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#203

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#72

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Archeology

#79

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#146

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#19

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PhD Anthropology University of Washington
Masters Anthropology University of Washington
Bachelors Anthropology University of Washington

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According to Wikipedia, James C. Chatters is an American archaeologist and paleontologist. , he is the owner of forensics consulting firm, Applied Paleoscience; and serves as a research associate in the Office of Graduate Studies, Research, and Continuing Education at Central Washington University; Deputy Coroner of Benton County, Washington; and a consulting scientist on staff with Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation of Bothell, Washington. In 1996, Chatters was the first scientist to excavate and study the prehistoric skeletal remains, known as Kennewick Man, which were discovered on the banks of the Columbia River.

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The role of bone density in structuring prehistoric salmon bone assemblages (1994) (153)
Hunter-gatherer adaptations and assemblage structure (1987) (143)
Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native Americans (2014) (118)
The Recovery and First Analysis of an Early Holocene Human Skeleton from Kennewick, Washington (2000) (103)
Population growth, climatic cooling, and the development of collector strategies on the Southern Plateau, western North America (1995) (65)
A paleoscience approach to estimating the effects of climatic warming on salmonid fisheries of the Columbia River Basin (1992) (58)
Response of the Columbia River Fluvial System to Holocene Climatic Change (1992) (54)
Cultural Diversification and Decimation in the Prehistoric Record1 (2003) (53)
The Archaeology of the Plateau of Northwestern North America During the Late Prehistoric Period (3500–200 B.P.): Evolution of Hunting and Gathering Societies (2005) (48)
Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans (2001) (46)
A Darwinian macro-evolutionary perspective on the development of hunter-gatherer systems in Northwestern North America (2005) (43)
Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage (2021) (37)
Changing Late Holocene Flooding Frequencies on the Columbia River, Washington (1986) (36)
Effects of coppice dune topography and vegetation on soil water dynamics in a cold-desert ecosystem (1994) (36)
Reconstructing water level in Hoyo Negro, Quintana Roo, Mexico, implications for early Paleoamerican and faunal access (2015) (35)
Radiocarbon Dates of Kennewick Man (1998) (34)
Patterns of mtDNA Diversity in Northwestern North America (2004) (27)
Macroevolution in human prehistory : evolutionary theory and processual archaeology (2009) (25)
Cultural macroevolution in the Pacific Northwest: a phylogenetic test of the diversification and decimation model (2014) (25)
Calcite raft geochemistry as a hydrological proxy for Holocene aquifer conditions in Hoyo Negro and Ich Balam (Sac Actun Cave System), Quintana Roo, Mexico (2017) (23)
Macroevolution in Human Prehistory (2009) (22)
Bison Procurement in the Far West: A 2,100-Year-Old Kill Site on the Columbia Plateau (1995) (20)
Archaeology in the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia: Changing Perspectives on Paleoecology and Emergent Cultural Complexity (2011) (16)
A New Genus of Megalonychid Ground Sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Late Pleistocene of Quintana Roo, Mexico (2017) (16)
The evolution of collector systems on the Pacific Coast of Northwest North America (2003) (15)
Valuing Effects of Climate Change and Fishery Enhancement on Chinook Salmon (1993) (13)
A Macroevolutionary Perspective on the Archaeological Record of North America (2009) (12)
Paleoindian ochre mines in the submerged caves of the Yucatán Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico (2020) (12)
American Beginnings: The Prehistory and Paleoecology of Beringia Frederick Hadleigh West (1999) (10)
Taxonomy, paleoecology and taphonomy of ground sloths (Xenarthra) from the Fairmead Landfill locality (Pleistocene: Irvingtonian) of Madera County, California (2013) (9)
Evaluating Claims of Early Human Occupation at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico (2021) (9)
CALCINED BONE AS A RELIABLE MEDIUM FOR RADIOCARBON DATING: A TEST USING PAIRED NORTH AMERICAN SAMPLES (2017) (9)
Current Understanding of the Earliest Human Occupations in the Americas: Evaluation of Becerra-Valdivia and Higham (2020) (2021) (9)
Pioneers from Northern Japan in Idaho 16,000 Years Ago? A Critical Evaluation of the Evidence from Cooper’s Ferry (2020) (9)
Yucatán carnivorans shed light on the Great American Biotic Interchange (2019) (9)
Tualdad Altu (45Ki59) a 4th Century Village On the Black River King County, Washington (1987) (8)
Barrier analogs: Long-term performance issues, preliminary studies, and recommendations (1994) (8)
Prehistoric Settlement and Land Use in the Dry Columbia Basin (1982) (8)
Dimensions of Site Structure; The Archaeological Record from Two Sites in Okanogan County, Washington. (1984) (7)
Hanford cultural resources management plan (1989) (7)
Human Adaptation Along the Columbia River 4700-1600 BP. (1984) (7)
Wild-Type Colonizers and High Levels of Violence among Paleoamericans (2016) (7)
Encounter with an Ancestor (2009) (6)
Archaeological Survey of the Vancouver Lake - Lake River Area Clark County, Washington (1973) (6)
Oral health and diet of a young Late Pleistocene woman from Quintana Roo, Mexico. (2019) (6)
Preliminary Geoarchaeological Studies at Columbia Park, Kennewick, Washington, USA (1998) (6)
Human Biological History, Not Race (1998) (5)
Novel application of 3D documentation techniques at a submerged Late Pleistocene cave site in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2015) (5)
Effects of climate change on Pacific Northwest water-related resources: Summary of preliminary findings (1993) (4)
Response to Comment on “Late Pleistocene human skeleton and mtDNA link Paleoamericans and modern Native Americans” (2015) (4)
Archaeological Predictive Modeling: the Yakima Firing Center (1986) (3)
Test Excavation and Evaluation of Ten Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in the Multipurpose Range Complex, Yakima Firing Center, Washington (1986) (3)
Archaeological survey of the 200 East and 200 West Areas, Hanford Site, Washington (1990) (3)
Protective barrier program: Test plan for plant community dynamics (1991) (3)
Evolutionary human paleoecology: climatic change and human adaptation in the Pahsimeroi Valley, Idaho, 2500 BP to the present (1982) (2)
Long-term climate change assessment study plan for the Hanford Site Permanent Isolation Barrier Development Program. Revision 1 (1992) (2)
Archaeological mounds as analogs of engineered covers for waste disposal sites: Literature review and progress report. [Appendix contains bibliography and data on archaeological mounds] (1991) (2)
Making archaeological sense of Kennewick Man (2017) (2)
The mid-Irvingtonian Fairmead Landfill fossil site, Madera County Paleontology Collection, and Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County, California (2013) (2)
Muknalia minima from the Yucatán of Mexico is synonymous with the collared peccary, Pecari tajacu (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) (2020) (1)
Cultural resources inventory and evaluation for Science City, conducted for expansion of the Maui Space Surveillance Site, Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii (1991) (1)
Response from chatters (1997) (1)
Hanford Cultural Resources Laboratory annual report for fiscal year 1992 (1993) (1)
Dental Morphology of Naia, a Late Pleistocene Human from Mexico and the Sinodont/Sundadont Issue (2021) (1)
Cemetery at Sntl'exwenewixwtn (1987) (1)
The Life of the Adolescent Paleoindian Female from Hoyo Negro, Quintana Roo, Mexico (2017) (1)
Fiscal year 1991 report on archaeological surveys of the 100 Areas, Hanford Site, Washington (1992) (1)
Hanford Cultural Resources Laboratory annual report for fiscal year 1990 (1991) (1)
Cemetery At Sntl'exwenewixwtn, Okanogan County, Washington (1987) (1)
Long-Term Climate Change Assessment Task for the Hanford Site Permanent Isolation Barrier Development Program: Status through FY 1992 (1993) (1)
Strategy for identifying natural analogs of the long-term performance of low-level waste disposal sites (1990) (1)
Burial of a Chaluka Aleut Child (1972) (0)
Recent Analyses of the Faunal Assemblage from the Submerged Cave Site of Hoyo Negro: Implications for Late Pleistocene Human Ecology Research on the Yucatan Peninsula (2016) (0)
Early Americans: respecting ancestors--response. (2014) (0)
Radiocarbon Dating Versus Luminescence Dating in the Pacific Northwest (2017) (0)
The Hoyo Negro Project: Recent Investigations of a Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2014) (0)
Archaeological Test Excavations at the Proposed Earlington Industrial Park (1980) (0)
Was Coccidioides a Pre-Columbian Hitchhiker to Southcentral Washington? (2023) (0)
Costs of climate change: Economic value of Yakima River salmon (1992) (0)
Cultural Resources Inventory of Murray Pacific and Champion International Land Exchanges, Gifford Pinchot National Forest Lewis County, Washington (1980) (0)
Comparison of Radiometric Dating Techniques: Pacific Northwest (2015) (0)
A potential Late Pleistocene human skeleton in Hoyo Negro, a submerged cave site in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2012) (0)
Comparative Analysis of Radiometric Dating Techniques: The Sunrise Borrow Pit Site (2014) (0)
Hanford Cultural Resources Laboratory annual report for fiscal year 1989 (1990) (0)
SURMOUNTING THE PROBLEMS OF RADIOMETRIC DATING IN THE SUBMERGED CAVES OF THE YUCATAN: THE LA MINA AND HOYO NEGRO EXAMPLES (2021) (0)
LATE PLEISTOCENE OCHRE MINING IN THE CAVES OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA, MEXICO (2021) (0)
Tracking the Persistence of Cultural Variation on a Macroevolutionary Scale (2007) (0)
Cultural Resources Reconnaissance of Selected Portions of Fort Lewis, Pierce County, Washington (1980) (0)
Living in Yucatan during the Late Pleistocene: The odontology of Naia (2018) (0)
Multiscale Image Acquisition for Structure-from-Motion (SfM) Modeling of the Submerged Late Pleistocene Site of Hoyo Negro, Quintana, Mexico (2016) (0)
Reply to Butler and Stein (1988) (0)
STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF TWO CORES FOR PALEOENVIRONMENTAL DATA, CAMP PENDLETON, CALIFORNIA (2011) (0)
Ellisford Cremations: Internecine Hostilities In the 5th Century A.D (1986) (0)
and Modern Native Americans Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans (2014) (0)
Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed 609-A Fire Station Storage Facility Hcrc 87-600-011 (1987) (0)
Hoyo Negro: The Formation and Transformation of a Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2018) (0)
The Late Pleistocene Fauna of Hoyo Negro (2015) (0)
Muknalia is a Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu): A Reply to Stinnesbeck et al. (2021) (0)
Supplementary material from "Yucatán carnivorans shed light on Great American Biotic Interchange" (2019) (0)
An Overview of the Hoyo Negro Project and Its Findings (2015) (0)
Making Sense of Kennewick Man (2016) (0)
Unexpected malocclusion in a 13,000-Year-old Late Pleistocene young woman from Mexico (2022) (0)
Histomorphology and Metabolic History of a Submerged Pleistocene Skeleton from the Cenote of Hoyo Negro, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico (2015) (0)
Burial of an Aged Aleut Male (1972) (0)
Hanford Cultural Resources Laboratory annual report for Fiscal Year 1991 (1992) (0)
Early Russian Impact On the Aleut Population (1972) (0)
Test excavations within a proposed right-of-way of SR-2, Fobes Hill to North Monroe interchange, at 45SN29, 45SN48, and 45SN49, Snohomish County, Washington (1979) (0)
General Taphonomy and Diagenesis of a Submerged Pleistocene Skeleton from the Cenote of Hoyo Negro, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico: Preliminary Results (2015) (0)

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