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Kate Pechenkina at
3,900 meters in Perú

Research by subdiscipline: Archaeology     
(since 1990; please see C.V. for full details.)

Articles and Chapters     
(includes selected recent refereed abstracts):

• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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 PalomaWorld, http://coas.missouri.edu/paloma/, the first archaeological digital library.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 1990 The Preceramic Period Site of Paloma, Peru: Bioindications of Improving Adaptation to Sedentism, Latin American Antiquity, 1:284-318.
  
  
• 1990 Informe Preliminar, Excavaciones en la Cueva de Tres Ventanas, 8 page report presented to the Nacional Institute of Culture, Lima, Peru. REPORT.

Field Work      

• July 2002 Test excavations at Quipa site, Chilca Valley, Perú.
  
  
• June-July 2002 Test excavations of Buena Vista site, Chillón Valley, Perú.
  
  
• June, 2001 Mapping, Buena Vista site, Chillón Valley; reconnaissance of Quipa site, Chilca Valley, Perú.
  
  
• October, 2000 Test Excavations at Paje Site, Boone County, Missouri.
  
  
• July-August, 1999 Excavations at Antibal, 3,600 m in the Chilca Valley, Perú.
  
  
• May-June, 1999 Northern Chinese Neolithic Project, Xi'an, China.
  
  
• May-June, 1998 Amazonian Origin of a Disease which Led to the Collapse of the Initial Period, Lima and also Ica, Perú , with Michael Dietz.
  
  
• July-August 1998 Neolithic of Northeast China Project, study in Xi'an and Beijing.
  
  
• May-July, 1997 Sican Project continued in Fereñ afe, Perú; Asia, Huayamarca, Villa Salvador, and Huaca Pucllana skeletal studies, Lima, Perú with Ekaterina Petchenkina.
  
  
• June-July 1996 Sicá n Sacrifices: Base Data on Health, Batan Grande,Perú and PalomaWorld, Chilca Valley, Perú, with Julie Farnum
  
  
• Jan.-Feb. 1995, Disease and the collapse of initial civilization in coastal Perú , Lima, Perú, with Joseph Vradenburg.
  
  
• July 1994, Reconnaissance of upper Chilca Valley sites (3800 m) for future excavation, Perú.
  
  
• June-July 1990, Salvage Excavations at the Paloma Site, Chilca Valley, Perú, with Eric White.
  

Research Support     

• 2002 Dietary Adjustments and Demographic Responses to environmental deterioration during the 4th millennium BC in China (Co-CPI with Ekaterina Pechenkina), NSF, pending.
  
  
• 2002 The Rise of Civilization in Peru, University of Missouri Research Board, $ 36,000.
  
  
• 2000 Technical Analyses of Materials Excavated at the Site of Antibál, Perú, $1000, University of Missouri Research Board.
  
  
• 1999 The Rise and Sudden Fall of Early Andean Civilizations, Brennan Foundation, $5,000.
  
  
• 1998 The Neolithic of Northeastern China: Skeletal Evidence for the Early Adoption of Agriculture, University of Missouri Research Board, $29,820.
  
  
• 1998 Neolithic of Northeast China Project: Preliminary study of materials from the Xi'an region, University of Missouri Research Council, $ 4,060.
  
  
• 1997 Sican Archaeological Project: Laboratory preparation of samples for Ph.D. dissertation by Julie Farnum, Ekaterina Pechonkina and myself, $2,500, Fereñ afe, Peru.
  
  
• 1997 Oneota Diet in Missouri: the Utz Site, $2,000, State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources, with Ekaterina Pechonkina.
  
  
• 1996-97 PalomaWorld virtual reality project, $58,080, Advanced Technology Center, MU.
  
  
• 1996 Sicán Archaeological Project: Preliminary field work in cooperation with SIU on the study of skeletal remains from Moche sites in northern Perú , Batan Grande, Peru, $1,500.
  
  
• 1996 PalomaWorld: An Intelligent Hypermedia Archaeological Site Report, University of Missouri Research Board, $45,859.
  
  
• 1994 Collaborative Basic Research Towards the Development and Maturation of Phytolith Analysis in Archaeology (Deborah Pearsall, Robert A. Benfer, Jr., and Dolores R. Piperno), Supplemental grant, NSF (Archaeometry), $8,125.
  
  
• 1994-95 Research Leave: Disease and the Collapse of Early Civilization in Perú, MU Research Leave and Research Council Grant funded 7 person months of research by myself and my graduate student, Joseph Vradenburg.
  
  
• 1991-1992 Dietary Evidence from Dental Phytoliths, NSF DBS-9208593, $4,300.
  
  
• 1991-1992 Research Experience for Undergraduates: Maritime Foundations of Sedentism, (Ellen O'Neil), NSF BNS-9007928, $4,000.
  
  
• 1991-92 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement (Michael J. Elam): Source Analysis and Hydration Dating of Post-Formative Period Obsidian Artifacts from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, NSF BNS9116523, $8,480.
  
  
• 1990-1992 Collaborative Basic Research Towards the Development and Maturation of Phytolith Analysis in Archaeology (Sr. Faculty Associate, Deborah Pearsall, PI), NSF, $25,905.
  
  
• 1990-1991 Adaptation to Sedentism on the Western Flanks of the Central Andes (PI), NSF, BNS 90-07928, $29,396.
  
  
• 1990-1991 Adaptation to Sedentism in the Andes (PI), MU Research Council, $2,290.
  
  
• 1989-1990 Collaborative Basic Research Towards the Development and Maturation of Phytolith Analysis in Archaeology, development of simulations and expert systems (Senior Research Associate, D. Pearsall PI), NSF.