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  • Publications
    • The Chavín Phenomenon and Its Regional Manifestation
    • Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
    • Climate stability and low population pressure predict peaceful interactions over 10,000 years of Central Andean history
    • Leveraging Radiocarbon in the Central Andes: From Chronologies to Research Agendas
    • Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Insights from the Stelida Chert Source, Naxos (Greece)
    • Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes
    • Chronological and Post-Depositional Insights from Single-Grain IRSL Dating of a Palaeolithic Sequence at Stelida, Naxos (Greece)
    • Reconsidering Chronologies and Cultural Change on the South Coast of Peru: A Compilation and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates from Nasca, Ica, and Paracas
    • Cappadocian Obsidian Exchange Networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: A Southern Levantine Perspective from El-Hemmeh (Jordan)
    • Google Earth Engine for Archaeologists: An Updated Look at the Progress and Promise of Remotely Sensed Big Data
    • Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction
    • Seeking Synchronicity: Re-examining the Peruvian Early Horizon through Bayesian Modeling of 14C Dates
    • The Jarigole Mortuary Tradition Reconsidered
    • El Niño Southern Oscillation and Enhanced Arid Land Vegetation Productivity in NW South America
    • Climate and Demography Drive 7000 Years of Dietary Change in the Central Andes
    • Detecting and Mapping the `Ephemeral': Magnetometric Survey of a Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
    • Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée
    • Expanded Agroecological Niches and Redistributed Risks in Northern Peru's Chicama Valley during Late-Holocene ENSO Climate Changes
    • Stages, Periods, and Radiocarbon: 14C Dating in the Archaeology of the Central Andes
    • The Freston Causewayed Enclosure, Suffolk: Initial Insight and Hypothetical History
    • Traditions Émergentes: Chavín et Cupisnique
    • The Influence of Ancient Herders on Soil Development at Luxmanda, Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania
    • A New Minoan-type Peak Sanctuary on Stelida, Naxos
    • Comment on Arnold et~al. ``Drought and the Collapse of the Tiwanaku Civilization: New Evidence from Lake Orurillo, Peru'' [Quat. Sci. Rev. 251 (2021): 106693]
    • Matching Pragmatic Lithic Analysis and Proper Data Architecture: The QuARI R Shiny Database Interface
    • Estudios Paleodemográficos Basados En Conjuntos de Dataciones Radiométricas. Una Revisión Crítica
    • Review of Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management, by Ludomir R. Lozny and Thomas H. McGovern, Eds.
    • Earliest Occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for Hominin and Homo Sapiens' Behavior and Dispersals
    • From Paleoclimate Variables to Prehistoric Agriculture: Using a Process-Based Agroecosystem Model to Simulate the Impacts of Holocene Climate Change on Potential Agricultural Productivity in Provence, France
    • Public Archaeology's Mammoth in the Room: Engaging Wikipedia as a Tool for Teaching and Outreach
    • Hacia Una Geoarqueología Del Paisaje Andina: Paisaje, Medioambiente, y Acción Humana En Chavín de Huántar
    • Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
    • Reaching the Human Scale: A Spatial and Temporal Downscaling Approach to the Archaeological Implications of Paleoclimate Data
    • 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)
    • 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
    • Correlation Is Not Enough - Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions
    • Not Just a Pyramid Scheme? Diversity in Ritual Architecture at Chavín de Huántar
    • Open Science in Archaeology
    • Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A El-Hemmeh, Jordan
    • The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interaction: Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past
    • The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project: New Studies of an Early Prehistoric Chert Quarry in the Cyclades
    • Early Holocene Interaction in the Aegean Islands: Mesolithic Chert Exploitation at Stélida (Naxos, Greece) in Context
    • La Incorporación de La Tradición Mito En El Ámbito Ritual de Chavín de Huántar
    • Spherulites and Aspiring Elites: The Identification, Distribution, and Consumption of Giali Obsidian (Dodecanese, Greece).
    • Collaborative Action and Landscape Setting at Chavín de Huántar
    • Review of Landesque Capital: The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications, by Thomas Håkansson and Mats Widgren, Eds.
    • (Before and) After the Flood: A Multiproxy Approach to Past Floodplain Usage in the Middle Wadi El-Hasa, Jordan
    • (Re) Constructing the Sacred: Landscape Geoarchaeology at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
    • Summed Radiocarbon Calibrations as a Population Proxy: A Critical Evaluation Using a Realistic Simulation Approach
    • The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project: New Data on the Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Cyclades
    • Archaeological Approaches to Obsidian Quarries: Investigations at the Quispisisa Source
    • Investigaciones En La Fuente de La Obsidiana Tipo Quispisisa, Huancasancos- Ayacucho
    • The Character and Use of the Soros Hill Obsidian Source, Antiparos (Greece)
    • The Economics of the Looted Archaeological Site of Bâb Edh-Dhrâ': A View from Google Earth
    • How Far to Conchucos? A GIS Approach to Assessing the Implications of Exotic Materials at Chavín de Huántar
    • Quarrying Evidence at the Quispisisa Obsidian Source, Ayacucho, Peru
    • A Mito-Style Chamber at Chavín de Huántar: Dating and Implications
    • Huaqueros and Remote Sensing Imagery: Assessing Looting Damage in the Virú Valley, Peru
    • Landscape and Environment: Insights from the Prehispanic Central Andes
    • Reconstructing an Engineered Environment in the Central Andes: Landscape Geoarchaeology at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
    • Shining Light on Looting: Using Google Earth to Quantify Damage and Raise Public Awareness
    • The Utility of Publicly-Available Satellite Imagery for Investigating Looting of Archaeological Sites in Jordan
    • Implications of the Fluvial History of the Wacheqsa River for Hydrologic Engineering and Water Use at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
    • La Cronología de Chavń de Huántar y Sus Implicancias Para El Periodo Formativo
    • Reconstructing Landscape at Chavín de Huántar, Perú: A GIS-based Approach
    • Geomorfología y Paisaje En Chavń de Huántar
    • Sociopolitical and Geomorphologic Dynamism at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
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    • Landscape taphonomy in the Bonneville Basin
    • Scaling the Central Andes (SCA)
    • Research on the Archaeology of Pastoralism in Tanzania (RAPT)
    • The Stelida Naxos Archaeological Project (SNAP)
    • Chicama Environmental Archaeology Project (CHEAP)
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Using Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology

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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.
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