PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Brady, James E. and Keith M.
Prufer (editors) 2005 Keith M. Prufer and James E.
Brady (editors) 2005 RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Ray, E.,
Neff, N, Lynch P, Kennett D, Prufer KM.
The Impact of a Hypothesized 4.2 kybp Aridification Event on the
Development of Early Farming Diets in the Maya Region. Quaternary
International. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.09.008 Thompson, AE and KM Prufer, Household Distributions and
Social Organization of the Ancient Maya in Southern Belize. In District and
Neighborhood Sociopolitical Integration in the Andes and Mesoamerica,
Gabriela Cervantes and John Walden, editors. Center for Comparative
Archaeology – University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA. In Press
https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333221112359 T. Braun,
Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Vanessa Skiba,
Franziska Lechleitner, Erin Ray, Lisa M. Baldini, Victor J. Polyak, James
U. L. Baldini, Douglas J. Kennett, Keith M. Prufer,
and Norbert Marwan. Decline in seasonal predictability potentially
destabilized Classic Maya societies. Nature Communications Earth &
Environment. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00717-5 Waldman, S.,
D. Backenroth, É. Harney, S. Flohr, N. C. Neff, G. Buckley, H. Fridman, A.
Akbari, N. Rohland, S. Mallick, J. Cano Nistal J. Yu, N. Barzilai, I. Peter,
G. Atzmon, H. Ostrer, T. Lencz, Y. E. Maruvka, M. Lämmerhirt, L. V. Rutgers,
V. Renson, K.M. Prufer, S. Schiffels, H. Ringbauer, K. Sczech, S. Carmi, D.
Reich. Genome-wide data from medieval
German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century.
Cell, 2022 Johnson,
L.R.M., Drake, B.L., Brandt, S.A., Prufer, K.M. and Chase, A.F., 2022.
Reproducibility and Validity of Portable ED-XRF Instruments: A Comparison of
Spectral and Quantitative Results from Belizean and Ethiopian Obsidian.
Advances in Portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (pp. 424-446). AE Thompson,
JP Walden, ASZ Chase, SR Hutson, DB Marken, BCap, EC Fries, MR Guzman Piedrasanta,
T Hare, S Horn III, GJ. Micheletti, S Montgomery, J
Munson, H Richards-Rissetto, K Shaw-Müller, JJ Awe,
MK Brown, CE Ebert, A Ford, JA Hoggarth, H Moyes, T
Powis, KM Prufer, J Yaeger, BA Houk,
AF Chase, and DZ Chase. Ancient Maya Neighborhoods: Testing Kernel Density
for Neighborhood Identification Across the Maya Lowlands. PlosOne.
2022 Prufer, KM, AE Thompson, A Wickert,
DJ Kennett. Demographic Growth and Decline Track Climate
Change at a Classic Maya Center. Progress in Physical Geography. 2022. DOI: 10.1177/03091333221112359 DJ Kennett, M
Masson, CP Lope, S Serafin, RJ George, T Spencer, J Hoggarth,
BJ. Culleton, TK Harper, KM Prufer, S Milbrath, B
Russell, EU González, WC McCool, VV Aquino, E Paris, JH. Curtis, N Marwan, M
Zhang, Y Asmerom, VJ Polyak,
SA Carolin, DH James, A Mason, G Henderson, M
Brenner, JUL Baldini, SFM Breitenbach,
DA Hodell. Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the
Ancient Maya. Nature Communications, 2022.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31522-x%20 DJ. Kennett*,
M Lipson*, KM. Prufer*, D Mora-Marín, RJ.
George, N Rohland, Mark Robinson, WR. Trask, HHJ. Edgar, EC. Hill, EE. Ray, P Lynch, E Moes, L O’Donnell, TK.
Harper, EJ. Kate, J Ramos, J Morris, S
Gutierrez, TM. Ryan, BJ. Culleton,
JJ. Awe, David Reich*. Convergent Genetic, Linguistic, and Archaeological
Evidence for an Ancient Migration of Farmers into the Maya Region. Nature
Communications (*corresponding authors). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29158-y O. Kweicein, T Braun; CF Brunello; P Faulkner; N Hausmann; G
Helle; JA Hoggarth; M Ionita; C Jazwa; S Kelmelis; N Marwan; C Nava-Fernandez; C Nehme; T Opel; J
L. Oster; A Perşoiu; C Petrie; KM Prufer; SM. Saarni; A Wolf; SFM. Breitenbach. What
we talk about when we talk about seasonality - A transdisciplinary review.
Earth Science Reviews (invited contribution) (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103843. Prufer, KM, M. Robinson, DJ Kennett. Terminal Pleistocene through Middle
Holocene Occupations in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Linking Ecology and Culture
in the Context of Neotropical Foragers and Early Farmers.
Ancient Mesoamerica 32(3): 439-460 2021. DOI: 10.1017/S0956536121000195 Thompson, AE, G Feinman,
KM Prufer. Inequality and
the Financing of Classic Maya Political Power. Journal of Archaeological
Science. doi/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105441. 2021 Thompson AE, G. Feinman,
KM Prufer. Assessing Classic Maya Multi-Scalar Household Inequality in
Southern Belize. PlosOne. 16(3), e0248169.
2021 Monteleone, K, AE Thompson, and KM Prufer. Virtual
Cultural Landscapes: Geospatial Visualizations of Past Environments.
Archaeological Prospection. Doi 10.1002/arp.1830 2021 Thompson AE and KM Prufer. Household Inequality,
Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society.
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2021
doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09505-3 Smith, ME., SG. Ortman, J Lobo,
C Ebert, AE. Thompson, KM Prufer, R Liendo Stuardo, and RM. Rosenswig. The
Low-Density Urban Systems of the Classic Period Maya and Izapa:
Insights from Settlement Scaling Theory. Latin American Antiquity 2021
doi:10.1017/laq.2020.80. Kennett, DJ* KM Prufer*, BJ Culleton, RJ George, M
Robinson, WR Trask, G Buckley, E Moes, E Kate, TK
Harper, L O’Donnell, E Ray, EK Hill, A Alsgaard, C
Merriman, C Meredith, HJH Edgar, and S Gutierrez. Early Isotopic Evidence for Maize as a
Staple Grain in the Americas. Science
Advances 23, eaba3245
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3245, 2020 (*corresponding authors) KM, Prufer Nuevas perspectivas sobre ocupaciones paleoindias y arcaicas en Belice”, Arqueología Mexicana, núm. 165,
2020 pp. 32-34. KM, Prufer, M. Robinson, and DJ Kennett. Recent research
in the Bladen Nature Reserve: the preceramic occupations of Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul
Rockshelters. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, Vol. 17, 2020, pp.
199-208. Jordan, J. and KM Prufer.
Identifying Local and Non-Local Pottery in Three Tombs at Uxbenká, Toledo
District: Results of Thin Section Analysis. Research Reports in Belizean
Archaeology, Vol. 17, 2020, pp. 209-219. Jordan, J. and KM Prufer. Pottery Production in a Limestone-Poor
Region of the Maya Lowlands: Thin Section Petrography and Scanning Electron
Microscopy-Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (SEM-EDS) Analysis on Pottery from
Uxbenká, Southern Belize. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 2020 Y. Asmerom, J. U. L. Baldini, K.
M. Prufer, V. Polyak, H. E. Ridley, V. V. Aquino,
L. M. Baldini, S. F. M. Breitenbach,
C. G. Macpherson, & D.J. Kennett. Intertropical Convergence Zone
Variability in the Neotropics During the Common Era. Science Advances. 7(6) eaax3644, 2020 Prufer, K.M., Alsgaard, A.V., Robinson, M., Meredith, C.R., Culleton,
B.J., Dennehy, T., Magee, S., Huckell, B.B., Stemp, W.J., Awe, J.J. and Capriles,
J.M., 2019. Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations
in North, Central and South America. PloS one,
14(7), p.e0219812.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219812 Lechleitner, F., Lang, S., Haghipour,
N., McIntyre, C., Baldini, J., Prufer, K., &
Eglinton, T. Towards Organic Carbon Isotope Records from Stalgmites:
Coupled δ13c
AND 14C Analysis Using Wet Chemical Oxidation. Radiocarbon, 1-16. doi:10.1017/RDC.2019.35 2019 Thompson AE and KM Prufer.
2019 Archaeological Research in Southern Belize at Uxbenká and Ix Kuku’il. Research Reports in
Belizean Archaeology 16: 311-322. C. Posth, N. Nakatsuka, I.
Lazaridis, P. Skoglund, S. Mallick3, T. C. Lamnidis,
N. Rohland, K. Nägele, N.
Adamski, E. Bertolini, N. Broomandkhoshbacht,
A. Cooper, B. J. Culleton, T. Ferraz, M. Ferry, A. Furtwängler, W. Haak, K.
Harkins, T. K. Harper, T. Hünemeier, A. M. Lawson,
B. Llamas, M. Michel, E. Nelson, J. Oppenheimer, N. Patterson, S. Schiffels, J. Sedig, K.
Stewardson, S. Talamo, C.-C. Wang, J.-J. Hublin, M. Hubbe, K. Harvati, A. N. Delaunay, J. Beier,
M. Francken, P. Kaulicke,
H. Reyes-Centeno, K. Rademaker, W. R. Trask, M.
Robinson, S. M. Gutierrez, K. M. Prufer, D. C. Salazar-Garcia, E. Nunes Chim, L. Müller Plumm Gomes, M.
Lopes Alves, A. Liryo, M. Inglez,
R. E. Oliveira, D. V. Bernardo, A. Barioni, V. Wesolowski, N. A. Scheifler, M.
A. Rivera, C. R. Plens, P. G. Messineo,
L. Figuti, D. Corach, C. Scabuzzo, S. Eggers, P. DeBlasis,
M. Reindel, C. Méndez, G. Politis,
E. Tomasto-Cagigao, D. J. Kennett, A. Strauss, L. Fehren-Schmitz, J. Krause, D. Reich 2018 Reconstructing
the Deep Population History of Central and South America. Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.027 Thompson, AE., CR. Meredith, and KM. Prufer. 2018. Comparing Geostatistical Methods for the
Identification of Neighborhoods and Districts in Archaeological Contexts: A
Case Study from Two Ancient Maya Centers in Southern Belize. Journal of
Archaeological Science. 97,
1-13 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.06.012 Robinson,
M., JG De Souza, S. Yoshi Maezumi, M Cárdenas, L. Pessenda, K. Prufer, R. Corteletti,
D. Scunderlick, F. E. Mayle,
P. De Blasis, and J. Iriarte
2018 Uncoupling human and climate drivers of late Holocene vegetation change
in southern Brazil. Scientific Reports 8(1):7800 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24429-5 Lechleitner,F.A., T. Dittmar, J.U.L. Baldini, K.M. Prufer, and T.I. Eglinton. Molecular signatures of dissolved organic
matter in a tropical karst system.
Organic Geohemistry, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.07.015 Smirnov,
D. S. E. B. Breitenbach, F. Georg, F. Lechleitner, K. M. Prufer, J. Baldini,
N. Marwan, J. Kurths. A regime shift in
the Sun-Climate connection with the end of the Medieval Climate Anomaly.
Nature Scientific Reports. 2017 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11340-8
Prufer, K.M.,
C. Meredith, A. Alsgaard, T. Denehey,
and D. J. Kennett. The Paleoindian Chronology of Tzib
Te Yux Rockshelter in the
Rio Blanco Valley of Southern Belize.
Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 14, 2017 Lechleitner, F.A., S.E. Breitenbach,
H. Ridley, Y. Asmerom, K. Rehfeld,
K.M. Prufer, D.J. Kennett, V. Aquino, V. Polyak, N.
Marwan, G. Haug, T Eglinton, J. Baldini. A persistent low- to mid-latitude
hydrologic seesaw over the past millennium. Nature Scientific Reports. 2017 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep45809 Jordan, J.
and K.M. Prufer. Identifying Domestic Ceramic Production in the Maya
Lowlands: A Case Study from Uxbenká, Belize.
Latin American Antiquity, 2017.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2016.3 Prufer, Keith
M., A. E. Thompson, C. R. Meredith, B. J. Culleton, J. M. Jordan, C. E.
Ebert, B. Winterhalder, and D. J. Kennett.
"The Classic Period Maya transition from an ideal free to an ideal
despotic settlement system at the polity of Uxbenká." Journal of
Anthropological Archaeology 45, 2017 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416516301192 Baldini, L., J.U.L. Baldini,
J. McElwaine, A. Frappier,
Y. Asmerom, K. Liu, K.M. Prufer, H. Ridley, V. Polyak, D.J. Kennett, C. Macpherson, V. Aquino, J.J. Awe,
S. Breitenbach. Persistent northward North Atlantic
tropical cyclone track migration over the past five centuries. Scientific
Reports, 2016 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep37522 Lechleitner, F.A., J.U.L. Baldini,
S.F.M. Breitenbach, J. Fohlmeister,
C. McIntyre, B. Goswami, R.A. Jamieson, T.S. van der Voort, K.M. Prufer, N.
Marwan, B.J. Culleton, D.J. Kennett, Y. Asmerom, V.
Polyak, T.I. Eglinton. Hydrological and climatological controls on
radiocarbon concentrations in a tropical stalagmite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
2016 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703716304999 Stemp, W.J., J.J. Awe, K.M. Prufer, C.G.B.
Helmke. Design and function of Lowe and Sawmill points from the preceramic
period of Belize. Latin American Antiquity 2016 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/saa/laa/2016/00000027/00000003/art00001 Jamieson, R. A., J.U.L. Baldini, M.J. Brett, J. Taylor, H.E. Ridley, C.J. Ottley,
K.M. Prufer, J.A. Wassenburg, D. Scholz, S.F.M. Breitenbach.
Intra- and inter-annual uranium concentration variability in a
Belizean stalagmite controlled by prior aragonite precipitation: A new tool
for reconstructing hydro-climate using aragonitic
speleothems. Geochimica
et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703716303787 Prufer K.M. and A. E.
Thompson. Using LiDAR and Remote
Sensing to Assess 2000 Years of Human Impacts on the Landscape. Invited article for a special issue of
Advances in Archaeological Practice. 2016 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/saa/aap/2016/00000004/00000003/art00011 Thompson, A.E. And K.M.
Prufer. Preliminary Findings from Ix Kuku’il, Toledo District,
Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 13: 219-228. 2016 Moyes,
Holley, Mark Robinson, and Keith M. Prufer.
The Kayuko Mound Group: A Festival Site in
Southern Belize. Antiquity 2016 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.213 Ridley, H. E., J. U.L. Baldini,
K.M. Prufer, I.W. Walczak, S.F.M. Breitenbach.
High resolution monitoring of a tropical cave system reveals dynamic
ventilation and hydrologic resilience to seismic activity Journal of Cave and
Karst Studies 77(3): 183-199, 2015 https://caves.org/pub/journal/PDF/v77/cave-77-03-183.pdf Prufer, K.M., A. E. Thompson,
D. J. Kennett. Evaluating Airborne
LiDAR for Detecting Settlements and Modified Landscapes in Disturbed Tropical
Environments at Uxbenká, Belize. Journal
of Archaeological Science 57, 2015. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440315000515 Ridley, H. Y. Asmerom, S. Breitenbach, V.
Aquino, K. Prufer, B. Culleton, V. Polyak,
F. Lechleitner, D.J. Kennett, M. Zhang
, N. Marwan, C. Macpherson, L. Baldini, T.
Xiao, J. Awe, G. Haug Anthropogenic forcing of
intertropical convergence zone position. Nature Geosciences, 8(2)
2015 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n3/abs/ngeo2353.html Ebert, C E.,
K. M. Prufer,
M. J. Macri, B. Winterhalder,
D. J. Kennett. Terminal Long Count Dates and the Disintegration of
Classic Period Maya Polities. Ancient Mesoamerica, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536114000248 Walsh, M.,
K.M. Prufer,
B.J. Culleton, and D.J. Kennett. A late Holocene paleoenvironmental
reconstruction from Agua Caliente, southern Belize, linked to cultural change
at the Maya polity of Uxbenká. Quaternary Research, 2014. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.01.013 Nazaroff, A. J, A. Baysal,
Y. Çiftçi, & K. M. Prufer.
Resilience or Redundance? Resource Networks and the Neolithic Chert Economy
at Çatalhöyük, Turkey. European Journal of Archaeology.
2014 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1461957114Y.0000000081 Prufer, Keith and Amy Thompson.
Settlement History at Uxbenka: Dispersal and Growth
in a Regional Polity. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, 11,
2014 Chase, A. F., L. J.
Lucero, V. L. Scarborough, D. Z. Chase, R. Cobos,
N. Dunning, J. Gunn, S. Fedick, V. Fialko, M. Hegmon, G. Iannone,
D. L. Lentz, R. Liendo, K. Prufer,
J. A. Sabloff, J. Tainter,
F. Valdez, Jr., and S. van der Leeuw. 2014 Tropical Landscapes and the
Ancient Maya: Diversity in Time and Space, in A.F. Chase and V.L.
Scarborough, Eds., The Resilience and Vulnerability of Ancient Landscapes:
Transforming Maya Archaeology through IHOPE, AP3A Paper 24(1),
pp. 11-29, American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA. 2014 Iannone, G., K. M. Prufer,
and D. Z. Chase. 2014 Resilience and Vulnerability in the Maya Hinterlands.
In The
Resilience and Vulnerability of Ancient Landscapes: Transforming Maya
Archaeology through IHOPE. AP3A Paper 24(1) pp. 155-170
American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA. 2014 Prufer, Olaf H. and Keith M. Prufer,
Caves and Rockshelters in Ohio. In Journeys into the Dark Zone: A Cross Cultural Perspective
on Caves as Sacred Spaces, H. Moyes, editor. University Press of
Colorado, Boulder, 2013 Moyes, H. and K. M. Prufer.
The Geopolitics of Emerging Maya Rulers: A Case Study of Kayuko Naj
Tunich, a Foundational Shrine at
Uxbenká, Southern Belize. Journal of Anthropological Research, 62(2):
225-248, 2013 Thompson, A., K. M. Prufer.
Shifting Dynamics in the use of Space at Uxbenká. Research Reports in
Belizean Archaeology, 10: 2013 Aquino, V. V., K. M. Prufer,
and D. J. Kennett. A Re-evaluation of Site Core Occupation at Uxbenká. Research Reports in
Belizean Archaeology, 10: 2013 Kennett, D. J., S. F. M. Breitenbach, V. V. Aquino, Y. Asmerom,
J. Awe, J. U.L. Baldini, P. Bartlein,
B. J. Culleton, C. Ebert, C. Jazwa, M. J. Macri, N. Marwan, V. Polyak, K.
M. Prufer,
H. E. Ridley, H. Sodemann, B. Winterhalder,
G. H. Haug. Development and Disintegration of Maya
Political Systems in Response to Climate Change. Science. 338: 788-791, 2012 Breitenbach, S. F. M., K. Rehfeld,
B. Goswam, J. U. L. Baldini,
H. E. Ridley, D. Kennett, K.M. Prufer, V. V. Aquino, Y. Asmerom, V. J. Polyak, H.
Cheng, J. Kurths, and N. Marwan. Constructing
Proxy Age-Models (COPRA). Climate of the Past 8: 1765-1779, 2012 Culleton, B., K. M. Prufer,
and D. J. Kennett. A Bayesian AMS 14C Chronology of the Classic Maya Urban
Center of Uxbenká, Belize. Journal of Archaeological Science. 39:
1572-1586, 2012 Trask, W. R., L. Wright and K. M. Prufer. Isotopic evidence for migration
and subsistence in the Southeastern Maya periphery: Preliminary evidence from
Uxbenká, Toledo District, Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 9:
61-75, 2012 Kalosky, E. and K.
M. Prufer.
Recent results of settlement survey and hinterland household excavations at
the classic period site of Uxbenká, Toledo district, Belize. Research Reports in
Belizean Archaeology 9: 255-276 2012. Ebert, C., K. M. Prufer,
and D. J. Kennett. Maya Monuments and Spatial Statistics: a GIS-Based
Examination of the Terminal Classic Period Maya Collapse. Research Reports in
Belizean Archaeology 9: 91-107 2012. Prufer, K. M., H. Moyes, B.J. Culleton, A. Kindon, and D. Kennett Prufer, K. M., D. J. Kennett, and B. J.
Culleton. A Preliminary AMS Radiocarbon Guided Chronology for the
Development of the Uxbenká Polity in Southern Belize. Research Reports in
Belizean Archaeology 8: 121-136, 2011 Kalosky, E. and K.
M. Prufer.
Settlement and Society at Uxbenká: the Uxbenká Archaeological Project
Settlement Survey. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 7:
229-244, 2010 Nazaroff, A. J. K. M. Prufer, and B. L. Drake
2009 Prufer, K. M. and P. S.
Dunham 2009 B. L. Drake, A. J. Nazaroff, K. M. Prufer 2009 Braswell, G.
and K. M. Prufer 2009 Moyes, H. and K. M. Prufer
2009 Prufer, K. M, A. Kindon, and D. J. Kennett 2008 Prufer, K. M. and W. J. Hurst
2007 Prufer, K. M., A. Kindon, and P. Wanyerka
2006 Prufer, K. M. and P. Wanyerka 2006 Prufer, K. M. 2005 Prufer, K. M. 2005 Prufer, K. M. and J. E. Brady
2005 Prufer, K. M. and J. E. Brady
2005 Prufer, K. M. and A. Kindon 2005 Brady, J. E.
and K. M. Prufer 2005 Brady, J. E.
and K. M. Prufer 2005 Morehart, C., D. Lentz, and K. M. Prufer 2005 Saul, J., K. M. Prufer, and
F. Saul 2005 Prufer, K. M., P. Wanyerka, and M. Shah 2003 Halperin, C. T., S. Garza,
K.M. Prufer and J. E. Brady 2003 Brady, J. E.
and K. M. Prufer 1999 Dunham, P. S.
and K. M. Prufer 1998
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