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List of works by Brian F. Codding

A Landscape Architecture of Fire: Cultural Emergence and Ecological Pyrodiversity in Australia’s Western Desert

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Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia's spinifex grasslands

scientific article (publication date: 26 June 2012)

Behavioral ecology and the future of archaeological science

scholarly article by Brian F. Codding published in April 2015

Climate change–induced population pressure drives high rates of lethal violence in the Prehispanic central Andes

scientific article published in 2022

Conservation or Co-evolution? Intermediate Levels of Aboriginal Burning and Hunting Have Positive Effects on Kangaroo Populations in Western Australia

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Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Diesel and damper: Changes in seed use and mobility patterns following contact amongst the Martu of Western Australia

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El Niño frequency threshold controls coastal biotic communities

scientific article published in 2022

Environmental productivity predicts migration, demographic, and linguistic patterns in prehistoric California

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Explaining prehistoric variation in the abundance of large prey: A zooarchaeological analysis of deer and rabbit hunting along the Pecho Coast of Central California

scholarly article by Brian F. Codding published in March 2010

Food Production and Domestication Produced Both Cooperative and Competitive Social Dynamics in Eastern North America

scientific article published on 4 March 2020

Global Patterns in the Exploitation of Shellfish

Historic and bioarchaeological evidence supports late onset of post-Columbian epidemics in Native California

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Historical Contingencies, Issues of Scale, and Flightless Hypotheses: A Response to Hildebrandt Et Al

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Interpreting abundance indices: some zooarchaeological implications of Martu foraging

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Living outside the box: An updated perspective on diet breadth and sexual division of labor in the Prearchaic Great Basin

scholarly article

Man the Showoff? Or the Ascendance of a Just-so-Story: A Comment on Recent Applications of Costly Signaling Theory in American Archaeology

scholarly article by Brian F. Codding published in April 2007

Martu ethnoarchaeology: Foraging ecology and the marginal value of site structure

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Megafauna in a continent of small game: Archaeological implications of Martu Camel hunting in Australia's Western Desert

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Monkeys overharvest shellfish.

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Mosaics of fire and water: the co-emergence of anthropogenic landscapes and intensive seed exploitation in the Australian arid zone

Niche construction and Dreaming logic: aboriginal patch mosaic burning and varanid lizards (Varanus gouldii) in Australia

scientific article published in December 2013

Optimal foraging theory and niche-construction theory do not stand in opposition

scientific article published on June 2015

Paleoindian Settlement Decisions in the Great Basin: A Test of the Pluvial Lake Hypothesis with the Ideal Free Distribution Model

scientific article published in 2023

People, El Niño southern oscillation and fire in Australia: fire regimes and climate controls in hummock grasslands.

scientific article published on June 2016

Plant species richness at archaeological sites suggests ecological legacy of Indigenous subsistence on the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Population growth as a driver of initial domestication in Eastern North America

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Provisioning offspring and others: risk-energy trade-offs and gender differences in hunter-gatherer foraging strategies.

scientific article published on 12 January 2011

Pyrodiversity and the anthropocene: the role of fire in the broad spectrum revolution

scientific article published on May 2016

REVISITING HOGUP CAVE, UTAH: INSIGHTS FROM NEW RADIOCARBON DATES AND STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

Resource scarcity drives lethal aggression among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in central California

scientific article published on 10 October 2016

Risky Pursuits: Martu Hunting and the Effects of Prey Mobility: Reply to Ugan and Simms

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Seasonal stability in Late Holocene shellfish harvesting on the central California coast

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

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Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region

scientific article published on 23 May 2021

Territorial behavior among Western North American foragers: Allee effects, within group cooperation, and between group conflict

scientific article

The "fire stick farming" hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics

scientific article (publication date: 30 September 2008)

The Ideal Distribution Model and Archaeological Settlement Patterning

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

The archaeology of fish and fishing on the central coast of California: The case for an under-exploited resource

scholarly article by Terry L. Jones published in March 2016

The ecology of population dispersal: Modeling alternative basin-plateau foraging strategies to explain the Numic expansion.

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The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Violence among foragers: The bioarchaeological record from central California

scholarly article by Al W. Schwitalla published in March 2014

What Explains Differences in Men's and Women's Production? : Determinants of Gendered Foraging Inequalities among Martu

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When does it pay to invest in a patch? The evolution of intentional niche construction

scientific article published in September 2017

When to defend? Optimal territoriality across the Numic homeland

scientific article

Why men trophy hunt.

scientific article published on March 2017

Women, men, risk and energy: a reply to Koster's paradox of Aché foraging.

scientific article published on 31 August 2011