Summary

Christopher w88 slot's research focuses on the hunter-gatherer archaeology of the American West, China, Mongolia, and the southern Andes, with an emphasis on behavioral adaptations to high-altitude, desert, and other marginal environments. He is particularly interested in the ways mobility, storage, and settlement patterns articulate with paleoenvironmental change and the evolution of different types of hunter-gatherer sociocultural organization.

In the America West, he w88 slot the archaeology of Numic-speaking peoples across and beyond the Great Basin, the evolution of Archaic lifeways, and the different ways hunter-gatherers in the region exploited mountain environments. In China, he focuses on more fundamental evolutionary questions: Lower to Upper Paleolithic transitions, the arrival or evolution of modern humans and human behavior, and the forager to farmer sequence between the Yellow and Wei rivers. In Mongolia, he collaborates with the National Museum of Mongolia on projects that track the origins of pastoral economies and the northeast Asian microblade adaptation. In the southern Andes, Morgan works on collaborative projects with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina that investigate the ways the region's hunter-gatherers adapted to high altitude settings.

Publications resulting from his w88 slot are available on ResearchGate and on Academia.edu.

w88 slot is looking for graduate students with a strong undergraduate education and experience in archaeology. If you are interested in these or other related research topics and would like to pursue either a Master’s or Ph.D. at the University of Nevada, Reno, please contact him and be sure to visit the department's graduate program web pages.

Specializations

• Hunter-gatherer w88 slot
• Evolutionary and behavioral ecology
• GIS and spatial analysis
• Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
• Lithic technology
• Cultural resource management

Teaching

• Anth 202 - w88 slot
• Anth 440a/640a - w88 slot of North America
• Anth 441a/641a - w88 slot of the Old World
• Anth 443/643 - Environmental w88 slot
• Anth 448a/648a - Field School in w88 slot
• Anth 455/655 - Archaeological Theory
• Anth 459/659 - California w88 slot
• Anth 493R/693R - w88 slot Design & Quantitative Methods
• Anth 728 - Geoarchaeology
• Anth 729 - GIS and w88 slot
• Anth 730 - Paleoeconomics

Recent publications

• 2022, w88 slot, Christopher, Loukas Barton, Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav and Tuvshinjargal Tumurbaatar. Paleolakes, Archaeology, and Late Quaternary Paleoenvironments in Northwestern Mongolia. Quaternary w88 slot 109: 1-15
• 2022, w88 slot, Christopher and Carly Whelan. Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in California and the Great Basin.Hunter-Gatherer w88 slot (published in 2022 for year 2018) 4(4): 427-435
• 2022, Sprengeler, Kari and Christopher w88 slot. An Evaluation of Demographic and Sociocultural Factors Affiliated With Cooperative Artiodactyl Hunting in the Prehistoric Great Basin, USA. Hunter-Gatherer w88 slot (published in 2022 for year 2018) 4(4): 467-492
• 2022, w88 slot, Christopher and Gustavo Neme. High-Altitude Residential Occupations in Mid-Latitude North and South America. In, More Than Shelter from the Storm, w88 slot Houses and the Built Environment, edited by Danielle MacDonald and Brian N. Andrews, pp. 121-152. University of Florida Press, Gainesville
• 2022, Franchetti, Fernando, Clara Otaola, Laura Salgán, Miguel Giardina and Christopher w88 slot. Obsidian Conveyance Among Hunter-Gatherers in Northwestern Patagonia. Journal of Anthropological w88 slot 65. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101389
• 2021, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Anna, Christopher w88 slot and Scott Mensing. Identifying a Pre-Columbian Anthropocene in California. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111(3):784-794
• 2020, w88 slot, Christopher, Marielle Black, Amanda (Rankin) Richey, Kristina Crawford, and Mark Giambastiani. In,The Ecology of the Alpine Villages of Eastern California. In, CARD 19 - Cowboy Ecologist: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Bettinger, edited by Roshanne Bakhtiary, Terry L. Jones, and Michael G. Delacorte, pp. 135-155. Center for Archaeological w88 slot at Davis, California
• 2020, w88 slot, Christopher, Shannon Tushingham, Raven Garvey, Loukas Barton and Robert L. Bettinger. Hunter-Gatherer Economies in the Old World and New World. In, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment, Volume I, edited by Richard W. Hazlett, pp. 53-83. Oxford University Press. Oxford
• 2019, w88 slot, Christopher, Loukas Barton and Robert L. Bettinger. Looking for Behavioral Modernity in Pleistocene Northwestern China. Archaeological w88 slot in Asia 17:70-78
• 2018, w88 slot, Christopher, Dallin Webb, Kari Sprengeler, Marielle (Pedro) Black and Nicole D. George. Experimental Construction of Hunter-Gatherer Residential Features, Mobility, and the Costs of Occupying “Persistent Places.” Journal of Archaeological Science 91: 65-76
• 2017, w88 slot. Christopher, Gustavo Neme, Adolfo Gil, Clara Otaola, N. Sugrañez, Laura Salgán, Miguel Giardina, and Carina Llano. Late Prehistoric High-Altitude Hunter-Gatherer Residential Occupations in the Southern Andes. Journal of Field w88 slot 42(3): 214-227

Other representative publications

• 2015, w88 slot, Christopher. Is it Intensification Yet? Current Archaeological Perspectives on the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Economies. Journal of Archaeological w88 slot 23(2):163-213.2012
• w88 slot, Christopher. Modeling Modes of Hunter-Gatherer Food Storage. American Antiquity 77(4):714-736
• 2012, w88 slot, Christopher, Ashley Losey, and Richard Adams. High Altitude Hunter-Gatherer Residential Occupations in Wyoming‘s Wind River Range. North American Archaeologist 33(1):35-79
• 2011, w88 slot, Christopher, Loukas Barton, Robert Bettinger, Fahu Chen & Zhang Dongju. Glacial Cycles and Palaeolithic Adaptive Variability on China’s Western Loess Plateau. Antiquity 85:365-379
• 2010, Bettinger, Robert L., Loukas Barton & Christopher w88 slot. The Origins of Agriculture in North China: A Different Kind of Agricultural Revolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 19:9-21
• 2009, w88 slot, Christopher. Climate Change, Uncertainty and Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Mobility. Journal of Anthropological w88 slot 28(4):382-396
• 2008, w88 slot, Christopher. Reconstructing Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Radii: A Case Study from California’s Southern Sierra Nevada. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(2):247-258

For a complete list and electronic copies of all of w88 slot's publications, please see his webpages on ResearchGate and on Academia.edu.

Recent invited commentary and reviews

• 2022, Comment on “Scaling of w88 slot Camp Size and Human Sociality,” by Jose Lobo, Todd Whitelaw, Luis M.A. Bettencourt, Polly Weissner, Michael E. Smith, and Scott Ortman, Current Anthropology 63(1):68-94
• 2021, Review of “Alpine w88 slot of Alta Toquima and the Mt. Jefferson Tablelands, Parts 1 and 2.” American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers, Number 104. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 41 (1):155-157
• 2020, Comment on “Archaeological Pitfalls of Storage,” by Brian Hayden, Current Anthropology 61(6):783-784
• 2020, Review of “Handbook of Evolutionary Research in w88 slot,” edited by Anna Marie Prentiss. American Antiquity 85(4):820-821
• 2019, Comment on “Forager Mobility in Constructed Environments,” by Randall Haas and Steven L. Kuhn, Current Anthropology 60(4): 521-522.2016

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2006