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  1. The Goldilocks Zone for maize agriculture and the settlement and abandonment of the West Tavaputs Plateau

    Peter M. Yaworsky, Kenneth B. Vernon, Weston C. McCool, Isaac A. Hart, Jerry Spangler, Brian F. Codding

  2. Climatic controls and costly signaling: An integrated analysis of Holocene hunting in the Bonneville and Wyoming Basins, USA

    David A. Byers, Ryan McGrath, Peter Yaworsky, Theresa Popp, Gideon Maughan, and Jack M. Broughton

  3. Human settlement density, not late Holocene climate change, influenced Artiodactyla species abundance in northeastern California faunal assemblages

    Kasey E. Cole, Maren Moffatt, Brian F. Codding, Jack M. Broughton

  4. Migratory behavior in the enigmatic Late Pleistocene bovid Rusingoryx atopocranion

    Kaedan O'Brien, Katya Podkovyroff, Diego P. Fernandez, Christian A. Tryon, Lilian Ashioya, J. Tyler Faith

  5. Late Holocene tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) resource depression and distant patch use in central California: Faunal and isotopic evidence from King Brown and the Emeryville Shellmound

    Jack M. Broughton, Michael J. Broughton, Kasey E. Cole, Daniel M. Dalmas, Joan Brenner Coltrain

  6. Identification of starch granules on ground stone tools exposed to fire

    Stefania Wilks, Lisbeth A. Louderback

  7. Paleoecological evidence for environmental specialization in Paranthropus boisei compared to early Homo

    Kaedan O'Brien, Nicholas Hebdon, J. Tyler Faith

  8. El Niño frequency threshold controls coastal biotic communities

    Jack M. Broughton, Brian F. Codding, J. Tyler Faith, Kathryn A. Mohlenhoff, Ruth Gruhn, Joan Brenner-Coltrain, and Isaac A. Hart

  9. Climate change–induced population pressure drives high rates of lethal violence in the Prehispanic central Andes

    Climate change–induced population pressure drives high rates of lethal violence in the Prehispanic central Andes

  10. Did vegetation change drive the extinction of Paranthropus boisei?

    David B. Patterson, Andrew Du, J. Tyler Faith, John Rowan, Kevin Uno, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, David R. Braun, Bernard A. Wood

  11. A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States

    Robert L. Kelly, Madeline E. Mackie, Erick Robinson, Jack Meyer, Michael Berry, Matthew Boulanger, Brian F. Codding, Jacob Freeman, Carey James Garland, Joseph Gingerich, Robert Hard, James Haug, Andrew Martindale, Scott Meeks, Myles Miller, Shane Miller, Timothy Perttula, Jim A. Railey, Ken Reid, Ian Scharlotta, Jerry Spangler, David Hurst Thomas, Victor Thompson and Andrew White

  12. Climate and demography drive 7000 years of dietary change in the Central Andes

  13. No sustained increase in zooarchaeological evidence for carnivory after the appearance of Homo erectus

    W. Andrew Barr, Briana Pobiner, John Rowan, Andrew Du, and J. Tyler Faith

  14. Climate-Driven Dietary Change on the Colorado Plateau, USA, and Implications for Gender-Specific Foraging Patterns

    Lisbeth A. Louderback

  15. A stone in the hand is worth how many in the bush? Applying the marginal value theorem to understand optimal toolstone transportation, processing, and discard decisions

    L. Brock James, Kaley Joyce, Kate E. Magargal, and Brian F. Codding

  16. Direct Evidence for Geophyte Exploitation in the Wyoming Basin

    Kaley Joyce, Lisbeth A Louderback, and Erick Robinson

  17. Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution

    J. Tyler Faith, Andrew Du, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Benjamin Davies, David B. Patterson, John Rowan, and Bernard Wood

  18. Historic and bioarchaeological evidence supports late onset of post-Columbian epidemics in Native California

    Terry L. Jones, Al W. Schwitalla, Marin A. Pilloud, John R. Johnson, Richard R. Paine, and Brain F. Codding

  19. Plant species richness at archaeological sites suggests ecological legacy of Indigenous subsistence on the Colorado Plateau

    Bruce M. Pavlik, Lisbeth A. Louderback, Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Cynthia Wilson, Arnold Clifford, and Brian F. Codding

  20. Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region

    Brian F. Codding, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Lisbeth Louderback, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Kate E. Magargal, Peter M. Yaworsky, Erick Robinson, Simon C. Brewer & Jerry D. Spangler

  21. Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA

    Vachel A. Carter, Andrea Brunelle, Mitchell J. Power, R. Justin DeRose, Matthew F. Bekker, Isaac Hart, Simon Brewer, Jerry Spangler, Erick Robinson, Mark Abbott, S. Yoshi Maezumi & Brian F. Codding

  22. Causes and consequences of the late Holocene extinction of the marine flightless duck (Chendytes lawi) in the northeastern Pacific

    Terry L. Jones, Joan Brenner-Coltrain, David K. Jacobs, Judith Porcasi, Simon C. Brewer, Janet C. Buckner, John D. Perrine, and Brian F. Codding

  23. Ecological variation and institutionalized inequality in hunter-gatherer societies

    Eric Alden Smith, Brain F. Codding

  24. Starch Granule Size and Morphology as a Proxy for Water Regime Influence on Zea mays

  25. Holocene subalpine forest-parkland dynamics in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, USA

    David Rhode, Lisbeth A Louderback, Sandy O Brugger

  26. Synthesis and assessment of the flat-headed peccary record in North America

    Kurt M. Wilson

  27. Identification of starch granules from oak and grass species in the central coast of California

    Gloria Howat Brown, Lisbeth A. Louderback

  28. Advancing predictive modeling in archaeology: An evaluation of regression and machine learning methods on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

    Peter M. Yaworsky, Kenneth B. Vernon, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon C. Brewer, Brian F. Codding

  29. A multi-sensor, multi-scale approach to mapping tree mortality in woodland ecosystems

    Michael J Campbell, Philip E Dennison, Jesse W Tune, Steven A Kannenberg, Kelly L Kerr, Brian F Codding, William RL Anderegg

  30. A foraging theory perspective on the associational critique of North American Pleistocene overkill

    Allison L Wolfe, Jack M Broughton

  31. The uncertain case for human-driven extinctions prior to Homo sapiens

    J Tyler Faith, John Rowan, Andrew Du, W Andrew Barr

  32. Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition

    Kenneth B Vernon, Peter M Yaworsky, Jerry Spangler, Simon Brewer, Brian F Codding

  33. Food Production and Domestication Produced Both Cooperative and Competitive Social Dynamics in Eastern North America

    Elic M Weitzel, Brian F Codding, Stephen B Carmody, David W Zeanah

  34. Dietary Diversification Across the Tiwanaku Polity: Isotopic Paleodietary Reconstructions Using Sequential Sampling of Dentinal Collagen and Bayesian Methods

    Marcos C Martinez, Alexandra M Greenwald, Deborah E Blom, Kelly J Knudson

  35. Holocene vegetation and climate change on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah, USA

    Lisbeth A Louderback, Christopher A Kiahtipes, Joel C Janetski

  36. Reply to Weihmann: Fifty gazelles do not equal an elephant, and other ecological misunderstandings

    J Tyler Faith, John Rowan, Andrew Du

  37. Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopes of ostrich eggshells provide site-scale Pleistocene-Holocene paleoenvironmental records for eastern African archaeological sites

    EM Niespolo, WD Sharp, CA Tryon, JT Faith, J Lewis, K Ranhorn, S Mambelli, MJ Miller, TE Dawson

  38. Late Quaternary micromammals and the precipitation history of the southern Cape, South Africa: response to comments by F. Thackeray

    J Tyler Faith, Brian M Chase, D Margaret Avery

  39. Rapid Pleistocene desiccation and the future of Africa's Lake Victoria

    Emily J Beverly, Joseph D White, Daniel J Peppe, J Tyler Faith, Nick Blegen, Christian A Tryon

  40. Ungulate turnover in the Koobi Fora Formation: Spatial and temporal variation in the Early Pleistocene

    K O'Brien, DB Patterson, MD Biernat, David R Braun, TE Cerling, A McGrosky, JT Faith

  41. Evaluating the temporal range of 230Th/U burial dating of ostrich eggshell, a new chronometer for Pleistocene terrestrial strata

    Elizabeth M Niespolo, Warren D Sharp, Christian A Tryon, Nicholas Fylstra, Simon James Armitage, Graham Avery, J Tyler Faith, Christopher Henshilwood, Richard Klein, Jason E Lewis, Alex Mackay, Kathryn L Ranhorn, Teresa Steele, Karen Van Niekerk, Giday W WoldeGabriel

  42. The Paleoecological Impact of Grazing and Browsing: Consequences of the Late Quaternary Large Herbivore Extinctions

    John Rowan, JT Faith

  43. Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems

    J Tyler Faith, John Rowan, Andrew Du

  44. Climate and ecology of the palaeo-Agulhas Plain from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in bovid tooth enamel from Nelson Bay Cave, South Africa

    Judith Sealy, Navashni Naidoo, Vincent J Hare, Simone Brunton, J Tyler Faith

  45. Micro Methods for Megafauna: Novel Approaches to Late Quaternary Extinctions and Their Contributions to Faunal Conservation in the Anthropocene

    Jillian A Swift, Michael Bunce, Joe Dortch, Kristina Douglass, J Tyler Faith, James A Fellows Yates, Judith Field, Simon G Haberle, Eileen Jacob, Chris N Johnson, Emily Lindsey, Eline D Lorenzen, Julien Louys, Gifford Miller, Alexis M Mychajliw, Viviane Slon, Natalia A Villavicencio, Michael R Waters, Frido Welker, Rachel Wood, Michael Petraglia, Nicole Boivin, Patrick Roberts

  46. Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction

    Anikó B Tóth, S Kathleen Lyons, W Andrew Barr, Anna K Behrensmeyer, Jessica L Blois, René Bobe, Matt Davis, Andrew Du, Jussi T Eronen, J Tyler Faith, Danielle Fraser, Nicholas J Gotelli, Gary R Graves, Advait M Jukar, Joshua H Miller, Silvia Pineda-Munoz, Laura C Soul, Amelia Villaseñor, John Alroy

  47. 230Th/U burial dating of ostrich eggshell

    Warren D Sharp, Christian A Tryon, Elizabeth M Niespolo, Nick D Fylstra, Alka Tripathy-Lang, J Tyler Faith

  48. Addressing the effects of sampling on ecometric-based paleoenvironmental reconstructions

    J Tyler Faith, Andrew Du, John Rowan

  49. The Native California Commons: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Land Control, Resource Use, and Management.

    Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding

  50. Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies

    Douglas W Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian F Codding, David W Zeanah

  51. Territorial Behavior and Ecology in Western North America

    Codding, Brian F., Adrian R. Whitaker and Nathan E. Stevens

  52. Territorial behavior among Western North American foragers: Allee effects, within group cooperation, and between group conflict.

    Codding, Brian F., Ashley K. Parker, and Terry L. Jones

  53. When to defend? Optimal territoriality across the Numic homeland

    Ashley K Parker, Christopher H Parker, Brian F Codding

  54. Stable Isotope Measures of Weaning Age and Early Childhood Diet in the Ancient Andes: Variation in Early Life Experiences and Health Outcomes across Status and Sex in Tiwanaku-Affiliated Sites in Peru and Bolivia.

    Alexandra M Greenwald, Deborah Blom, Natalya Zolotova, Kelly Knudson

  55. Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, Techniques

    J Tyler Faith, R Lee Lyman

  56. Isotopic reconstruction of ancient human diet and health: implications for evolutionary medicine. 

    Alexandra Greenwald & Nicole Burt

  57. Late Quaternary micromammals and the precipitation history of the southern Cape, South Africa

    J Tyler Faith, Brian M Chase, D Margaret Avery

  58. Spatiotemporal dynamics of prehistoric human population growth: Radiocarbon ‘dates as data’ and population ecology models.

    Robinson, Erick, H. Jabran Zahid, Brian F. Codding, Randall Haas, and Robert L.Kelly

  59. Foragers on America's Western Edge: The Archaeology of California's Pecho Coast.

    Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding

  60. Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions

    Jack M. Broughton & Elic M. Witzel

Last Updated: 12/13/23