Peer-reviewed journal articles
2024
Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Weston McCool, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon Brewer, Brian F. Codding (2024). The Fremont Frontier: Living at the Margins of Maize Farming. American Antiquity: 1-19. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2024.22
2024
Kenneth B. Vernon, Scott G. Ortman (2024). A method for defining dispersed community territories. Journal of Archaeological Science 170: 106048. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106048
2024
Kenneth B. Vernon, Brian F. Codding, Simon C. Brewer, Shane J. Macfarlan (2024). Trade-off between market and ecosystem services drives settlement decisions among smallholder ranchers in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sustainability Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-024-01491-9
2024
Peter M. Yaworsky, Kenneth B. Vernon, Weston C. McCool, Isaac A. Hart, Jerry Spangler, Brian F. Codding (2024). The Goldilocks Zone for maize agriculture and the settlement and abandonment of the West Tavaputs Plateau. Quaternary International 689-690: 30-42. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.12.003
2024
Brian F. Codding, Heidi Roberts, William Eckerle, Simon C. Brewer, Ishmael D. Medina, Kenneth B. Vernon, Jerry S. Spangler (2024). Can we reliably detect adaptive responses of hunter-gatherers to past climate change? Examining the impact of Mid-Holocene drought on Archaic settlement in the Basin-Plateau Region of North America. Quaternary International 689-690: 5-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.06.014
2022
Weston C. McCool, Kurt M. Wilson, Kenneth B. Vernon (2022). Ecological Constraints on Violence Avoidance Tactics in the Prehispanic Central Andes. Environmental Archaeology: 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2022.2137652
2022
Brian F. Codding, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Lisbeth Louderback, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Kate E. Magargal, Peter M. Yaworsky, Erick Robinson, Simon C. Brewer, Jerry D. Spangler (2022). Socioecological dynamics structuring the spread of farming in the North American basin-plateau region. Environmental Archaeology 27 (4): 434-446. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1927480
2022
Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Jerry Spangler, Simon Brewer, Brian F. Codding (2022). Decomposing habitat suitability across the forager to farmer transition. Environmental Archaeology 27 (4): 420-433. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2020.1746880
2022
Weston C. McCool, Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Brian F. Codding (2022). Subsistence strategy mediates ecological drivers of human violence. PLOS ONE 17 (5): e0268257. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268257
2022
Weston C. McCool, Brian F. Codding, Kenneth B. Vernon, Kurt M. Wilson, Peter M. Yaworsky, Norbert Marwan, Douglas J. Kennett (2022). Climate change–induced population pressure drives high rates of lethal violence in the Prehispanic central Andes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (17): e2117556119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2117556119
2021
Bruce M. Pavlik, Lisbeth A. Louderback, Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Cynthia Wilson, Arnold Clifford, Brian F. Codding (2021). Plant species richness at archaeological sites suggests ecological legacy of Indigenous subsistence on the Colorado Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (21): e2025047118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2025047118
2020
Shane J. Macfarlan, Ryan Schacht, Caroline Foley, Sydney Cahoon, Grace Osusky, Kenneth B. Vernon, Evan Tayler, Celeste Henrickson, Eric Schniter (2020). Marriage dynamics in old Lower California: Ecological constraints and reproductive value in an arid peninsular frontier. Biodemography and Social Biology 65 (2): 156-171. DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2020.1728685
2020
Peter M. Yaworsky, Kenneth B. Vernon, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon C. Brewer, Brian F. Codding (2020). Advancing predictive modeling in archaeology: An evaluation of regression and machine learning methods on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. PLOS ONE 15 (10): e0239424. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239424
2017
Kate E. Magargal, Ashley K. Parker, Kenneth B. Vernon, Will Rath, Brian F. Codding (2017). The ecology of population dispersal: Modeling alternative basin-plateau foraging strategies to explain the Numic expansion. American Journal of Human Biology 29 (4): e23000-n/a. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23000
Book reviews
2020
Kenneth B. Vernon, Brian F. Codding (2020). Review of Oshara Revisited: The Archaic Period in Northern New Mexico by Nicholas Chapin. Journal of Anthropological Research 76 (1): 138-140. DOI: 10.1086/706946
ArticleTechnical reports
2022
Ishmael Medina, Kenneth B. Vernon, Kate E. Magargal, Weston C. McCool, Jerry D. Spangler, Brian F. Codding (2022). Archaeological Survey of Cottonwood Wash, San Rafael Desert, Emery County, Utah. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, Price Field Office, Price, Utah; and State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, Salt Lake City, Utah. Prepared by the University of Utah Archaeological Center and the Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance. BLM Cooperative Agreement L20AC00267. United States Department of Interior Permit No. 21UT85115. State of Utah Antiquities Project No. U22UA031. University of Utah Archaeological Center Project No. UUAC22052.
2021
Jerry D. Spangler, Matthew Zweifel, Heidi Roberts, Kenneth B. Vernon, Isaac Hart, Brian F. Codding, Anne Lawlor (2021). Limited Test Excavations at Red Reef Shelter (42WS519), Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, Washington County, Utah. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, St. George, Utah.
2019
Jerry D. Spangler, Peter M. Yaworsky, Kenneth B. Vernon, Brian F. Codding (2019). Hisatsinom of the high plateaus: a Class I overview of prehistoric cultural resources in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2018
Brian F. Codding, Kate E. Magargal, Kenneth B. Vernon, Paul E. Allgaier, Jess Valdez, Ron Goode (2018). Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at the Jack Kirk Site, Mariposa Creek, California. Report submitted to the North Fork Mono Tribe, Mariposa Creek, California.
2018
Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Jerry D. Spangler (2018). The Archaeology of Molen Reef, Emery County, Utah. Report submitted to the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Salt Lake City, Utah.