Daniel A. Contreras

Daniel A. Contreras

Associate Professor of Anthropology

University of Florida

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.

Past Agricultural Productivity

Regional Paleoclimates and Local Consequences: Integrating GIS Analysis of Diachronic Settlement Patterns and Process-Based Agro-ecosystem Modeling of Potential Agricultural Productivity in Provence (France)

Holocene climate variability in the Mediterranean Basin is often cited as a potential driver of societal change, but the mechanisms of this putative influence are generally little …

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2018 • 1 min read

Past Agricultural Productivity

Reaching the Human Scale: A Spatial and Temporal Downscaling Approach to the Archaeological Implications of Paleoclimate Data

Assessing the implications of paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental data at temporal and spatial scales that would have directly intersected with human decision-making and activity …

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2018 • 1 min read

Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania

katherine-m-grillo

• Jan 1, 2018 • 1 min read

Hacia Una Geoarqueología Del Paisaje Andina: Paisaje, Medioambiente, y Acción Humana En Chavín de Huántar

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2018 • 1 min read

The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project: New Studies of an Early Prehistoric Chert Quarry in the Cyclades

Tristan Carter

• Jan 1, 2017 • 1 min read

The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interaction: Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past featured image

The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interaction: Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2017 • 1 min read

Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A El-Hemmeh, Jordan

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2017 • 1 min read

Open Science in Archaeology

ben-marwick

• Jan 1, 2017 • 1 min read

Not Just a Pyramid Scheme? Diversity in Ritual Architecture at Chavín de Huántar

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2017 • 1 min read

Correlation Is Not Enough - Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions featured image

Correlation Is Not Enough - Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions

The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over …

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2017 • 1 min read