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Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru

Ritual is broadly accepted as an important locus of social interaction in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes, and research into the …

John W. Rick, Verónica S. Lema, Javier Echeverría, Giuseppe Alva Valverde, Daniel A. Contreras, Oscar Arias Espinoza, Silvana A. Rosenfeld, Matthew P. Sayre

Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru

Leveraging Radiocarbon in the Central Andes: From Chronologies to Research Agendas

Daniel A. Contreras, Erik J. Marsh, Kurt Rademaker

Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Insights from the Stelida Chert Source, Naxos (Greece)

This article provides the first detailed overview of Middle Paleolithic activity at the Naxian chert source of Stelida, based on an …

Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Danica D. Mihailović, Theodora Moutsiou, Yorgan Pitt, Natasha Singh, Ciara Zogheib

Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes

Using the Central Andean Chavín Phenomenon as a case study, this paper explores the middle ground between top-down (big data) and …

Daniel A. Contreras

Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes

Chronological and Post-Depositional Insights from Single-Grain IRSL Dating of a Palaeolithic Sequence at Stelida, Naxos (Greece)

Since 2015, the Stelida Naxos Archaeological Project (SNAP) has excavated a prehistoric site on what today is the northwest coast of …

Ninon Taffin, Christelle Lahaye, Daniel A. Contreras, Justin A. Holcomb, Danica D. Mihailovic, Panagiotis Karkanas, Guillaume Guérin, Demetris Athanasoulis, Tristan Carter

Reconsidering Chronologies and Cultural Change on the South Coast of Peru: A Compilation and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates from Nasca, Ica, and Paracas

The South Coast of Peru, the location where Peru’s widely used period/horizon relative ceramic chronology was established and …

Christina A. Conlee, Daniel A. Contreras, Ann H. Peters, Kevin J. Vaughn

Cappadocian Obsidian Exchange Networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: A Southern Levantine Perspective from El-Hemmeh (Jordan)

Anatolian obsidian is ubiquitous, but present in only scant amounts, in lithic assemblages recovered from Pre-Pottery Neolithic A …

Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Kathryn Campeau, Cheryl A. Makarewicz

Google Earth Engine for Archaeologists: An Updated Look at the Progress and Promise of Remotely Sensed Big Data

A wealth of remotely sensed data has accumulated over the past several decades and now constitutes an analytical resource primed for …

Kelsey E. Herndon, Robert Griffin, Whittaker Schroder, Timothy Murtha, Charles Golden, Daniel A. Contreras, Emil Cherrington, Luwei Wang, Alexandra Bazarsky, G. Van Kollias, Omar Alcover Firpi

Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction

We illustrate the way in which landscape taphonomy predictably complicates “dates-as-data” approaches, propose and demonstrate a new method of empirically based correction, and explore the interpretive ramifications of ignoring or correcting for taphonomic bias.

Daniel A. Contreras, Brian F. Codding

Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction

The Jarigole Mortuary Tradition Reconsidered

, The megalithic pillar sites found around Lake Turkana, Kenya, are monumental cemeteries built approximately 5000 years ago. Their …

Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Elisabeth A. Hildebrand, Austin Chad Hill, Daniel A. Contreras, Justus Erus Edung, Anneke Janzen, Abdikadir Kurewa, James K. Munene, Emmanuel Ndiema, Katherine M. Grillo