2026
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)
10.1016/j.jas.2026.106523
Migration and environmental learning in interstitial areas: An example from the Northern Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico
Open Archaeology 12 (1) (2026)
10.1515/opar-2025-0075
A reconstruction of the Indigenous maize farming niche of Utah
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 69: 105493 (2026)
10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105493
2025
Targeted explorations of Pleistocene-Holocene transition archaeology on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah
Quaternary International 746: 109992 (2025)
10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109992
Drought, Population Pressure, and Inequality Drive Intergroup Conflict in the Precontact North American Southwest
American Antiquity: 1-19 (2025)
10.1017/aaq.2025.10107
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)
10.1073/pnas.2512325122
Environmental drivers of wealth inequality among Ancestral Puebloan farmers in Bears Ears National Monument
American Antiquity: 1-7 (2025)
10.1017/aaq.2025.8
2024
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)
10.1007/s11625-024-01491-9
The Fremont frontier: Living at the margins of maize farming
American Antiquity 89 (3): 440-458 (2024)
10.1017/aaq.2024.22
A method for defining dispersed community territories
Journal of Archaeological Science 170: 106048 (2024)
10.1016/j.jas.2024.106048
The Goldilocks Zone for maize agriculture and the settlement and abandonment of the West Tavaputs Plateau
Quaternary International 689-690: 30-42 (2024)
10.1016/j.quaint.2023.12.003
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)
10.1016/j.quaint.2023.06.014
2022
Ecological constraints on violence avoidance tactics in the Prehispanic Central Andes
Environmental Archaeology: 1-14 (2022)
10.1080/14614103.2022.2137652
Socioecological dynamics structuring the spread of farming in the North American basin-plateau region
Environmental Archaeology 27 (4): 434-446 (2022)
10.1080/14614103.2021.1927480
Decomposing habitat suitability across the forager to farmer transition
Environmental Archaeology 27 (4): 420-433 (2022)
10.1080/14614103.2020.1746880
Subsistence strategy mediates ecological drivers of human violence
PLOS ONE 17 (5): e0268257 (2022)
10.1371/journal.pone.0268257
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)
10.1073/pnas.2117556119
2021
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)
10.1073/pnas.2025047118
2020
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)
10.1080/19485565.2020.1728685
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)
10.1371/journal.pone.0239424
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)
10.1002/ajhb.23000