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.

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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

Characterization of the Siliceous Rocks at Stélida, an Early Prehistoric Lithic Quarry (Northwest Naxos, Greece), by Petrography and Geochemistry: A First Step towards Chert Sourcing

nikolaos-skarpelis

• Jan 1, 2017 • 1 min read

Spherulites and Aspiring Elites: The Identification, Distribution, and Consumption of Giali Obsidian (Dodecanese, Greece).

Tristan Carter

• Jan 1, 2016 • 1 min read

La Incorporación de La Tradición Mito En El Ámbito Ritual de Chavín de Huántar

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2016 • 1 min read

Early Holocene Interaction in the Aegean Islands: Mesolithic Chert Exploitation at Stélida (Naxos, Greece) in Context

Tristan Carter

• Jan 1, 2016 • 1 min read

Review of Landesque Capital: The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications, by Thomas Håkansson and Mats Widgren, Eds.

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2015 • 1 min read

Collaborative Action and Landscape Setting at Chavín de Huántar

The Central Andean ceremonial centre of Chavín de Huántar is situated in a dramatic, mountainous and dynamic environment high on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, yet the …

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2015 • 1 min read

The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project: New Data on the Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Cyclades

Tristan Carter

• Jan 1, 2014 • 1 min read

Summed Radiocarbon Calibrations as a Population Proxy: A Critical Evaluation Using a Realistic Simulation Approach

The logic of using summed radiocarbon (14C) calibrations (cumulative probability density functions for large numbers of calibrated 14C dates) as proxies for past populations rests …

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2014 • 1 min read

(Re) Constructing the Sacred: Landscape Geoarchaeology at Chavín de Huántar, Peru

Daniel A. Contreras

• Jan 1, 2014 • 1 min read