This website collects all of my publishing output along with a list of current or ongoing projects. It is presented in a way that is easy to search, providing access to preprints (at least when I have them) and bibliographic data, all of which can be directly downloaded.
Research Interests. Broadly speaking, my research focuses on the ecology of human behavior, but here are the specific questions that really animate me these days:
In my spare time, I also contribute to several FOSS projects in the R community.
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The impact of subsistence change on demography: Theory-informed Approximate Bayesian Computation reveals 4-fold increase in carrying capacity following economic intensification
Journal of Archaeological Science 189: 106523 (2026)
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A reconstruction of the Indigenous maize farming niche of Utah
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 69: 105493 (2026)
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Migration and environmental learning in interstitial areas: An example from the Northern Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico
Open Archaeology 12 (1) (2026)
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| 2025 |
Modeling the rise and demise of Classic Maya cities: Climate, conflict, and economies of scale
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (42): e2512325122 (2025)
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Targeted explorations of Pleistocene-Holocene transition archaeology on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah
Quaternary International 746: 109992 (2025)
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Drought, Population Pressure, and Inequality Drive Intergroup Conflict in the Precontact North American Southwest
American Antiquity: 1-19 (2025)
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Environmental drivers of wealth inequality among Ancestral Puebloan farmers in Bears Ears National Monument
American Antiquity: 1-7 (2025)
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| 2024 |
A method for defining dispersed community territories
Journal of Archaeological Science 170: 106048 (2024)
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Trade-off between market and ecosystem services drives settlement decisions among smallholder ranchers in Baja California Sur, Mexico
Sustainability Science 19 (4): 1377-1390 (2024)
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The Goldilocks Zone for maize agriculture and the settlement and abandonment of the West Tavaputs Plateau
Quaternary International 689-690: 30-42 (2024)
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Can we reliably detect adaptive responses of hunter-gatherers to past climate change? Examining the impact of Mid-Holocene drought on Archaic settlement in the Basin-Plateau Region of North America
Quaternary International 689-690: 5-15 (2024)
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The Fremont frontier: Living at the margins of maize farming
American Antiquity 89 (3): 440-458 (2024)
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| 2022 |
Ecological constraints on violence avoidance tactics in the Prehispanic Central Andes
Environmental Archaeology: 1-14 (2022)
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Socioecological dynamics structuring the spread of farming in the North American basin-plateau region
Environmental Archaeology 27 (4): 434-446 (2022)
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Decomposing habitat suitability across the forager to farmer transition
Environmental Archaeology 27 (4): 420-433 (2022)
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Subsistence strategy mediates ecological drivers of human violence
PLOS ONE 17 (5): e0268257 (2022)
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Climate change–induced population pressure drives high rates of lethal violence in the Prehispanic central Andes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (17): e2117556119 (2022)
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Plant species richness at archaeological sites suggests ecological legacy of Indigenous subsistence on the Colorado Plateau
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (21): e2025047118 (2021)
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Marriage dynamics in old Lower California: Ecological constraints and reproductive value in an arid peninsular frontier
Biodemography and Social Biology 65 (2): 156-171 (2020)
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| 2020 |
Advancing predictive modeling in archaeology: An evaluation of regression and machine learning methods on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
PLOS ONE 15 (10): e0239424 (2020)
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| 2017 |
The ecology of population dispersal: Modeling alternative Basin-Plateau foraging strategies to explain the Numic expansion
American Journal of Human Biology 29 (4): e23000 (2017)
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| 2025 |
Working with REST APIs to access spatial data
Spatial Utah Data Science (SUDS) Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Promoting water-use efficiency with responsible AI
One-U Responsible AI Annual Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Indirect dating with Mixture Density Networks
Utah Center for Data Science, Data Science & AI Lecture Series, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Indirect dating with Mixture Density Networks
90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO.
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| 2024 |
The network ecology of settlement persistence
workshop 'Advances in modelling past human ecosystems', Cologne, Germany.
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The socio-ecology of community centers
89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.
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The network ecology of settlement persistence
30th Annual Meeting of the European Archaeological Association, Rome, Italy.
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| 2023 |
Exploring the dynamics of late precontact obsidian procurement and exchange networks across the US Southwest and Northwest Mexico using cyberSW
The Southwest Symposium Archaeological Conference, Santa Fe, NM.
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A core-periphery approach to defining community boundaries
29th Annual Meeting of the European Archaeological Association, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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How do I work this? this R project
Spatial Utah Data Science (SUDS) Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
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The ecology of agglomeration and the rise of Chaco Great Houses
88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR.
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| 2022 |
The Fremont frontier: Living at the margins of maize farming
87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL.
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| 2021 |
Explaining PaleoIndian settlement in the Intermountain West: A regression adjustment approach
86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
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| 2019 |
Decomposing habitat suitability with theory-driven machine-learning
84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.
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| 2018 |
Prearchaic land use in Grass Valley, Nevada: This time with Bayes
Bi-annual Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Prearchaic land use in Grass Valley, Nevada: A novel statistical implementation of optimal distribution modeling
83th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington D.C..
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| 2015 |
Numic fires: Modeling the effects of anthropogenic fire on foraging decisions in the Great Basin
80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
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TerraCal: A global deep foundation radiocarbon calibration curve
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Some Kantian and Aristotelian themes in anthropological thought
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An encoder-decoder neural network for down-scaling soil moisture estimates
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Urbanism, population decline, and biodiversity in an arid environment
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RagStone: A retrieval-augmented language model for archaeological reports
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One theory, many models of habitat suitability
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Predicting PHT archaeology on the northwest Colorado Plateau: A predictive model for determining targeted survey areas
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (in prep)
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NetC14: A Gaussian mixture neural network for calibrating and summarizing radiocarbon dates
Journal of Archaeological Science (in prep)
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Socio-economic status before we measured it: A machine learning approach to imputing income and education in the US Census before 1950
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The evolution of a labor market
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Responsible artificial intelligence and the science of human-environment interactions
Environmental Data Science (in prep)
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Explaining PaleoIndian settlement in the Intermountain West
American Antiquity (in prep)
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