Brian F. Codding

Climate stability and low population pressure predict peaceful interactions over 10,000 years of Central Andean history

As anthropogenic climate change threatens to destabilize global societies and ecosystems, anticipating likely human responses becomes ever more urgent. A key global initiative is …

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Landscape taphonomy in the Bonneville Basin

Integrating archaeological and geomorphic data to improve reconstruction of past population dynamics by accounting for landscape taphonomy. PIs: Daniel Contreras (U Florida), Brian …

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Daniel A. Contreras
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Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction

We illustrate the way in which landscape taphonomy predictably complicates “dates-as-data” approaches, propose and demonstrate a new method of empirically based correction, and …

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Daniel A. Contreras
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