan, A.P, Maezumi, S.Y, Bird, D.W, Coughlan, M.R, Derr, K.M, Gassaway, L., Klimaszewski-Patterson, A., Loehman, R.A, (2022). A collaborative agenda for archaeology and fire science. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6:7, 835-839. doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01759-2
- Snitker, G., Moser, J.D, Southerlin, B., Stewart, C., (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, doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103340
- Snitker, G., (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, 11:1, 103-115. doi: 10.14237/ebl.11.1.2020.1653
- Helmer, M., Lipton, J., Snitker, G., Hackenberger, S., Triplett, M., Cerveny, L., (2020). Mapping heritage ecosystem services in ecological restoration areas: A case study from the East Cascades, Washington. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 31, doi: 10.1016/j.jort.2020.100314
- Strawhacker, C., Snitker, G., Peeples, M.A, Kinzig, A.P, Kintigh, K.W, Bocinsky, K., Butterfield, B., Freeman, J., Oas, S., Nelson, M.C, Sandor, J.A, Spielmann, K.A, (2020). A Landscape Perspective on Climate-Driven Risks to Food Security: Exploring the Relationship between Climate and Social Transformation in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest. American Antiquity, 85:3, 427-451. doi: 10.1017/aaq.2020.35
- Snitker, G., Castillo, A.D, Barton, C.M, Aubán, J.B, Puchol, O.G, Pardo-Gordó, S., (2018). Patch-based survey methods for studying prehistoric human land-use in agriculturally modified landscapes: A case study from the Canal de Navarrés, eastern Spain. Quaternary International, 483, 5-22. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.034
- Snitker, G., (2018). Identifying natural and anthropogenic drivers of prehistoric fire regimes through simulated charcoal records. Journal of Archaeological Science, 95, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.04.009
- Díez Castillo, A., García Puchol, O., Bernabeu Aubán, J., Barton, C., Pardo-Gordó, S., Snitker, G., Cegielski, W., Bergin, S., (2016). Resiliencia y cambio durante el Holoceno en la Canal de Navarrés: recientes trabajos de prospección. Archivo de Prehistoria Levantina31, 169-185.
- Erlandson, J.M, Braje, T.J, Snitker, G., (2008). Two chipped stone crescents from CA- SMI-680, Cardwell Bluffs, San Miguel Island, California. Current Research in the Pleistocene25, 81-83.
- Peck, K., Gravel-Miguel, C., Snitker, G., Helmer, M., Assessing the efficacy of simulated training data for Mask R-CNN-based detection of archaeological sites. Advances in Archaeological Practice
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Magazine/Trade Publications
- Levi, M., Krueger, E., Snitker, G., Ochsner, T., Villarreal, M., Elias, E., Peck, D., (2019). Enhancing Fire Danger Ratings from the Ground up using Soil Moisture. Eos: Earth & Space Science News *
Other
- Ross, C.W, Loudermilk, E.L, O'Brien, J.J, Snitker, G., (2024). Lidar-derived structural-complexity data across four experimental forests: Data in Brief.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.