Publications
(please see full C.V. for full details; also available abbreviated C.V.)

Monographs

1991 Expert Systems (sr. author with Edward Brent, Louanna Furbee), Sage Press, Newbury Park, CA.

Selected Recent Articles and Chapters

n.d. Gourd and Squash Artifacts Yield Starch Grains of Feasting Foods from Preceramic Peru (junior author with Neil A. Duncan and Deborah Pearsall), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press.

n.d. Lunar Standstill Markers at Preceramic Temples at the Buena Vista Site in Peru (junior author with Larry R. Adkins) Conference Proceedings Issue of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (in press).

n.d. Buena Vista y Otros Templos Tempranos y Calendarios de Los Valles al Oeste del Perú. Peter Kaulicke y Tom D. Dillehay (eds.), Procesos y expresiones de poder, identidad y orden tempranos en Sudamérica. Segunda parte, Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 11 (2007), Lima. (in press).

n.d. The Buena Vista Monumental Architecture Astronomical/Religious Tradition in Perú, 2,200BC-1,750 BC, The Origins of New World Monumentality, ed. By Robert M. Rosenswig and Richard L. Burger, Gainesville, University of Florida Press (in revue).

n.d. Delineating the Inequalities of Urbanism: The Skeletal Biology of the Early Intermediate (junior author with J.A. Vradenburg and E.A. Pechenkina), in La Arqueología de la Costa Centrál de Perú, Ed. by Krzysztof Makowski and John Rick (in press).

n.d. The New World’s Most Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Buena Vista, Perú, Andean Past (in review).

n.d. Biologia Osea de Una Poblacion del Periodo Inicial Tardio: Cardal,Peru (junior author with Joseph H. Vradenburg). En Materiales del Coloquio: El Valle de Lurin en el Periodo Formativo, ed.by Richard L. Burger and Krzysztof Makowski H., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima.

2009 Adaptaciones de la dieta human a nuevos problemas y oportunidades en la costa central del Perú (1,800-8000 a.C., (junior author with Sara Meadors) in Richard Burger y Kryzstof Makowski, eds, Arqueología del Periodo Formativo en la cuenca baja de Lurín: El Valle de Pachacamac (Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima), pp. 117-158.

Invited Presentations, Organizer (* = international):

*2001 El Proyecto Paloma dispues de 25 Años. XIII Congreso Peruano y La Cultura Andina, Lima.

* 2001 (Senior author with Joseph Vradenburg) Enfermidades del Formativo, Mesa Redonda El Origén de los civilizaciónes Andenas, . XIII Congreso Peruano y La Cultura Andina, Lima.

*2001 El Proyecto Paloma dispues de 25 Años. XIII Congreso Peruano y La Cultura Andina, Lima.

* 2001 (Senior author with Joseph Vradenburg) Enfermidades del Formativo, Mesa Redonda El Origén de los civilizaciónes Andenas, . XIII Congreso Peruano y La Cultura Andina, Lima.

2001 Cambio de Clima y Cambios de Sociedádes, San Marcos Archaeology Series, Lima.

2001 Adjustments to Agriculture in Early Farming Communities of Northeast China (junior author with Ekaterina A. Pechenkina), presented to a symposium, Adjustments to Coastal Environments, organized by myself and Michael J. Dietz, American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings, Washington DC.

2001 The Paloma Project: A Demonstration of Bioarchaeological, Paleoethnobotanical, Zooarchaeological, Archaeological, and Paleoclimatological Conscilience (senior author with Deborah M. Pearsall and Elizabeth J. Reitz), invited a symposium, Beyond Midden and Mollusc: Bioarchaeology of Coastal Adaptation, Dale L. Hutchinson, organizer, Society for American Archaeology Meetings, New Orleans.

2001 Within Family Adjustments in Prehistoric Coastal Peru Plastic and Enduring: 100 Years of Studies of Past Lives and Past Histories, Symposium organized by Ekaterina Pechenkina and chaired by me at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington D.C.

Other Selected Papers Presented (* = international)

2002 Capturing and Representing Expert Knowledge in Skeletal Analysis, Max Plank Paleodemography Workshop, Rostock, Germany.

2002 Formal Methods in Ethnopedology (junior author with Louanna Furbee), Fourth Brazilian Meeting of Ethnoecology and Ethnobiology, Recife, Brasil.

2002 Combining Behavioral and Cognitive Approaches in Ethnoscientific Reesearch, three day workshop presented to the Fourth Brazilian Meeting of Ethnoecology and Ethnobiology, Recife, Brasil.

2001 The Paloma Project: A Demonstration of Bioarchaeological, Paleoethnobotanical, Zooarchaeological, Archaeological, and Paleoclimatological Conscilience (senior author with Deborah M. Pearsall and Elizabeth J. Reitz), in a symposium, Beyond Midden and Mollusc: Bioarchaeology of Coastal Adaptation, Dale L. Hutchinson, organizer, Society for American Archaeology Meetings, New Orleans,.

2001 Coastal Adustments to the End of the Holocene Climatic Optimum (senior author with Ekaterina A. Pechenkina), in a symposium, Adjustments to Coastal Environments, Michael J. Dietz and Robert A. Benfer, Jr., Organizers and Chairs, American Association of Physical Anthropology meetings, Kansas City.

2000 Pechenkina EA, Benfer RA Jr. Adjustments to agriculture in early farming communities of northeast China. Amer. J. of Phys. Anthropol. Supplement 30:248 (paper presented to the AAPA Meetings).

2000 Changing Parental Investment in the Holocene in Coastal Perú and Northern China, 28th Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Fort Wayne, Indiana.