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- PhD Anthropology University of Washington
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- Quantitative zooarchaeology: topics in the analysis of archaeological faunas (1987) (724)
- Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations (1996) (592)
- The Archaeological Record of Human Impacts on Animal Populations (2001) (345)
- A requiem for North American overkill (2003) (277)
- Clovis Hunting and Large Mammal Extinction: A Critical Review of the Evidence (2002) (215)
- Early human dispersals within the Americas (2018) (195)
- Living Landscapes. (Book Reviews: The Desert's Past. A Natural Prehistory of the Great Basin.) (1994) (194)
- On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile (1997) (176)
- Mammalian responses to Middle Holocene climatic change in the Great Basin of the western United States (2000) (172)
- Bone transport, bone destruction, and reverse utility curves (1989) (170)
- Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology (1980) (159)
- Changing Diet Breadth in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Southwestern France (1998) (156)
- Danger Cave, Last Supper Cave, and Hanging Rock Shelter : the faunas (1988) (156)
- Alpine faunas from the White Mountains, California: Adaptive change in the late prehistoric great basin? (1991) (155)
- A brief history of Great Basin pikas (2005) (138)
- On the Methodology of Faunal Analysis (1973) (138)
- Specialized Early Upper Palaeolithic Hunters in Southwestern France (2002) (136)
- Ungulates and the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition at Grotte XVI (Dordogne, France) (2003) (135)
- Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea) (2013) (132)
- Minimum Numbers and Sample Size in Vertebrate Faunal Analysis (1978) (130)
- Deciphering North American Pleistocene Extinctions (2007) (121)
- Explaining the development of dietary dominance by a single ungulate taxon at Grotte XVI (2001) (110)
- Late Quaternary environmental change in the Bonneville basin, western USA (2001) (107)
- Late Pleistocene mammalian extinctions in North America: Taxonomy, chronology, and explanations (1991) (103)
- The Late Quaternary biogeographic histories of some Great Basin mammals (western USA) (2006) (96)
- The Biogeographic History of Small Mammals in the Great Basin: Observations on the Last 20,000 Years (1987) (96)
- Diet Breadth, Adaptive Change, and the White Mountains Faunas (1993) (95)
- Revisiting Paleoindian exploitation of extinct North American mammals (2015) (95)
- The establishment of human antiquity (1983) (93)
- Measuring Skeletal Part Representation in Archaeological Faunas (2004) (91)
- Comment on "Redefining the Age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of the Americas" (2007) (85)
- The effects of sample size on some derived measures in vertebrate faunal analysis (1981) (84)
- Moisture History and Small Mammal Community Richness during the Latest Pleistocene and Holocene, Northern Bonneville Basin, Utah (1998) (81)
- Megafaunal extinction: climate, humans and assumptions. (2006) (76)
- The Great Basin: A Natural Prehistory (2011) (71)
- Paleoclimatic Implications of the Dirty Shame Rockshelter Mammalian Fauna (1977) (66)
- Pleistocene Reindeer and Global Warming (2005) (63)
- The Evidence for Middle Palaeolithic Scavenging from Couche VIII, Grotte Vaufrey (Dordogne, France) (1994) (56)
- North American overkill continued (2004) (56)
- The chronology of North American late pleistocene extinctions (1989) (54)
- The large mammals of Roc de Combe (Lot, France): The Châtelperronian and Aurignacian assemblages (2008) (53)
- Missing Mammals on Great Basin Mountains: Holocene Extinctions and Inadequate Knowledge (1993) (51)
- Faunal extinction in an island society: Pygmy hippopotamus hunters of Cyprus (2000) (48)
- Middle-Holocene climates and human population densities in the Great Basin, western USA (2011) (48)
- Stone Tool Assemblage Richness during the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic in France (1998) (44)
- The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: a cosmic catastrophe (2014) (42)
- Pleistocene Avifaunas and the Overkill Hypothesis (1977) (41)
- Donner Party Deaths: A Demographic Assessment (1990) (40)
- Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas Impact Event (2013) (35)
- Were Hominins in California ∼130,000 Years Ago? (2017) (34)
- Biogeographic significance of low-elevation records for Neotoma cinerea from the northern Bonneville Basin, Utah (1996) (33)
- A Review of the Evidence for Early Holocene Turkeys in the Northern Great Basin (1977) (32)
- BIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS OF RECENT LOW-ELEVATION RECOLONIZATION BY NEOTOMA CINEREA IN THE GREAT BASIN (2000) (31)
- Terminological problems in quantitative faunal analysis. (1977) (30)
- An Analysis of the Chronology of Late Pleistocene Mammalian Extinctions in North America (1987) (30)
- Archaeological associations with extinct pleistocene mammals in North America (1984) (30)
- Reconstructing mammalian communities: a discussion of Shotwell's method of paleoecological analysis (1978) (28)
- “Significance” in Contract Archaeology (1979) (28)
- The archaeology of Monitor Valley. 2, Gatecliff Shelter. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 59, pt. 1 (1983) (27)
- On the Holocene History of Some Northern Great Basin Lagomorphs (1977) (26)
- 14 – Mount Mazama, Climatic Change, and Fort Rock Basin Archaeofaunas (1979) (26)
- Differential mortality and the Donner Party disaster (2005) (26)
- Holocene bison in the Great Basin, western USA (2006) (25)
- Lulu Li Near Punctated: Essays in Honor of George Irving Quimby (1983) (24)
- The anthropology of St. Catherines Island. 4, The St. Catherines period mortuary complex. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 57, pt. 4 (1982) (21)
- Did Human Hunting Cause Mass Extinction? (2001) (20)
- Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats: Extinct Mammals and the Archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin (2016) (19)
- The archaeology of Monitor Valley. 3, Survey and additional excavations. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 66, pt. 2 (1988) (17)
- Vicissitudes and Overkill: The Development of Explanations of Pleistocene Extinctions (1980) (17)
- Confirming Antiquity in the Americas (1998) (16)
- Overkill and the North American archaeological record—not guilty by association? A comment on Wolfe and Broughton (2020) (2021) (15)
- Prehistoric human influence on the abundance and distribution of deadwood in alpine landscapes (2008) (14)
- Holocene underkill (2008) (13)
- A Mid-Holocene Record for the Heather Vole, Phenacomys cf. Intermedius, in the Central Great Basin and its Biogeographic Significance (1981) (13)
- 20 – Volcanic Disasters and the Archaeological Record (1979) (13)
- A Mid-Holocene Record for the Heather Vole, Phenacomys cf. Intermedius, in the Central Great Basin and its Biogeographic Significance (1981) (13)
- The first three editions of Charles Lyell's The Geological Evidences of The Antiquity of Man (1986) (8)
- Human Mortality in a Natural Disaster: The Willie Handcart Company (1996) (7)
- Did human hunting cause mass extinction? [2] (multiple letters) (2001) (7)
- Scavenging in the paleolithic: faunal remains from klasies river mouth. (1985) (7)
- Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul (2013) (7)
- Humans at the end of the ice age: The archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (1997) (6)
- The First Americans. Death by Natural Causes (1987) (6)
- Financial benefit from research. (1989) (5)
- Final Project Report On the National Science Foundation On the Steens Mountain Prehistory Project (1982) (5)
- The provision of time depth for paleoanthropology (1990) (5)
- Ice Age Extinctions (2006) (5)
- Archeology: Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths. Lewis R. Binford (1982) (5)
- High-elevation records for Neotoma cinerea in the White Mountains, California (1989) (4)
- Nineteenth-Century Explanations of Pleistocene Extinctions: (2022) (4)
- Enamel thickness of rooted and rootless microtine molars (1990) (4)
- Folsom Resource Use and Disposal Behavior: Indian Creek, Montana (1997) (3)
- Exploring the Fremont. David B. Madsen. Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1989. xiii + 70 pp., figures. ’12.00 (paper). (1991) (3)
- The Basic Counting Units (1984) (3)
- Statistical Inference and Northeastern Adena (1970) (3)
- Alpine archaeology of Alta Toquima and the Mt. Jefferson Tablelands (Nevada) : the archaeology of Monitor Valley, contribution 4. (2020) (2)
- Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neanderthal Ecology. Mary C. Stiner. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994. xxii + 447 pp., figures, tables, references cited, appendixes, index. $69.50 (cloth). (1996) (2)
- Taxonomic Richness, Diversity, and Assemblage Size (1984) (2)
- News and Short Contributions (1978) (2)
- Holocene Extinctions. Samuel T. Turvey, editor. (2010) (1)
- The St. Catherines period mortuary complex (1982) (1)
- Research Design for the Chief Joseph Dam Cultural Resources Project. (1984) (1)
- Steens Mountain Prehistory Project Interim Report, 1979 (1979) (1)
- Levels of Measurement (1984) (1)
- Accessing the Past@@@The Desert's Past; a Natural Prehistory of the Great Basin. (1993) (0)
- QUA volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1990) (0)
- ARTICLE A brief history of Great Basin pikas (2005) (0)
- Human Life vs. Science (1969) (0)
- QUA volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1987) (0)
- PART FIVE. GREAT BASIN ARCHAEOLOGY (2019) (0)
- Mother Knows Best (2002) (0)
- A Dialogue with Don Dumond (2011) (0)
- Steens Mountain Prehistory Project 1977-1980 Interim Report To the Secretary Smithsonian Institution (1980) (0)
- PART SIX. CONCLUSIONS (2019) (0)
- Sample Size and Relative Abundance (1984) (0)
- The age of our species. (1993) (0)
- Appendix 3: Vertebrate Remains from 25 Historic Sites in the New Melones Project Area (1983) (0)
- PART TWO. SOME ICE AGE BACKGROUND (2019) (0)
- Collection Techniques, Meat Weights, and Seasonality (1984) (0)
- Bibliography of Don E. Dumond (2011) (0)
- Explaining Pleistocene Extinctions: (2022) (0)
- Environmental Assessment for Geotechnical Site Verification Studies in Seven Valleys In White Pine, Nye and Eureka Counties, Nevada (1980) (0)
- QUA volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1986) (0)
- A Bibliography of the Literature on North American Climates of the Past 13,000 Years (1977) (0)
- Final Project Report To the National Science Foundation On the Steens Mountain Prehistory Project, Part III (1982) (0)
- Advances in World Archaeology, Vol. 3. Fred Wendorf and Angela E. Close. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1984. xxx + 394 pp., figures, references, index. $65.00 (cloth). (1986) (0)
- QUA volume 33 issue 1 and Front Matter (1990) (0)
- QUA volume 28 issue 1 and Front matter (1987) (0)
- Early Americans: respecting ancestors. (2014) (0)
- QUA volume 29 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1988) (0)
- QUA volume 30 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1988) (0)
- Editorial Board (1991) (0)
- The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America. Brian M. Fagan. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1987. 288 pp., illustrations, index. $19.95 (cloth). (1990) (0)
- The Great Basin (2011) (0)
- QUA volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1991) (0)
- CHAPTER 7 – Conclusions (1984) (0)
- The archaeology of Hidden Cave, Nevada. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 61, pt. 1 (1985) (0)
- Impact did not Cause Climate Change Extinction or Clovis Termination at 12.9 ka. (2011) (0)
- Raw data for demographic analyses of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies (2016) (0)
- Megafauna and man: Discovery of America's heartland. Larry D. Agen‐broad, Jim I. Mead, and Lisa W. Nelson (Editors), 1990, The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, Inc., Scientific Papers, Volume 1, x + 143 pp., $15.00 (paperbound) (1992) (0)
- APPENDIX 2. Concordance of Common and Scientific Plant Names (2019) (0)
- First Record for the Long-Tailed Jaeger in Eastern Oregon (1978) (0)
- APPENDIX 1. Relationship between Radiocarbon and Calendar Years for the Past 25,000 Radiocarbon Years (2019) (0)
- Being John Yellen (2008) (0)
- QUA volume 38 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1992) (0)
- PART THREE. THE LATE ICE AGE GREAT BASIN (2019) (0)
- Domesticated Animals from Early Times. Juliet Clutton-Brock University of Texas Press, Austin, 1981. 208 pp., illus., biblio., index. $24.95 (cloth). (1982) (0)
- Rodent preserve (1990) (0)
- Hawai‘i’s Toxic Plants: Species Richness and Species–Area Relationships (2022) (0)
- PART FOUR. THE LAST 10,000 YEARS (2019) (0)
- Obituary: Kenneth Alan Bennett (October 3, 1935 - February 6, 2014). (2014) (0)
- Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail: The Biology of Three American Tragedies (2018) (0)
- QUA volume 32 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1989) (0)
- PART ONE. THE GREAT BASINS (2019) (0)
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