Publications

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Koster, Jeremy, Richard McElreath, Kim Hill, Douglas Yu, Glenn Shepard Jr., Nathalie van Vliet, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin Trumble, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas Bird, Brian Codding, Lauren Coad, Luis Pacheco-Cobos, Bruce Winterhalder, Karen Lupo, Dave Schmitt, Paul Sillitoe, Margaret Franzen, Michael Alvard, Vivek Venkataraman, Thomas Kraft, Kirk Endicott, Stephen Beckerman, Stuart Marks, Thomas Headland, Margaretha Pangau-Adam, Anders Siren, Karen Kramer, Russell Greaves, Victoria Reyes-García, Maximilien Guèze, Romain Duda, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Sandrine Gallois, Lucentezza Napitupulu, Roy Ellen, John Ziker, Martin Nielsen, Elspeth Ready, Christopher Healey and Cody Ross 2020  The Life History of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural and Individual Variation. Science Advances. 6(26), p.eaax9070.

 

Lupo, Karen D., Dave N. Schmitt, and Madsen, D.B. 2020 Size matters only sometimes: the energy-risk trade-offs of Holocene prey acquisition in the Bonneville basin, western USA. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences12(8): 1-18.

Lupo, Karen D. 2020 Hunting and Foraging (Central Africa). Invited contribution to The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, edited by E. Harkness, R. McIntosh, J. Neelis, and D. Potts.

Cooper, Catherine G., Karen D. Lupo, Ashenafi Zena, Dave N. Schmitt and Michael P. Richards 2019 Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis (C, N, S) of Hair from Modern Humans in Ethiopia Shows Clear Differences Related to Subsistence Regimes. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11:3213-3223.

Lupo, Karen D. 2019 Hounds Follow Those Who Feed Them: What Can the Ethnographic Record of Hunter-Gatherers Reveal about Early Human-Canid Partnerships? Journal of Anthropological Archeology 55 (in press, doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101081).

Schmitt, Dave, N., Karen D. Lupo, Jean-Paul. Ndanga, D. Craig Young, Christopher A. Kiahtipes, Guy Amaye and Lucien P. Nguerde. 2019  An Elusive Record Further Exposed: Additional Excavations and Chronometric Data on Human Settlement in the Northern Congo Basin Rain Forest, Southern Central African Republic. Azania: Archeological Research in Africa 54:55-74.

Lupo, Karen D., Chris Kiahtipes, Dave N. Schmitt, Jean-Paul Ndanga, D. Craig Young and B. Simiti 2018 An elusive record exposed: radiocarbon chronology of late Holocene human settlement in the northern Congo Basin, southern Central African Republic. Azania: Archeological Research in Africa 53(2):209-227.doi.org.10.1080/0067270X.2018.1471798.

Schmitt, Dave N., and Karen D. Lupo 2017  On Early Holocene Moisture and Small-Mammal Histories in the Bonneville Basin, Western USAThe Holocene 28(3): 492-498.doi.org/10.1177/0959683617729453.

Lupo, Karen D. and Dave N. Schmitt 2017 How do Meat Scarcity and Bushmeat Commodification Influence Sharing and Giving among Forest Foragers? A View from the Central African Republic. Human Ecology 45(5):627-641.doi0.1007/s10745-017-9933-2.

Lupo, Karen D. 2017 When and where do dogs improve hunting productivity? The empirical record and some implications for early Upper Paleolithic prey acquisition. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, published on-line May 25, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2017.05.003

Lupo, Karen D. and Dave N. Schmitt 2016    When Bigger is Not Better: The Economics of Hunting Megafauna and its Implications for Plio-Pleistocene Hunter-gatherers. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology44:185-197. (I was also Guest Editor of this vol. with Brian Codding).

Schmitt, Dave N., and Karen D. Lupo 2016    Changes in Late Quaternary Mammalian Biogeography in the Bonneville Basin.In Lake Bonneville: A Scientific Update, ed. C. G. Oviatt and J. F. Shroder, pp. 352-370. Developments in Earth Surface Processes, Vol. 20. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

 Greaves, Russell, D., Karen L. Kramer, Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Adam H. Boyette, Brian F. Codding, James E. Coxworth, Kirk Endicott, Maximilien Gueze, Thomas N. Headland, Barry S. Hewlett, Kim Hill, Robert L. Hitchcock, Thomas H. Kraft, Richard B. Lee, Karen D. Lupo, Lucentezza Napitupulu, Maria Sapignoli, Dave N. Schmitt, Ivan Tacy, Bram Tucker, Vivrk Venkataraman, George W. Wenzel, Polly Wiessner, and Brian M. Wood 2016    Economic Activities of Twenty-First Century Foraging Populations. In Why Forage? Hunters and Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century, ed. B. F. Codding and K. L. Kramer, pp. 241-262. School of Advanced Research, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Cooper, C., K.D. Lupo, R.G. Matson, W. Lipe, C.J. Smith, and M.P. Richards 2016    Short-term Variability of Human Diet at Basketmaker II Turkey Pen Ruins,Utah:Insights from Bulk and Single Amino Acid Isotope Analysis of Hair. Journal of Archeological Science: Reports 5:10-18.

Lupo, K.D. 2016    In Pursuit of the Individual:Recent Economic Opportunities and the Persistence of Traditional Forager-farmer Relationships in the Southwestern Central African Republic. InWhy Forage? Hunters and Gatherers in the 21st Century, edited by B.F. Codding and K.L. Kramer., pp: 137-166 School of Advanced Research, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Lupo, K.D., D.N. Schmitt, C.A. Kiahtipes, J-P. Ndanga, D.C. Young, and B. Simiti 2015 On Intensive Late Holocene Iron Mining and Production in the Northern Congo Basin and the Environmental Consequences Associated with Metallurgy in Central Africa.PLoSONE10(7):e0132632.

Lupo, K.D., J-P. Ndanga, and C.A. Kiahtipes 2014    On Late Holocene Population Interactions in the Northwestern Congo Basin: When, How and Why does the Ethnographic Pattern Begin?In Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers:Cultural, Biological and Ecological Approaches to Forest Forager Diversity, edited by B.S. Hewlett, pp. 59-84. Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Lupo, K.D., J.M. Fancher, and D.N. Schmitt 2013    The Taphonomy of Resource Intensification:Implications of Resource Scarcity among Bofi and Aka Forest Foragers. Journal of Archeological Method and Theory 20:420-447 (Special issue; invited paper).

Lupo, K.D. 2012    On Early Hominin Meat-eating and Carcass Acquisition Strategies:Still Relevant After All These Years? In Stone Tools and Fossil Bones: Theoretical Debates in Early Pleistocene African Archaeology, edited by M. Domingo-Rodriguez, pp. 115-151. Cambridge University Press,Cambridge.

Schmitt, D.N., and K.D. Lupo 2012 The Bonneville Estates Rockshelter Rodent Fauna and Changes in Late Pleistocene-Middle Holocene Climate and Biogeography in the Northern Bonneville Basin,USAQuaternary Research 78:95-102.

Kiahtipes, C.A., K.D. Lupo, D.N. Schmitt, J-P. Ndanga, J. Jones, and R. Lee 2011    Prehistory and the Present: Palaeoenvironments in the Northern Congo Basin. Before Farming2,article 4 (on-line journal).

Lupo, K.D. 2011    A Dog is for Hunting.  In Ethnozooarchaeology: The Present and PastofHuman-AnimalRelationships, edited by U. Albarella and A. Trentacoste, pp. 4-12. Oxbow Press,Oxford.

Lupo, K.D. 2011    Implications of Bofi and Aka Ethnoarchaeology in the Congo Basin for Understanding Prehistoric Technological Change.Before Farming 4,article2 (on-linejournal).

Lupo, K.D. 2011    Invited commentary on “Identification, Classification, and Zooarchaeology” by J. Driver. Ethnobiology Letters 2:2011 (on-line).

Lupo, K.D. 2009    Variability in Cut Mark Attributes in Ethnoarchaeological Assemblages.In Primer Taller de Zooarqueologia en Chile, edited by F. Mena, pp. 1-16. Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago.

Lupo, K.D., and C.A. Kiahtipes 2009    Comment on “Why do Men Hunt?” by M. Gurven and K. Hill. Current Anthropology 50:51-74

Schmitt, D.N., and K.D. Lupo 2008    Do Faunal Remains Reflect Socioeconomic Status? An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Central African Farmers in the Northern Congo Basin. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27: 315-325.

Lupo, K.D. 2007    Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis: Recent Applications and Some Future Challenges. Journal of Archaeological Research 15:143-189

Lupo, K.D. 2006    What Explains Field Processing and Transport Decisions of Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers? Measures of Economic Anatomy and Zooarchaeological Skeletal Part Representation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 13:19-66.

Lupo, K.D., and D.N. Schmitt 2005    Small Prey Hunting Technology and Zooarchaeological Measures of Taxonomic Diversity and Abundance: Ethnoarchaeological Evidence from Central African Forest Foragers. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 24:335-353.

Schmitt, D.N., and K.D. Lupo 2005    The Camels Back Cave Mammalian Fauna. In Camels Back Cave, by D.N.Schmitt andD.B.Madsen, pp. 136-178. Anthropological Papers No. 125, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Johnson, W.G., S.E. Sharpe, T.F. Bullard, and K.D. Lupo 2005    Characterizing a First Occurrence of Bison Deposits in Southeastern Nevada.Western North American Naturalist 65:24-35.

Schmitt, D.N., D.B. Madsen, and K.D. Lupo 2004    The Worst of Times, the Best of Times: Jackrabbit Hunting by Middle Holocene Human Foragers in the Bonneville Basin of Western North America. In Colonization, Migration, and Marginal Areas: A Zooarchaeological Approach, edited by M. Mondini, S. Muñoz, and S. Wickler, pp. 86-95.  Oxbow Books,Oxford.

Lupo, K.D., and D.N. Schmitt 2004    Meat-Sharing and the Archaeological Record: A Preliminary Test of the Show-Off Hypothesis among Central African Bofi Foragers. In Hunters and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology, edited by G. Crothers, pp. 241-260. Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper No. 31. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

O’Connell, J.F., K. Hawkes, K.D. Lupo, and N. Blurton Jones 2003    Another Reply to Dominguez-Rodrigo.Journal of Human Evolution45:417-419.

O’Connell, J.F., and K.D. Lupo 2003    Reply to Dominguez-Rodrigo.Journal of Archaeological Science 30:387-390

Lupo, K.D., and J.F. O’Connell 2002    Cut and Tooth Mark Distributions on Large Animal Bones: Ethnoarchaeological Data from Hadza and Their Implications for Current Ideas about Early Human Carnivory.Journal of Archaeological Science 29:85-107.

Lupo, K.D., and D.N. Schmitt 2002    Upper Paleolithic Net Hunting, Small Mammal Procurement and Women’s Work Effort: a View from the Ethnographic and Ethnoarchaeological Record of the Congo Basin. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 9:147-180 (Special issue; invited paper).

O’Connell, J.F., K. Hawkes, K.D. Lupo, and N. Blurton Jones 2002    Male Strategies and Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology.Journal of Human Evolution 43:831-872.

Schmitt, D.N., D.B. Madsen, and K.D. Lupo 2002    Small-Mammal Data on Early and Middle Holocene Climates and Biotic Communities in the Bonneville Basin, USA. Quaternary Research 58:255-261.

Lupo, K.D. 2001    On the Archaeological Resolution of Body Part Transport Patterns: An Ethnoarchaeological Example from East African Hunter-Gatherers. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 20:361-378.

Lupo, K.D., and K. Wintch 1998    Carcass Corners (42Wn1975): Excavations at a Mid-Archaic Site in Central Utah.UtahArchaeology 11:33-42.

Lupo, K.D. 1998    Experimentally Derived Extraction Rates for Marrow:Implications for Body Part Exploitation Strategies of Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Scavengers. Journal of Archaeological Science25:657-675.

Lupo, K.D., and D.N. Schmitt 1997    Experiments in Bone Boiling:Nutritional Returns and Archaeological Reflections. Anthropozoologica 25/26:137-144.

Lupo, K.D., and D.N. Schmitt 1997    On Late Holocene Variability in Bison Populations in the Northeastern Great Basin.Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 19:50-59.

Lupo, K.D. 1996    The Historical Occurrence and Demise of Bison in Northeastern Utah.Utah Historical Quarterly 64:168-180.

Schmitt, D.N., and K.D. Lupo 1995   On Mammalian Taphonomy, Taxonomic Diversity, and Measuring Subsistence Data in Zooarchaeology. American Antiquity 60:496-514.

Lupo, K.D. 1995    Hadza Bone Assemblages and Hyena Attrition:An Ethnographic Example of the Influence of Cooking and Mode of Discard on the Intensity of Scavenger Ravaging. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14:288-314.

Lupo, K.D., and J.C. Janetski 1994    Evidence of Domesticated Dogs and Some Related Canids in the Eastern Great Basin.Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 16:199-220.

Lupo, K.D. 1994  Butchering Marks and Carcass Acquisition Strategies: Distinguishing Hunting from Scavenging in Archaeological Contexts. Journal of Archaeological Science 21:827-837.

Lupo, K.D. 1993 Small Faunal Assemblages from the Willard Bay Sites. In Archaeological Test Excavations in the Great Salt Lake Wetlands and Associated Analyses, by W. Fawcett and S.R.Simms,pp.197-214. Contributions to Anthropology No. 14, Utah State University, Logan.

Lupo, K.D. 1993   A Taphonomic Analysis of Hadza-Produced Bone Assemblages.Ph.D.dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah.  University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

Janetski, J.C., K.D. Lupo, J, McCullough, and S.A. Novak 1992   The Mosida Burial:An Archaic Burial from the Eastern Great Basin.Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 14:180-200.

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