Selected Publications

2023. Contreras, Daniel A. and Brian F. Codding. Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.

2023 Contreras, Daniel A. ‘Seeking Synchronicity: Re-examining the Peruvian Early Horizon through Bayesian Modeling of 14C Dates.’ In Seki, Yuji, ed., ‘New Perspectives on the Early Formation of the Andean Civilization: Chronology, Interaction, and Social Organization’. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. Senri Ethnological Studies 112:127-151.

2023 Herndon, Kelsey E., Robert Griffin, Whittaker Schroder, Timothy Murtha, Charles Golden, Daniel A. Contreras, Luwei Wang, Alexandra Bazarsky, and Omar Alcover Firpi. Google Earth Engine for Archaeologists: An Updated Look at the Progress and Promise of Remotely Sensed Big Data. Journal of Archaeological Science.

2023 Carter, Tristan, Daniel A. Contreras, Kathryn Campeau, and Cheryl A. Makarewicz. Cappadocian Obsidian Exchange Networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: A Southern Levantine perspective from el-Hemmeh (Jordan). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 48.

2022 Vining, Benjamin R, Aubrey Hillman, Daniel A Contreras, and Ernesto Tejedor. “Expanded Agroecological Niches and Redistributed Risks in Northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during Late-Holocene ENSO Climate Changes.” The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221121761.

2022 Silva, Fabio, Fiona Coward, Kimberley Davies, Sarah Elliott, Emma Jenkins, Adrian C. Newton, Philip Riris, Marc Vander Linden, Jennifer Bates, Elena Cantarello, Daniel Contreras, Stefani A. Crabtree, Enrico Crema, Mary Edwards, Tatiana Filatova, Ben Fitzhugh, Hannah Fluck, Jacob Freeman, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Marta Krzyzanska, Daniel Lawrence, Helen Mackay, Marco Madella, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Rob Marchant, Sophie Monsarrat, Kathleen D. Morrison, Ryan Rabett, Patrick Roberts, Mehdi Saqalli, Rick Stafford, Jens-Christian Svenning, Nicki J. Whitehouse, Alice Williams. Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée. Sustainability 14.

2022  Contreras, Daniel A. Stages, Periods, and Radiocarbon: 14C Dating in the Archaeology of the Central Andes. Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology.

2022  Wilson, Kurt M, Weston C McCool, Simon C Brewer, Nicole Zamora-Wilson, Percy J Schryver, Roxanne Lois F Lamson, Ashlyn M Huggard, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Daniel A Contreras, and Brian F Codding  Climate and demography drive 7000 years of dietary change in the Central Andes. _Scientific Reports_ 12(1):2026. DOI:10.1038/s41598-022-05774-y.

2022  Vining, Benjamin, Aubrey Hillman, and Daniel A. Contreras. El Niño Southern Oscillation and enhanced arid land vegetation productivity in NW South America, Journal of Arid Environments 198.

2021  Contreras, Daniel A., Zachary Batist, Ciara Zogheib, and Tristan Carter. “Matching Pragmatic Lithic Analysis and Proper Data Architecture: The QuARI R Shiny Database Interface”. Advances in Archaeological Practice.

2020  Contreras, Daniel A. and John Meadows. “Estudios paleodemográficos basados en conjuntos de dataciones radiométricas. Una revisión crítica.” In Juan A. Barceló and Berta Morell, eds. Métodos Cronométricos en Historia y Arqueología. Editorial Dextra. pp493-516

2019  Contreras, Daniel A., Alberte Bondeau, Joël Guiot, Alan Kirman, Eneko Hiriart, Loup Bernard, Romain Suarez, and Marianela Fader. “From Paleoclimate Variables to Prehistoric Agriculture: Using a Process-Based Agroecosystem Model to Simulate the Impacts of Holocene Climate Change on Potential Agricultural Productivity in Provence, France.” In Kluiving, Sjoerd, ed.  Geoarchaeology Approaches and Methods: Special Issue of Quaternary International 501B:303-316.

2019  Grillo, Katherine M. and Daniel A. Contreras. “Public archaeology’s mammoth in the room: engaging Wikipedia as a tool for teaching and outreach.” Advances in Archaeological Practice 7(4):435-442.

2019  Carter, Tristan, Daniel A. Contreras, Justin Holcomb, Danica D. Mihailovic, Panagiotis Karkanas, Guillaume Guérin, Ninon Taffin, Dimitris Athanasoulis, and Christelle Lahaye. “Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin and Homo sapiens’ behavior and dispersals”. Science Advances 5(10).

2018  Contreras, Daniel A.  “Hacia una geoarqueología del paisaje andina: paisaje, medioambiente, y acción humana en Chavín de Huántar.” In Flores Blanco, Luis Ángel, ed. Lugares, Monumentos, Ancestros. Arqueologías del Paisajes Andinos y Lejanos, Avqi Ediciones. pp159-178

2018  Contreras, Daniel A., Eneko Hiriart, Alberte Bondeau, Alan Kirman, Joël Guiot, Loup Bernard, Romain Suarez, and Sander Van Der Leeuw. “Regional Paleoclimates and Local Consequences: Integrating GIS Analysis of Diachronic Settlement Patterns and Process-Based Agroecosystem Modeling of Potential Agricultural Productivity in Provence (France).” PLOS One.

2018  Contreras, Daniel A., Joël Guiot, Romain Suarez, and Alan Kirman.  “Reaching The Human Scale: A Spatial and Temporal Downscaling Approach To The Archaeological Implications Of Paleoclimate Data.” Journal of Archaeological Science 93:54-67.

2017  Contreras, Daniel A., ed. The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions: Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past. Routledge Studies in Archaeology.

2015  Contreras, Daniel A., “Landscape Setting as Medium of Communication at Chavín de Huántar, Peru.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25(2):1-17.

2014  Contreras, Daniel A. and John Meadows. “Summed Radiocarbon Calibrations as a Population Proxy: A Critical Evaluation Using a Realistic Simulation Approach.” Journal of Archaeological Science 52:591-608.

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