Social Sciences Department faculty conduct research in the areas of global studies and international development, environmental studies and sustainability, human ecology, criminal justice, organizational structures, and social services.
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Submissions from 2019
Territorial behavior among Western North American foragers: Allee effects, within group cooperation, and between group conflict, Brian F. Codding, Ashley K. Parker, and Terry L. Jones
Review of Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Terry L. Jones
Submissions from 2018
Mitogenomics supports an unexpected taxonomic relationship for the extinct diving duck Chendytes lawi and definitively places the extinct Labrador Duck, Janet C. Buckner, Ryan Ellingson, David A. Gold, Terry L. Jones, and David K. Jacobs
Review of First People: A Revised Chronology for San Diego County, Terry L. Jones
Review of Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages, Terry L. Jones
Submissions from 2017
Review of Shellfish for the Celestial Empire: The Rise and Fall of Commercial Abalone Fishing in California, Terry L. Jones
The Morro Bay Fauna: Evidence for a Medieval Droughts Refugium on the Central California Coast, Terry L. Jones, Deborah A. Jones, Kacey Hadick, Kenneth W. Gobalet, Judith F. Porcasi, and William R. Hildebrandt
Submissions from 2016
Resource scarcity drives lethal aggression among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in central California, Mark W. Allen, Robert Lawrence Bettinger, Brian F. Codding, Terry L. Jones, and Al W. Schwitalla
Resource Scarcity Drives Lethal Aggression Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in Central California, Mark W. Allen, Robert Lawrence Bettinger, Brian F. Codding, Terry L. Jones, and Al W. Schwitalla
The archaeology of fish and fishing on the central coast of California: The case for an under-exploited resource, Terry L. Jones, Kenneth W. Gobalet, and Brian F. Codding
Submissions from 2014
Violence among foragers: The bioarchaeological record from central California, Al W. Schwitalla, Terry L. Jones, Marin A. Pilloud, Brian F. Codding, and Randy S. Wiberg
Submissions from 2013
Environmental productivity predicts migration, demographic, and linguistic patterns in prehistoric California, Brian F. Codding and Terry L. Jones
Archaeological perspectives on prehistoric conservation in western North America, Terry L. Jones
Submissions from 2012
Genetic Diversity and Population Parameters of Sea Otters, Enhydra lutris, before Fur Trade Extirpation from 1741–1911, Shawn Larson, Ron Jameson, Michael Etnier, Terry L. Jones, and Roberta Hall
Slow Tourism at the Caribbean's Geographical Margins, Benjamin F. Timms and Dennis Conway
Submissions from 2011
Review of Kathleen L. Hull, Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California, Terry L. Jones
Toward a Prehistory of the Southern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutis nereis), Terry L. Jones, Brendan J. Culleton, Shawn Larson, Sarah Mellinger, and Judith F. Porcasi
Urbanization and Daughter-Biased Parental Investment in Fiji, Dawn B. Neill
Where were the northern elephant seals? Holocene archaeology and biogeography of Mirounga angustirostris, Torben C. Rick, Robert L. DeLong, Jon M. Erlandson, Todd J. Braje, Terry L. Jones, Jeanne E. Arnold, Matthew R. Des Lauriers, William R. Hildebrandt, Douglas J. Kennett, Rene L. Vellanoweth, and Thomas A. Wake
The (Mis)Use of Disaster as Opportunity: Coerced Relocation from Celaque National Park, Honduras, Benjamin F. Timms
Submissions from 2010
Explaining Prehistoric Variation in the Abundance of Large Prey: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Deer and Rabbit Hunting Along the Pecho Coast of Central California, Brian F. Codding, Judith F. Porcasi, and Terry L. Jones
Re-Branding Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean: The Case for ‘Slow Tourism’, Dennis Conway and Benjamin F. Timms
Differences in Individualistic and Collectivistic Tendencies Among College Students in Japan and the United States, Emiko Kobayashi, Harold R. Kerbo, and Susan F. Sharp
Expanding Opportunity Structures: Parental Investments in Education, Migration, and Extrinsic Risk Reduction among Indo-Fijians, Dawn B. Neill
Extrinsic Risk: Introduction to the Special Issue, Dawn B. Neill