Faculty publications written by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Anthropology department.
Submissions from 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Emotion Perception in Hadza Hunter-Gatherers, Maria Gendron, Katie Hoemann, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Shani Msafiri Mangola, Gregory A. Ruark, and Lisa Feldman Barrett
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
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
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
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
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
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
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