Peer-reviewed journal articles

2023

Kenneth B. Vernon, Weston C. McCool, Peter M. Yaworsky, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon C. Brewer, Brian F. Codding (Under Review). The Fremont Frontier: Living at the Margins of Maize Farming. American Antiquity.

2023

Kenneth B. Vernon, Simon C. Brewer, Brian F. Codding, Shane J. Macfarlan (Under Review). Market integration mediates human-environment interactions among traditional ranchers in Baja, Mexico. Sustainability Science.

2023

Kenneth B. Vernon, Scott G. Ortman (Under Review). A method for defining dispersed community territories. Journal of Archaeological Science.

2022

Weston C. McCool, Kurt M. Wilson, Kenneth B. Vernon (2022). Ecological Constraints on Violence Avoidance Tactics in the Prehispanic Central Andes. Environmental Archaeology (): 1–14. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2022.2137652

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2022

Weston C. McCool, Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Brian F. Codding (2022). Subsistence strategy mediates ecological drivers of human violence. PLOS ONE 17 (5): e0268257. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268257

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2022

Weston C. McCool, Brian F. Codding, Kenneth B. Vernon, Kurt M. Wilson, Peter M. Yaworsky, Norbert Marwan, Douglas J. Kennett (2022). 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. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2117556119

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2022

Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Jerry Spangler, Simon Brewer, Brian F. Codding (2022). Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition. Environmental Archaeology 27 (4): 420–433. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2020.1746880

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2022

Brian F. Codding, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Lisbeth Louderback, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Kate E. Magargal, Peter M. Yaworsky, Erick Robinson, Simon C. Brewer, Jerry D. Spangler (2022). Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region. Environmental Archaeology 27 (4): 434–446. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1927480

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2021

Bruce M. Pavlik, Lisbeth A. Louderback, Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Cynthia Wilson, Arnold Clifford, Brian F. Codding (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. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2025047118

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2020

Shane J. Macfarlan, Ryan Schacht, Caroline Foley, Sydney Cahoon, Grace Osusky, Kenneth B. Vernon, Evan Tayler, Celeste Henrickson, Eric Schniter (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. DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2020.1728685

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2020

Peter M. Yaworsky, Kenneth B. Vernon, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon C. Brewer, Brian F. Codding (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. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239424

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2017

Kate E. Magargal, Ashley K. Parker, Kenneth B. Vernon, Will Rath, Brian F. Codding (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–n/a. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23000

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Book reviews

2020

Kenneth B. Vernon, Brian F. Codding (2020). Review of Oshara Revisited: The Archaic Period in Northern New Mexico by Nicholas Chapin. Journal of Anthropological Research 76 (1): 138–140. DOI: 10.1086/706946

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Technical reports

2022

Ishmael Medina, Kenneth B. Vernon, Kate E. Magargal, Weston C. McCool, Jerry D. Spangler, Brian F. Codding (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

Jerry D. Spangler, Matthew Zweifel, Heidi Roberts, Kenneth B. Vernon, Isaac Hart, Brian F. Codding, Anne Lawlor (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. NA

2019

Jerry D. Spangler, Peter M. Yaworsky, Kenneth B. Vernon, Brian F. Codding (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. NA

2018

Brian F. Codding, Kate E. Magargal, Kenneth B. Vernon, Paul E. Allgaier, Jess Valdez, Ron Goode (2018). Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at the Jack Kirk Site, Mariposa Creek, California. Report submitted to the North Fork Mono Tribe, Mariposa Creek, California. NA

2018

Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Jerry D. Spangler (2018). The Archaeology of Molen Reef, Emery County, Utah. Report submitted to the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, Utah. NA