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El Niño Southern Oscillation and Enhanced Arid Land Vegetation Productivity in NW South America
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a periodic disruption of coupled oceanic-atmospheric conditions in the tropical Pacific, which …
Benjamin R. Vining, Aubrey Hillman, Daniel A. Contreras
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Climate and Demography Drive 7000 Years of Dietary Change in the Central Andes
Explaining the factors that influence past dietary variation is critically important for understanding changes in subsistence, health, …
KM Wilson, WC McCool, SC Brewer, N Zamora-Wilson, PJ Schryver, RLF Lamson, AM Huggard, J Brenner Coltrain, DA Contreras, BF Codding
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Detecting and Mapping the `Ephemeral': Magnetometric Survey of a Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
Common assumptions about the ephemeral archaeological signature of pastoralist settlements have limited the application of geophysical …
Tom Fitton, Daniel A. Contreras, Agness O. Gidna, Audax Z.P. Mabulla, Mary E. Prendergast, Katherine M. Grillo
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Expanded Agroecological Niches and Redistributed Risks in Northern Peru's Chicama Valley during Late-Holocene ENSO Climate Changes
South American arid lands present unique constellations of climatic risk to their human inhabitants, due to volatile events that can …
Benjamin R. Vining, Aubrey Hillman, Daniel A. Contreras, Ernesto Tejedor
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Stages, Periods, and Radiocarbon: 14C Dating in the Archaeology of the Central Andes
Some of the earliest archaeological materials radiocarbon-dated were from the Central Andes, and archaeologists from the region were …
Daniel A. Contreras
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The Influence of Ancient Herders on Soil Development at Luxmanda, Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania
In eastern Africa, ecologists have found that when mobile pastoralists abandon their temporary encampments, the accumulation of burned …
Michael J. Storozum, Steven T. Goldstein, Daniel A. Contreras, Agness O. Gidna, Audax Z. P. Mabulla, Katherine M. Grillo, Mary E. Prendergast
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A New Minoan-type Peak Sanctuary on Stelida, Naxos
A long-recognised characteristic of Crete’s later Bronze Age [BA] state-level society - the `Minoan civilization’of the 2nd …
Tristan Carter, Kristine Mallinson, Vagia Mastrogiannopoulou, Daniel a Contreras, Charlotte Diffey, Claudette Lopez, Marie N Pareja, Georgia Tsartsidou, Dimitris Athanasoulis
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Comment on Arnold et~al. ``Drought and the Collapse of the Tiwanaku Civilization: New Evidence from Lake Orurillo, Peru'' [Quat. Sci. Rev. 251 (2021): 106693]
This paper revives a fascinating debate: did a drought start before, during, or after the collapse of the Andean polity of Tiwanaku? …
Erik J. Marsh, Daniel Contreras, Maria C. Bruno, Alexei Vranich, Andrew P. Roddick
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Matching Pragmatic Lithic Analysis and Proper Data Architecture: The QuARI R Shiny Database Interface
The documentation and analysis of archaeological lithics must navigate a basic tension between examining and recording data on …
Daniel A. Contreras, Zachary Batist, Ciara Zogheib, Tristan Carter
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Review of Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management, by Ludomir R. Lozny and Thomas H. McGovern, Eds.
Daniel A. Contreras
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