Selected Publications

deFrance, S. D. 2020 Guinea Pigs in the Colonial Andes: The Culinary and Ritual Transformations.  International Journal of Historical Archaeology, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00548-6

Lord, E., C. Collins, S. D. deFrance, M. LeFebvre, F. Pigière, P. Eeckhout, C. Erauw, S. Fitzpatrick, P. Healy, M. Martínez-Polanco, J. Garcia, E. Ramos Roca, M. Delgado, A. Sánchez Urriago, G. Peña Léon, J Toyne, A. Dahlstedt, K. Moore, C. Laguer Diaz, C. Zori, E. Matisoo-Smith Scientific Reports 10, 8901, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65784-6

Nash, D. J. and S. D. deFrance 2019 Plotting Abandonment: Excavating a Ritual Deposit at the Wari Site of Cerro Baúl.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 53:112-132.

Harvey, V. L., M. J. LeFebvre, S. D. deFrance, C. Toftgaard, K.  Drosou, A. C. Kitchener, M. Buckley. 2019 Preserved Collagen Reveals Species Identity in Archaeological Marine Turtle Bones from Caribbean and Florida Sites. Royal Society Open Science 6:191137-191152.

LeFebvre, M. J.S. D. deFrance, W. Keegan, G. Kamenov, J. Krigbaum, 2019 PLoS One 2019 Zooarchaeological Records and Isotopic Systematics of Bahamian Hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami): are the Bahamas a distinct isotopic province?  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220284, September 24, 2019

LeFebvre, M. J.,  S. D. deFrance, G. DuChemin, W. F. Keegan, K. Walczesky 2018 Bahamian Hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) in the Lucayan Realm: Pre-Columbian Exploitation and Translocation Environmental Archaeology.   DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2018.1503809

deFrance, S. D. 2016 Camelids through Time in Southern Peru. In The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism, edited by N. Tripcevich and Jose Capriles, pp. 119-138. University of New Mexico Press.

 deFranceS. D., S. Wernke, and A. Sharpe 2016 Conversion and Persistence: Analysis of Faunal Remains from an Early Spanish Colonial Doctrinal Settlement in Highland Peru, Latin American Antiquity 27(3):300-317.

2016 Origin of pre-Columbian guinea pigs from Caribbean archeological sites revealed through genetic analysis.  B. Kimura et al. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 5:442–452. Kimura et al. aDNA guinea pigs JASReports

2014 Guinea Pigs in the Pre-Columbian West Indies, M. J. LeFebvre and Susan D. deFrance, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 9:1, 16-44.  article pdf 

2013 Late Prehispanic Coquina Quarrying and Tomb Construction in Coastal Southern Peru. S. D. deFrance and Elizabeth Olson, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 8(1):1-14. sdef and Olson JICA

2012 Fauna Local e Importada: Dieta y Uso de Animales en el Potosí Colonial Chungará (Chile) 44(1):9-24.  Chungara pdf

2011 Isotopic Evidence for Middle Horizon to Sixteenth Century Camelid Herding in the Osmore Valley, Peru. Erin Kennedy Thornton, Susan D. deFrance, John Krigbaum, and Patrick Ryan Williams, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 21: 544–567.

2010 Paleopathology and Health of Native and Introduced Animals on Southern Peruvian and Bolivian Spanish Colonial Sites. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 20(5): 508-524.   article pdf

2009 Documenting 12,000 Years of Coastal Occupation on the Osmore Littoral, Peru, Susan D. deFrance, Nicci Grayson, and Karen Wise, Journal of Field Archaeology 34(3):227-246.  article pdf

2009 Zooarchaeology in Complex Societies: Political Economy, Status, and Ideology, Journal of Archaeological Research. Volume 17, Number 2 / June, 2009 DOI10.1007/s10814-008-9027-1 Pages 105-168.  article pdf