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Publications Monographs 1991 Expert Systems (sr. author with
Edward Brent, Louanna Furbee), Sage Press, Newbury Park, CA. Articles and Chapters
2002 The role of occlusal stress and gingival infection in the formation of exostosis on mandible and maxilla from Neolithic China (2nd author with Ekaterina Pechenkina), Homo 53:112-150. 2001 Diet and Health Changes with the Intensification of Millet Agriculture at the End of the Chinese Neolithic (second author with Ekaterina A. Pechenkina and Wang Zhijun), American Journal of Physical Anthropology 116:15-36. 2001 Bootstrap methods for sex determination from the Os coxae using the ID3 algorithm (last author with McBride DG, Dietz MJ, Vennemeyer MT, Meadors SA Benfer RA, Furbee NL .), Journal of Forensic Sciences 46:427-431. 2001 Multivariate Morphometry: Advantages of Direct
Anlysis of 3-Dimensional Coordinates of the Human Skull Referred to Functionally
Important Planes (junior author with D. G. McBride), American
Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 30:223-224. 2001 Estimating Missing Data: an Iterative Regression Approach (junior author with Brigitte Holt) Journal of Human Evolution, 39: 289-296 n.d. Benfer RA Jr., Furbee NL. Acceptability of
Indigenous and Western Methods of Curing by Herders in the Southern Andes
(In Spanish), Boletín de Lima,
in press. 2000 Pechenkina KA, Benfer RA Jr., Vershoubskaya GG, and Kozlov AI Genetic
and Environmental Influence on the Asymmetry of Dermatoglphyic Traits,
Amer. J. of Phys. Anthrop. 111:531-543. 2000 Multivariate morphometry: advantages of direct
analysis of 3-dimensional coordinates of the human skull referred to functionally
important planes (jr. author with D. G. McBride), Amer.
J. of Phys. Anthrop. Supplement 30:223-234. 1999 Proyecto de Excavaciones en Paloma: El Valle
de Chilca, Perú, El Periódo Arcaico en el Perú.
Hacia una definición de los orígenes, Boletin
de Arqueologia PUCP 3:213-237. Lima, Perú. 1999 Phytolith Morphology (third author
with DR Piperno, DM Pearsall, L Kealhofer, Zhijun Zhao, and Q. Jiang),
Science (Letter) 283:1265-1266. 1999 Keeping alive children who are failing to
thrive in an Archaic fishing village in Coastal Perú, Amer.
J. of Phys. Anthrop. Supplement 2 8:90-91. 1999 A test of methods for sex determination for
the os coxae using the ID3 algorithm (jr. author with D.G. McBride,
M.T. Vennemeyer, M.J. Dietz, and S.A. Meadors), Amer.
J. of Phys.Anthrop. Supplement 24:74.28:194. 1999 The Identification of the Remains of Don
Francisco Pizzaro (senior author with Hugo Ludeñ a R.) Forensic
Osteological Analysis: A Book of Case Studies, ed by Scott I. Fairgrieve,
Charles C Thomas, pp. 107-128. 1998 Zhao, Zhijun, Deborah M. Pearsall, Robert A. Benfer, Jr., and Dolores
R. Piperno Distinguishing Rice (Orza sativa Poaceae)
from Wild Orza Species Through Phytolith Analysis, II: Finalized Method.
Economic Botany 52:134-145. 1997 Evaluating Archaeological Hypotheses of Population
Growth and Decline on the Central Coast of Perú, (second
author with Joseph A. Vradenburg and Lisa Sattenspiel), In Integrating
Archaeological Demography: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric
Population, ed. by Richard R. Paine, Occasional Paper No. 24, Center
for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
Carbondale, IL, pp. 150-174. 1997 Paloma Tomb (poem) Special 75th anniversary
issue of Science News 151:S9. 1997 Where stature estimated from regression of
limb bone length is inappropriate. Amer.
J. of Phys. Anthrop. Supplement 24:74. 1997 PalomaWorld, http://coas.missouri.edu/paloma/,
the first archaeological digital library 1996 The Emergence of color Cognition from Color
Perception (fourth author with N. Louanna Furbee, Kelly Maynard,
J. Jerome Smith, Sarah Quick, and Larry Ross)
J. of Linguistic Anthropology 6:1-18. 1996 Expert Systems and the Representation of
Knowledge (senior author with Louanna Furbee and Edward E. Brent
Jr.) American Ethnologist 23:416-420. 1996 Science and Antiscience, Anthropology
Newsletter April:75-76. 1996 Can Indigenous Knowledge be Brokered without
Scientific Understanding of the Community Structure and Distribution of
that Knowledge? (senior author with Louanna Furbee), Indigenous
Knowledge and Development Monitor 4:29-30. 1995 Multiple Linear Discriminant Function, Multidimensional
Scaling, and Individual Pathways for Developing Knowledge Based Systems,
pp. 464-466 in Proceedings of PACES '95,
Ed. by Fan-Lun Xiong, Jae Kyu Lee, and Riichiro Mizoguchi, Publishing
House of Electronics Industry, Beijing, China. 1995 Age of Pregnancies and Age of Weaning from
Prehistoric Bone: Are Sr and Zn Indicators? American
Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 20, 89-90 (refereed
abstract of paper presented at Annual Meetings). 1995 Identifying Rice (Orza sativa), Poaceae,
thorough Phytolith Analysis (junior author with Deborah M. Pearsall,
Dolores R. Piperno, Elizabeth H. Dinan, Marcelle Umlauf, and Zhijun Zhao),
The Journal of Economic Botany 19:185-196. 1995 A Methodology for Combining Cognitive and
Behavioral Research: The Lari Soils Project in Peru, (junior author
with David Guillet, Louanna Furbee, and Jon Sandor) , pp. 71-81 . In Indigenous
Knowledge Systems: The Cultural Dimension of Development, ed. by
M. Warren, J. Slikkerveer, and D. Brokensha 1994 Program Congruence, Fortran Program, is now available in Anthropac
4.7X, Professional Edition, Irvine, Analytic Technologies. (Abstract).
Note: This algorithm was earlier modified to become part of Gowerplot
(3), by S. E. Hartman. 1994 A Beginning Guide to Expert Systems: II.
Implicit Knowledge (junior author with Louanna Furbee), CAM
6:3-4. 1994 Iterative Improvement of Missing Data Estimates
(junior author with B. Holt) American Journal
of Physical Anthropology Supplement 18, 109-110 (refereed abstract
of paper presented at Annual Meetings). 1993 A Beginning Guide to Expert Systems: I. Knowledge
Trees (senior author with Louanna Furbee), CAM
5:10-12. 1993 The Effects of Diagenesis on the Paloma Skeletal
Material (junior author with Jeremy Edward). In Sanford, Mary K.
(ed.); Investigations of Ancient Human Tissue:
Chemical Analyses in Anthropology. Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach,
pp. 183-268. 1992 Representing Partly Shared Knowledge in Expert
Systems of Terrace Agricultural Systems (senior author with Louanna
Furbee), Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Expert
Systems in Agriculture, pp. 35-41, International Academia Publisher,
Huangshan, China. 1992 The Value of Expert Systems in Improving
Agricultural Production in China, the Institute of Intelligent
Machines, Academica Sinica, Heifei, P.R. China. REPORT. 1991 Leaf Music (poem) Anthropology
and Humanism 16:107. 1991 The Principal Axis Method for Measuring Rate
and Amount of Dental Attrition: Estimating Juvenile or Adult Tooth Wear
from Unaged Adult Teeth (senior author with Daniel S. Edwards),
Dental Anthropology, ed. by M. Kelly
and Clark Larson, Riss, Ch. 18, pp. 325-340. 1991 Cognitive Factors Influencing Women to Seek Care during Pregnancy (third author with Fisher, Mary Jo, Bernard Ewigman, James Campbell, Louanna Furbee, and Steven Zweig), Family Medicine 23:443-426 (with Editorial). 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. *1999 The Central Coast: A Neomalthusian Reconstruction of Peruvian Cultural Evolution, in an invited symposium to the American Anthropological Association, Diachronic Changes in Human Adjustment: New World Island and Coastal Ecosystems, R. A. Benfer, Jr., and Julie Farnum, organizers. * 1998 Heritability of Fluctuating Asymmetry of Dermatoglyphic Traits (junior author with Ekaterina Petchenkina), International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Williamsburg, Virginia 1998 The Paleoepidemiological Approach to Understanding the Collapse of the First Peruvian Polities: Amazonian Origins of West Coast Epidemics (junior author with Joseph A. Vradenburg), invited for Reviewed Symposium: Perspectives on Disease in Past Populations: Paleoepidemiology Reconsidered, Mary Kaye Sanford, organizer, David S. Weaver, Chair, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia. *1998 Community Knowledge and Farming in the Colca Valley of the Andes (junior author with Louanna Furbee) , International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Williamsburg, Virginia *1998 Ponente, El Periodo Archaico en El Perú : Hacia una defnició n de los orí genes, II Simposia Internacional de Arqueologia, Pontifica Universidad Catolica Del Peru, Lima. 1998 Sican Population and Mortuary Practice: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective, Izumi Shimada, Robert A. Benfer, Jr. , Robert Corruccini, and Kazuharu Mine, paper presented to the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA. 1998 Aplicaciones del Aná lisis Multivariado en Arqueologí a, Curso Taller Nacional Sobre Technicas Analiticas en Arqueologí a, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. *1998 Biographical Stories: Parental Investment and the Health of children in Prehistory, (first author with Ekaterina Petchenkina), International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Williamsburg, Virginia 1997 Principal Discussant, New Directions for Biological Anthropology, Invited Session, American Anthropological Association. *1995 Chair of Session, Knowledge Acquisition, Pacific Asian Conference in Expert systems, Huang-Shan, P.R. China (presented an invited paper Multiple Linear Discriminant Function, Multidimensional scaling, and Individual Pathways for Developing Knowledge Based Systems). 1994 Evaluating Archaeological Hypotheses of Population Growth and Decline on the Central Coast of Peru (second author with Joseph A. Vradenburg and Lisa Sattenspiel), invited paper to the Paleodemography and Archaeology symposium at Univ. of Southern Illinois, Carbondale. 1993 The Centrality of BioArchaeology: Andean Instances, paper presented to the Society for American Archaeology meetings in a symposium that I organized. *1992 Representing Partly Shared Knowledge in Expert Systems of Terrace Agricultural Systems, invited paper to a session I chaired at the IFAC Workshop on Expert Systems in Agriculture, Huangshan, P.R. China. *1991 Bioanthropology Foundation and National Museum of Anthropology of Peru; presentation on bone chemistry, presentation on biostatistics; leader in week-long workshop on prehistoric diet in Lima, Perú . 1991 19th Midwest Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory Conference (co-organizer with Deborah Pearsall and Alice Benfer), Columbia, MO. 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. 1998 El Quehacer de la Antropologica Fisica: Presente
y Futuro, Escuela Profesional de Arqueologia y Antropologia, Universidad
Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima. 1998 Diet and Health in the Peruvian Cotton Preceramic
and Initial Periods: Asia and Cardal, Julie Farnum, Ekaterina Petchenkina
and Robert A.Benfer, Jr. , paper presented to the 63rd Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA. 1998 Ethnic Diversity in The Early Intermediate:
The Skeletal Evidence from Villa Salvador, Ekaterina Petchenkina,
Mercedes Delgado and Robert A. Benfer, Jr. , paper presented to the 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle,WA 1998 Delineating the Inequalities of Urbanism:The
Skeletal Biology of the Early Intermediate, Joseph A. Vradenburg,
Ekaterina Petchenkina, and Robert A. Benfer, Jr., Society for American
Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. *1997 The Virtual Environment as an Agent of Change,
EDUCOM '97 (senior author with Gail Ludwig and Bryan Carter), Minneapolis,
October, 1997. *1997 La Realidá d Virtuá l y la
Arqueoló gia: El Proyecto PalomaMundo, Villa Real University,
Lima, Perú . 1996 A Virtual Reality Front End to the Paloma
Archaeological Knowledge-Base, Society for American Archaeology
Meetings, New Orleans, May, 1996. *1996 What to do about Missing Data: Delete, Substitute,
Regress, or Iterate? (junior author with Brigitte M. Holt), 10th
Congress of the European Anthropological Association, Brussels. 1996 Logic-based Estimate of Age from Skeletal
Elements, Amer. Academy of For. Sci., Nashville (presented on my
behalf by Alexander Robling). 1996 Trace Elements in Archaeological Bone: Current
Research Involving Reconstruction of Prehistoric Diet, Health, and Diagenesis
(second author with Julie Farnum, M. K. Sanford, and M. D. Glascock, Workshops
in Archaeometry, Buffalo. 1996 A Virtual Reality Front End to the Paloma
Archaeological Knowledge-Base, Society for American Archaeology
Meetings, New Orleans. 1996 Disease and Social Collapse in the Initial
Period of Central Coastal Peru 1996 Comparisons of Dimension of Trace Elemental
Distribution in Archaeological Human Bones (second author with
J. F. Farnum and M. K. Sanford, Archaeometry meetings, Urbana, IL. *1995 Bioindicaciones, paper presented
to the Anthropology Colloquim, San Marcos University, February, 1995,
Lima, Perú . 1995 Chemical and Dental Estimates of Weaning
Age for Paloma, Peru (with Julie Farnum, senior author), 23rd Annual
Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory,
Chicago. 1995 The Basket Household: Life and Death at the
Residence of an Extended Family, Paloma, Chilca Valley, Peru, 23rd
Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory,
Chicago. *1994 Poblacion y Demografí a en Sitio
Paloma, Escuela de Arqueologí a, San Marcos University,
Lima, Perú . 1994 Iterative Improvement of Missing Data Estimates
(junior author with Brigitte Holt), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology,
54th Annual Meetings, Seattle. 1994 Preference for Indigenous or Western Curing
by Herders of the Southern Andes, National Symposium on Indigenous
Knowledge, Tampa, Florida. 1993 Identifying Crops through Phytolith Analysis,
junior author with Deborah Pearsall and Delores Piperno), presented to
symposium "The Origins of Agriculture," at the Society for American
Archaeology Annual Meetings. 1993 Prolonged Virginity in the Coastal Peruvian
Preceramic: The Economic Importance of (Fisher)women in the Early stages
of Andean Civilization, paper presented to the 21st Annual Midwest
Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory. 1993 Expert Systems in Agriculture (with
Louanna Furbee), MU Agricultural Economic Colloquium, February, 1993. 1993 How Selectionist Explanations Applied to
Archaeology Can Be Validated, part 1 of two part presentation (with
Mark Flinn) "Can Ideas be Usefully Treated
as Like Genes for the Explanation of Human Culture?" to the
Department of Anthropology Lecture Series. 1992 Logic Processing, a Solution to Under-determination
of Archaeological Explanations, presented to the symposium South
American and Mesoamerican Archaeology, which I chaired, at the 57th Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh. 1992 A Better Foundation for Archaeological Knowledge:
An Expert System CD-ROM Site Report for Paloma, Peru, paper presented
to the 20th Midwest Andean Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology
and Ethnohistory, Urbana-Champaign. 1992 Linguistic Methods for Developing Concept
Trees (junior presented with Louanna Furbee), Medical Informatics
and Expert Systems Presentations, University of Missouri-Columbia. 1992 Continuing Ethnobotanical Research at Paloma
and Tres Ventanas, Perú (junior author with Deborah Pearsall),
paper presented to the 20th Midwest Andean Conference on Andean and Amazonian
Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Urbana-Champaign. *1991 Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Representation,
invited paper for Expert Systems for Social Applications, World Congress
on Expert Systems, Orlando. 1991 Overlap of Lomas and River Valley Preceramic
Occupations: 1990 Salvage Excavations at Paloma, Chilca Valley, Peru,
paper presented to the 19th Midwest Andean Conference on Andean and Amazonian
Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Bloomington. 1991 Expert Systems as an Aid to Interpreting
Data from Semi-Structured Interviews (senior author with L. Furbee,
G. McKinney, M.J. Fisher, B. Ewigman, J. Campbell, and S. Zweig), paper
presented to the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology,
Charleston. 1991 Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology
and Ethnohistory, organized with Deborah M. Pearsall and Alice
N. Benfer, University of Missouri. Book Review 1996 Mortuary Practices and Skeletal Remains
at Teotihuacán, by M. L. Sempowski and M. W. Spence, Latin
American Antiquity 7:378-380.
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