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  1. Early evidence of avocado domestication from El Gigante Rockshelter, Honduras

    Amber M. VanDerwarker, Heather B. Thakar, Alejandra I. Domic, Thomas K. Harper, Richard J. George, Emily S. Johnson, Victoria Newhall, Timothy E. Scheffler, Weston C. McCool, Kevin Wann, Brandon S. Gaut, Logan Kistler, and Douglas J. Kennett

  2. Re-Evaluating the Dietary Significance of Gambel Oak Acorns (Quercus gambelii) in the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Southwest: Evidence From Experimental Foraging and Direct Bomb Calorimetry

    Hayley T. Kievman, Gregory R. Burns, and Alexandra M. Greenwald

  3. Non-Analog Behaviour of Eastern African Herbivore Communities During the Last Glacial Period

    Kaedan O’Brien, Lilian Ashioya, J. Tyler Faith

  4. A cross-regional examination of camelid herding practices in Peru from 900 BCE to 1450 CE: Insights from stable isotopes in camelid bone collagen and fiber

    Sarah J Noe, Weston C McCool, Kurt M Wilson

  5. Do counts of radiocarbon-dated archaeological sites reflect human population density? A preliminary empirical validation examining spatial variation across late Holocene California

    Brian F Codding, Jack Meyer, Simon C Brewer, Robert L Kelly, Terry L Jones

  6. Regression with Archaeological Count Data

    Brian F Codding, Simon C Brewer

  7. The Late Intermediate Period in the south-central Andes (AD 1000–1450): Key problems in chronology

    Elizabeth Arkush, Weston C. McCool, Ryan D. Smith

  8. The Fremont Frontier: Living at the Margins of Maize Farming

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

  9. Red Abalone (Haliotis rufescens) “Middens” (Features) on the Central California Coast

    Terry L. Jones, Rachel Burgess, Bridget Parry, Morgan Moulis & Brian F. Codding

  10. Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations

    Elic M Weitzel, Kurt M Wilson, Laure Spake, Susan B Schaffnit, Robert Lynch, Rebecca Sear, John H Shaver, Mary K Shenk, Richard Sosis

  11. Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya

    Kaedan O’Brien, Katya Podkovyroff, Diego P Fernandez, Christian A Tryon, Thure E Cerling, Lilian Ashioya, J Tyler Faith

  12. Evaluating the relationships between climate change, population pressure, economic intensification, and childhood stress in the Prehispanic Nasca region of Peru

    Weston C. McCool, Amy S. Anderson, Alexis Ja'net Baide, Toni Gonzalez, Brian F. Codding

  13. Dynamic influences of climate change on prehistoric lifeways in the Americas

    Kurt M Wilson, Weston C. McCool

  14. Adaptive foraging behaviours in the Horn of Africa during Toba supereruption

    Kaedan O’Brien, Daniel Dalmas, et al.

  15. Environmental context shapes the relationship between grass consumption and body size in African herbivore communities

    Joel O Abraham, John Rowan, Kaedan O'Brien, Kathryn G Sokolowski, J Tyler Faith

  16. Resource Acquisition Risk and the Division of Labor: Austral Lessons for Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology

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

  17. Turkey domestication and provisioning in the Mesa Verde Region (US Southwest), Pueblo I to Pueblo III (725–1280 CE): C, Sr, and O isotope analyses

    Jacques Burlot, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Virginie Renson, Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Amanda Werlein, Jeffrey R Ferguson

  18. An investment index for lithic technology: Implications for investment, mobility, and division of labor on the Colorado Plateau, USA

    Abby S. Baka, Lisbeth A. Louderback, Brian F. Codding, and Alexandra M. Greenwald

  19. Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction

    Daniel A. Contreras & Brian F. Codding

  20. US homicide rates increase when resources are scarce and unequally distributed

    Weston C McCool, Brian F Codding

  21. 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

  22. Interdisciplinary evidence for early domestic horse exploitation in southern Patagonia

    Joan Brenner Coltrain et al.

  23. Enigmatic carbonate isotope values in shark teeth: Evidence for environmental and dietary controls

    Molly E Karnes, Rachel L Chan, Jonathon P Kuntz, Michael L Griffiths, Kenshu Shimada, Martin A Becker, Harry M Maisch IV, Robert A Eagle, Joan Brenner-Coltrain, Shawn Miller, Sora L Kim

  24. 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

  25. The utility of alpine cave fossil assemblages for zoological census: an example from northern Utah, United States

    Kaedan O’Brien, Randall B Irmis, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Daniel Martin Dalmas, Katrina M Derieg, Thomas Evans, Eric S Richards, Fumiko M Richards, Eric A Rickart, J Tyler Faith

  26. 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

  27. Picking up the pieces: Assessing alternative methods for reconstructing whole red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) shell size from fragments

    Zoe M Levit, Terry L Jones, Brian F Codding

  28. The impacts of climate change, energy policy and traditional ecological practices on future firewood availability for Diné (Navajo) People

    Kate Magargal, Kurt Wilson, Shaniah Chee, Michael J Campbell, Vanessa Bailey, Philip E Dennison, William RL Anderegg, Adrienne Cachelin, Simon Brewer, Brian Frank Codding

  29. Do grazers equal grasslands? Strengthening paleoenvironmental inferences through analysis of present-day African mammals

    Kathryn G Sokolowski, Brian F Codding, Andrew Du, J Tyler Faith

  30. Pre–Younger Dryas megafaunal extirpation at Rancho La Brea linked to fire-driven state shift

    Joan B Coltrain et al.

  31. 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

  32. Climate and oceanic condition changes influence subsistence economic adaptation through intensification on the Central Andean coasts

    Kurt M Wilson, Weston C McCool, Joan Brenner Coltrain

  33. Paleoindian Settlement Decisions in the Great Basin: A Test of the Pluvial Lake Hypothesis with the Ideal Free Distribution Model

    Paul E Allgaier, Brian F Codding

  34. Late Holocene Size Variation of Mytilus californianus Remains from Shelter Cove (CA-HUM-182), Northern California

    Hayley T. Kievman, Kurt M. Wilson, Roxanne Lois F. Lamson, Arthur Gyumushyan, Brian F. Codding and Alexandra M. Greenwald

  35. Can we reliably detect adaptive responses of hunter-gatherers to past climate change? Examining the impact of Mid-Holocene drought on Archaic settlement in the Basin-Plateau Region of North America

    Brian F. Codding, Heidi Roberts, William Eckerle, Simon C. Brewer, Ishmael D. Medina, Kenneth B. Vernon, and Jerry S. Spangler

  36. Toward an evolutionary ecology of (in)equality

    Eric Alden Smith, Jennifer E Smith, Brian F Codding

  37. Identifying key socioecological factors influencing the expression of egalitarianism and inequality among foragers

    Kurt M. Wilson, Kasey E. Cole, Brian F. Codding

  38. Firewood and Energy Sovereignty on Navajo Nation

    Kate Magargal, Jonah Yellowman, Shaniah Chee, Molly Wabel, Shane Macfarlan, Brian F Codding

  39. Subsistence strategy mediates ecological drivers of human violence

    Weston C. McCool, Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Brian F. Codding

  40. 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

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

    Stefania Wilks, Lisbeth A. Louderback

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

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

  43. Anarchy Meets Hierarchy: Sociopolitical Implications of Diachronic Variation in Exchange Indices from Central California’s Pecho Coast

    Terry L Jones, Christina Hornbaker, Kate Knox, Zoe Levit, Sierra Lyman, Jake Wanzenreid, Brian F Codding

  44. Ecological Constraints on Violence Avoidance Tactics in the Prehispanic Central Andes

    Weston C. McCool, Kurt M. Wilson & Kenneth B. Vernon

  45. Return to the Shellfish Beds: New Insights on Use of California Sea Mussels (Mytilus californianus) and Turban Snails (Tegula spp.) Based on Harvesting Experiments

    Claire Tatlow, Emma Cook, Maddie Noet, Jack Webb, Kate Knox, Brian F Codding, Terry L Jones

  46. 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

  47. Morphometric Identification of Starch Granules From Archaeological Contexts: Diagnostic Characteristics of Seven Major North American Plant Families

    Lisbeth A. Louderback, Stefania Wilks, Nicole M. Herzog, Gloria Howat Brown, Kaley Joyce, Bruce M. Pavlik

  48. Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya

    Weston C McCool, et al.

  49. Evaluating statistical models for establishing morphometric taxonomic identifications and a new approach using Random Forest

    Kasey E Cole, Peter M Yaworsky, Isaac A Hart

  50. 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

  51. Postcontact Cultural Perseverance on the Central California Coast: Sedentism and Maritime Intensification

    Claire Tatlow, Emma Cook, Maddie Noet, Jack Webb, Kate Knox, Brian F Codding, Terry L Jones

  52. 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

  53. 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

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

  55. 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

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

    Lisbeth A. Louderback

  57. Identifying water availability with maize phytoliths in Range Creek Canyon, Utah

    Brendan J. Ermish, Shannon A. Boomgarden

  58. 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

  59. Direct Evidence for Geophyte Exploitation in the Wyoming Basin

    Kaley Joyce, Lisbeth A Louderback, and Erick Robinson

  60. 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

  61. 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

  62. 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

  63. 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

  64. 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

  65. 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

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

    Eric Alden Smith, Brain F. Codding

  67. More on overkill, the associational critique, and the North American megafaunal record: A reply to Grayson et al. (2021)

    Allison L Wolfe, Jack M Broughton

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

  69. First appearance of Grévy’s zebra (Equus grevyi), from the Middle Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, sheds light on the evolution and paleoecology of large zebras

    Kaedan O’Brien, Christian A Tryon, Nick Blegen, Boniface Kimeu, John Rowan, J Tyler Faith

  70. The Marginal Utility of Inequality: A Global Examination across Ethnographic Societies

    Kurt M Wilson, Brian F Codding

  71. The character of conflict: A bioarchaeological study of violence in the Nasca highlands of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (950–1450 C.E.)

    Weston C McCool, Tiffiny A Tung, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Aldo Javier Accinelli Obando, Douglas J Kennett

  72. A genetic history of the pre-contact Caribbean

    Weston C McCool, et al.

  73. Late Pleistocene Mammals from Kibogo, Kenya: Systematic Paleontology, Paleoenvironments, and Non-Analog Associations

    J Tyler Faith, John Rowan, Kaedan O’Brien, Nick Blegen, Daniel J Peppe

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

    David Rhode, Lisbeth A Louderback, Sandy O Brugger

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

    Kurt M. Wilson

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

    Gloria Howat Brown, Lisbeth A. Louderback

  77. 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

  78. The Ideal Distribution Model and Archaeological Settlement Patterning

    Elic M Weitzel, Brian F Codding

  79. 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

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

    Allison L Wolfe, Jack M Broughton

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

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

  82. Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition

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

  83. 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

  84. 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

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

    Lisbeth A Louderback, Christopher A Kiahtipes, Joel C Janetski

  86. Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin

    Alan R. Rogers, Nathan S. Harris, and Alan A. Achenbach

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

    J Tyler Faith, John Rowan, Andrew Du

  88. 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

  89. 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

  90. 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

  91. 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

  92. 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

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

    John Rowan, JT Faith

  94. Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems

    J Tyler Faith, John Rowan, Andrew Du

  95. 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

  96. 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

  97. 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

  98. 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

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

    J Tyler Faith, Andrew Du, John Rowan

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

    Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding

  101. 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

  102. Territorial Behavior and Ecology in Western North America

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

  103. Fight or flight: An assessment of Fremont territoriality in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah

    Weston C. McCool, Peter M. Yaworsky

  104. 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

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

    Ashley K Parker, Christopher H Parker, Brian F Codding

  106. 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

  107. Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, Techniques

    J Tyler Faith, R Lee Lyman

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

    Alexandra Greenwald & Nicole Burt

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

    J Tyler Faith, Brian M Chase, D Margaret Avery

  110. 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

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

    Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding

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

    Jack M. Broughton & Elic M. Witzel

  113. Human Fire Legacies on Ecological Landscapes

    Mitchell J Power, Brian F Codding, Alan H Taylor, Thomas W Swetnam, Kate E Magargal, Douglas W Bird, James F O’Connell

  114. A Potential Oxygen Isotope Signature of Maize Beer Consumption: An Experimental Pilot Study

    Weston C. McCool & Joan Brenner-Coltrain

Last Updated: 12/13/23