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 …
Daniel A. Contreras
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Daniel Contreras is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is an anthropological archaeologist whose research interests focus on past human-environment interactions over long timescales.
Google Earth Engine for Archaeologists: An Updated Look at the Progress and Promise of Remotely Sensed Big Data
A wealth of remotely sensed data has accumulated over the past several decades and now constitutes an analytical resource primed for archaeological applications. To date, remotely …
kelsey-e.-herndon
Cappadocian Obsidian Exchange Networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: A Southern Levantine Perspective from El-Hemmeh (Jordan)
Anatolian obsidian is ubiquitous, but present in only scant amounts, in lithic assemblages recovered from Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) settlements of the southern Levant. These …
Tristan Carter
The Jarigole Mortuary Tradition Reconsidered
, The megalithic pillar sites found around Lake Turkana, Kenya, are monumental cemeteries built approximately 5000 years ago. Their construction coincides with the spread of …
elizabeth-a.-sawchuk
El Niño Southern Oscillation and Enhanced Arid Land Vegetation Productivity in NW South America
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a periodic disruption of coupled oceanic-atmospheric conditions in the tropical Pacific, which changes global precipitation regimes. One area …
Benjamin R. Vining
Traditions Émergentes: Chavín et Cupisnique
The Freston Causewayed Enclosure, Suffolk: Initial Insight and Hypothetical History
dots This paper details the large causewayed enclosure at Freston on the Shotley peninsula in dots Within this framework we primarily contextualise Freston within its East Anglian …
Tristan Carter
Stages, Periods, and Radiocarbon: 14C Dating in the Archaeology of the Central Andes
Some of the earliest archaeological materials radiocarbon-dated were from the Central Andes, and archaeologists from the region were also involved in early efforts at meta-analysis …
Expanded Agroecological Niches and Redistributed Risks in Northern Peru's Chicama Valley during Late-Holocene ENSO Climate Changes
South American arid lands present unique constellations of climatic risk to their human inhabitants, due to volatile events that can create markedly different hydroclimate …
Benjamin R. Vining
Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée
Human beings are an active component of every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Although our local impact on the evolution of these ecosystems has been undeniable and extensively …
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