Ronald Clark SchirmerMinnesota State University, Mankato | MSU · Department of Anthropology
Ronald Clark Schirmer
Doctor of Philosophy
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Ron Schirmer is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is also the Director of the Archeology Division of the Museum of Anthropology. His primary research interests are in human:environment interactions, development and spread of Indigenous food production systems, Upper Midwest archeology, digital data management, and public archeology. Among his current projects are 'Late-Pleistocene-Holocene geoarcheology, geomorphology and paleoenvironmental reconstruction in upper Mississippi basin.', work with Native American tribes to increase their participation in ancestral Native peoples research, and work with land stewardship organizations to enhance site research and interpretation.
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In the lower Chippewa River Valley (LCRV), Wisconsin, USA, a variety of sandy aeolian landforms have been broadly interpreted, largely based on relative landscape position, as contemporaneous with or post last glacial maximum (LGM). These landforms provide evidence for a predominately west-northwesterly wind regime differing from those east-northea...
Aeolian dunes located upon an escarpment are found in a variety of geographic settings worldwide. They are often described as having parabolic morphologies and exist downwind of a topographic barrier to flow. Despite an extensive body of research on parabolic dunes, a relative paucity of research has focused on a comprehensive understanding of the...
Schaetzl et al. (2017) revealed previously unidentified sandy aeolian landforms within the lower Chippewa River watershed (LCRW), western Wisconsin. They interpreted a NW-SE paleowind direction and a broad depositional chronology ranging from late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene. Sparse absolute age control and limited field investigation necessitates...
Grant funds allowed the acquisition of AMS dates on Oneota archeological contexts in Blue Earth, Faribault, and Goodhue counties. Accelerator Mass Spectrometer dates of annuals (e.g., maize) were acquired from contexts that were clearly defined and that possessed diagnostic pottery. The dates reveal an unexpectedly longer duration of Oneota history...
The interpretation of an archeological site requires controlled data collection and recordation to preserve the context lost during the excavation process. Both archeologists and geoarcheologists record not only the spatial location of an artifact, but how it is spatially oriented in relation to other cultural remains and geomorphological contexts....
Red Wing, Minnesota, is located in the upper Mississippi River valley near the northern margin of the Driftless Area, a portion of southeast Minnesota and western Wisconsin that was not glaciated in the late Quaternary characterized by river valleys deeply dissected through a sequence of Paleozoic sediments. River terraces are prominent in the fiel...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 249-305).
