Journals

2019   Holliday, V.T., Dello-Russo, R., Mentzer, S.M. Geoarchaeology of the Water Canyon Paleoindian site, west-central New Mexico. Geoarchaeology. Published online 17 September 2019.

2019   Pothier Bouchard, G., Mentzer, S.M., Buckley M., Wogelius, Negrino, F., Hodgkins, J., Riel-        Salvatore, J., Miller C.E. Portable FTIR for on-site screening of archaeological bone intended for ZooMS collagen fingerprint analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24.

2019   Abell, J.T., Quade, J., Duru, G., Mentzer, S.M., Stiner, M.C., Uzdrurum, M., and M. Özbaşaran Urine salts elucidate Early Neolithic animal management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey. Science Advances 5(4), eaaw0038.

2019   Larbey, C., Mentzer, S.M., Ligouis, B., Wurz, S. and M. Jones. Cooked starchy food in a120,000-year-old hearth from Klasies River Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 131: 210-227.

2018   Wurz, S., Bentsen, S., Van Pletzen-Vos, L., Reynard, J., Brenner, M., Mentzer, S., Pickering, R., and H.E. Green. Connections, culture and environments 100,000 years ago at Klasies River  main site. Quaternary International 495 (30): 102-115.

2017   Goldberg, P., Miller, C.E. and S.M. Mentzer. Recognizing fire in the Paleolithic archaeological record. Current Anthropology 58(18): S175-S190.

2016   Miller, C.E, Mentzer, S.M., Berthold, C., Leach, P., Ligouis,B., Tribolo, C., Parkington, J., Porraz, G. Site formation processes at Elands Bay Cave, South Africa. Southern African Humanities 29:69-128.

2016   Porraz,G., Schmid, V.C., Miller, C.E., Tribolo, C., Cartwright, C.R., Charrié-Duhaut, A., Igreja, M., Mentzer, S., Mercier, N., Schmidt, P., Conard, N.J., Texier, P.-J., Parkington, J.E. Update on the 2011 excavation at Elands Bay Cave (South Africa) and the Verlorenvlei Stone Age. Southern African Humanities 29: 33-68.

2016  Lowe, K.M, Mentzer, S.M., Wallis, L.A., and J. Schulmeister. A multi-proxy study of anthropogenic sedimentation and human occupation of Gledswood Shelter 1: exploring an interior sandstone rockshelter in Northern Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 1-26.

2016   Wright, D., Thompson, J.C., Schilt, F., Cohen, A.S., Choi, J-H., Mercader, J., Nightengale, S., Miller, C., Mentzer, S., Walde, D., Welling, M., and E. Gomani-Chindebvu. Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science.

2015   Mallol, C. and S.M. Mentzer. Contacts under the lens: Perspectives on the role of microstratigraphy in archaeological research. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

2015   Baykara I., Mentzer, S.M., Stiner, M.C., Asmerom, Y., Guleç, E.S. and S. L. Kuhn. The Middle Paleolithic occupations of Üçağızlı II Cave (Hatay, Turkey): Geoarchaeological and archaeological perspectives. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 4: 409-426.

2015   Mentzer, S. M., Voyatzis, M., and D.G. Romano. Micromorphological contributions to the study of ritual behavior at the Ash Altar to Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, Greece.Archaeological and      Anthropological Sciences. Available online in 2015, print publication 2017, 9(6), 1017-1043.

2014   Mentzer, S.M. Appendix III (pp. 639-641). The micromorphology of Mt. Lykaion: 2006-2010 field seasons. In Romano, D.G. and M.E. Voyatzis. Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, Part 1: The Upper Sanctuary. Hesperia 83: 569-652.

2014   Quade, J., Li, S., Stiner, M.C., Clark, A., Mentzer, S.M., and M. Özbaşaran. Radiocarbon dating, mineralogy and isotopic composition of hackberry endocarps from the Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük, central Turkey. Radiocarbon 56(4): S17-S25.

2014   Sanchez, G., Holliday, V.T., Gaines, E.P., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Martínez-Tagüeña, N., Kowler, A. Lange, T., Hodgins, G.W.L., Mentzer, S.M., and I. Sanchez-Morales. Human (Clovis)–        gomphothere (Cuvieronius sp.) association ~ 13,390 calibrated yBP in Sonora,    Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 30 (2014): 10972-10977.

2014  Stiner, M.C., Buitenhuis, H., Duru, G. Mentzer, S.M., Munro, N.D., Pöllath, N., Quade, J., Tsartsidou, G., and M. Özbaşaran. The forager-herder trade-off, from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep management at Asıklı Höyük, Turkey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(23): 8404-8409.

2013  Mentzer, S.M. and J. Quade. Short contribution: Compositional and isotopic analytical methods in archaeological micromorphology. Geoarchaeology 28(1): 87-97.

2012   Mentzer, S.M. Microarchaeological approaches to the identification and interpretation of combustion features in prehistoric archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Published online November 2012. Print publication: 21(3): 616-668 (2014).

2011   Turq, A., Dibble, H. L., Goldberg, P., McPherron, S. P., Sandgathe, D., Jones, H., Maddison, K., Maurielle, B., Mentzer, S., Rink, J. and A. Steenhuyse.  Les fouilles récentes du Pech de l’Azé IV (Dordogne).  Gallia Préhistoire 53: 1-58. 

2009   Dibble, H. L, Berna, F., Goldberg, P., McPherron, S. P., Mentzer, S., Niven, L., Richter, D., Sandgathe, D., Théry-Parisot, I., and A. Turq.  (2009)  A preliminary report on Pech de l’Azé IV, Layer 8 (Middle Paleolithic, France).  PaleoAnthropology 2009: 182-219.

2009   Mallol, C., Mentzer, S. M., and P. J. Wrinn  A micromorphological and mineralogical study of site formation processes at the Late Pleistocene site of Obi-Rakhmat, Uzbekistan.  Geoarchaeology 24: 548-575.

 

Edited Volumes (with External Review)

2018   Mentzer, S.M., Seil, M., Berthold, C., Adler, H., Chassé, T., Ligouis, B., Miller, C.E.    Morphological and Geochemical Analysis of ‘Ubaid Period Plaster Samples from Dosariyah, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. P. Dreschler (ed.) Dosariyah. Re-investigating a Neolithic coastal community in Eastern Arabia. BFSA Monograph Series (Archaeopress).

2017  Mentzer, S.M. Isotope Mass Spectrometry (on micro-drilled powders). G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell. 403-410.

2017  Mallol, C.M., Mentzer, S.M. and C.E. Miller. Combustion Features. G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell. 299-330.

2017   Villagran, X.S., Huisman, D.J., Mentzer, S.M., Miller, C.E., and M.M.E. Jans. Bone and Teeth. G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell.11-38.

2017   Mentzer, S.M. Micro XRF. G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell. 431-440.

2017  Berthold, C. and S.M. Mentzer. “Micro X-ray diffraction,” G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell. 417-430.

2009   Mentzer, S. M. Bone as a fuel source: the effects of initial fragment size distribution.  I. Théry-Parisot, S. Costamagno and A. Henry (eds) Gestion des Combustibles au Paléolithique et     au Mésolithique  BAR International Series 1914: Proceedings of the XV World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006): 53-64.

 

Papers in Edited Volumes

In press Mentzer, S.M. FTIR. In Stolz C. and C.E. Miller (eds) Geoarchaeologie. Springer.

In press Mentzer, S.M. and M.L. Schumacher. Tells. In Stolz C. and C.E. Miller (eds) Geoarchaeologie. Springer.

In press Mentzer, S.M.  The micromorphology and sediment chemistry.  Appendix to Chapter 3 in J. Davis and S. Stocker (eds.) Monograph on the Excavations at Bonjakët, Albania (Title TBD). Atlanta: Lockwood Press.

2018  Mentzer, S.M. Micromorphological analyses of anthropogenic materials and insights into tell formation processes at Aşıklı Höyük, 2008-2012 field seasons. M. Özbaşaran, G. Duru and M. Stiner (eds.) The Early Settlement at Asıklı Höyük: Essays in Honor of Ufuk Esin. Istanbul: Ege Yahınları. 105-128.

2018   Uzdurum M. and S.M. Mentzer. Aşıklı Höyük Yerleşmesi ve Mikromorfoloji Analizleri. In Y. Hazılayan (ed) Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı 2. Cilt. Bursa. *published in Turkish in the Proceedings of the 22-26 May 2017 Symposium on Research in Archaeometry at Bursa Uludağ University.

2018   Mentzer, S.M. Caves and Fissures. S. Lopez Varela (ed) The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley Blackwell.

2016  Mentzer, S.M. Hearths and Combustion features.  A. Gilbert (ed) Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Heidelberg: Springer: 411-424.

2016  Mentzer, S.M. Rockshelter settings.  A. Gilbert (ed) Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Heidelberg: Springer: 725-743.

2004   Mentzer, S.M. and A. V. Margaris. Preliminary results of FTIR analyses of the Obi-Rakhmat sediments*.  In A.P. Derevianko (ed) Obi Rakhmat Grotto.  Novosibirsk: Institute of Archaeology ad Ethnography SB RAS Press.  *text and figures in English and Russian.

 

Technical Reports

Analytical results only; manuscripts may be provided with permission from the project directors.

2016   Mentzer, S.M. and P. Goldberg. Report on the micromorphological analysis of thin sections from       Water Canyon, New Mexico. Report submitted to R. Dello-Russo, Director, Office of Contract Archaeology, University of New Mexico. 9 pages.

2013   Mentzer, S.M.  Micromorphology of the Level 4 structures, Trench 4GH, Asıklı Höyük, Central Anatolia (2008-2012 field seasons). Report submitted to M. Özbaşaran, Director, Aşıklı Höyük Project, Istanbul University. 36 pages.

2013   Mentzer, S.M.  Report on the micromorphology of Spaces 1 and 7, Level 4, Trench 4GH, Asıklı         Höyük, Central Anatolia (2010 and 2011 field seasons). Report submitted to M. Özbaşaran, Director, Aşıklı Höyük Project, Istanbul University. 20 pages

2013   Mentzer, S.M. Floor plastering sequences at Asıklı Höyük, the residential buildings (2008-2012 field seasons). Report submitted to M. Özbaşaran, Director, Aşıklı Höyük Project, Istanbul University. 22 pages.

2012   Mentzer, S.M.  Report on the sedimentological analyses of experimental kerpiç (mudbrick) and comparison with archaeological samples from Asıklı Höyük. Report submitted to M. Özbaşaran and G. Duru, Directors, Aşıklı Höyük Project, Istanbul University. 33 pages.

2012   Mentzer, S.M.  The micromorphological study of prepared living surfaces from Asıklı Höyük, Central Anatolia (2008-2010 field seasons). Report submitted to M. Özbaşaran, Director, Aşıklı Höyük Project, Istanbul University. 17 pages.

2012   Mentzer, S.M. Report on the composition of occupation debris in residential buildings, samples       from the 2008-2010 field seasons. Report submitted to M. Özbaşaran, Director, Aşıklı Höyük Project, Istanbul University. 12 pages.

2012   Mentzer, S.M. Floor plastering sequences at Asıklı Höyük, the residential buildings (2008-2010 field seasons). Report submitted to M. Özbaşaran and G. Duru, Directors, Aşıklı Höyük Project, Istanbul University. 18 pages.

2009   Mentzer, S. M.  Micromorphological and geochemical analysis of sediments from four excavation trenches of the Bonjakët Site at Apollonia, Albania. Report submitted to J.L. Davis and S.R. Stocker, Directors, Bonjaket Excavations, University of Cincinnati and the American School for Classical Studies at Athens. 160 pages.

 

Scholarly Presentations

2019   Mentzer, S.M., Goldberg, P, and C.E. Miller. “A deeper look into Mousterian hearths at Kebara Cave, Israel.” Poster presented at the September 2019 annual meeting of the European Society     for the Study of Human Evolution, Liège, Belgium.

2019   Mentzer, S.M., Ligouis, B., Miller, C.E. and S. Wurz. “Chemical diagenesis of charcoal and charred organic material in South African Middle Stone Age rockshelter sites.” Paper presented at the April 2019 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

2019   Mentzer, S.M., and S. Wurz. “Differential preservation of anthropogenic deposits in Cave 2, Klasies River Main Site (South Africa).” Poster presented at the April 2019 annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

2017  Wurz, S. and S.M. Mentzer. “A micro perspective on the early members from the Witness Baulk, Klasies River Main Site, Cave 1." Paper presented at the "Using Archaeological Science to Address Human Behavior," TRACe and DAAD Alumni Workshop, University of Tübingen.

2017   Mentzer, S.M., Kuhn, S.L, and A. Bouzouggar. “Geoarchaeological research at Bizmoune Cave, Morocco.” Poster presented at the September 2017 Developing International Geoarchaeology conference in Newcastle, UK.

2017   Schumacher, M.L., Mentzer, S.M. Spiteri, C., and Özbaşaran, M. “Biomolecular and micromorphological analysis of suspected fecal deposits at Neolithic Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey.” Poster presented at the September 2017 Developing International Geoarchaeology conference in Newcastle, UK.

2017  Wurz, S., Mentzer, S., Walker, S., Bentzen, S.E., Van Pletzen-Vos, L., Placzek, C., and B. Ligouis.         "Waves in time - Early modern human occupations at Klasies River Cave 1." Paper presented at the July 2017 Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists Conference in Pretoria, South Africa.

2017  Sievers, C., Mentzer, S., Zwane, B,m and S. Wurz. "Plants in the micromorphology of the Howiesons Poort at Klasies River." Paper presented at the July 2017 Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists Conference in Pretoria, South Africa.

2017   Czechowski, Matthias, Haaland, MM., Mentzer, S., Henshilwood,. C, and C. Miller. “Distribution and spatial analysis of heat in thin-sections.” Poster presented at the Ethnoarchaeology of Fire Symposium, La Laguna, Tenerife.

2016   Mentzer, S.M.  “Geoarchaeological perspectives on issues of survey, stratification, and technocomplex definitions in the search for Clovis and pre-Clovis sites in caves and    rockshelters.” Paper presented at the November 2016 Words, Bones, Genes, Tools Symposium: New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas, Tübingen, Germany.

2016   Mentzer, S.M. “Microarchaeological approaches to the study of laminated deposits in South African Middle Stone Age sites.” Paper presented at the June 2016 meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Toulouse, France.

2016  Clark, A.E., Bouzouggar, A., Kuhn, S.L., Mentzer, S.M., Fernandez, P., Muntzer, S., Collina- Girard, J., and J. Morales-Mateos. "First results on the MSA of the south Atlantic coast of Morocco from Bizmoune Cave (Essaouira). Paper presented at the June 2016 meeting of the Society of Africanist      Archaeologists, Toulouse, France.

2016  Wurz, S., Mentzer, S., Placzek, C., Bentsen, C.E., Walker, J., Van Pletzen-Vos, L., Tusenius, M., and R. Rust. "The witness baulk at Klasies River Cave 1." Paper presented at the June 2016 meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Toulouse, France.

2015   Mentzer, S.M., Miller, C.E., and S. Wurz. “Middle Stone Age combustion features at Klasies River Main Site.” Poster presented at the September 2015 annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. London, UK.

2015   Mentzer, S.M. and C.E. Miller. “Applications of micro-FTIR in the identification of phosphate minerals in micromorphology samples from archaeological sites.” Paper presented at the June 2015 Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference in Alghero, Italy.

2015   Miller, C.E., Mentzer, S.M., Villagran, X., and D. Friesem. “Using Fourier-Transform infrared microspectrometry (micro-FTIR) to assess heat-induced alteration of clays in thin sections from archaeological combustion features: promises and pitfalls.” Paper presented at the June 2015 Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference in Alghero, Italy.

2015   Schilt, F., Mentzer, S.M., Wright, D., Thompson, J., Miller, C.E., and E. Gomani-Chindebvu. “Reconstruction of the formation of iron-manganese nodule accumulations associated with Middle Stone Age artefacts in a lateritic profile in northern Malawi.” Paper presented at the June 2015 Developing International Geoarchaeology conference in Alghero, Italy.

2015   Czechowski, M., Mentzer, S.M., and C.E. Miller. “A GIS-based method for determining heterogeneity of burnt-bone assemblages.” Poster presented at the June 2015 Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference in Alghero, Italy.

2015   Uzdurum, M., Mentzer, S.M., Quade, J., and M. Özbaşaran. “Geoarchaeological analyses of   construction materials from the Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey.” Poster presented at the June 2015 Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference in Alghero, Italy.

2015   Mentzer, S.M. and C. E. Miller. “From Kebara to KwaZulu-Natal: Integrating Micromorphology and Mineralogical Analyses in the Study of Diagenesis in Combustion Features.” Paper presented at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco.

2015   Miller, C.E. and S.M. Mentzer. “It’s all about scale - thoughts on Paul Goldberg’s contributions    to geoarchaeology.” Paper presented at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco.

2015   Andrews, B., Eren, M., Mentzer, S., and D. Meltzer. “Goodson Shelter: Recent excavations at a newly discovered deeply stratified rockshelter in northeastern Oklahoma.” Paper presented at    the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco.

2015   Schilt, F., Mentzer, S., Wright, D., Thompson, J., and E. Gomani-Chindebvu. “Micromorphology of Middle to Later Stone Age sites at Mwanganda's Village, northern Malawi.” Paper presented at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco.

2014  Mentzer, S.M., Miller, C.E., Kloos, P., Wadley, L., and N.J. Conard. “The distribution of authigenic minerals in the Middle Stone Age deposits of Sibudu (South Africa), and implications for the preservation of archaeological features.” Poster presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution in Florence, Italy.

2014   Mentzer, S.M. “Methods integration in the study of Paleolithic combustion features: Promises, pitfalls and presentation of large datasets.” Paper presented at the 2014 meeting of the Union International de Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques in Burgos, Spain.

2014   Miller, C.E., Stahlschmidt, M. and S.M. Mentzer. “Is this thing burnt? On the nature of evidence for human use of fire in the Paleolithic.  Paper presented at the 2014 meeting of the Union International de Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques in Burgos, Spain.

2014   Mentzer, S.M., Placzek, C., Miller, C.E., and S. Wurz. “New geoarchaeological analyses at Klasies River Main Site, Cave 1.” Paper presented at the 2014 meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists / Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies in Johannesburg, South Africa.

2014   Miller, C.E., Mentzer, S.M., and G. Porraz. “Geoarchaeological investigations of the Middle Stone Age deposits at Elands Bay Cave, South Africa. Paper presented at the 2014 meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists / Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies in Johannesburg, South Africa.

2013   Mentzer, S.M., Miller, C.E., Parkington, J., and G. Porraz. “Site formation processes of the Middle Stone Age layers at Eland’s Bay Cave, South Africa.” Paper presented at the November 2013 workshop “Mapping the Origins of Modern Behaviour,” Travellers Rest Cederberg, South Africa, organized by J. Parkington and D. Stynder.

2013   Mentzer, S.M., Vasquez, J., Holliday, V.T., and H.B. Martinez Izquierdo. “The formation processes of Late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in Sierra Diablo Cave (USA): Implications      for the interpretation of biogenic materials in archaeological sites.” Paper presented at the September 2013 Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference in Basel, Switzerland.

2013   Miller, C.E., Mentzer, S.M., Parkington, J., and G. Porraz. “Site formation processes of the Middle Stone Age layers at Eland’s Bay Cave, South Africa. Paper presented at the September 2013 Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference in Basel, Switzerland.

2013   Schilt, F., Mentzer, S.M., Wright, D., Thompson, J., Miller, C.E., and E. Gomani-Chindebvu. “Micromorphology of the site of Mwanganda’s Village Area I, northern Malawi. Paper presented at the September 2013 Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference in Basel, Switzerland.

2013   Mentzer, S.M. “Wide open spaces: Micromorphological analyses of open-air activity spaces at Asıklı Höyük, Turkey.” Paper presented at the May 2013 International Workshop for Soil      Micromorphology in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

2013   Mentzer, S.M. “Approaches to integrating multiple geoarchaeological analytical methods in the study of archaeological features.” Paper presented at the April 2013 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

2012   Mentzer, S.M. and J. Quade. “Microarchaeology of floor and wall plasters from the Aceramic Neolithic site of Asıklı Höyük, Turkey.” Paper presented at the May 2012 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry in Leuven, Belgium.

2012   Mentzer, S.M., Stiner, M.C., Duru, G., and M. Özbaşaran. “Reinterpreting archaeological deposits in light of geoarchaeological observations: The formation processes and significance of the ‘Flood Layer’ at Asıklı Höyük.” Paper presented at the May 2012 Bridging Gaps: Integrating Geosciences within Archaeological Research workshop in Tübingen, Germany.

2012   Mentzer, S.M., Voyatzis, M. and D.G. Romano. “Repeated sacrificial burning events and the development of an anthrosol on Mt. Lykaion, Greece.” Paper presented at the April 2012 Society for American Archaeology Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.

2012   Holliday, V.T., Mentzer, S.M., Vasquez, J. and D. Carmichael. “Preliminary geoarchaeological investigations at Sierra Diablo Cave, Hudspeth County, Texas” Paper presented at the April 2012 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.

2012   Mentzer, S. Kuhn, S. Stiner, M. Asmerom, Y. Goldberg, P. Guleç, E. and I. Bayakara. “The post-MIS 5a Middle Paleolithic occupations and micromorphology of combustion features in Üçağızlı II, Hatay, Turkey.” Paper presented at the April 2012 Paleoanthropology Society Meeting in   Memphis, Tennessee.

2012   Mentzer, S.M., Goldberg, P. And S. L. Kuhn. “Initial Upper Paleolithic and Ahmarian combustion features in Üçağızlı I Cave, Turkey.” Poster presented at the April 2012 Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society in Toulouse, France.

2010   Mentzer, S.M., Stiner, M.C. and M. Özbaşaran. “Micromorphological investigations of anthropogenic features at the Aceramic Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey.”  Paper presented at the April 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in St. Louis, Missouri.

2009   Mentzer, S. M. and V. T. Holliday.  “Micromorphology of El Fin del Mundo Clovis site, Sonora,          Mexico.”  Paper presented at the October 2009 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. 

2009   Mentzer, S.M.  “Micromorphology and geoarchaeology of Üçağızlı II, Hatay, Turkey.”  Paper presented at the May 2009 Developing International Geoarchaeology conference in Hamilton Ontario. 

2009   Mentzer, S. M.  “Micromorphology and geochemistry of the mountaintop sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, Greece.”  Poster presented at the April 2009 Annual Meeting of the Society for         American Archaeology in Atlanta, Georgia.  Received the SAA Best Student Poster Award.

2009   Mentzer, S. M. “Micromorphology and geochemistry of the mountaintop sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, Greece.”  Poster presented at the March 2009 Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society Meeting in Tucson, Arizona. 

2008   Mentzer, S.M and T. H. Manne.  “The effects of burning intensity and trampling on the relative preservation and identifiability of cortical and cancellous bone.”  Paper presented at the May 2008 “Table Ronde: Taphonomy of organic burned residues and combustion structures in           archaeological context,” Valbonne, France. 

2008   Mentzer, S. M. and T. Gerke.  “Micromorphology of alluvial sediments and soils from the Bonjakët excavations at Apollonia, Albania.”  Paper presented at the 2008 Society for American Archaeology Conference, Vancouver, Canada.  Invited presenter: Fryxell Award Symposium.

2007   Mentzer, S. M. “Sediment chemistry and mineralogy of the Pleistocene and Holocene deposits at Obi-Rakhmat Grotto and Paltau Cave, Uzbekistan.”  Paper presented at the 2007 Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference, Cambridge, England.  Awarded “Best Student Paper.”

2007   Mentzer, S. M. “Applications of an attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory to the Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis of geoarchaeological samples.” Poster presented at the 2007 Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference, Cambridge, England.

2006   Mentzer, S. M.  “Bone as a fuel source: the effects of initial fragment size distribution.”  Paper    presented at the 2006 International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal. 

2006   Mentzer, S. M. and P. Goldberg  “Picking apart geogenic and anthropogenic sediments at Pech de l’Azé IV.” Paper presented at the 2006 International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal. 

2006   Wrinn, P. J., Mallol, C. and S. Mentzer  “More than shelter: the spring deposits of Obi-Rakhmat Grotto and the cautionary tale of Paltau Cave, Northeastern Uzbekistan.”  Paper presented at the 2006 International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal. 

2005   Mentzer, S. M. and P. Goldberg  “Morphological evidence for burned features at Pech de l’Azé IV, Dordogne, France.”  Paper presented at the 2004 Archaeological Science of the Americas   Conference, Tucson AZ.

2004   Mentzer, S. M., Goldberg, P. and T. Ortoli. “Geology and Stratigraphy of the Mousterian Site Pech de l’Azé IV.”  Paper presented at the 2004 Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Montreal, Canada. Symposium: “Pech de l’Azé IV.”

 

Seminar and Colloquium Presentations (Invited)

2019   “FTIR and elemental analysis of bone, ash and charred organics.” University of La Laguna PALEOCHAR ERC project workshop.

2016   “A microcontextual study of Middle Stone Age sites in South Africa.” Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

2015   “The future of archaeological science.” Invited panelist. 100^th Anniversary Celebration, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

2014   “Scientific Analysis and Continuity of Cult at the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion.” With B.M. Starkovich. Institute for Archaeological Sciences Lecture Series, University of Tübingen.

2014   “Geoarchaeological perspectives on the forager-herder trade-off and contributions to the study of sheep management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey.” Institute for Archaeological Sciences Lecture    Series, University of Tübingen.

2014   “I would walk 500 miles: The paleoenvironmental context and possible barriers to hominin settlement of the Northern Levant.” Department of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National University.

2014   “Geoarchaeology, and Bronze and Iron Age Cult Activity at the Scarificial Ash Altar to Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, Greece.” Department of Prehistory, Archaeology, Anthropology and History,    Universidad de La Laguna (live) and Universidad de Las Palmas (video stream), Canary Islands, Spain.

2013   “Sediments as Artifacts.” Department of Anthropology, Washington State University.

2013   “Fire in the Paleolithic.” Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

2013   “Ashes to Actions: Combustion Features as High-Resolution Archives of Human Behavior.” Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University.

2013   “Sediments as Artifacts.” Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis.

2012   “The Quaternary Paleoenvironment of the Hatay Coast, and the Middle Paleolithic Occupation of Üçağızlı II, Turkey.” Quaternary Paleoecology Seminar Series, University of Minnesota.

2011   “Geoarchaeological Investigations of Üçağızlı Caves I and II, Hatay, Turkey.”  Institute for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Weekly Colloquium, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.

2011   “Another Person’s Treasure: Geoarchaeological Analyses of the Aceramic Neolithic Midden and Other Features at Asıklı Höyük, Turkey.”  Department of Anthropology Lecture Series, University of Connecticut.

2010   “Excavating at the Altar of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion.”  School of Anthropology Lecture Series, University of Arizona.  With Dr. M.E. Voyatzis and B.M. Starkovich.

2009   “Clovis Archaeology at the End of the World: Did Clovis People Witness the End of the World?”  School of Anthropology Lecture Series, University of Arizona.  With Dr. V.T. Holliday.