Patricia L. Fall
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Professor
COOR 5644
(480) 965-7532
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Director, Laboratory of Palynology and Paleoecology, Schools of Geographical Sciences and Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Affiliate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Affiliate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Plant Biology Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, Arizona State University |
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Education: |
1988 - Ph.D. (Geosciences) University of Arizona |
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Research Interests: |
Biogeography, human impact on ancient and modern environments, paleoecology of tropical Pacific Islands and the Mediterranean Basin, paleoenvironments during the rise and collapse of urban societies, Quaternary environments, climatic controls on the distribution of terrestrial plants, pollen and seed dispersal. |
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Research Activities: |
Bronze Age ruralism on the island of Cyprus. Interdisciplinary comparison of Bronze Age villages with urban and rural societies in the Levant and Anatolia (Funded by the National Science Foundation). Rural life during urban collapse in the southern Levant. Multidisciplinary research on village life at Tell Abu en-Ni'aj, Jordan (book project funded by the Shelby White - Leon Levy Foundation, Harvard University). Long-term socioecological dynamics in the Mediterranean Basin : a natural laboratory for the interaction of social and natural systems. Interdisciplinary team to investigate millennial time scale landscape change in the eastern and western Mediterranean Basin (with researchers in the Schools of Human Evolution and Social Change, Earth and Space Exploration and Computation and Infomatics; funded by the National Science Foundation Biocomplexity Program). Human impacts on island ecosystems, Polynesia. Paleoecological investigation of human impacts on tropical island ecosystems through sediment coring and pollen analyses and bird and bat feeding behavior and seed dispersal in Tonga & American Samoa (funded by National Geographic Society). |
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Selected Publications: |
Books Falconer, S. E., and P. L. Fall. 2006. Bronze Age Rural Ecology and Village Life at Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1586, Oxford (ISBN 1 84171 799 1), 218 printed pages, 178 figures, 37 tables and 3,205 pages of appendices on CD. Journal Articles Fall, P.L. and S. E. Falconer. forthcoming 2008. Formation of ancient landscapes of Politiko-Troullia. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. Fall, P. L., T. D. Drezner, and J. Franklin. 2007. Dispersal ecology of the lowland rain forest in the Vava'u island group, Kingdom of Tonga. New Zealand Journal of Botany , 45:393-417. Fall, P. L. 2005. Vegetation change in the coastal-lowland rainforest at Avai'o'vuna Swamp, Vava'u, Kingdon of Tonga. Quaternary Research, 64:451-459. Falconer, S. E., P. L. Fall, T. W. Davis, M. T. Horowitz and J. Hunt. 2005. Initial archaeological investigations at Politiko Troullia, 2004. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 2005:1-17. Book Chapters Fall, P.L., S.E. Falconer and P.C. Edwards. 2007. Living on the edge: settlement and abandonment on the Dead Sea Plain. In Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, eds. T. E. Levy, P. M. M. Daviau, R. W. Younker and M. Shaer, 225-232. London: Equinox Publishing. Falconer, S. E., P. L. Fall and J. E. Jones. 2007. Life at the foundation of Bronze Age Civilization: agrarian villages in the Jordan Valley. In Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, eds. T. E. Levy, P. M. M. Daviau, R. W. Younker and M. Shaer, 261-268. London: Equinox Publishing. Fall, P. L. S. E. Falconer, L. Lines and M. C. Metzger. 2004. Environmental impacts of the rise of civilization in the southern Levant. In The Archaeology of Global Change: The Impact of Humans on Their Environment. eds. C. L. Redman, P. R. Fish, S. R. James, and J. D. Rogers, 161-191. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, D.C. |
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Courses Taught: |
Undergraduate courses: Graduate courses: |