PUBLICATIONS

Verification of Virtual Excavation Using Multiple Geophysical Methods: Case Studies from Navan Fort, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Interface Archaeology and Technology, Archaeological Record, Society for American Archaeology, 2(1), 2002.

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.

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, Vol. 24:473-492, 1997.

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.

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.

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.

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, 15: 11-15, 1997.

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

New Developments in Geophysical Prospecting and Archaeological Research: An Example from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Virginia. Technical Report to Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation,1997.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

IN PRESS, SUBMITTED, AND CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW:

Compositional Characterization of Prehistoric Ceramic: A New Approach (with D. Kennett (senior), S. Sakia, R. Gossett, and H. Neff). Journal of Archaeological Science.

Interaction, and Mobility in the Northern Southwest: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Evidence for Ceramic Circulation (with S. Sakai, H. Neff ,and D. Kennett). American Antiquity

Verification of Virtual Excavation Using Multiple Geophysical Methods: Case Studies from Navan Fort, County Armagh, Northern Irerland. Society for American Archaeology, Archaeological Record.

Darwinian Theory: Filling the Theoretical Void in Archaeology and Climate Studies. Climatic Reconstruction and the Prehistory of California and the American Southwest. Conference Proceedings, College of Social Science, California State University, Northridge. Invited.

The Evolution of Exchange (with Hector Neff senior author). For Darwinian Archaeology, ed. P. McCutcheon. Invited.

Aerial Photographic Interpretation of Navan Fort, Northern Ireland. Emania, accepted with revisions.

PUBLICATIONS ABSTRACTS

Archaeological Geology Using Ground Penetrating Radar Data: Comparative Case Studies from the Southwestern United States and Northern Ireland (with E. Ambos, senior author) Geological Society of America, Abstract; Vol 27, 6, 1995.

Dendrochronological, Archaeological, and Historical Evidence for Southern California Climatic Change in the Past 2,000 Years (Larson, senior author, with E. Ambos). Eos, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 75, No. 44, 1995.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

A Reconsideration of Mohave Desert Archaeology: A Book Review Archaeology of Afton Canyon Site" by Joan S. Schneider. Book Review, Journal of Great Basin and California Anthropology, 1993.

Archaeological Geology Using Ground Penetrating Radar Data: Comparative Case Studies from the Southwestern United States and Northern Ireland (with E. Ambos, senior author) Geological Society of America, Abstract; Vol 27, 6, 1995.

Dendrochronological, Archaeological, and Historical Evidence for Southern California Climatic Change in the Past 2,000 Years (Larson, senior author, with E. Ambos). Eos, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 75, No.44, 1995.

1981 The Mendocino County Archaeological Ordinance: A Response to the Preservation Crisis of the 1980s. American Society for Conservation Archaeology Report 8(6):39-47.

1981 A Study of the Settlement Patterns of Southern Nevada as Reflected by the Archaeological Record (Master's Thesis). Western Anasazi Reports 3(1):1-84.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

The Use of Cesium Vapor Magnetometer Survey in Criminal Investigation: New Subsurface Evidence Collection Methods for Law Enforcement. To be submitted to Journal of Forensic Science.

Darwinian Perspectives on Ceramic Production and Exchange in the American Southwest" (with H. Neff). To be submitted to Kiva.

Bridging the Contributions of Evolutionary Archaeology and Evolutionary Ecology (with H. Neff). To be submitted to Journal of Anthropological Research.

A PDSI Reconstruction for the Nothern Southwest from A.D. 100- 1857. To be submitted to Journal of Climatic Change.

A Darwinian Explanation of Culture Change Among Maritime Hunter and Gatherer Societies (with H. Neff). To be submitted to American Anthropologist.

Cesium Vapor Gradiometer Surveys at Navan and Haughey's Fort. To be submitted to Emania.

Cultural Selection and the Process of Abandonment: A Case Study from the American Southwest. (Larson, senior author, with H. Neff). To be submitted to Human Ecology.

Theory Matters: A Response to Robert Jackson Comments. To be submitted to Journal of Great Basin and California Anthropology.

Climatic Change in California Over the Last 2000 Years: Implication for Future Water Use In California. To be submitted to Science.

Geophysical Exploration in Archaeology at Navan (with E. Ambos). Describes the results of our ground penetrating radar studies conducted at Navan Fort and is a follow up to our article in the Interface Archaeology and Technology, Bulletin, Society for American Archaeology. To be submitted to the same Bulletin.

Wood and the Study of Cultural Evolutionary Processes. Invited chapter for "Studying Archeomaterials: An Overview", Method and Theory in Archaeology series, edited by Michael B. Schiffer and R.M Ehrenreich, University of Arizona Press.

Forensic Investigations and Evidence Collection: Application of Geophysical Methods. Present results from numerous investigation in the Western United States. Will be submitted to Forensic Science.

Famines, Climate, Cattle Raids and Wars: A Study of Risk. Presents new dendroclimatic data for Ireland and examine the impacts of demographic oscillation and climatic variability for Ireland between 700 B.C. to A.D. 1945. Will be submitted to Antiquity.

Missionization, Spanish Colonialism, Climatic Variability, Resource Production in Alta California: Explanatory Considerations (preliminary title). This book manuscript examines Spanish Colonialism in North America from 1760 to 1840 and is a longer version of my American Anthropologist article. Attempts to integrate a selectionist perspective with risk minimization theory, an approach that may be innovative and useful in the study of cultural evolutionary processes.

Geophysical Exploration in Archaeology (with E. Ambos and D. Kennett). Describes the results of our ground penetrating radar studies conducted at several shell midden sites on San Clemente Island and Santa Cruz Island, Southern California. To be submitted to the Journal of Field Archaeology.

The S-Plus Statistical Package and Graphic Studies Program. To be submitted to Quantitative Anthropology, Software Reviews.

The Alternative Adaptive Strategies: Responses to Population Growth and Climatic Variability Among Buffalo Hunters and Agriculturalists of the Great Plains (with Doug Bamforth, University of Colorado, Boulder). To be submitted to Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.