Publications written by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Anthropology department.
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
Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences., Arlen F. Chase
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
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
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
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
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
Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail: The Biology of Three American Tragedies, Debra E. L. Martin
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
Not So Far from Paquime: Essays on the Archaeology of Chihuahua, Mexico, Barbara J. Roth
“We Came for the Cartilla but We Stayed for the Tortilla”: Enlisting in the Military as a Form of Migration for Zapotec Men, Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes
Writing on Documentary Film - Telling Migrant Stories: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film, Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes
Patterns of Paternal Investment Predict Cross-Cultural Variation in Jealous Response, Brooke A. Scelza, Sean P. Prall, Tami Blumenfield, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Michael Gurven, Michelle Kline, Jeremy Koster, Geoff Kushnick, Siobhan M. Mattison, Elizabeth Pillsworth, Mary K. Shenk, Katherine Starkweather, Jonathan Stieglitz, Chun-Yi Sum, Kyoko Yamaguchi, and Richard McElreath
Taxonomic Features and Comparison of the Gut Microbiome from Two Edible Fungus-Farming Termites (Macrotermes falciger, M. natalensis) Harvested in the Vhembe District of Limpopo, South Africa, Stephanie L. Schnorr, Courney A. Hofman, Shandukani R. Netschifhefhe, Frances D. Duncan, Tanvi P. Honap, Julie Lesnik, and Cecil M. Lewis
Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life, Alan Simmons
Sex, Energy, Well-Being and Low Testosterone: An Exploratory Survey of U.S. Men’s Experiences on Prescription Testosterone, Alex A. Straftis and Peter B. Gray
Mid-Parthian Pottery from Building V at Shahr-i Qumis, Ruth Stronach, David Stronach, Alan Farahani, and Alison Parsons
Dental Microwear of Living Hadza Foragers, Peter S. Ungar, Sarah V. Livengood, and Alyssa N. Crittenden
Sexual Dimorphism in Homo erectus Inferred from 1.5 Ma Footprints Near Ileret, Kenya, Brian Villmoare, Kevin G. Hatala, and William Jungers
An Exploration of Attitudes toward Dogs among College Students in Bangalore, India, Shelly Volsche, Miriam Mohan, Peter B. Gray, and Madhavi Rangaswamy
Applied Archaeobotany of Southwest Asia: A Tribute to Naomi F. Miller, Chantel E. White, John M. Marston, and Alan Farahani
Settlement Patterns, Scheduling Conflicts, and Climate Variability: An Explanation for the Collapse of the Shivwits Ware Distribution Network, William M. Willis and Karen G. Harry
Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Exhibit Gender Differences in Space Use and Spatial Cognition Consistent with the Ecology of Male and Female Targeted Foods, Brian M. Wood, Jacob A. Harris, Layne Vashro, Katherine M. Sayre, David A. Raichlen, Herman Pontzer, Amelia Sancilio, Colette J. Berbesque, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Audax Z.P. Mabulla, James H. Jones, and Elizabeth Cashdan
Submissions from 2018
Massacres, Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Approaches, Cheryl P. Anderson and Debra L. Martin
3D 360° Surface Morphometric Analysis of Pounding Stone Tools used by Hadza Foragers of Tanzania: A New Methodological Approach for Studying Percussive Stone Artefacts, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Sarah V. Livengood, Laura Sánchez-Romero, Adrián Martínez-Fernández, Ignacio de la Torre, and Michael Pante
Placentophagy Among Women Planning Community Births in the United States: Frequency, Rationale, and Associated Neonatal Outcomes, Daniel C. Benyshek PhD; Melissa Cheyney Phd, CPM, LDM; Jennifer Brown; and Marit L. Bovbjerg
Communities of Weavers: A Methodology for Analyzing Textile and Cloth Production, Jacob L. Bongers, Colleen O'Shea, and Alan Farahani
Situating Preclassic Interments and Fire-Pits at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize, Adrian S.Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase
Foreward, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Foreward, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Sampling and Timeframes: Contextualizing the Protoclassic and Early Classic Periods at Caracol, Belize, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Pubic Hair Removal Practices in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Lyndsey K. Craig and Peter B. Gray
Infant Co-sleeping Patterns and Maternal Sleep Quality among Hadza Hunter-gatherers, Alyssa N. Crittenden PhD, David R. Samson PhD, Kristen N. Herlosky MA, Ibrahim A. Mabulla MA, Audax Z. P. Mabulla PhD, and James J. McKenna PhD
A 2500-year Historical Ecology of Agricultural Production under Empire in Dhiban, Jordan, Alan Farahani
An Experimental Examination of Central Canadian Arctic Hunter-Gatherer Pottery and Soapstone Containers, Liam Frink and Karen G. Harry
An Exploration of Arctic Ceramic and Soapstone Cookware Technologies and Food Preparation Systems, Liam Frink and Karen G. Harry
Physical Activity and Time Budgets of Hadza Forager Children: Implications for Self‐provisioning and the Ontogeny of the Sexual Division of Labor, Andrew W. Froehle, G. Kilian Wells, Trevor R. Pollom, Audax Z. P. Mabulla, Sheina Lew-Levy, and Alyssa N. Crittenden
Review of Steve Stewart-Williams’s The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve, Peter B. Gray
Patterns and Predictors of Depressive Symptoms among Jamaican Fathers of Newborns, Peter B. Gray, Jody-Ann Reece, Charlene Coore-Desai, Twana Dinnall-Johnson, Sydonnie Pellington, Andre Bateman, and Maureen Samms-Vaughan
Testing Men's Hormone Responses to Playing League of Legends: No Changes in Testosterone, Cortisol, DHEA or Androstenedione but Decreases in Aldosterone, Peter B. Gray, Jimmy Vuong, David Zava, and Timothy McHale
Autumn/Winter Births in Traditional and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Caprine Husbandry in Cyprus: Evidence from Ethnography and Stable Isotopes, Angelos Hadjikoumis, Jean-Denis Vigne, Alan Simmons, Jean Guilaine, Denis Fiorillo, and Marie Balasse
History Meets Palaeoscience: Consilience and Collaboration in Studying Past Societal Responses to Environmental Change, John Haldon, Lee Mordechai, Timothy P. Newfield, Arlen F. Chase, Adam Izdebski, Piotr Guzowski, Inga Labuhn, and Neil Roberts
Changing Patterns of Interaction and Identity in Puebloan Settlements of Southern Nevada, Karen G. Harry
Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest, Karen G. Harry
Shaping Cultural Identity on the Western Frontier of the Puebloan World, Karen G. Harry
Shrines, Dedication Practices, and Closure Activities at Lava Ridge Ruin, Karen G. Harry
Life Beyond the Boundaries: Constructing Identity in Edge Regions of the North American Southwest, Karen G. Harry and Sarah Herr
Utilizing Corrugated Wares to Explore Regional Variations in the Virgin Branch Puebloan Culture, Shannon Horton and Karen G. Harry
A Content Analysis Of Testosterone Websites: Sex, Muscle, And Male Age-related Thematic Differences, N Ivanov, J Vuong, and P. B. Gray
Context Facilitates Performance on a Classic Cross-Cultural Emotion Perception Task, Hoemann Katie, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Shani Msafiri, Qiang Liu, Chaojie Li, Debi Roberson, Gregory A. Ruark, Maria Gendron, and Lisa Feldmann Barrett
Coalitional Physical Competition: Acute Salivary Steroid Hormone Responses among Juvenile Male Soccer Players in Hong Kong, Timothy S. McHale, Wai-chi Chee, Ka-chun Chan, David T. Zava, and Peter B. Gray
Salivary Steroid Hormone Responses to Dyadic Table Tennis Competitions among Hong Kongese Juvenile Boys, Timothy S. McHale, Peter B. Gray, Ka-chun Chan, David T. Zava, and Wai-chi Chee
Acute Salivary Steroid Hormone Responses In Juvenile Boys And Girls To Non-physical Team Competition, T S. McHale, P B. Gray, K. C. Chan, D T. Zava, and W C. Chee
The Relationship between the Phosphate and Structural Carbonate Fractionation of Fallow Deer Bioapatite in Tooth Enamel, Holly Miller, Carolyn Chenery, Angela L. Lamb, Hilary Sloane, Ruth F. Carden, Levent Atici, and Naomi Sykes
Moral Judgments Of In-group And Out-group Harm In Post-conflict Urban And Rural Croatian Communities, M A. Moncrieff and P Lienard
Cultural Grammar and the Cultural Linguistics Heritage from the Pre-Millennials an Argument for Scenarios, Gary B. Palmer
House 47: A Case Study of Abandonment and Trade in the Lowland Virgin Branch Puebloan Region, Daniel Perez and Karen G. Harry
Primate Modularity And Evolution: First Anatomical Network Analysis Of Primate Head And Neck Musculoskeletal System, V Powell, B Esteve-Altava, J. Molnar, B Villmoare, A Pettit, and R Diogo
The Southwestern Archaic: Divergent and Convergent Perspectives, Barbara Roth
Using Residue Analysis to Explore Household Activities at the Harris Site, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, Barbara Roth, Aaron Woods, Danielle Romero, Malka McNeely, and Mary Malainey
Does the Moon Influence Sleep in Small-scale Societies?, David R. Samson PhD, Alyssa N. Crittenden PhD, Ibrahim A. Mabulla MS, Audax Z. P. Mabulla PhD, and Charles L. Nunn PhD
Chetumal’s Dragonglass: Postclassic Obsidian Production and Exchange at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize, Max Seidita, Diane Z. Chase, and Arlen F. Chase
The Consequences of Human Land-Use Strategies during the PPNB-LN Transition: A Simulation Modelling Approach, Alan H. Simmons
Neolithic Kritou Marottou-Ais Giorkis, Cyprus—Living in the Uplands, Alan Henri Simmons, Katelyn DiBenedetto, and Levi Keach
Using Building Information Modeling Programs to Understand the Built Environment of the Virgin Branch Puebloan Culture, Benjamin Van Alstyne and Karen G. Harry
Early Homo And The Role Of The Genus In Paleoanthropology, B Villmoare
Negotiated Bonds: The Practice of Childfree Pet Parenting, Shelly Volsche
Submissions from 2017
Re-evaluating the Mimbres Region Prehispanic Chronometric Record, Roger Anyon, Darrell Creel, Patricia A. Gilman, Steven A. LeBlanc, Myles R. Miller, Stephen E. Nash, Margaret C. Nelson, Kathryn J. Putsavage, Barbara J. Roth, Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Jakob W. Sedig, and Christopher A. Turnbow
Spread of Domestic Animals across Neolithic Western Anatolia: New Zooarchaeological Evidence from Uğurlu Höyük, the Island of Gökçeada, Turkey, Levent Atici, Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, and Burçin Erdoğu
Aerial Rotation Effects on Vertical Jump Performance among Highly Skilled Collegiate Soccer Players, Leland A. Barker, John R. Harry, Janet S. Dufek, and John A. Mercer
Patterns of Animal Exploitation in Western Turkey from Palaeolithic Molluscs to Byzantine Elephants, Canan Cakirlar and Levent Atici
LiDAR for Archaeological Research and the Study of Historical Landscapes, Adrian S.Z. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, and Arlen Chase
Ancient Maya Architecture and Spatial Layouts: Contextualizing Caana at Caracol, Belize, Arlen Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Detection of Maya Ruins by LiDAR: Applications, Case Studies, and issues, Arlen Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Interpreting Ancient Maya Society Through Residential Groups: Investigating Early Long-Distance Interaction in Caracol's Epicenter: Caracol Archaeological Project Investigations for 2017, Arlen Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Maya E Groups: Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Maya Lowlands, Arlen F. Chase
The Origins of Maya States, Arlen F. Chase
E Groups and the Rise of Complexity in the Southeastern Maya Lowlands, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
The Distribution and Significance of E Groups: A Historical Background and Introduction, Arlen F. Chase, A. S. Dowd, and D. A. Freidel
Foreward, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen Chase
Epilogue: E Groups and Their Significance to the Ancient Maya, Diane Z. Chase, P. A. McAnany, and J. A. Sabloff