Anthropology Readings

Coltrain, J. B., and S. W. Leavitt
2002 Climate and diet in Fremont prehistory: Economic variability
and abandonment of maize agriculture in the Great Salt Lake
Basin. American Antiquity 67:1-33.



Prehistory of Utah
Kelly, R.L. (1997). Late Holocene Great Basin Prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory 11: 1-50. kelly_1997


Madsen, D.B. and Simms, S.R. (1998). The Fremont Complex: A Behavioral Perspective. Journal of World Prehistory, Vol. 12, No. 3: 255-336. madsen_and_simms_1998

Simms, S.R. (2008) Ancient Peoples of the Great basin and Colorado Plateau. Left Coast Press: California.


Archaeology
Binford, L. (1980). Willow Smoke and Dogs' Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation. American Antiquity 45: 4-20. binford_1980


Metcalfe, D. (2008) Range Creek Canyon in The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times, eds. C.S. Fowler and D.D. Fowler, School For Advanced Research Press:Santa Fe. metcalfe_2008


Metcalfe, D. and Barlow, K.R. (1992). A Model for Exploring the Optimal Tradeoff between Field Processing and Transport. American Anthropologist 94: 340-356. metcalfe_and_barlow_1992


O'Connell, J.F. (1993). What can Great Basin Archaeologists Learn from Prehistoric Site Structure? An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective. Utah Archaeology 1993: 7-26. oconnell1993


O'Connell, J.F. (1987). Alyawarra site structure and its archaeological implications. American Antiquity 57: 74-108. oconnell_1987

Spangler, J.D. (2000). One-Pot Pithouses and Fremont Paradoxes: Formative Stage Adaptations in the Tavaputs Plateau Region of Northeastern Utah. In Intermountain Archaeology, Eds. Madsen and Metcalf, University of Utah Anthropological Papers, No. 122. spangler2008



Theory
Bird, D. and O'Connell, J. (2006) Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research. Bird and O'Connell 2006


Climate and Geology
Benson et al. (2006) Possible impacts of early-11th, middle-12th-, and late-13th-century droughts on western Native Americans and the Mississippian Cahokians. Quaternary Sciences Reviews. benson_et_al_qsr

Stokes William L. (1986) Geology of Utah UMNH and Utah Geological Survey: SLC

Harpending, H. C., and A. R. Rogers
2000 Genetic perspectives on human origins and differentiation.
Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 1:361-385.


Harpending, H., M. Batzer, M. Gurven, L. Jorde, A. Rogers and S. Sherry
1998 Genetic traces of ancient demography. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science (USA) 95:1961-1967.

Coltrain, J. B., and S. W. Leavitt
2002 Climate and diet in Fremont prehistory: Economic variability
and abandonment of maize agriculture in the Great Salt Lake
Basin. American Antiquity 67:1-33.

Why do women have mid-life menopause? Grandmothering and
the evolution of human longevity. In Female Reproductive
Aging, edited by E. R. te Velde, P. L. Pearson and F. J.
Broekmans, pp. 27-42. New York: Pantheon.

grandmothering, socioecology and the fossil record. In The Role
of Life Histories in Primate Socioecology, edited by P. Kappeler
and M. Pereira. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (in press).