Publications

2024 Ritual Birch Bark Traditions in Prehistoric Eurasia: A Case Study from the Mongolian Gobi. Smithsonian Institution and National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Studies Center.

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2023 Multiresource Pastoralism, Dynamic Foodways, and Ancient Statecraft in Mongolia. Land.

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2023 Excavations at Aduun Ordon in the Mongolian Gobi. Smithsonian Institution and National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Studies Center.

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2022 Identifying the origins of obsidian artifacts in the Deh Luran Plain (SW Iran) highlights community connections in the Neolithic Zagros. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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2022 Introducing the BRICC (Bricks and Rocks for Instruments’ Ceramic Calibration) sets: Open source calibration materials for quantitative X-ray fluorescence analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

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2021 End of the Line? Obsidian at Umm Qseir, a Halafian Farmstead in the Syrian Steppe. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

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2020 Resource Stress Predicts Changes in Religious Beliefs and Sharing Behavior. Human Nature. Springer US.

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2020 The Archaeological Record of Southeastern Mongolia: New Insights from the Shiriin Chuluu Project. In Proceedings of the XIV International Mongolian Studies Conference; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

2020 Results of Archaeological Research at Shiriin Chuluu, Altanshiree Soum, Dornogovi Aimag. In Mongolian Archaeology: Academic Meeting Bulletin (Monograph).

2018 Marital Status and Infanticide. In Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York: Springer.

2016 Altered States of Consciousness. In Ember, C. R. (ed) Explaining Human Culture. 1st edition. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files at Yale University.

Early Indigenous Agriculture and the Emergence of the Xiongnu Empire: New Crop Stable Isotope Data from the Mongolian Steppe (c. 300 BCE-200 AD) (with Asa Cameron, Chunag Amartuvshin, Joshua Wright, Paul Szpak, William Honeychurch). Manuscript in preparation.

East Eurasian Foodways: Temporal variation in diet and subsistence in Mongolia (with Michelle Hrivnyak and William Honeychurch). Manuscript in preparation.

Holocene Cave and Rock Shelter Occupation in the Gobi-Steppe, Mongolia: New Results from the Sites of Aduun Agui and Baga Chuluu Agui. Manuscript in preparation.

Starch residue and stable isotopic analysis of Cowley Plain pottery from the Etzanoa Site (14CO3) (with Crystal Dozier)

Isotopic investigation of changing dietary ecologies and animal husbandry practice at Tell Leilan, northern Mesopotamia (2500-200 BC) (With Asa Cameron, Harvey Weiss, Jacob Kalodner, Sophia DeSchiffart)

Archaeological applications of X-ray computed microtomography: identification of selected wood taxa in the central Andes (with Craig R. Brodersen)