Publications | Daniel A. Contrerashttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/PublicationsHugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)en-usFri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/media/icon_hu_2652f815906d4a49.pngPublicationshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/The Chavín Phenomenon and Its Regional Manifestationhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-2026/Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-2026/Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peruhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/rick-2025/Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/rick-2025/Climate stability and low population pressure predict peaceful interactions over 10,000 years of Central Andean historyhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/mc-cool-2025/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/mc-cool-2025/Leveraging Radiocarbon in the Central Andes: From Chronologies to Research Agendashttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-2025_qi/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-2025_qi/Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Insights from the Stelida Chert Source, Naxos (Greece)https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-2025-a/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-2025-a/Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andeshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-2024-qi/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-2024-qi/Chronological and Post-Depositional Insights from Single-Grain IRSL Dating of a Palaeolithic Sequence at Stelida, Naxos (Greece)https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/taffin-2024/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/taffin-2024/Reconsidering Chronologies and Cultural Change on the South Coast of Peru: A Compilation and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates from Nasca, Ica, and Paracashttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/conlee-2024/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/conlee-2024/Cappadocian Obsidian Exchange Networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: A Southern Levantine Perspective from El-Hemmeh (Jordan)https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-2023103857/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-2023103857/Google Earth Engine for Archaeologists: An Updated Look at the Progress and Promise of Remotely Sensed Big Datahttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/herndon-2023104094/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/herndon-2023104094/Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstructionhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-2023-lansdcape-taphonomy/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-2023-lansdcape-taphonomy/Seeking Synchronicity: Re-examining the Peruvian Early Horizon through Bayesian Modeling of 14C Dateshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-seeking-synchronicity-reexamining-2023/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-seeking-synchronicity-reexamining-2023/The Jarigole Mortuary Tradition Reconsideredhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/sawchuk-jarigole-mortuary-tradition-2022/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/sawchuk-jarigole-mortuary-tradition-2022/El Niño Southern Oscillation and Enhanced Arid Land Vegetation Productivity in NW South Americahttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/vining-nino-southern-oscillation-2022/Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/vining-nino-southern-oscillation-2022/Climate and Demography Drive 7000 Years of Dietary Change in the Central Andeshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/wilson-climate-demography-drive-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/wilson-climate-demography-drive-2022/Detecting and Mapping the `Ephemeral': Magnetometric Survey of a Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzaniahttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/fitton-detecting-mapping-ephemeral-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/fitton-detecting-mapping-ephemeral-2022/Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Duréehttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/silva-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/silva-2022/Expanded Agroecological Niches and Redistributed Risks in Northern Peru's Chicama Valley during Late-Holocene ENSO Climate Changeshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/vining-expanded-agroecological-niches-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/vining-expanded-agroecological-niches-2022/Stages, Periods, and Radiocarbon: 14C Dating in the Archaeology of the Central Andeshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-stages-periods-radiocarbon-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-stages-periods-radiocarbon-2022/The Freston Causewayed Enclosure, Suffolk: Initial Insight and Hypothetical Historyhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-freston-causewayed-enclosure-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-freston-causewayed-enclosure-2022/Traditions Émergentes: Chavín et Cupisniquehttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-traditions-emergentes-chavin-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-traditions-emergentes-chavin-2022/The Influence of Ancient Herders on Soil Development at Luxmanda, Mbulu Plateau, Tanzaniahttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/storozum-influence-ancient-herders-2021/Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/storozum-influence-ancient-herders-2021/A New Minoan-type Peak Sanctuary on Stelida, Naxoshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-new-minoantype-peak-2021/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-new-minoantype-peak-2021/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]https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/marsh-comment-arnold-drought-2021/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/marsh-comment-arnold-drought-2021/Matching Pragmatic Lithic Analysis and Proper Data Architecture: The QuARI R Shiny Database Interfacehttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-matching-pragmatic-lithic-2021/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-matching-pragmatic-lithic-2021/Estudios Paleodemográficos Basados En Conjuntos de Dataciones Radiométricas. Una Revisión Críticahttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-estudios-paleodemograficos-basados-2020/Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-estudios-paleodemograficos-basados-2020/Review of Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management, by Ludomir R. Lozny and Thomas H. McGovern, Eds.https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-review-global-perspectives-2020/Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-review-global-perspectives-2020/Earliest Occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for Hominin and Homo Sapiens' Behavior and Dispersalshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-earliest-occupation-central-2019/Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-earliest-occupation-central-2019/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, Francehttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-paleoclimate-variables-prehistoric-2019/Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-paleoclimate-variables-prehistoric-2019/Public Archaeology's Mammoth in the Room: Engaging Wikipedia as a Tool for Teaching and Outreachhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/grillo-2019-public/Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/grillo-2019-public/Hacia Una Geoarqueología Del Paisaje Andina: Paisaje, Medioambiente, y Acción Humana En Chavín de Huántarhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-hacia-geoarqueologia-paisaje-2018/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-hacia-geoarqueologia-paisaje-2018/Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzaniahttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/grillo-2018-pastoral/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/grillo-2018-pastoral/Reaching the Human Scale: A Spatial and Temporal Downscaling Approach to the Archaeological Implications of Paleoclimate Datahttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-reaching-human-scale-2018/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-reaching-human-scale-2018/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)https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-regional-paleoclimates-local-2018/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-regional-paleoclimates-local-2018/Characterization of the Siliceous Rocks at Stélida, an Early Prehistoric Lithic Quarry (Northwest Naxos, Greece), by Petrography and Geochemistry: A First Step towards Chert Sourcinghttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/skarpelis-characterization-siliceous-rocks-2017/Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/skarpelis-characterization-siliceous-rocks-2017/Correlation Is Not Enough - Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactionshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-correlation-not-enough-2017/Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-correlation-not-enough-2017/Not Just a Pyramid Scheme? Diversity in Ritual Architecture at Chavín de Huántarhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-not-just-pyramid-2017/Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-not-just-pyramid-2017/Open Science in Archaeologyhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/marwick-open-science-archaeology-2017/Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/marwick-open-science-archaeology-2017/Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A El-Hemmeh, Jordanhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-regional-climate-local-2017/Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-regional-climate-local-2017/The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interaction: Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Pasthttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-archaeology-human-environment-interaction-2017/Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-archaeology-human-environment-interaction-2017/The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project: New Studies of an Early Prehistoric Chert Quarry in the Cycladeshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-stelida-naxos-archaeological-2017/Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-stelida-naxos-archaeological-2017/Early Holocene Interaction in the Aegean Islands: Mesolithic Chert Exploitation at Stélida (Naxos, Greece) in Contexthttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-early-holocene-interaction-2016/Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-early-holocene-interaction-2016/La Incorporación de La Tradición Mito En El Ámbito Ritual de Chavín de Huántarhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-incorporacion-tradicion-mito-2016/Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-incorporacion-tradicion-mito-2016/Spherulites and Aspiring Elites: The Identification, Distribution, and Consumption of Giali Obsidian (Dodecanese, Greece).https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-2016-spherulites/Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-2016-spherulites/Collaborative Action and Landscape Setting at Chavín de Huántarhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-collaborative-action-landscape-2015/Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-collaborative-action-landscape-2015/Review of Landesque Capital: The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications, by Thomas Håkansson and Mats Widgren, Eds.https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-review-landesque-capital-2015/Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-review-landesque-capital-2015/(Before and) After the Flood: A Multiproxy Approach to Past Floodplain Usage in the Middle Wadi El-Hasa, Jordanhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-flood-multiproxy-approach-2014/Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-flood-multiproxy-approach-2014/(Re) Constructing the Sacred: Landscape Geoarchaeology at Chavín de Huántar, Peruhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-re-constructing-sacred-2014/Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-re-constructing-sacred-2014/Summed Radiocarbon Calibrations as a Population Proxy: A Critical Evaluation Using a Realistic Simulation Approachhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-summed-radiocarbon-calibrations-2014/Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-summed-radiocarbon-calibrations-2014/The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project: New Data on the Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Cycladeshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-stelida-naxos-archaeological-2014/Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-stelida-naxos-archaeological-2014/Archaeological Approaches to Obsidian Quarries: Investigations at the Quispisisa Sourcehttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/tripcevich-archaeological-approaches-obsidian-2013/Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/tripcevich-archaeological-approaches-obsidian-2013/Investigaciones En La Fuente de La Obsidiana Tipo Quispisisa, Huancasancos- Ayacuchohttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-investigaciones-fuente-obsidiana-2012/Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-investigaciones-fuente-obsidiana-2012/The Character and Use of the Soros Hill Obsidian Source, Antiparos (Greece)https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-character-use-soros-2012/Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/carter-character-use-soros-2012/The Economics of the Looted Archaeological Site of Bâb Edh-Dhrâ': A View from Google Earthhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/brodie-economics-looted-archaeological-2012/Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/brodie-economics-looted-archaeological-2012/How Far to Conchucos? A GIS Approach to Assessing the Implications of Exotic Materials at Chavín de Huántarhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-how-far-conchucos-2011/Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-how-far-conchucos-2011/Quarrying Evidence at the Quispisisa Obsidian Source, Ayacucho, Peruhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/tripcevich-quarrying-evidence-quispisisa-2011/Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/tripcevich-quarrying-evidence-quispisisa-2011/A Mito-Style Chamber at Chavín de Huántar: Dating and Implicationshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-mito-style-chamber-chavin-2010/Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-mito-style-chamber-chavin-2010/Huaqueros and Remote Sensing Imagery: Assessing Looting Damage in the Virú Valley, Peruhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-huaqueros-remote-sensing-2010/Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-huaqueros-remote-sensing-2010/Landscape and Environment: Insights from the Prehispanic Central Andeshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-landscape-environment-insights-2010/Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-landscape-environment-insights-2010/Reconstructing an Engineered Environment in the Central Andes: Landscape Geoarchaeology at Chavín de Huántar, Peruhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-reconstructing-engineered-environment-2010/Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-reconstructing-engineered-environment-2010/Shining Light on Looting: Using Google Earth to Quantify Damage and Raise Public Awarenesshttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-shining-light-looting-2010/Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-shining-light-looting-2010/The Utility of Publicly-Available Satellite Imagery for Investigating Looting of Archaeological Sites in Jordanhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-utility-publiclyavailable-satellite-2010/Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-utility-publiclyavailable-satellite-2010/Implications of the Fluvial History of the Wacheqsa River for Hydrologic Engineering and Water Use at Chavín de Huántar, Peruhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-implications-fluvial-history-2009/Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-implications-fluvial-history-2009/La Cronología de Chavń de Huántar y Sus Implicancias Para El Periodo Formativohttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/rick-cronologia-chavin-huantar-2009/Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/rick-cronologia-chavin-huantar-2009/Reconstructing Landscape at Chavín de Huántar, Perú: A GIS-based Approachhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-reconstructing-landscape-chavin-2009/Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-reconstructing-landscape-chavin-2009/Geomorfología y Paisaje En Chavń de Huántarhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-geomorfologia-paisaje-chavin-2008/Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-geomorfologia-paisaje-chavin-2008/Sociopolitical and Geomorphologic Dynamism at Chavín de Huántar, Peruhttps://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-sociopolitical-geomorphologic-dynamism-2007/Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://dcontre.github.io/academic/publications/contreras-sociopolitical-geomorphologic-dynamism-2007/