Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona

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Professor of Anthropology and Curator Arizona State Museum

Ph.D. Arizona, 1993.

Research interests: Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnobotany, palynology, settlement patterns; U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Arid Lands, Hohokam social organization and subsistence; traditional agriculture of the Greater Southwest; shell mound occupations of coastal Brazil.

Area studies courses: Ethnobotany, Archaeology of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Mexico.

Selected Publications

Fish, S., P. Fish and E. Villalpando.  In press.  Enduring Traditions: Trincheras Sites in Time, Space and Society.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Fish, S. and P. Fish.  2004.  “El reconocimiento arqueológico de Trincheras.”  Noroeste 14.

Fish, S.  2004.  “Corn, Crops, and Cultivation in the North American Southwest.  In People and Plants in Ancient North America, ed. Paul Minnis, 115-166.  Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Fish, S, P. Fish, M.D. Gaspar, and Paulo DeBlasis.  2002.  “Eventos incrementais na construcao de sambaquis, literal sul do estado de Santa Catarina.”  Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (Universidade de Sao Paulo) 10: 69-87. 

Fish, S. 1999. “How complex were the Southwestern Great Town Polities? In Great Towns and Regional Polities: Late Prehistoric and Sociopolitical Organization in the U.S, Southwest and Southeast, edited by J. Neitzel. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press: 45-58. Fish, S.