A5065200689- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Latin American history and culture
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Tree-ring climate responses
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Teleoperation and Haptic Systems
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Experimental Learning in Engineering
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences and Policies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Archaeology and Natural History
University of Florida
2019-2025
Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie Marine et Continentale
2015-2021
University of Maryland, College Park
2018-2019
Aix-Marseille Université
2015-2018
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2016-2018
Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d’Aix-Marseille
2017-2018
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2016-2018
Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
2018
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2016
Kiel University
2012-2014
AbstractAbstractInternational response to the problem of looting archaeological sites has been hampered by difficulty quantifying damage done. The scarcity reliable information negatively impacts professional and public policy making, rendering consensus about scale effectiveness responses difficult achieve. We report here on use publicly-available satellite imagery for caused in Jordan. ease affordability such as that provided Google Earth make identification, quantification, monitoring...
We present evidence of Middle Pleistocene activity in the central Aegean Basin at chert extraction and reduction complex Stelida (Naxos, Greece). Luminescence dating places ~9000 artifacts a stratigraphic sequence from ~13 to 200 thousand years ago (ka ago). These include Mousterian products, which arguably provide first for Neanderthals region. This dated material attests much earlier history regional exploration than previously believed, opening possibility alternative routes into...
Abstract Artifacts made from Quispisisa obsidian are widely disseminated in the Peruvian Andes, but geological source of geochemical type was only recently located southern Ayacucho. Following positive identification 1999 by Richard Burger and colleagues, we found evidence broad quarrying activities unexplored portions area. We describe 34 quarry pits, some as large 80 m across, together with early-stage lithic reduction at source. encountered high concentrations debris associated more...
Human beings are an active component of every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Although our local impact the evolution these ecosystems has been undeniable and extensively documented, it remains unclear precisely how activities altering them, in part because dynamic systems structured by complex, non-linear feedback processes cascading effects. We argue that is only studying human–environment interactions over timescales greatly exceed lifespan any individual human (i.e., deep past or longue...
This article presents a new initiative in combating looting from the air, building on previous work Iraq and Jordan. Looted sites Virú Valley, Peru, are visible as pit clusters dated versions of Google Earth. Compare these with earlier air photographs Gordon Willey's famous survey 1940s, we have chronicle events. makes it possible to demonstrate that modern is certainly taking place linked an upsurge antiquities trade. As well being instrument for managing heritage, author shows offers...
Abstract Chavín de Huántar has long been recognized as a site of pan-regional importance in the first millennium bce Central Andes. Multiple lines evidence link to costa, sierra and selva. Using exotic goods for which provenance is known – example, obsidian, cinnabar, selected ceramics marine shell specific areas with interacted can be identified. These interactions are considered context distinct ways thinking about Andean space least-cost transportation surface, Inca road network...
The later Holocene spread of pastoralism throughout eastern Africa profoundly changed socio-economic and natural landscapes. During the Pastoral Neolithic (ca. 5000–1200 B.P.), herders through southern Kenya northern Tanzania—areas previously occupied only by hunter-gatherers—eventually developing specialized forms that remain vital in this region today. Research on ancient has been primarily restricted to rockshelters special purpose sites. This paper presents results surveys excavations at...
Explaining the factors that influence past dietary variation is critically important for understanding changes in subsistence, health, and status societies; yet systematic studies comparing possible driving remain scarce. Here we compile largest dataset of diet derived from stable isotope δ13C‰ δ15N‰ values Americas to quantitatively evaluate impact 7000 years climatic demographic change on Central Andes. Specifically, couple paleoclimatic data a general circulation model with estimates...
A wealth of remotely sensed data has accumulated over the past several decades and now constitutes an analytical resource primed for archaeological applications. To date, big (RSBD) analytics in archaeology have focused on filling spatial gaps distribution sites features, characterizing environmental landscapes, monitoring cultural heritage sites. The scientific promise these to expand our understanding human-environment interactions not been fully realized. Limitations access, sufficient...
Ritual is broadly accepted as an important locus of social interaction in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes, and research into development durable sociopolitical inequality region often focuses on political roles public rituals. At Middle-Late Formative Period (ca. 1200–400 BCE) monumental center Chavín de Huántar, well at contemporary sites, ritual has long been hypothesized to include use psychoactive plants. However, neither plant remains nor chemical traces compounds likely contexts have...
This paper details the results of a survey obsidian sources on island Giali in Dodecanese, Greece, together with review these raw materials’ use from Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age (ninth second millennium Cal bc). Elemental characterization 76 geological samples 11 sampling locations demonstrates existence two geochemically distinct sources, termed ‘Giali A’, and B’. The latter material, available small cobble form island’s southwestern half, seems have only been exploited by local residents...
Some of the earliest archaeological materials radiocarbon-dated were from Central Andes, and archaeologists region also involved in early efforts at meta-analysis assemblages radiocarbon dates Bayesian chronological modeling. Nevertheless, regional schema still vary surprisingly little their pre-radiocarbon antecedents. As a result, significant scope for increasing impact dates, as well making use more robust transparent, remains. Improved has potential to reconfigure Andean chronologies,...
The Technical University of Madrid requires the use laboratories which due to their dangerousness, duration or control developed processes are difficult perform in real life. For this reason, we have several 3D virtual environment. built on open source platform OpenSim. In paper it is exposed different our University, see small fragments various laboratory practice, as well most representative parts each practice. selected electronics, chemical experimentation, physical and topography.
Holocene climate variability in the Mediterranean Basin is often cited as a potential driver of societal change, but mechanisms this putative influence are generally little explored. In paper we integrate two tools–agro-ecosystem modeling agricultural yields and spatial analysis archaeological settlement pattern data–in order to examine human consequences past climatic changes. Focusing on case study Provence (France), adapt an agro-ecosystem model productivity during Holocene. Calibrating...