Brian F Codding portrait
  • Director, Environmental & Sustainability
  • Professor, Anthropology Department

Publications

  • Codding Brian F, Jack Meyer, Simon C. Brewer, Robert L Kelly, and Terry L. Jones (2024) Do counts of radiocarbon-dated archaeological sites reflect human population density? A preliminary empirical validation examining spatial variation across late Holocene California. Radiocarbon. DOI:10.1017/RDC.2024.81. [link]. Published, 09/20/2024.
  • Codding, Brian F. and Simon C Brewer (2024) Regression with archaeological count data. Advances in Archaeological Practice 12(2): 163-172. DOI: 10.1017/aap.2024.7. [link] [pdf]. Published, 09/18/2024.
  • Contreras, Daniel A. and Brian F. Codding (2024) Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 31: 1102–1128. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-023-09634-5. [link]. Published, 09/2024.
  • Vernon, Kenneth B., Peter M. Yaworsky, Weston C. McCool, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon C. Brewer, and Brian F. Codding (2024) The Fremont Frontier: Living at the Margins of Maize Farming. American Antiquity 89(3):440-458. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2024.22. [link]. Published, 08/27/2024.
  • Vernon, Kenneth B., Brian F. Codding, Simon C. Brewer, and Shane J. Macfarlan (2024) Market integration mediates human-environment interactions among traditional ranchers in Baja, Mexico. Sustainability Science 19: 1377-1390. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-024-01491-9. [link]. Published, 04/24/2024.
  • Yaworsky, Peter M., Kenneth B. Vernon, Weston C. McCool, Isaac A. Hart, Jerry Spangler, and 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. [link]. Published, 04/2024.
  • Cole, Kasey E., Maren Moffatt, Brian F. Codding, and Jack M. Broughton (2024) Human settlement density, not late Holocene climate change, influenced Artiodactyla species abundance in northeastern California faunal assemblages. Quaternary International 689-690: 43-54. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.10.006. [link]. Published, 04/2024.
  • Codding, Brian F., Heidi Roberts, William Eckerle, Simon C. Brewer, Ishmael Medina, Kenneth Blake Vernon, and 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. [link]. Published, 04/2024.
  • Baka, Abby S., Lisbeth A. Louderback, Brian F. Codding, and Alexandra M. Greenwald (2024) An investment index for lithic technology: Implications for investment, mobility, and division of labor on the Colorado Plateau, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 53: 104373. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104373. [link]. Published, 02/2024.
  • McCool, Weston and Brian F. Codding (2024) U.S. homicide rates increase when resources are scarce and unequally distributed. Evolutionary Human Sciences 6:e3. DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2023.31. [link]. Published, 01/2024.
  • Levit, Zoë M., Terry L. Jones, and Brian F. Codding (2023) Picking up the pieces: assessing alternative methods for reconstructing whole red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) shell size from fragments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 52:104213. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104213. [link]. Published, 12/2023.
  • Sokolowski, Kathryn, Brian F. Codding, Andrew Du, and J. Tyler Faith (2023) Do grazers equal grasslands? Strengthening paleoenvironmental inferences through analysis of present-day African mammals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 629:111786. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111786. [link]. Published, 11/01/2023.
  • Magargal, Kate, Kurt Wilson, Shaniah Chee, Michael J. Campbell, Vanessa Bailey, Philip E. Dennison, William RL Anderegg, Adrienne Cachelin, Simon Brewer, and Brian F. Codding (2023) The impacts of climate change, energy policy and traditional ecological practices on future firewood availability for Diné (Navajo) People. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378, no. 1889 (2023): 20220394. [link]. Published, 09/18/2023.
  • Allgaier, Paul E. and Brian F. Codding (2023) Paleoindian Settlement Decisions in the Great Basin: A Test of the Pluvial Lake Hypothesis with the Ideal Free Distribution Model. PaleoAmerica 9(2): 135-147. DOI: 10.1080/20555563.2023.2234739. [link]. Published, 07/21/2023.
  • Kievman, Hayley T., Kurt M. Wilson, Roxanne Lois F. Lamson, Arthur Gyumushyan, Brian F. Codding, and Alexandra M. Greenwald (2023) Late Holocene size variation of Mytilus californianus remains from Shelter Cove (CA-HUM-182, Northern California). California Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2023.2223494. [link]. Published, 07/16/2023.
  • Wilson, Kurt M., Kasey E. Cole and Brian F. Codding (2023) Identifying key socioecological factors influencing the expression of egalitarianism and inequality among foragers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 378(1883):20220311. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0311. [link] [pdf]. Published, 06/26/2023.
  • Smith, Eric Alden, Jennifer Smith and Brian F. Codding (2023). Toward an Evolutionary Ecology of (In)equality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B. 378(1883): 20220287. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0287. [link]. Published, 06/26/2023.
  • Magargal, Kate E., Jonah Yellowman, Shaniah Chee, Molly Wabel, Shane Macfarlan and Brian F. Codding (2023) Firewood and Energy Sovereignty on Navajo Nation. Human Ecology 51: 497-511. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00411-2. [link]. Published, 06/24/2023.
  • McCool, Weston C., Amy S. Anderson, Alexis Ja'net Baide, Toni Gonzalez and Brian F. Codding (2023) Evaluating the relationships between climate change, population pressure, economic intensification, and childhood stress in the Prehispanic Nasca region of Peru. Quaternary International. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.06.003. [link]. Published, 06/11/2023.
  • Jones, Terry L., Christina Hornbacker, Kate Knox, Zoe Levitt, Sierra Lyman, Jake Wanzen-reid, and Brian F. Codding (2023) Anarchy Meets Hierarchy: Socio-political Implications of Diachronic Variation in Exchange Indices from central California’s Pecho coast. California Archaeology 15(1):1-32. DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2023.2174760. [link]. Published, 03/2023.
  • Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding (2023). Life at Tstyiwi (CA-SLO-51/H), A Northern Chumash Maritime Community on the Pecho Coast of central California. In Marco Meniketti (ed.), The Long Shore: Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes, pp. 47-71. Berghahn Books, New York. DOI: 10.3167/9781800738652. [link]. Published, 02/2023.
  • Zeanah, David W., Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Chloe McGuire George T. Jones, and Robert G. Elston (2022). The Role of Theory and Ethnographic Analogies in Understanding PaleoIndian Obsidian Acquisition, Mobility, and Mating Strategies in the Great Basin. In Archaeology on the Threshold: Studies in the Processes of Change, edited by Joseph D. Wardle, Robert K. Hitchcock, Matthew Schmader, and Pei-Lin Yu. University Press of Florida. [link]. Published, 12/2022.
  • Tatlow, Claire, Emma Cook, Maddie Noet, Jack Webb, Kate Knox, Brian F. Codding, and Terry L. Jones (2022). Return to the Shellfish Beds: New Insights on Use of California Sea Mussels (Mytilus californianus) and Turban Snails (Tegula spp.) Based on Harvesting Experiments. California Archaeology 14(2): 133-157. [link]. Published, 09/2022.
  • Broughton, Jack M., Brian F. Codding, J. Tyler Faith, Kathryn A. Mohlenhoff, Ruth Gruhn, Joan Brenner-Coltrain, and Isaac A. Hart. (2022). El Niño frequency threshold controls coastal biotic communities. Science 377(6611): 1202-1205. [link] [press] [news]. Published, 08/2022.
  • Weitzel, Elic and Brian F. Codding (2022) The Ideal Distribution Model and Archaeological Settlement Patterning. Environmental Archaeology 27: 349-356. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2020.1803015. [link]. Published, 06/2022.
  • Vernon, Kenneth Blake, Peter M. Yaworsky, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon C. Brewer and Brian F. Codding (2022) Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition. Environmental Archaeology 27: 420-433. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2020.1746880. [link]. Published, 06/2022.
  • Weitzel, Elic, Brian F. Codding, Stephen Carmody, and David W. Zeanah (2022) Food production and domestication produced both cooperative and competitive interpersonal dynamics in eastern North America. Environmental Archaeology 27:388-401. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2020.1737394. [link] [news]. Published, 06/2022.
  • Bliege Bird, Rebecca and Brian F. Codding (2022) Promise and peril of ecological and evolutionary modelling using cross-cultural datasets. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6:6-8. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01579-w. [link]. Published, 06/2022.
  • Codding, Brian F., Joan Brenner Coltrain, Lisbeth Louderback, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Erick Robinson, Kate E. Magargal, Simon C. Brewer, and Jerry D. Spangler (2022) Socioecological dynamics structuring the spread of farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region. Environmental Archaeology 27: 434-446. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1927480. [link] [pdf] [sup]. Published, 06/2022.
  • Codding, Brian F., Kasey Cole, and Kurt M. Wilson (2022). Socioecological factors influence hunter-gatherers. In Thomas Widlok, M. Dores Cruz (eds.), Scale Matters The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality, pp. : 131-152. Culture & Theory Volume 263. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. DOI: 10.14361/9783839460993-007. [link]. Published, 06/2022.
  • McCool Weston C., Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, and Brian F. Codding (2022) Subsistence strategy mediates ecological drivers of human violence. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0268257. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268257. [link]. Published, 05/23/2022.
  • McCool, Weston C., Brian F. Codding, Kenneth B. Vernon, Kurt M. Wilson, Peter M. Yaworsky, Norbert Marwan, and 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. [link] [press]. Published, 04/21/2022.
  • Codding, Brian F. and David W. Zeanah (2022). The Marginal Value of Hunter-Gatherer Site Structure. In Amy E. Clark and Joseph A.M. Gingerich (eds), Intrasite Spatial Analysis of Mobile and Semisedentary Peoples: Analytical Approaches to Reconstructing Occupation History, pp. 44-50. University of Utah Press. [link]. Published, 04/2022.
  • Jones, Terry L., William R. Hildebrandt, Eric Wohlgemuth, and Brian F. Codding (2022) Postcontact Cultural Perseverance on the Central California Coast: Sedentism and Maritime Intensification. American Antiquity 187(3):505 - 522. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2022.1. [link]. Published, 03/28/2022.
  • Wilson, Kurt M, Weston C McCool, Simon C Brewer, Nicole Zamora-Wilson, Percy J Schryver, Roxanne Lois F Lamson, Ashlyn M Huggard, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Daniel A Contreras, and Brian F Codding (2022) Climate and demography drive 7000 years of dietary change in the Central Andes. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05774-y. [link] [press]. Published, 02/07/2022.
  • Kelly, Robert L., Madeline E. Mackie, Erick Robinson, Jack Meyer, Michael Berry, Matthew Boulanger, Brian F. Codding, Jacob Freeman, Carey James Garland, Joseph Gingerich, Robert Hard, James Haug, Andrew Martindale, Scott Meeks, Myles Miller, Shane Miller, Timothy Perttula, Jim A. Railey, Ken Reid, Ian Scharlotta, Jerry Spangler, David Hurst Thomas, Victor Thompson, and Andrew White. (2022) A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States. American Antiquity. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2021.157. [link]. Published, 02/2022.
  • James, L. Brock, Kaley Joyce, Kate E. Magargal, and Brian F. Codding (2022) A stone in the hand is worth how many in the bush? Applying the Marginal Value Theorem to understand optimal toolstone transportation, processing, and discard decisions. Journal of Archaeological Science 137: 105518. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105518. [link]. Published, 01/2022.
  • Jones, Terry L., Schwitalla, Al W., Pilloud, Marin A., Johnson, John R., Paine, Richard R., and Codding, Brian F. (2021) Historic and bioarchaeological evidence supports late onset of post-Columbian epidemics in Native California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(28). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2024802118. [link]. Published, 07/13/2021.
  • Pavlik, Bruce M., Lisbeth A. Louderback, Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Cynthia Wilson, Arnold Clifford, and 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. [link]. Published, 05/17/2021.
  • Jones, Terry L., Joan Brenner Coltrain, David K. Jacobs, Judith Porcasi, Simon C. Brewer, Janet C. Buckner, John D. Perrine, and Brian F. Codding (2021) Causes and consequences of the late Holocene extinction of the marine flightless duck (Chendytes lawi) in the northeastern Pacific. Quaternary Science Reviews 260:106914. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106914. [link]. Published, 05/15/2021.
  • Carter, Vachel A., Andrea Brunelle, Mitchell J. Power, R. Justin DeRose, Matthew F. Bekker, Isaac Hart, Simon Brewer, Jerry Spangler, Erick Robinson, Mark Abbott, S. Yoshi Maezumi, and Brian F. Codding (2021) Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA. Communications Earth & Environment 2, 72. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00137-3. [link]. Published, 04/14/2021.
  • Smith, Eric Alden, and Brian F. Codding (2021) Ecological Variation and Institutionalized Inequality in Hunter-Gatherer Societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (13) e2016134118. [link]. Published, 03/23/2021.
  • Wilson, Kurt M. and Brian F. Codding (2020) The Marginal Utility of Inequality: A Global Examination across Ethnographic Societies. Human Nature 31: 361-386. 10.1007/s12110-020-09383-4. [link]. Published, 12/2020.
  • Yaworsky, Peter M., Kenneth B. Vernon, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon C. Brewer, and 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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239424. [link]. Published, 10/01/2020.
  • Koster, Jeremy + 40 co-authors (2020) The Life History of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural and Individual Variation. Science Advances 6(26): eaax9070. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax9070. Published, 06/24/2020.
  • Campbell, Michael, Philip E. Dennison, Jesse W. Tune, Steven A Kannenberg, Kelly L. Kerr, Brian F. Codding, and William R. Anderegg (2020). A multi-sensor, multi-scale approach to mapping tree mortality in woodland ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment 245: 111853. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111853. [link]. Published, 04/2020.
  • Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding (2019) The Native California Commons: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Land Control, Resource Use, and Management. In Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management, edited by Lozny, Ludomir R., and McGovern, Thomas, pp. 255--280. Springer. [link]. Published, 06/22/2019.
  • Parker, Ashley K., Christopher H. Parker and Brian F. Codding (2019). When to defend? Optimal territoriality across the Numic homeland. Quaternary International 518: 3-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.034. [link]. Published, 05/30/2019.
  • Codding, Brian F., Ashley K. Parker, and Terry L. Jones (2019) Territorial behavior among Western North American foragers: Allee effects, within group cooperation, and between group conflict. Quaternary International 518: 31-40. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.10.045 [link]. Published, 05/30/2019.
  • Codding, Brian F., Adrian R. Whitaker and Nathan E. Stevens (2019) Territorial Behavior and Ecology in Western North America. Quaternary International 518:1-2. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2019.07.013. [link]. Published, 04/2019.
  • Bird, Douglas W., Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian F. Codding, David W. Zeanah (2019) Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: foragers do not live in small-scale societies. Journal of Human Evolution 131:96-108. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.005. [link]. Published, 03/2019.
  • Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding (2019) Foragers on America's Western Edge: The Archaeology of California's Pecho Coast. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah. ISBN-10: 1607816431. [link]. Published, 01/2019.
  • Robinson, Erick, H. Jabran Zahid, Brian F. Codding, Randall Haas, and Robert L.Kelly (2019) Spatiotemporal dynamics of prehistoric human population growth: Radiocarbon ‘dates as data’ and population ecology models. Journal of Archaeological Science 101: 63-71. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.11.006 [link]. Published, 01/2019.
  • Power, Mitchell J., Brian F. Codding, Alan H. Taylor, Thomas W. Swetnam, Kate E. Magargal, Douglas W. Bird and James F. O'Connell (2018). Human Legacies on Ecological Landscapes. Frontiers in Earth Science, 6, 151. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2018.00151. [link]. Published, 10/15/2018.
  • Yaworsky, Peter M. and Brian F. Codding (2018) The Ideal Distribution of Farmers: Explaining the Euro-American Settlement of Utah. American Antiquity 83: 75-90. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2017.46 [link]. Published, 01/2018.
  • Mohlenhoff, Kathryn A. and Brian F. Codding (2017) When does it pay to invest in a patch? The evolution of intentional niche construction. Evolutionary Anthropology 26:218–227. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21534. [link]. Published, 10/13/2017.
  • Perry, George H. and Brian F. Codding (2017) Stone Tool Use: Monkeys overharvest shellfish eLIfe 6:e30865. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.30865. [link]. Published, 09/13/2017.
  • Cook, Emma F., Terry L. Jones and Brian F. Codding (2017) The Function of Pitted Stones: An Experimental Evaluation. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 37:220-231. Published, 09/2017.
  • Zeanah, David W., Brian F. Codding, Rebecca Bliege Bird and Douglas W. Bird (2017) Mosaics of fire and water: the co-emergence of anthropogenic landscapes and intensive seed exploitation in the Australian arid zone. Australian Archaeology 83:2-19 . DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2017.1359876. [link]. Published, 08/09/2017.
  • Martin, Erik P., Joan Brenner Coltrain and Brian F. Codding (2017) Re-visiting Hogup Cave, Utah: Insights from new radiocarbon dates and stratigraphic analysis. American Antiquity 82: 301-324. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2017.2. [link]. Published, 05/05/2017.
  • Magargal, Kate E., Ashley K. Parker, Will Rath, Kenneth Blake Vernon and 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 1:14. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23000. [link]. Published, 04/04/2017.
  • Darimont, Chris T., Brian F. Codding and Kristen Hawkes (2017) Why men trophy hunt. Biology Letters 20160909. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0909 [link]. Published, 03/2017.
  • Codding, Brian F., David W. Zeanah, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Christopher H. Parker and Douglas W. Bird (2016) Martu Ethnoarchaeology: Foraging Ecology and the Marginal Value of Site Structure. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 44:166-176. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2016.07.011. [link]. Published, 11/19/2016.
  • Allen, Mark W., Robert L. Bettinger, Brian F. Codding, Terry L. Jones and Al W. Schwitalla (2016) Environmental scarcity drives lethal aggression among prehistoric hunter-gatherers from central California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:12120-12125. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607996113. [link]. Published, 10/2016.
  • Codding, Brian F. and Terry L. Jones (2016) External Impacts on Internal Dynamics: Effects of Paleoclimatic and Demographic Variability on Acorn Exploitation along the Central California Coast. In The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions: Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past, edited by Daniel Contreras, pp. 195-210. Routledge, Oxford. [link] [pdf]. Published, 09/2016.
  • Weitzel, Elic M. and Brian F. Codding (2016) Population growth as a driver of initial domestication in Eastern North America. Royal Society Open Science 3: 160319. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160319. [link] [pdf]. Published, 08/03/2016.
  • Codding, Brian F. and Karen L. Kramer (eds) (2016) Why Forage? Hunters and Gatherers in the 21st Century. School for Advanced Research and University of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. [link]. Published, 05/31/2016.
  • Codding, Brian F., Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas W. Bird and David W. Zeanah (2016) Alternative Aboriginal Economies: Martu Livelihoods in the 21st Century. In Why Forage? Hunters and Gatherers in the 21st Century, edited by Brian F. Codding and Karen L. Kramer. School for Advanced Research and University of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. [link]. Published, 05/31/2016.
  • Bliege Bird, Rebecca, Brian F. Codding and Douglas W. Bird (2016) Economic, social and ecological contexts of hunting, sharing and fire in the Western Desert of Australia. In Why Forage? Hunters and Gatherers in the 21st Century, edited by Brian F. Codding and Karen L. Kramer. School for Advanced Research and University of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. [link]. Published, 05/31/2016.
  • Kramer, Karen L. and Brian F. Codding (2016) Introduction: Hunters and Gatherers in the 21st Century. In Why Forage? Hunters and Gatherers in the 21st Century, edited by Brian F. Codding and Karen L. Kramer. School for Advanced Research and University of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. [link]. Published, 05/31/2016.
  • Bliege Bird, R., Douglas W. Bird and Brian F. Codding (2016) People, El Nino southern oscillation and fire in Australia: fire regimes and climate controls in hummock grasslands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 371. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0343. [link]. Published, 05/23/2016.
  • Bird, Douglas W., Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian F. Codding and Nyalangka Taylor (2016) A landscape architecture of fire: cultural emergence and ecological pyrodiversity in Australia's Western Desert. Current Anthropology 57(S 13). DOI:10.1086/685763. [link]. Published, 05/09/2016.
  • Bird, Douglas W., Rebecca Bliege Bird and Brian F. Codding (2016) Pyrodiversity and the anthropocene: the role of fire in the broad spectrum revolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 25: 105-116. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21482. [link]. Published, 05/2016.
  • Jones, Terry L., Kenneth W. Gobalet and Brian F. Codding (2016) The Archaeology of Fish and Fishing along the Central Coast of California: The Case for an Under-exploited Resource. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 41:88-108. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2015.11.002 [link] [pdf]. Published, 12/17/2015.
  • Codding, Brian F., Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird (2015) Why Not Work for the Mine? Costs and Benefits of Extractive Economies in Remote Aboriginal Australia. Cultural Anthropology Online, Fieldsights: Hotspots 771. [link]. Published, 12/17/2015.
  • Mohlenhoff, Kathryn A., Joan Brenner Coltrain and Brian F. Codding (2015) Optimal foraging theory and niche construction theory do not stand in opposition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: E3093. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1507637112. [link]. Published, 06/01/2015.
  • Codding, Brian F. and Douglas W. Bird (2015) Behavioral Ecology and the Future of Archaeological Science. Journal of Archaeological Science 56:9-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.027. [link] [pdf]. Published, 04/15/2015.
  • Codding, Brian F., Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird (2015) The Real Cost of Closing Remote Communities: The contribution made by traditional Indigenous economies. Arena Magazine 135:5-7 [link]. Published, 04/2015.
  • Bliege Bird, Rebecca and Brian F. Codding (2015) Sexual Division of Labor. In Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn. Wiley, San Francisco. DOI: 10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0300. [link] [pdf]. Published, 03/2015.
  • Zeanah, David W., Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird and Peter M. Veth (2015) Diesel and Damper: Changes in seed use and mobility patterns following contact amongst the Martu of Western Australia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 39:51-62 [link]. Published, 02/2015.
  • Elston, Robert G., David W. Zeanah and Brian F. Codding (2014) Living outside the box: an updated perspective on diet breadth and sexual division of labor in the Preachaic Great Basin. Quaternary International 352:200-211. [link] [pdf]. Published, 11/26/2014.
  • Codding, Brian F., Rebecca Bliege Bird, Peter G. Kauhanen and Douglas W. Bird (2014) Conservation or Co-evolution? Intermediate levels of Aboriginal burning and hunting have positive effects on kangaroo populations in Western Australia. Human Ecology 42:659-669. [link] [pdf]. Published, 08/05/2014.
  • Codding, Brian F., Adrian R. Whitaker and Douglas W. Bird (2014) Global Patterns in the Exploitation of Shellfish. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology 9:145-149. [link]. Published, 07/17/2014.
  • Codding, Brian F., James F. O'Connell and Douglas W. Bird (2014) Shellfishing and the Colonization of Sahul: A multivariate model evaluating the dynamic effects of prey utility, transport considerations and life history on foraging patterns and midden composition. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology 9:238-252. [link] [pdf]. Published, 07/17/2014.
  • Schwitalla, Al W., Terry L. Jones, Marin A. Pilloud, Brian F. Codding and Randy S. Wiberg (2014) Violence among foragers: The bioarchaeological record from central California. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 33:66-83. [link]. Published, 03/2014.
  • Codding, Brian F. and Douglas W. Bird (2013) A Global Perspective on Traditional Burning in California. California Archaeology 5:1-10. [link]. Published, 12/2013.
  • Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nyalanka Tayor, Brian F. Codding and Douglas W. Bird (2013) Niche construction and Dreaming logic: Aboriginal patch mosaic burning and varanid lizards (Varanus gouldii) in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280: 20132297. Published, 11/2013.
  • Codding, Brian F. and Terry L. Jones (2013) Environmental productivity predicts migration, demographic and linguistic patterns in prehistoric California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:14569-14573. [link] [pdf]. Published, 08/19/2013.
  • Bird, Douglas W., Brian F. Codding, Rebecca Bliege Bird, David W. Zeanah and Curtis J. Taylor (2013) Megafauna in a Continent of Small Game: Archaeological Implications of Martu Camel Hunting in Australia's Western Desert. Quaternary International 297:155-166. [link]. Published, 05/2013.
  • Bliege Bird, Rebecca, Brian F. Codding, Peter G. Kauhanen and Douglas W. Bird (2012) Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia’s spinifex grasslands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:10287-10292. [link]. Published, 06/26/2012.
  • Codding, Brian F., Douglas W. Bird and Terry L. Jones (2012) A land of work: foraging behavior and ecology. In Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology, edited by Terry L. Jones and Jennifer Perry. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, pp 115-131. [pdf] [link]. Published, 05/2012.
  • Jones, Terry L., and Brian F. Codding (2012) Sampling Issues in Evaluations of Diet and Diversity: Lessons from Diablo Canyon. In Exploring Faunal Analysis: Insights from California Archaeology, edited by Michael A. Glassow and Terry L. Joslin, Perspectives in California Archaeology, volume 9. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, pp 187-198. [pdf]. Published, 03/2012.
  • Codding, Brian F. Rebecca Bliege Bird and Douglas W. Bird (2011) Provisioning offspring and others: risk–energy trade-offs and gender differences in hunter–gatherer foraging strategies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 278:2502-2509. [link] [pdf]. Published, 08/2011.
  • Codding, Brian F., Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird (2010) Interpreting abundance indices: some zooarchaeological implications of Martu foraging. Journal of Archaeological Science 37:3200-3210. [link] [pdf]. Published, 12/2010.
  • Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding (2010) Historical Contingencies, Issues of Scale, and Flightless Hypotheses: A Response to Hildebrandt et al. American Antiquity 75: 689-699. [pdf]. Published, 07/2010.
  • Codding, Brian F. and Terry L. Jones (2010) Levels of Explanation in Behavioral Ecology: Understanding Seemingly Paradoxical Behavior Along the Central Coast of Alta California. California Archaeology 2:77-92. [pdf]. Published, 06/2010.
  • Codding, Brian F., Judith F. Porcasi and Terry L. Jones (2010) Explaining prehistoric variation in the abundance of large prey: A zooarchaeological analysis of deer and rabbit hunting along the Pecho Coast of Central California. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29:47-61. [link] [pdf]. Published, 03/2010.
  • Stevens, Nathan E. and Brian F. Codding (2009) Inferring the Function of Stone Points from California’s Central Coast. California Archaeology 1:7-28. [link]. Published, 06/2009.
  • Bliege Bird, Rebecca, Brian F. Codding, and Douglas W. Bird (2009) What Explains Differences in Men’s and Women’s Production? Determinants of Gendered Foraging Inequalities among Martu. Human Nature 20:105-129. [link]. Published, 05/2009.
  • Bird, Douglas W., Rebecca Bliege Bird, and Brian F. Codding (2009) In pursuit of mobile prey: Martu hunting strategies and archaeofaunal interpretation. American Antiquity 74:3-29. Published, 01/2009.
  • Bliege Bird, Rebecca, Douglas W. Bird, Brian F. Codding, Christopher H. Parker and James Holland Jones (2008) The “Fire Stick Farming” Hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity and anthropogenic fire mosaics Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:14796-14801. [link]. Published, 09/2008.
  • Jones, Terry L., Judith F. Porcasi, Jereme Gaeta, and Brian F. Codding (2008) The Diablo Canyon Fauna: A Coarse-grained Record of Trans-Holocene Foraging from the Central California Mainland Coast. American Antiquity 73:289-316. [pdf]. Published, 04/2008.
  • Jones, Terry L., Douglas J. Kennett, James A. Kennett, and Brian F. Codding (2008) Seasonal Stability in Late Holocene Shell sh Harvesting on the Central California Coast. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:2286-2294. [link] [pdf]. Published, 03/2008.
  • Codding, Brian F., and Terry L. Jones (2007) Man the Showoff ? Or the Ascendance of a Just-So Story: A Comment on Recent Applications of Costly Signaling in American Archaeology. American Antiquity 72:349-357. [link] [pdf]. Published, 04/2007.
  • Codding, Brian F., and Terry L. Jones (2007) History and Behavioral Ecology during the Middle-Late Transition on the Central California Coast: Findings from the Coon Creek Site (CA-SLO-9), San Luis Obispo County. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 27:23-49. [link] [pdf]. Published, 01/2007.

Research Keywords

  • Time Series Analysis
  • Spatial Statistics and Space-time Modeling
  • Quantitative Ethnography
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Data Analysis
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Archaeology
  • Anthropology

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