Faculty research from the Anthropology department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Submissions from 2022

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Exploratory Content Analysis of Direct-To-Consumer Pet Genomics: What Is Being Marketed and What Are Consumers Saying?, Nikki E. Bennett, Silvio Ernesto Mirabal Torres, and Peter B. Gray

Submissions from 2021

Zoonotic Diseases: New Directions in Human–Animal Pathology, Robin Bendrey and Debra Martin

Multi-Agent Scavenging Patterns in Hawai‘i: A Forensic Archaeological and Skeletal Case Study, Jennifer F. Byrnes and William R. Belcher

Harm Avoidance and Mobility During Middle Childhood and Adolescence among Hadza Foragers, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Alan Farahani, Kristen N. Herlosky, Trevor R. Pollom, Ibrahim A. Mabulla, Ian T. Ruginski, and Elizabeth Cashdan

Ecological and Developmental Perspectives on Social Learning, Helen Elizabeth Davis, Alyssa N. Crittenden, and Michelle Scalise Sugiyama

Violence in the Ancient Southwest: Differential Suffering Among Males and Females, Emily R. Edmonds and Debra Martin

Collaborating with Local Communities in Developing Conservation Bioarchaeology Projects: The Historic Belen Bioarchaeology Project, J. Cristina Freiberger, Debra L. Martin, Pamela K. Stone, and Claira Ralston

Alloparenting: Evolutionary origins and contemporary significance of cooperative child-rearing as a key feature of human reproduction, Kristen N. Herlosky and Alyssa N. Crittenden

Changes in Birth and Perinatal Care Practices Among Hadza Mothers in a Transitioning Food Economy, Kristen N. Herlosky and Alyssa N. Crittenden

Does Love Always Come Before Marriage?, William Jankowiak and Alex Nelson

China’s Great Transformation: From Duty to Personal Rejuvenation and Well-Being, William R. Jankowiak

What Polyamorous and Polygamous Relationships tell us about the Human Condition, William Jankowiak and Leanna Wolfe

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Exploring Women’s Oxytocin Responses to Interactions With Their Pet Cats, Elizabeth A. Johnson, Arianna Portillo, Nikki E. Bennett, and Peter B. Gray

COVID-19: Companion Animals Help People Cope During Government-Imposed Social Isolation, Elizabeth Johnson and Shelly Volsche

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Quantifying Surplus and Sustainability in the Archaeological Record at the Carthaginian-Roman Urban Mound of Zita, Tripolitania, Brett Kaufman, Hans Barnard, Ali Drine, Rayed Khedher, Alan Farahani, Sami Ben Tahar, Elyssa Jerray, Brian N. Damiata, Megan Daniels, Jessica Cerezo-Román, Thomas Fenn, and Victoria Moses

The Energetics of Uniquely Human Subsistence Strategies, Thomas S. Kraft, Vivek V. Venkataraman, Ian J. Wallace, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Nicholas B. Holowka, Jonathan Stieglitz, Jacob Harris, David A. Raichlen, Brian Wood, Michael Gurven, and Herman Pontzer

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The Life History of Learning Subsistence Skills among Hadza and BaYaka Foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo, Sheina Lew-Levy, Erik J. Ringen, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Ibrahim A. Mabulla, Tanya Broesch, and Michelle A. Kline

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Violence and Masculinity in Small-Scale Societies, Debra L. Martin

Editor's Corner, Debra L. Martin

Where Does the Newborn Baby Sleep? Prevalence and Predictors of Postpartum Cosleeping Practices After Midwife-LED Births in the United States, K. A. Meighan, M. L. Bovbjerg, D. C. Benyshek, M. Cheyney, and A. N. Crittenden

The Ritual Closing Of Domestic Structures in the Mimbres Mogollon Region, Barbara J. Roth

Agent of Change: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past, Barbara J. Roth and E. Charles Adams

The Politics of Saving Dogs in Mexico, Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

Gendered Movement Ecology and Landscape Use in Hadza Hunter-Gatherers, Brian M. Wood, Jacob A. Harris, David A. Raichlen, Herman Pontzer, Katherine Sayre, Amelia Sancilio, Colette Berbesque, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Audax Mabulla, Richard McElreath, Elizabeth Cashdan, and James Holland Jones

Submissions from 2020

Situational Power in Cooperative Communities: Indicators from Bioarchaeology in the Mimbres Region of Southwest New Mexico, Kathryn M. Baustian and Barbara J. Roth

Ingredients of 'Rituals' and Their Cognitive Underpinnings, Pascal Boyer and Pierre Liénard

Navigating Cross-Cultural Research: Methodological and Ethical Considerations, Tanya Broesch, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Bret A. Beheim, Aaron D. Blackwell, John A. Bunce, Heidi Colleran, Kristin Hagel, Michelle Kline, Richard McElreath, Robin G. Nelson, Anne C. Pisor, Sean Prall, Ilaria Pretelli, Benjamin Purzycki, Elizabeth A. Quinn, Cody Ross, Brooke Scelza, Kathrine Starkweather, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

Surviving Raids in Small Scale Societies: Finding Hidden Females Fighters in the Ancient Southwest, Mary Ann Calleja and Debra L. Martin

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Women's Use of Intimate Apparel as Subtle Sexual Signals in Committed, Heterosexual Relationships, Lyndsey K. Craig and Peter B. Gray

The Misuse of "Hunter-Gatherers" as a Discreet Unit in Population Studies, Alyssa N. Crittenden and Trevor R. Pollom

Infant Co-Sleeping Patterns and Maternal Sleep Quality Among Hadza Hunter-Gatherers, Alyssa N. Crittenden, D. R. Samson, K. N. Herlosky, I. A. Mabulla, A. Z.P. Mabulla, and J. J. McKenna

Infant Co-Sleeping Patterns and Maternal Sleep Quality Among Hadza Hunter-Gatherers, Alyssa N. Crittenden, D. R. Samson, K. N. Herlosky, I. A. Mabulla, A. Z.P. Mabulla, and J. J. McKenna

Kinship Intensity and the Use of Mental States in Moral Judgment Across Societies, Cameron M. Curtin, H. Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Daniel M. T. Fessler, Simon Fitzpatrick, Michael Gurven, Martin Kanovsky, Geof Kushnick, Stephen Laurence, Anne Pisor, Brooke Scelza, Stephen Stich, Chris von Rueden, and Joseph Henrich

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The Internal, External and Extended Microbiomes of Hominins, Robert R. Dunn, Katherine R. Amato, Elizabeth A. Archie, Mimi Arandjelovic, Alyssa N. Crittenden, and Lauren M. Nichols

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Emotion Perception in Hadza Hunter-Gatherers, Maria Gendron, Katie Hoemann, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Shani Msafiri Mangola, Gregory A. Ruark, and Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Sports Under Quarantine: A Case Study of Major League Baseball in 2020, Kari L.J. Goold, Reynafe N. Aniga, and Peter B. Gray

Sexual Selection, Signaling and Facial Hair: US and India Ratings of Variable Male Facial Hair, Peter B. Gray, Lyndsey K. Craig, Jorge Paiz-Say, Lavika P., Sanjitha Kumar, and Madhavi Rangaswamy

A Qualitative Exploration of South African Men's Perceived Effects of Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) as a Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer, Peter B. Gray, F. Meintjes, E. Moshokoa, and K. Mathabe

A Qualitative Exploration of South African Men's Perceived Effects of Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) as a Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer, Peter B. Gray, F. Meintjes, E. Moshokoa, and K. Mathabe

A Qualitative Exploration of South African Men’s Perceived Effects of Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) as a Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer, Peter B. Gray, F. Meintjes, E. Moshokoa, and K. Mathabe

Labor and delivery experiences, birth outcomes, and colostrum feeding among Hadza mothers of Northern Tanzania., Kristen N. Herlosky and Alyssa N. Crittenden

Labor and delivery experiences, birth outcomes, and colostrum feeding among Hadza mothers of Northern Tanzania., Kristen N. Herlosky and Alyssa N. Crittenden

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Biogeographic Study of Human Gut-Associated crAssphage Suggests Impacts from Industrialization and Recent Expansion, Tanvi P/ Honap, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Stephanie L. Schnorr, Andrew T. Ozga, Christina Warinner, and Cecil M. Lewis Jr.

Theological Parenthood, Demographic Restraints, and the Making of the Good Polygamous Teenager, William Jankowiak

Sealing with Stone: Assessing an Assemblage of Lithic Debitage from a Funerary Context at the Lowland Maya City of Caracol, Belize, Lisa M. Johnson and Lucas R. Martindale Johnson

Handheld ED-XRF Analysis of Obsidian from the Classic Maya City of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, Lucas R. Martindale Johnson, Lisa M. Johnson, Jordan Kobylt, and Cheyenne Laux

Gendered Violence in Small-Scale Societies in the Past, Debra Martin and Ryan P. Harrod

The Climate Change-Witch Execution Connection: Living with Environmental Uncertainty on the Colorado Plateau, Debra Martin and Ryan P. Harrod

Mapping Juvenile Children's Salivary Aldosterone and Cortisone Responses During Athletic and Non-Athletic Competition, Timothy S. McHale, Wai-Chi Chee, Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, David T. Zava, Graham Albert, Ka-Chun Chan, and Peter B. Gray

Salivary Aldosterone and Cortisone Respond Differently to High- And Low-Psychologically Stressful Soccer Competitions, Timothy S. McHale, Wai-Chi Chee, Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, David T. Zava, Graham Albert, Ka-Chun Chan, and Peter B. Gray

Juvenile Children’s Salivary Aldosterone and Cortisone Decrease during Informal Math and Table-Tennis Competitions, Timothy S. McHale, Peter B. Gray, Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, David T. Zava, Graham Albert, Ka-Chun Chan, and Wai-Chi Chee

The Erie County Poorhouse (1828-1926) as a Heterotopia: A Bioarchaeological Perspective, Jennifer L. Muller, Jennifer F. Byrnes, and David A. Ingleman

Effects of a Mixed-Subsistence Diet on the Growth of Hadza Children, Trevor R. Pollom, Chad L. Cross, Kristen N. Herlosky, Elle Ford, and Alyssa N. Crittenden

Changes in Juvenile Foraging Behavior among the Hadza of Tanzania during Early Transition to a Mixed-Subsistence Economy, Trevor R. Pollom, Kristen N. Herlosky, Ibrahim A. Mabulla, and Alyssa N. Crittenden

Working, Living, and Dying Together: Rethinking Marginality, Sex, and Heterarchy in Kayenta Communities (AD 900–1150), Claira Ralston and Debra L. Martin

Care Is Not Essential, Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes

Re-territorializing María Sabina: Huautla, Mushrooms, and Politics, Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes

Sex, Energy and Low T: Experiences of US Men on Prescription Testosterone., Alex Straftis and Peter B. Gray

Sex, Energy and Low T: Experiences of US Men on Prescription Testosterone., Alex Straftis and Peter B. Gray

La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México organiza el primer coloquio “Des-centrar el Anthropos”, Paola Velasco Santos and Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes

Owner Sex and Human- Canine Interactions at the Park, Shelly Volsche, Elizabeth Johnson, Blanca Reyes, Cecelia Rumsey, Kayla Murai, and Deisy Landeros

Submissions from 2019

The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: A Local Response to the Spanish Conquest, Stephen B. Acabado, Jared M. Koller, Chin-hsin Liu, Alan Farahani, Grace Barretto-Tesoro, Marian C. Reyes, Jonathan Albert Martin, and John A. Peterson

Bioarchaeological Signatures of Health and Inequality at the Middle Bronze Age Rural Site Kaman-Kalehoyuk, Cheryl P. Anderson, Levent Atici, and Sachihire Omura

Reply to Farr et al. Letter (Benyshek et al.), Daniel C. Benyshek, Melissa M. Cheyney, and Marit L. Bovbjerg

Evaluating the Relationship between Ceramic Wall Thickness and Heating Effectiveness, Fuel Efficiency, and Thermal Shock Resistance, Kayla Bowen and Karen G. Harry

(Re)Discovering Paleopathology: Integrating Individuals and Populations in Bioarchaeology, Jennifer Byrnes

Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Analytical Feasible of Ancestry Estimation, Jennifer F. Byrnes and Joseph T. Hefner

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Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences., Arlen F. Chase

Who Owns Poop? and Other Ethical Dilemmas Facing an Anthropologist Who Works at the Interface of Biological Research and Indigenous Rights, Alyssa N. Crittenden

Perceptions of Married Life Among Single Never‐Married, Single Ever‐Married, and Married Adults, Amanda N. Gesselman, Carol Y. Franco, Elizabeth M. Brogdon, Peter B. Gray, Justin R. Garcia, and Helen E. Fisher

The Utility of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software for the Spatial Analysis of Bone Microstructure, Timothy P. Gocha

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Plasticity in the Human Gut Microbiome Defies Evolutionary Constraints, Andres Gomez, Ashok Kumar Sharma, Elizabeth K. Mallott, Klara J. Petrzelkova, Carolyn A. Jost Robinson, Carl J. Yeoman, Franck Carbonero, Barbora Pafco, Jessica M. Rothman, Alexander Ulanov, Klara Vickova, Katherine R. Amato, Stephanie L. Schnorr, Nathaniel J. Dominy, David Modry, Angelique Todd, Manolito Torralba, Karen E. Nelson, Michael B. Burns, Ran Blekhman, Melissa Remis, Rebecca M. Stumpf, Brenda A. Wilson, H. Rex Gaskins, Paul A. Garber, Bryan A. White, and Steven R. Leigh

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Grandparenting in Urban Bangalore, India: Support and Involvement From the Standpoint of Young Adult University Students, Peter B. Gray, Watinaro Longkumer, Santona Panda, and Madhavi Rangaswamy

Human Reproductive Behavior, Life History, and the Challenge Hypothesis: A 30-Year Review, Retrospective and Future Directions, Peter B. Gray, Alex A. Straftis, Brian M. Bird, Timothy S. McHale, and Samuele Zilioli

Age-Related Patterns in Sexual Behaviors and Attitudes Among Single US Adults: An Evolutionary Approach, Peter Gray, Justin R. Garcia, and Amanda N. Gesselman

Comparison of Extraction Methods for Recovering Ancient Microbial DNA from Paleofeces, Richard W. Hagan, Courtney A. Hofman, Alexander Hübner, Karl Reinhard, Stephanie Schnorr, Cecil M. Lewis Jr., Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, and Christina G. Warinner

New Findings from the Far Western Puebloan Region: Papers in Honor of Margaret Lyneis, Karen G. Harry, James R. Allison, and Sachiko Sakai

Examining the Pueblo II-III Transition in the Moapa Valley, Southern Nevada, Karen G. Harry and Daniel M. Perez

Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest: Introduction, Karen G. Harry and Barbara J. Roth

Postpartum Maternal Mood Among Hadza Foragers of Tanzania: A Mixed Methods Approach, Kristen N. Herlosky, Daniel C. Benyshek, Ibrahim A. Mabulla, Trevor R. Pollom, and Alyssa N. Crittenden

Universal Norm Psychology Leads to Societal Diversity in Prosocial Behaviour and Development, Bailey R. House, Patricia Kanngiesser, H. Clark Barrett, Tanya Broesch, Senay Cebioglu, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Alejandro Erut, Sheina Lew-Levy, Carla Sebastian-Enesco, Andrew Marcus Smith, Süheyla Yilmaz, and Joan B. Silk

Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai, William Jankowiak

Education and Society in Post-Mao China, By Edward Vickers and Zeng Xiaodong, William Jankowiak

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Archaeological Analysis in the Information Age: Guidelines for Maximizing the Reach, Comprehensiveness, and Longevity of Data, Sarah W. Kansa, Levent Atici, Eric C. Kansa, and Richard H. Meadow

Gender‐Typed and Gender‐Segregated Play Among Tanzanian Hadza and Congolese BaYaka Hunter‐Gatherer Children and Adolescents, Sheina Lew-Levy, Adam H. Boyette, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Barry S. Hewlett, and Michael E. Lamb

Inter- and Intra-Cultural Variation in Learning-Through-Participation Among Hadza and Bayaka Forager Children and Adolescents from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo, Sheina Lew-Levy, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Adam H. Boyette, Ibrahim A. Mabulla, Barry S. Hewlett, and Michael E. Lamb

Who Teaches Children to Forage? Exploring the Primacy of Child-To-Child Teaching Among Hadza and Bayaka Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania and Congo, Sheina Lew-Levy, Stephen M. Kissler, Adam H. Boyette, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Ibrahim A. Mabulla, and Barry S. Hewlett

Using Commingled and Fragmentary Remains to Reconstruct Social Interaction and Social Change, Andrea Lopen, Anna J. Osterholtz, Julianne Paige, Debra L. Martin, and Kathryn Baustian

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Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail: The Biology of Three American Tragedies, Debra E. L. Martin

Marginalized by Choice—Kayenta Pueblo Communities in the Southwest (AD 800–1500), Debra L. Martin

The Tomb at Tell Abraq (Ca 2100-2000 BC): Demographic Structure and Mortuary Complexity, Debra L. Martin, Kathryn M. Baustian, and Anna J. Osterholtz

Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands, Debra Martin and Cristina I. Tica

The Impact of Coalitional Commitment on the Recall of Moral Memories, Michael Moncrieff and Pierre Lienard

What War Narratives Tell About the Psychology and Coalitional Dynamics of Ethnic Violence, Michael Moncrieff and Pierre Lienard

Covariance Among Zygomatic Bone Shape, Eye Orbit Shape, and the Zygomaticotem-Poral Space, Alesha Pettit and Brian Villmoare

Spread of Domestic Animals Across Neolithic Western Anatolia: New Stable Isotope Evidence from Ugurlu Höyük, the Island of Gökçeada, Turkey, Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, Levent Atici, and Burcin Erdogu

Identifying Social Units and Social Interaction during the Pithouse Period in the Mimbres Region, Southwestern New Mexico, Barbara J. Roth

Not So Far from Paquime: Essays on the Archaeology of Chihuahua, Mexico, Barbara J. Roth

Pithouse Community Development at the Harris Site, Southwestern New Mexico, Barbara J. Roth

En Busca del Bienestar Animal en Ciudad Juárez: Dos Manifestaciones del Animalismo, Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes