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

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

  2. 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

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

  4. 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

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

  6. Direct Evidence for Geophyte Exploitation in the Wyoming Basin

    Kaley Joyce, Lisbeth A Louderback, and Erick Robinson

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

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

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

    David Rhode, Lisbeth A Louderback, Sandy O Brugger

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

    Kurt M. Wilson

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

    Gloria Howat Brown, Lisbeth A. Louderback

  15. 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

  16. 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

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

    Allison L Wolfe, Jack M Broughton

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

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

  19. Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition

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

  20. 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

  21. 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

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

    Lisbeth A Louderback, Christopher A Kiahtipes, Joel C Janetski

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

    J Tyler Faith, John Rowan, Andrew Du

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

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

    John Rowan, JT Faith

  30. Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems

    J Tyler Faith, John Rowan, Andrew Du

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

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

    J Tyler Faith, Andrew Du, John Rowan

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

    Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding

  37. 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

  38. Territorial Behavior and Ecology in Western North America

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

  39. 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

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

    Ashley K Parker, Christopher H Parker, Brian F Codding

  41. 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

  42. Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, Techniques

    J Tyler Faith, R Lee Lyman

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

    Alexandra Greenwald & Nicole Burt

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

    J Tyler Faith, Brian M Chase, D Margaret Avery

  45. 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

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

    Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding

Last Updated: 4/13/21