Scholarly and Creative Activities

"Risk, Climate Variability, and the Study of Southwestern Prehistory: An Evolutionary Perspective" (Larson, with Hector Neff, Donald A. Graybill, Joel Michaelsen, and E. Ambos) American Antiquity, 61(2): 1-30, 1996.

"The Evolution of Anasazi Ceramic Production and Distribution: Compositional Evidence from a Pueblo-III Site in South-Central Utah "(with Hector Neff, senior author). Journal of Field Archaeology, 1997.

"Population Growth, Agricultural Intensification, and Culture Change Among the Virgin Branch Anasazi," Journal of Field Archaeology, 22(4) 1-22, 1995.

"Impacts of Climatic Variability and Population Growth on the Virgin Branch Anasazi Cultural Developments" (with Joel Michaelsen). American Antiquity 55(2): 227-250, 1990.

"Methodology of Comparison in Evolutionary Archaeology (with Hector Neff senior author). Chapter in Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory in Archaeological Explanation", ed. E. Barton and G.A. Clark. Archaeology Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 7:75-95, 1997.

"Missionization among the Coastal Chumash of Central California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies" (Larson, senior author, with Joel Michaelsen, and John Johnson). American Anthropologist 96(2): 263-299, 1994.

"Marine Paleotemperatures and Paleoclimate as Factors in Late Holocene Occupation of Coastal Southern California" (with Mark Raab, senior author). American Antiquity, 16(2): 319-337, 1997.

"Historic Climatology and California Climatic Reconstructions A.D. 1670 to 1961," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 25 (2): 225-253, 1994.

Historic Documentary Evidence for Southern California Precipitation Variability (with Joel Michaelsen, senior author). In Southern California Climate: Trends and Extremes of the Past 2000 Years, Martin Rose and Peter Wigland, editors. Technical Reports, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, No. 11, 1999.

"New Developments in Geophysical Prospecting and Archaeological Research: An Example from the Navan Complex, County Armagh, Northern Ireland" (Larson, senior author, with E. Ambos). Interface Archaeology and Technology, Bulletin, Society for American Archaeology, 15(1): 10-16, 1997.

"Monticello Jefferson Plantation Geophysical Survey",Technical Report 1997.

"Geophysical Surveys of Stratigraphically Complex Island California Sites: New Implications for Household Archaeology" (with J. Arnold, senior author, and E. Ambos). Antiquity, 71(271):157-168, 1997.

"Integrated Scientific Methods and Archaeological Research at Navan Fort, County Armagh" (Larson, senior author, with E. Ambos). Emania, Vol. 15, 11-15, 1997.

"Remote Sensing Surveys of the Navan Fort" (with E. Ambos, senior author, Kenneth Kvamme, Malachy Conway, and Shawn Cibbarelli). Emania, Vol. 15, 16-32, 1997.

"Integrating Geoscience into Instructionally-Based Archaeological Research on the Anasazi in Southern Utah" (with E. Ambos, senior author). Journal of Geological Education 42(5): 424-431, 1994.