Publications

Daniel A. Contreras (2026). The Chavín Phenomenon and Its Regional Manifestation. The Oxford Handbook of South American Archaeology.

John W. Rick, Verónica S. Lema, Javier Echeverría, Giuseppe Alva Valverde, Daniel A. Contreras, Oscar Arias Espinoza, Silvana A. Rosenfeld, Matthew P. Sayre (2025). Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Danica D. Mihailović, Theodora Moutsiou, Yorgan Pitt, Natasha Singh, Ciara Zogheib (2025). Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Insights from the Stelida Chert Source, Naxos (Greece). Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies.

Daniel A. Contreras, Erik J. Marsh, Kurt Rademaker (2025). Leveraging Radiocarbon in the Central Andes: From Chronologies to Research Agendas. Quaternary International.

Weston C. McCool, Kurt M. Wilson, Elizabeth N. Arkush, Daniel A. Contreras, Brian F. Codding (2025). Climate stability and low population pressure predict peaceful interactions over 10,000 years of Central Andean history. Science Advances.

Christina A. Conlee, Daniel A. Contreras, Ann H. Peters, Kevin J. Vaughn (2024). Reconsidering Chronologies and Cultural Change on the South Coast of Peru: A Compilation and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates from Nasca, Ica, and Paracas. Quaternary International.

Ninon Taffin, Christelle Lahaye, Daniel A. Contreras, Justin A. Holcomb, Danica D. Mihailovic, Panagiotis Karkanas, Guillaume Guérin, Demetris Athanasoulis, Tristan Carter (2024). Chronological and Post-Depositional Insights from Single-Grain IRSL Dating of a Palaeolithic Sequence at Stelida, Naxos (Greece). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Daniel A. Contreras (2024). Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes. Quaternary International.

Daniel A. Contreras (2023). Seeking Synchronicity: Re-examining the Peruvian Early Horizon through Bayesian Modeling of 14C Dates. New Perspectives on the Early Formation of the Andean Civilization: Chronology, Interaction, and Social Organization.

Daniel A. Contreras, Brian F. Codding (2023). Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.