Anthropology

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• Jenkins, Dennis L., Loren G. Davis, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., Paula F. Campos, Bryan Hockett, George T. Jones, Linda Scott Cummings, Chad Yost, Thomas J. Connolly, Robert M. Yohe II, Summer C. Gibbons, Maanasa Raghavan, Morten Rasmussen, Johanna L. A. Paijmans, Michael Hofreiter, Brian M. Kemp, Jodi Lynn Barta, Cara Monroe, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Eske Willerslev
  Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves. Science 337:223-228. 2012

• Davis, Loren G, Samuel C. Willis, Shane J. Macfarlan
  Lithic technology, cultural transmission, and the nature of the Far Western Paleoarchaic-Paleoindian co-tradition. In, D. Rhode (ed.), pp. 47-64, Meetings at the Margins: Prehistoric Cultural Interactions in the Intermountain West.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.  2012  

• Davis, Loren G., Shane J. Macfarlan, S.J., and Celeste N. Henrickson
  A PXRF-based chemostratigraphy and provenience system for the Cooper’s Ferry site, Idaho.  Journal of Archaeological Science 39:663-671. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.029. 2012  

• Davis, Loren G.
  Return to the Cooper’s Ferry site: studying cultural chronology, geoecology, and foragers in context.  Idaho Archaeologist 34(1):1-5. 2011

• Davis, Loren G.
  The Paleocoastal concept reconsidered.  In, N. Bicho, J. Haws and L.G. Davis (eds.), pp. 3-26, Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement.  Springer Publishing Company, New York.
  2011  

• Davis, Loren G. and Samuel C. Willis
  Technology, mobility, and adaptation among early foragers of the southern Northwest Coast: The view from Indian Sands, southern Oregon coast, USA.  In, N. Bicho, J. Haws and L.G. Davis (eds.), 137-160, Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement.  Springer Publishing Company, New York. 2011  

• Gusick, Amy and Loren G. Davis
  Exploring Baja California’s submerged landscapes.  Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 30(1):35-49. 2010  

• Davis, Loren G., Steven A. Jenevein, Michele L. Punke, Jay S. Noller, Julia A. Jones, and Samuel C. Willis
  Geoarchaeological themes in a dynamic coastal environment, Lincoln and Lane Counties, Oregon. In, J.E. O’Connor, R.J. Dorsey, and I.P. Madin, pp. 319-336, Volcanoes to Vineyards: Geologic Field Trips through the Dynamic Landscape of the Pacific Northwest.  Geological Society of America Field Trip Guide 15.  Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado. 2009  

• Davis, Loren G.
  Clarification of and comment on Erlandson et al. ‘‘Life on the Edge: Early Maritime Cultures of the Pacific Coast of North America.”  Quaternary Science Reviews 28(23-24):2542-2545. 2009  

• Davis, Loren G.
  New support for a late Pleistocene-aged coastal occupation at the Indian Sands site, Oregon.  Current Research in the Pleistocene 25:74-76. 2008

• Davis, Loren G., Roberta L. Hall, Mathew Fillmore, Michele L. Punke, and Nicholas Debenham
  Some Natural Formation Processes Affecting Early Coastal Headland Sites on the Southern Oregon Coast. In Dunes, Headlands, Estuaries, and Rivers: Current Archaeological Research on the Oregon Coast, edited by Guy L. Tasa and Brian L. O’Neill, pp. 119-136. Association of Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers No. 8. Eugene, Oregon. 2008

• Davis, Loren G.
  Paleoseismicity and prehistoric anadromous fish exploitation in the Salmon River basin, western Idaho. North American Archaeologist 23(3):233-263. 2008

• Willis, Samuel C. and Loren G. Davis
  A Discussion of Two Early Headland Sites on the Southern Oregon Coast.  Current Research in the Pleistocene 150-152.  2007  

• Davis, Loren G., Roberta A. Hall, Samuel C. Willis. Response to Moss Et Al. "An Early Holocene/Late Pleistocene Arcaheological Site on the Oregon Coast? Comments on Hall Et Al (2005)" Radiocarbon, 45(3): 469-472. 2006
• Michele L. Punke and Loren G. Davis. Problems and Prospects in the Preservation of Late Pleistocene Cultural Sites in Southern Oregon Coastal River Valleys: Implications for Evaluating Coastal Migration Routes. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 21(4): 333-350.
• Davis, Loren G. Geoarchaeological Insights from Indian Sands, a Late Pleistocene Site on the Southern Northwest Coast, USA. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 21(4): 351-361. 2006
• Davis, Loren G. Paleoenvironmental context. Accepted for publication in, Laylander and Moore (eds.), Prehistory of Baja California: Advances in the Archaeology of the Forgotten Peninsula, to be published by the University Press of Florida. 2005
• Davis, Loren G. Geoarchaeological lessons from an alluvial fan in the lower Salmon River canyon. Accepted for publication in Idaho Archaeologist. 2005
• Davis, Loren G. and Charles E. Schweger. Geoarchaeological context of late Pleistocene and early Holocene occupation at the Cooper's Ferry site, western Idaho, USA. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 19(7): 685-704. 2004
• Davis, Loren G., Michele L. Punke, Roberta L. Hall, Matthew Fillmore, and Samuel C. Willis. A Late Pleistocene Occupation on the Southern Coast of Oregon. Journal of Field Archaeology 29(1):7-16. 2004
• Hall, Roberta L., Loren G. Davis, and Michele L. Punke. A late Pleistocene site on Oregon's southern coast. The Midden 35(1):5-8. 2003
• Hall, Roberta L. and Loren G. Davis. Locating Sites of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition on Oregon's Southern Coast. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 27(3-4):7-11. 2003
• Davis, Loren G. Geoarchaeology and Geochronology of Pluvial Lake Chapala, Baja California, Mexico in Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 18(2). 2002.
• Davis, Loren G. Bibliography of Baja California Geoarchaeology. Annotated and detailed thematic geology and archaeological geology reference list. 2002.
• Davis, Loren G., K. Muehlenbachs, C.E. Schweger, and N.W. Rutter. Differential Response of Vegetation to Postglacial Climate in the Lower Salmon River Canyon, Idaho in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2894:1-16. 2002.
• Davis, Loren G. Lower Salmon River Cultural Chronology: A Revised and Expanded Model in Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 35(2):229-248. 2001.
• Davis, Loren G. and Karlis Muehlenbachs. A Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Record of Precipitation Reflected in Margaritifera falcata Shell   d¹⁸O From Three Archaeological Sites in the Lower Salmon River Canyon, Idaho in Journal of Archaeological Science 28:291-303. 2001.
• Davis, Loren G. The Coevolution of Early Hunter-Gatherer Culture and Riparian Ecosystems in the Southern Columbia River Plateau, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alberta, Department of Anthropology and Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. 2001.
• Davis, Loren G. Cascade in, Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 6: North America. pp. 27-30, P. Peregrine and M. Ember (eds.), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. 2001.
• Davis, Loren G. and David A. Sisson. An Early Stemmed Point Cache from the Lower Salmon River Canyon of West-Central Idaho, Current Research in the Pleistocene Vol. 15. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Corvallis, Oregon. 1998.