Manuscripts
2025
Predicting PHT archaeology on the northwest Colorado Plateau: A predictive model for determining targeted survey areas
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (in prep)
Targeted explorations of Pleistocene-Holocene transition archaeology on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah
Quaternary International (accepted)
Indirect dating with mixture density networks
Journal of Archaeological Science (in prep)
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 (under review)
The evolution of a labor market
(in prep)
Socio-economic status before we measured it: A machine learning approach to imputing income and education in the US Census before 1950
(in prep)
Responsible artificial intelligence and the science of human-environment interactions
Environmental Data Science (in prep)
Explaining PaleoIndian settlement in the Intermountain West
American Antiquity (in prep)
Migration and environmental learning in interstitial areas: An example from the Northern Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico
Open Archaeology (under review)
Peer-reviewed journal articles
2026
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
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
Book reviews
2020
Review of Oshara Revisited: The Archaic Period in Northern New Mexico by Nicholas Chapin
Journal of Anthropological Research 76 (1): 138–140 (2020)
10.1086/706946
Technical reports
2022
Archaeological Survey of Cottonwood Wash, San Rafael Desert, Emery County, Utah
Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, Price Field Office, Price, Utah; and State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, Salt Lake City, Utah. Prepared by the University of Utah Archaeological Center and the Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance. BLM Cooperative Agreement L20AC00267. United States Department of Interior Permit No. 21UT85115. State of Utah Antiquities Project No. U22UA031. University of Utah Archaeological Center Project No. UUAC22052.
2021
Limited Test Excavations at Red Reef Shelter (42WS519), Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, Washington County, Utah
Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, St. George, Utah.
2019
Hisatsinom of the high plateaus: a Class I overview of prehistoric cultural resources in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2018
Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at the Jack Kirk Site, Mariposa Creek, California
Report submitted to the North Fork Mono Tribe, Mariposa Creek, California.
The Archaeology of Molen Reef, Emery County, Utah
Report submitted to the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, Utah.