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List of works by Carl Lipo

A Public Database of Archaeological Resources on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) Using Google Earth

scholarly article by Francisco Torres Hochstetter published in September 2011

A comparison of automated object extraction methods for mound and shell-ring identification in coastal South Carolina

scholarly article

A tale of two technologies: Prehistoric diffusion of pottery innovations among hunter-gatherers

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A theoretically-sufficient and computationally-practical technique for deterministic frequency seriation

scientific article

Approximate Bayesian Computation of radiocarbon and paleoenvironmental record shows population resilience on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Automated mound detection using lidar and object-based image analysis in Beaufort County, South Carolina

scientific article published on 8 June 2018

Coastal groundwater discharge and the ancient inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile

scholarly article

Commentary: Rain, Sun, Soil, and Sweat: A Consideration of Population Limits on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) before European Contact

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Cultural Transmission Theory and the Archaeological Record: Providing Context to Understanding Variation and Temporal Changes in Material Culture

scientific article published on 4 August 2007

Cultural transmission, copying errors, and the generation of variation in material culture and the archaeological record

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Design Space and Cultural Transmission: Case Studies from Paleoindian Eastern North America

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Diet of the prehistoric population of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) shows environmental adaptation and resilience

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East Polynesian Islands as Models of Cultural Divergence: The Case of Rapa Nui and Rapa Iti

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Etowah: The Political History of a Chiefdom Capital. Adam King. 2003. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 178 pp., figures, tables, bibliographical references, index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8173-1224-2

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Evidence for a Shorter Chronology on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

scientific article published on 5 May 2008

Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago

scholarly article

Fitness and Reproductive Trade-Offs in Uncertain Environments: Explaining the Evolution of Cultural Elaboration

scholarly article by Mark Madsen published in September 1999

Formal analyses and functional accounts of groundstone “plummets” from Poverty Point, Louisiana

High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia

scientific article (publication date: 27 December 2010)

It's about Time? Testing the Dawson Ceramic Seriation Using Luminescence Dating, Southern Nasca Region, Peru

scholarly article by Kevin J. Vaughn published in December 2014

Late colonization of Easter Island

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Mapping prehistoric statue roads on Easter Island

scientific article published in 2005

Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics

scholarly article by Hector Neff published in March 2006

Phylogenetic analyses of Lapita decoration do not support branching evolution or regional population structure during colonization of Remote Oceania

scientific article (publication date: 12 December 2010)

Population Structure, Cultural Transmission, and Frequency Seriation

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Population structure drives cultural diversity in finite populations: A hypothesis for localized community patterns on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile)

scientific article published on 12 May 2021

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) monument (ahu) locations explained by freshwater sources

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying

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Reply to Mulrooney et al.: Accepting lower precision radiocarbon dates results in longer colonization chronologies for East Polynesia

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Revisiting Rapa Nui (Easter Island) “Ecocide”

scientific article published in October 2009

Saving culture from selection: comment on "An evolutionary framework for cultural change: selectionism versus communal exchange" by L. Gabora

scientific article

Smokescreens in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics

scholarly article by Hector Neff published in March 2006

Stylistic variability of stemmed obsidian tools (mata’a), frequency seriation, and the scale of social interaction on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Temporal Data Requirements, Luminescence Dates, and the Resolution of Chronological Structure of Late Prehistoric Deposits in the Central Mississippi River Valley

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The 13th century polynesian colonization of Hawai’i Island

The colossal hats (pukao) of monumental statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile): Analyses of pukao variability, transport, and emplacement

The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell

scientific article published on 21 April 2021

The ‘walking’ megalithic statues (moai) of Easter Island

Using Structure from Motion Mapping to Record and Analyze Details of the Colossal Hats (Pukao) of Monumental Statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago

scholarly article

Walking statues: Easter Island's complex history

scientific article published on 2 November 2011