Staff Spotlight
Irvy R. Quitmyer
Environmental Archaeology Collection Manager
141 Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville , FL 32611
(352) 273-1926
Email: quitmyer@flmnh.ufl.edu
B.A. Anthropology, University of Florida
FLMNH Environmental Archaeology Program
Concurrent Appointments
Research Associate, Director's Research Program, Florida Museum
Research Interests
Zooarchaeology of Maritime people, archaeomalacology (ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working Group Coordinator), schlerochronology and climatology
Ongoing Fieldwork and Laboratory Work
- Sclerochronology of modern and zooarchaeological hard clams (Mercenaria spp.) from Litchfield Beach, SC. A collaborative study with Doug Jones, Florida Museum and Chester DePratter, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina.
- Sclerochronology of modern and zooarchaeological hard clams (Mercenaria spp.) from St. Catherines Island, Georgia. A collaborative study with Doug Jones, Florida Museum and David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History.
- Zooarchaeological analyses of SE USA archaeological sites (some current studies include Stardust Site, Eagles Nest, past studies include Cinnamon Bay, St. Johns, VI, Miami Circle, FL, Lake Monroe Site, FL
- Specialized fish, bird and shrimp identifications for Maya zooarchaeology project, principal investigator, Kitty Emery, Environmental Archaeology curator, Florida Museum
Representative Publications
Quitmyer, I.R. and E.J. Reitz (2006). Marine Trophic Levels Targeted Between AD 300 and 1500 on the Georgia coast, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33:806-822.
Franz, D. and I. R. Quitmyer (2006). A Fossil and Zooarchaeological History of the Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in the Southeastern United States. In Papers Honoring S. David Webb, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 45(4):125-56, edited by G. Morgan, R. Hulbert, and D. Jackson, pp. 179-1992. Gainesville, FL.
Jones, D.S., I.R. Quitmyer, C.F.T. Andrus (2005). Oxygen Isotopic Evidence for Greater Seasonality in Holocene Shells of Donax variabilis from Florida. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 288:96-108.
Quitmyer, I.R. (2004). What Kind of Data are in the Back Dirt? An Experiment on the Influence of Screen Size on Optimal Data Recovery. Archaeofauna 13(2004):109-129. Special Issue: Tropical Zooarchaeology, K. F. Emery and W.G. Teeter, eds.
Quitmyer, I.R., D.S. Jones, C.F.T. Andrus (2005). Seasonal Collection of Coquina Clams (Donax variavilis) During the Archaic and St. Johns Periods in Coastal Northeast Flordia. In D. Bar-Yosef, ed., Archaeomalacology: Molluscs in Former Environments of Human Behavior, pp. 18-28. Oxbow Press, London.
MacFadden, B. J. Labs-Hochstein, I. Quitmyer, and D.S. Jones (2004). Incremental Growth and Diagenesis of Skeletal parts of the Lamnoid Shark Otodus obliquus from the Early Eocene (Ypresian) of Morocco. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 206(3-4:179-192).
Quitmyer, I.R., D.S. Jones and W.S. Arnold (1997). The Sclerochronology of Hard Clams, Mercenaria spp., from the South-Eastern U.S.A.: A Method of Elucidating the Zooarchaeological Records of Seasonal Resource Procurement and Seasonality in Prehistoric Shell Middens. Journal of Archaeological Science 24(9)825-840.