List of works - Mark Aldenderfer

Peopling the Tibetan Plateau: Insights from Archaeology

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

The Prehistory of the Tibetan Plateau to the Seventh Century A.D.: Perspectives and Research from China and the West Since 1950

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Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Four-thousand-year-old gold artifacts from the Lake Titicaca basin, southern Peru

scientific article

A global context for megadroughts in monsoon Asia during the past millennium

article

The genetic prehistory of the Andean highlands 7000 years BP though European contact

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Modelling plateau peoples: the early human use of the world's high plateaux

scholarly article by Mark Aldenderfer published in September 2006

Ritual, Hierarchy, and Change in Foraging Societies

scholarly article by Mark Aldenderfer published in March 1993

Differential preservation of endogenous human and microbial DNA in dental calculus and dentin.

scientific article

Late Archaic-Early Formative period microbotanical evidence for potato at Jiskairumoko in the Titicaca Basin of southern Peru

scientific article

Multivariate visualization and analysis of photomapped artifact scatters

scientific article (publication date: November 2006)

Defining Best 3D Practices in Archaeology

scholarly article by Fabrizio Galeazzi published in November 2014

Macusani obsidian from southern Peru: A characterization of its elemental composition with a demonstration of its ancient use

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The Archaeology of the Early Tibetan Plateau: New Research on the Initial Peopling through the Early Bronze Age

scientific article

Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice

scholarly article by Mark Aldenderfer published in January 1999

Continuity and Change in Ceremonial Structures at Late Preceramic Asana, Southern Peru

scholarly article by Mark Aldenderfer published in September 1991

Clearing the (high) air

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Of the sea and volcano: A petrographic provenance investigation of locally produced and imported ware of Pre-Younger Dryas Tanegashima Island, Japan

scientific article

Quantitative methods in archaeology: A review of recent trends and developments

scientific article published in June 1998

Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier

scientific article published on 31 October 2025

Engineering Mountain Landscapes: An Anthropology of Social Investment. Laura L. Scheiber and Maria Nieves Zedeño, editors. 2015. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. x + 201 pp. $45.00 (paperback), ISBN-978-1-60781-433-7

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Of gold masks, bronze mirrors and brass bracelets: Analyses of metallic artefacts from Samdzong, Upper Mustang, Nepal 450–650 CE

scholarly article

Bioarchaeological profile of stress and dental disease among ancient high altitude Himalayan communities of Nepal.

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas. Karine Gagné. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019, 258 pp. $30.00, paper. ISBN 9780295744001.

scientific article published in 2020

The efficacy of whole human genome capture on ancient dental calculus and dentin

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

The Pleistocene/Holocene transition in Peru and its effects upon human use of the landscape

scholarly article

Opinion: To understand how migrations affect human securities, look to the past

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Challenging “counterestablishment” archaeology: What really matters

scientific article published on 4 August 2023

Kaillachuro: early monumental architecture of the Titicaca Basin, 5300–3000 BP

scientific article published in June 2025

Statistics for Archaeologists: A Commonsense Approach

scientific article published in 1998

Hunting to herding on the Andean Altiplano: Zooarchaeological insights into Archaic Period subsistence in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru (9.0–3.5 ka)

scientific article published in March 2025

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Reconstructing Early Population History in the High Himalayas of Nepal

scientific article published on 5 February 2021

Preludes to Power in the Highland Late Preceramic Period

scientific article published in January 2005

Working together for a vision of Himalayan archaeology

scholarly article published in European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, vol. 65 (2026) (DOI: 10.4000/169JC)

Anthropology, Space and Geographic Information Systems

scientific article published in 2000

Human genetic history on the Tibetan Plateau in the past 5100 years

Did archery technology precipitate complexity in the Titicaca Basin? A metric analysis of projectile points, 11–1 ka

scientific article published in September 2024

3 Envisioning a Pragmatic Approach to the Archaeology of Religion

scholarly article titled \"3 Envisioning a Pragmatic Approach to the Archaeology of Religion\" by Mark Aldenderfer published in Archaeological Papers of the AAA, vol. 21 no. 1, pp. 23-36 (2011)

Direct dating of lithic surface artifacts using luminescence

scientific article

Preludes to Power in the Highland Late Preceramic Period

scientific article published in January 2004

Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors

scientific article published on 08 March 2022

Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects. Jarmila Ptáčková. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020, 188 pp. $30.00, cloth. ISBN 9780295748191.

scientific article published in 2022

List of works by Mark Aldenderfer

Peopling the Tibetan Plateau: Insights from Archaeology

The Prehistory of the Tibetan Plateau to the Seventh Century A.D.: Perspectives and Research from China and the West Since 1950

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

Four-thousand-year-old gold artifacts from the Lake Titicaca basin, southern Peru

A global context for megadroughts in monsoon Asia during the past millennium

The genetic prehistory of the Andean highlands 7000 years BP though European contact

Modelling plateau peoples: the early human use of the world's high plateaux

Ritual, Hierarchy, and Change in Foraging Societies

Differential preservation of endogenous human and microbial DNA in dental calculus and dentin.

Late Archaic-Early Formative period microbotanical evidence for potato at Jiskairumoko in the Titicaca Basin of southern Peru

Multivariate visualization and analysis of photomapped artifact scatters

Defining Best 3D Practices in Archaeology

Macusani obsidian from southern Peru: A characterization of its elemental composition with a demonstration of its ancient use

The Archaeology of the Early Tibetan Plateau: New Research on the Initial Peopling through the Early Bronze Age

Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice

Continuity and Change in Ceremonial Structures at Late Preceramic Asana, Southern Peru

Clearing the (high) air

Of the sea and volcano: A petrographic provenance investigation of locally produced and imported ware of Pre-Younger Dryas Tanegashima Island, Japan

Quantitative methods in archaeology: A review of recent trends and developments

Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier

Engineering Mountain Landscapes: An Anthropology of Social Investment. Laura L. Scheiber and Maria Nieves Zedeño, editors. 2015. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. x + 201 pp. $45.00 (paperback), ISBN-978-1-60781-433-7

Of gold masks, bronze mirrors and brass bracelets: Analyses of metallic artefacts from Samdzong, Upper Mustang, Nepal 450–650 CE

Bioarchaeological profile of stress and dental disease among ancient high altitude Himalayan communities of Nepal.

Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas. Karine Gagné. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019, 258 pp. $30.00, paper. ISBN 9780295744001.

The efficacy of whole human genome capture on ancient dental calculus and dentin

The Pleistocene/Holocene transition in Peru and its effects upon human use of the landscape

Opinion: To understand how migrations affect human securities, look to the past

Challenging “counterestablishment” archaeology: What really matters

Kaillachuro: early monumental architecture of the Titicaca Basin, 5300–3000 BP

Statistics for Archaeologists: A Commonsense Approach

Hunting to herding on the Andean Altiplano: Zooarchaeological insights into Archaic Period subsistence in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru (9.0–3.5 ka)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Reconstructing Early Population History in the High Himalayas of Nepal

Preludes to Power in the Highland Late Preceramic Period

Working together for a vision of Himalayan archaeology

Anthropology, Space and Geographic Information Systems

Human genetic history on the Tibetan Plateau in the past 5100 years

Did archery technology precipitate complexity in the Titicaca Basin? A metric analysis of projectile points, 11–1 ka

3 Envisioning a Pragmatic Approach to the Archaeology of Religion

Direct dating of lithic surface artifacts using luminescence

Preludes to Power in the Highland Late Preceramic Period

Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors

Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects. Jarmila Ptáčková. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020, 188 pp. $30.00, cloth. ISBN 9780295748191.

Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria

Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Ochre Artifacts from Jiskairumoko, Peru