PUBLICATIONS
BOOKSBrady, James E. and Keith M. Prufer (editors) 2005 Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady (editors) 2005 RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERSE. Moes, L. O’Donnell, NC.. Neff, J. Cerezo-Roman, WR. Trask, DJ. Kennett, and KM. Prufer. Mortuary practices and the importance of rock-shelters during the Early and Middle Holocene in the southern Maya Mountains. Bioarchaeology International 2024. sftp://kmp@ftp.unm.edu/nfs/user/k/kmp/public_html/keith_prufer_files/Moes%20et%20al%202024.pdfRay, 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.2023.09.008Thompson, 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
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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/s41598-017-11340-8Prufer, 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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