Search Results - "Randall Haas"

Unstructured satellite survey detects up to 20% of archaeological sites in coastal valleys of southern Peru by Snyder, Thomas J, Haas, Randall

“…Satellite survey is widely used for archaeological site discovery, but the efficacy of the method has received little systematic investigation. In this…”
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European Neolithic societies showed early warning signals of population collapse by Downey, Sean S., Haas, W. Randall, Shennan, Stephen J.

“…Ecosystems on the verge of major reorganization—regime shift—may exhibit declining resilience, which can be detected using a collection of generic statistical…”
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Lithic usewear confirms the function of Wilamaya Patjxa projectile points by Smallwood, Ashley, Haas, Randall, Jennings, Thomas

“…Approximately 9000 years ago at the Andean highland site of Wilamaya Patjxa, forager communities interred female and male individuals with projectile points,…”
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Laetoli footprints preserve earliest direct evidence of human-like bipedal biomechanics by Raichlen, David A, Gordon, Adam D, Harcourt-Smith, William E H, Foster, Adam D, Haas, Wm Randall

“…Debates over the evolution of hominin bipedalism, a defining human characteristic, revolve around whether early bipeds walked more like humans, with…”
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Sex estimation using sexually dimorphic amelogenin protein fragments in human enamel by Parker, Glendon J., Yip, Julia M., Eerkens, Jelmer W., Salemi, Michelle, Durbin-Johnson, Blythe, Kiesow, Caleb, Haas, Randall, Buikstra, Jane E., Klaus, Haagen, Regan, Laura A., Rocke, David M., Phinney, Brett S.

“…Amelogenin genes are located on both X and Y sex chromosomes in humans and are a major focus of DNA-based sex estimation methods. Amelogenin proteins,…”
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Brokerage and Social Capital in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest by Peeples, Matthew A., Haas, W. Randall

“…In social network analysis, brokerage refers to the processes through which individuals or larger groups mediate interactions between actors that would…”
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Stable isotope chemistry reveals plant-dominant diet among early foragers on the Andean Altiplano, 9.0-6.5 cal. ka by Chen, Jennifer C, Aldenderfer, Mark S, Eerkens, Jelmer W, Langlie, BrieAnna S, Viviano Llave, Carlos, Watson, James T, Haas, Randall

“…Current models of early human subsistence economies suggest a focus on large mammal hunting. To evaluate this hypothesis, we examine human bone stable isotope…”
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Hunter-gatherers on the eve of agriculture: investigations at Soro Mik’aya Patjxa, Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru, 8000–6700 BP by Haas, Jr., W. Randall, Llave, Carlos Viviano

“…Recent excavations at the site of Soro Mik’aya Patjxa in the south-central Andes have revealed the earliest securely dated cultural features in the Lake…”
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Socioecology shapes child and adolescent time allocation in twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence forager societies by Lew-Levy, Sheina, Reckin, Rachel, Kissler, Stephen M., Pretelli, Ilaria, Boyette, Adam H., Crittenden, Alyssa N., Hagen, Renée V., Haas, Randall, Kramer, Karen L., Koster, Jeremy, O’Brien, Matthew J., Sonoda, Koji, Surovell, Todd A., Stieglitz, Jonathan, Tucker, Bram, Lavi, Noa, Ellis-Davies, Kate, Davis, Helen E.

“…A key issue distinguishing prominent evolutionary models of human life history is whether prolonged childhood evolved to facilitate learning in a skill- and…”
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Settlement-Size Scaling among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems in the New World by Haas, Jr, W Randall, Klink, Cynthia J, Maggard, Greg J, Aldenderfer, Mark S

“…Settlement size predicts extreme variation in the rates and magnitudes of many social and ecological processes in human societies. Yet, the factors that drive…”
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Humans permanently occupied the Andean highlands by at least 7 ka by Haas, Randall, Stefanescu, Ioana C., Garcia-Putnam, Alexander, Aldenderfer, Mark S., Clementz, Mark T., Murphy, Melissa S., Llave, Carlos Viviano, Watson, James T.

“…High-elevation environments above 2500 metres above sea level (m.a.s.l.) were among the planet's last frontiers of human colonization. Research on the speed…”
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A method for chronological apportioning of ceramic assemblages by Roberts, John M., Mills, Barbara J., Clark, Jeffery J., Haas, W. Randall, Huntley, Deborah L., Trowbridge, Meaghan A.

“…Artifact assemblages from long-inhabited sites may include ceramic types and wares from multiple time periods, making temporal comparisons between sites…”
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Multiscalar Perspectives on Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic Southwest by Mills, Barbara J., Peeples, Matthew A., Haas, W. Randall, Borck, Lewis, Clark, Jeffery J., Roberts, John M.

“…Analyzing historical trajectories of social interactions at varying scales can lead to complementary interpretations of relationships among archaeological…”
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THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF BASKETMAKER II CORDAGE DESIGN DISTRIBUTION by RANDALL HAAS, WM

“…Exceptionally preserved cordage artifacts from Basketmaker II sites offer a rare insight into social processes that persisted during the 1500-year beginnings…”
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Diet, Mobility, Technology, and Lithics: Neolithization on the Andean Altiplano, 7.0–3.5 ka by Kitchel, Nathaniel, Aldenderfer, Mark S., Haas, Randall

“…Neolithization was a complex, protracted process of domestication, sedentarization, and technology change that occurred in various combinations in various…”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of prehistoric human population growth: Radiocarbon ‘dates as data’ and population ecology models by Robinson, Erick, Zahid, H. Jabran, Codding, Brian F., Haas, Randall, Kelly, Robert L.

“…Archaeologists now routinely use summed radiocarbon dates as a measure of past population size, yet few have coupled these measures to theoretical expectations…”
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Did archery technology precipitate complexity in the Titicaca Basin? A metric analysis of projectile points, 11–1 ka by Flores-Blanco, Luis, Cuellar, Lucero, Aldenderfer, Mark, Stanish, Charles, Haas, Randall

“…The extent to which archery technology affected social organization in the Andes region of South America remains understudied. To identify the timing and…”
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Dental evidence for wild tuber processing among Titicaca Basin foragers 7000 ybp by Watson, James T., Haas, Randall

“…Objectives The objective of this work is to characterize dental wear in a skeletal sample dating to the Middle/Late Archaic period transition (8,000‐6,700 cal…”
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Female hunters of the early Americas by Haas, Randall, Watson, James, Buonasera, Tammy, Southon, John, Chen, Jennifer C, Noe, Sarah, Smith, Kevin, Llave, Carlos Viviano, Eerkens, Jelmer, Parker, Glendon

“…Sexual division of labor with females as gatherers and males as hunters is a major empirical regularity of hunter-gatherer ethnography, suggesting an ancestral…”
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A Cold Habitat: Mapping Blade Assemblages Between the Siberian Altai and the Tibetan Plateau During MIS 3 by Zhang, Peiqi, Haas, Randall, Paine, Clea, Zhang, Xiaoling, Zwyns, Nicolas

“…How and why early hunter–gatherers expanded into the challenging environments of the Tibetan Plateau during the Pleistocene remain largely unexplained. The…”
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