I keep personal copies of my publications here. My publications can also be found on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu.
2020
Roos, Christopher I.
2020 Scale in the Study of Indigenous Burning. Nature Sustainability. [PDF] [LINK]
Roos, Christopher I., Tammy M. Rittenour, Thomas W. Swetnam, Rachel A. Loehman, Kacy L. Hollenback, Matthew J. Liebmann, and Dana Drake Rosenstein
2020 Fire Suppression Impacts on Fuels and Fire Intensity in the Western US: Insights from Archaeological Luminescence Dating in Northern New Mexico. Fire 3:32. [PDF] [LINK]
2019
Roos, Christopher I., Grant J. Williamson, and David M.J.S. Bowman
2019 Is Anthropogenic Pyrodiversity Invisible in Paleofire Records? Fire 2:42. [PDF] [LINK]
2018
Roos, Christopher I., María Nieves Zedeño, Kacy L. Hollenback, and Mary M. H. Erlick
2018 Indigenous Impacts on North American Great Plains Fire Regimes of the Last Millennium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:8143-8148. [PDF] [LINK]
Roos, Christopher I. and Andrew C. Scott
2018 A Comparison of Charcoal Reflectance between Crown and Surface Fire Contexts in Dry Southwest US Forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire 27:396-406. [PDF] [LINK]
2017
Roos, Christopher I.
2017 Anthropogenic Landscapes. In Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology, edited By B. Mills and S. Fowles, pp. 683-696. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [PDF] [LINK]
Roos, Christopher I., and E. Christian Wells
2017 Geoarchaeology of Ritual Behavior and Sacred Places: An Introduction. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 9(6):1001-1004. [PDF] [LINK]
2016
Balch, Jennifer K., R. Chelsea Nagy, Sally Archibald, David M.J.S Bowman, Max Moritz, Christopher I. Roos, Andrew C. Scott, and Grant Williamson
2016 Global Combustion: The Connection between Fossil Fuel and Biomass Burning Emissions (1997-2010). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371:20150177. [PDF] [LINK]
Fischer, A. Paige, Thomas A. Spies, Toddi A. Steelman, Cassandra Moseley, Bart R. Johnson, John D. Bailey, Alan A. Ager, Patrick Bourgeron, Susan Charnley, Brandon M. Collins, Jeffrey D. Kline, Jessica E. Leahy, Jeremy S. Littell, James D.A. Millington, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Christine S. Olsen, Travis B. Paveglio, Christopher I. Roos, Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Forest R. Stevens, Jelena Vukomanovic, Eric M. White, and David M.J.S. Bowman
2016 Wildfire Risk as Socio-Ecological Pathology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14:276-284. [PDF] [LINK]
Liebmann, Matthew J., Joshua Farella, Christopher I. Roos, Sarah Martini, Adam Stack, and Thomas W. Swetnam
2016 Native American Population Decline, Reforestation, and Fire Regimes in the Southwest U.S., 1492-1700 CE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:E696-E704. [PDF] [LINK]
Roos, Christopher I., Julie S. Field, and John V. Dudgeon
2016 Anthropogenic Burning, Agricultural Intensification, and Landscape Transformation in Post-Lapita Fiji. Journal of Ethnobiology 36:535-553. [PDF] [LINK]
Roos, Christopher I., Andrew C. Scott, Claire M. Belcher, William G. Chaloner, Jonathan Aylen, Michael R. Coughlan, Bart R. Johnson, Fay H. Johnston, Julia McMorrow, Toddi Steelman, Rebecca Bliege Bird, and the Fire and Mankind Discussion Group
2016 Living on a Flammable Planet: Interdisciplinary, Cross-Scalar, and Varied Cultural Lessons, Prospects, and Challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371:20150469. [PDF] [LINK]
Scott, Andrew C., William G. Chaloner, Claire M. Belcher, and Christopher I. Roos
2016 The Interaction of Fire and Mankind: Preface. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371:20160149. [PDF] [LINK]
Scott, Andrew C., William G. Chaloner, Claire M. Belcher, and Christopher I. Roos
2016 The Interaction of Fire and Mankind: Introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371:20150162. [PDF] [LINK]
Swetnam, Thomas W., Joshua Farella, Christopher I. Roos, Matthew J. Liebmann, Donald A. Falk, and Craig D. Allen
2016 Multi-Scale Perspectives of Fire, Climate and Humans in Western North America and the Jemez Mountains, U.S.A. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371:20150168. [PDF] [LINK]
2015
Roos, Christopher I.
2015 Western Apache Pyrogenic Placemaking in the Mountains of Eastern Arizona. In Engineering Mountain Landscapes: An Archaeology of Social Investment, edited by L. Schreiber and M. Zedeño, pp. 116-125. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. [PDF] [LINK]
2014
Eren, Metin I., Christopher I. Roos, Brett Story, Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, and Stephen J. Lycett
2014 The Role of Raw Material Differences in Handaxe Shape Variation: An Experimental Assessment. Journal of Archaeological Science 49:472-487. [PDF] [LINK]
Roos, Christopher I., David M.J.S Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo, William J. Bond, Mark A. Cochrane, Carla M. D’Antonio, Ruth S. DeFries, Fay H. Johnston, Meg A. Krawchuk, Christian A. Kull, Michelle Mack, Max A. Moritz, Stephen J. Pyne, Andrew C. Scott, and Thomas W. Swetnam
2014 Pyrogeography, Historical Ecology, and the Human Dimensions of Fire Regimes. Journal of Biogeography 41:833-836. [PDF] [LINK]
2013
Beck, Margaret E. and Christopher I. Roos
2013 From Households to Middens: Refuse Deposition Patterns in Two Communities. In Power and Economy in Early Classic Period Hohokam Society: An Archaeological Perspective from the Marana Mound Site, edited by J. M. Bayman, S. K. Fish, and P.R. Fish, pp. 19-32. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 207, University of Arizona, Tucson. [LINK]
Roos, Christopher I.
2013 Environmental Reconstruction in Archaeological Science. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by C. Smith, pp. 2408-2416. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. [PDF] [LINK]
Van Keuren, Scott and Christopher I. Roos
2013 Geoarchaeological Evidence for Ritual Closure of a Kiva at Fourmile Ruin, Arizona. Journal of Archaeological Science 40:615-625. [PDF] [LINK]
2012
Roos, Christopher I. and Thomas W. Swetnam
2012 A 1,416-Year Reconstruction of Annual, Multi-decadal, and Centennial Variability in Area Burned for Ponderosa Pine forests of the Southern Colorado Plateau Region, Southwest USA. The Holocene 22(3): 281-290. [PDF] [LINK]
Roos, Christopher I. and Kevin C. Nolan
2012 Phosphates, Plowzones, and Plazas: A Minimally Invasive Approach to Infer Settlement Structure of Plowed Village Sites in the Midwestern USA. Journal of Archaeological Science 39: 23-32. [PDF] [LINK]
2011
Bowman, David M.J.S., Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo, William J. Bond, Mark A. Cochrane, Carla M. D’Antonio, Ruth S. DeFries, Fay H. Johnston, John E. Keeley, Meg A. Krawchuk, Christian A. Kull, Michelle Mack, Max A. Moritz, Stephen J. Pyne, Christopher I. Roos, Andrew C. Scott, Navjot Sodhi, and Thomas W. Swetnam
2011 The Human Dimension of Fire Regimes on Earth. Journal of Biogeography 38: 2223-2236. [PDF] [LINK]
Eren, Metin I., Stephen J. Lycett, Christopher I. Roos, and C. Garth Sampson
2011 Toolstone Constraints on Knapping Skill: Levallois Reduction with Two Different Raw Materials. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 2731-2739. [PDF] [LINK]
2010
Roos, Christopher I., Alan P. Sullivan, III, and Calla MacNamee
2010 Paleoecological Evidence for Indigenous Burning in the Upland Southwest. In The Archaeology of Anthropogenic Environments, edited by R. Dean, pp. 142-171. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. [PDF]
2009
Bowman, David M.J.S., Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo, William J. Bond, Jean M. Carlson, Mark A. Cochrane, Carla M. D’Antonio, Ruth S. DeFries, John C. Doyle, Sandy P. Harrison, Fay H. Johnston, John E. Keeley, Meg A. Krawchuk, Christian A. Kull, J. Brad Marston, Max A. Moritz, I. Colin Prentice, Christopher I. Roos, Andrew C. Scott, Thomas W. Swetnam, Guido R. van der Werf, and Stephen J. Pyne
2009 Fire in the Earth System. Science 324: 481-484. [PDF] [LINK]
2008
Roos, Christopher I.
2008 Fire, Climate, and Social-Ecological Systems in the Ancient Southwest: Alluvial Geoarchaeology and Applied Historical Ecology. Unpublished PhD dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. [PDF]