Kelly Knudson

Christina Torres-Rouff, Gonzalo Pimentel C., William J. Pestle, Mariana Ugarte F., and Kelly J. Knudson, “The Life and Death of a Child: Mortuary and Bodily Manifestations of Coast/Interior Interactions During the Late Formative Period (AD 100-400).” Latin American Antiquity (2022)

Beth K. Scaffidi, Tiffiny A. Tung, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Seasonality or Short-term Mobility among Trophy Head Victims and Villagers?: Understanding Late-life Dietary Change in the Pre-Hispanic Andes through Stable Isotope Analysis (δ13C/δ15N) of Archaeological Hair Keratin and Bone Collagen.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2021)

Hannah Lau, Gwyneth Gordon, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Reconstructing Feast Provisioning at Halaf Domuztepe: Evidence from Radiogenic Strontium Analyses.” Journal of Archaeological Science (2021)

Élie Pinta, Sofía Pacheco-Forés, Euan P. Wallace, and Kelly J. Knudson. “Provenancing Wood Used in the Norse Greenlandic Settlements: A Biogeochemical Study Using Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Strontium Isotopes.” Journal of Archaeological Science (2021)

Allisen C. Dahlstedt, Emily E. Schach, Sarah I. Baitzel, and Kelly J. Knudson. “Stable Oxygen and Radiogenic Strontium Variability in the Osmore Drainage, Peru: Implications for Intra-Regional Andean Paleomobility Studies.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2021)

Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, E. Subirá, M. Fontanals-Coll, Kelly J. Knudson, Elise Alonzi, Katelyn Bolhofner, B. Morell, G. Remolins, J. Roig, A. Martín, P. González Marcén, J. Plasencia, J.M. Coll, and J.F. Gibaja. “Neolithic Networking and Mobility During the 5th and 4th Millenia BC in North-Eastern Iberia.” Journal of Archaeological Science (2021)

Christopher W. Schwartz, Andrew D. Somerville, Ben A. Nelson, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Investigating Pre-Hispanic Scarlet Macaw Origins through Radiogenic Strontium Isotope Analysis at Paquimé in Chihuahua, Mexico.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2021)

Sofía I. Pacheco-Forés, Christopher T. Morehart, Jane E. Buikstra, Gwyneth W. Gordon, and Kelly J. Knudson. “Migration, Violence and the “Other”: A Biogeochemical Approach to Identity-Based Violence in the Epiclassic Basin of Mexico.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2021)

Beth K. Scaffidi, Tiffiny Tung, Gwyneth Gordon, Luis Manuel Gonzalez de la Rosa, Sara Marsteller, Allisen Dahlstedt, Emily Schach, and Kelly J. Knudson. “Drinking Locally: Testing a Surface Water 87Sr/86Sr Isoscape for Geolocation of Archaeological Samples in the Andes.” In special section entitled “A Golden Age for Strontium Isotope Research? Current Advances in Paleoecological and Archaeological Research” and edited by Brooke Crowley, Clement Pierre Bataille, Kate Britton, Joshua H Miller, and Matthew Wooller. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution – Paleoecology (2020)

Deborah E. Blom and Kelly J. Knudson, “Paleopathology and Children in the Andes: Local/Situated Biologies and Future Directions”. In Paleopathology of Andean South America: 20 Years of Advances and Future Prospects, a special section edited by Melissa S. Murphy, Haagen J. Klaus, and J. Marla Toyne. International Journal of Paleopathology (2020).

Aleksa K. Alaica, Luis Manuel González la Rosa, and Kelly J. Knudson. “Creating a Body-Subject in the Late Moche Period (CE 650-850): Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemical Analyses of Human Offerings from Huaca Colorada, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru.” World Archaeology (2020)

Elise Alonzi, Sofía Pacheco-Forés, Gwyneth Gordon, Ian Kuijt, and Kelly J. Knudson, “New Understandings of the Sea Spray Effect and Its Impact on Bioavailable Radiogenic Strontium Isotope Ratios in Coastal Environments.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2020).

Sofía I. Pacheco-Forés, Gwyneth W. Gordon, and Kelly J. Knudson. “Expanding 87Sr/86Sr Baseline Data for Central Mexican Paleomobility Studies.” PLoS One (2020).

Beth Koontz Scaffidi and Kelly J. Knudson, “An Archaeological Strontium Isoscape for the Prehistoric Andes: Understanding Population Mobility Through a Geostatistical Meta-Analysis of Archaeological 87Sr/86Sr Values from Humans, Animals.” Journal of Archaeological Science (2020).

Kathryn Grow Allen, Ryan D. Mills, Kelly J. Knudson, and Noreen Von Cramon-Taubadel, “Biological Diversity in an Islamic Archaeological Population: A Radiogenic Strontium Isotope and Craniometric Analysis of Affinity in Ottoman Romania.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2020).

Elise Alonzi, Niamh Daly, Gwyneth Gordon, Rachel E. Scott, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Traveling Monastic Paths: Mobility and Religion at Medieval Irish Monasteries.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2019).

Hannah Chazin, Gwyneth Gordon, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Isotopic Perspectives on the Question of Pastoralist Mobility in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2019).

Gwyneth W. Gordon, Tiffany Saul, Dawnie Steadman, Daniel J. Westcott, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Preservation of Hair Stable Isotope Signatures During Freezing and Law Enforcement Evidence Packaging.” Forensic Chemistry (2018).

Anna C. Novotny, Jaime J. Awe, Catharina E. Santasilia, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Ritual Emulation of Ancient Maya Elite Mortuary Traditions During the Classic Period at Cahal Pech, Belize.” Latin American Antiquity (2018).

Charles Stanish, Henry Tantalean, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Feasting and the Evolution of Cooperative Social Organizations Circa 2300 BP in Paracas Culture, Southern Peru.” Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (2018).

Ramiro Barberena, Víctor A. Durán, Paula Novellino, Diego Winocur, Anahí Benítez, Augusto Tessone, María N. Quiroga, Erik J. Marsh, Alejandra Gasco Valeria Cortegoso, Gustavo Lucero, Carina Llano, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Scale of Human Mobility in the Southern Andes (Argentina and Chile): A Preliminary Framework Based on Strontium and Oxygen Isotopes.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2017).

Christina Torres-Rouff and Kelly J. Knudson, “Integrating Identities: An Innovative Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemical Approach to Analyzing the Multiplicity of Identities in the Mortuary Record.” Major Article with Commentary in Current Anthropology  (2017)

Kelly J. Knudson, Miłosz Giersz, Wiesław Wieckowski, and Weronika Tomczyk, “Reconstructing the Lives of Wari Elites: Paleomobility and Paleodiet at the Archaeological Site of Castillo de Huarmey, Peru.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports  (2017).

Sara J. Marsteller, Natalya Zolotova, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Investigating Economic Specialization on the Central Peruvian Coast: A Reconstruction of Late Intermediate Period Ychsma Diet Using Stable Isotopes.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2017).

Kristin L. Nado, Natalya Zolotova, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Paleodietary Analysis of the Sacrificial Victims from the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan.” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences  (2017).

Mariana Dantas and Kelly J. Knudson, “Isótopos de estroncio: cría, circulación y apropiación de camélidos en Aguada de Ambato (Catamarca, Argentina) (Strontium Isotopes: Breeding, Circulation, and Appropriation of Camelids in Aguada de Ambato (Catamarca, Argentina).” Intersecciones en Antropología (2016).

Kelly J. Knudson, Charles Stanish, Maria Cecilia Lozada Cerna, and Kym F. Faull, “Intra-Individual Variability and Strontium Isotope Measurements: A Methodological Study Using 87Sr/86Sr Data from Pampa de los Gentiles, Chincha Valley, Peru.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2016). 

Christina Torres-Rouff, Kelly J. Knudson, Emily M. Stovel, and William J. Pestle, “Tiwanaku Influence and Social Inequality in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile: A Bioarchaeological, Biogeochemical, and Contextual Analysis of the Larache Cemetery.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2015).

Andrew Somerville, Paul S. Goldstein, Sarah I. Baitzel, Karin Bruwellheide, Allisen Dahlstedt, Kelly J. Knudson, and Margaret J. Schoeninger, “Diet and Gender in the Tiwanaku Colonies: Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Bone Collagen and Apatite from Moquegua, Peru.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2015).

Kelly J. Knudson, Christina Torres-Rouff, and Christopher M. Stojanowski “Investigating Human Responses to Political and Environmental Change through Paleomobility and Paleodiet.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2015).

William J. Pestle, Christina Torres-Rouff, Mark Hubbe, Francisca Santana S., Gonzalo Pimentel, Francisco Gallardo, and Kelly J. Knudson, “Explorando la diversidad dietética en la prehistoria del desierto de Atacama: Un acercamiento a los patrones regionales (Exploring Dietary Diversity in the Prehistoric Atacama: An Approximation of Regional Patterns).” Chungara (2015).

Kelly J. Knudson, Ann H. Peters, and Elsa Tomasto Cagigao “Paleodiet in the Paracas Necropolis of Wari Kayan: Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Keratin Samples from the South Coast of Peru.” Journal of Archaeological Science (2015).

Christopher M. Stojanowski and Kelly J. Knudson. Changing Patterns of Mobility as a Reponse to Climatic Deterioration and Aridification in the Middle Holocene Southern Sahara. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2014).

Kelly J. Knudson and Christina Torres-Rouff. Cultural Diversity and Paleomobility in the Andean Middle Horizon: Radiogenic Strontium Isotope Analysis in the San Pedro de Atacama Oases of Northern Chile. Latin American Anqtiquity (2014).

Kelly J. Knudson, Emily Webb, Christine White, and Fred J. Longstaffe. Baseline Data for Andean Paleomobility Research: A Radiogenic Strontium Isotope Study of Modern Peruvian Agricultural Soils. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2014).

Kelly J. Knudson, Paul S. Goldstein, Allisen Dahlstedt, Andrew Somerville, and Margaret J. Schoeninger. Paleomobility in the Tiwanaku Diaspora: Biogeochemical Analyses at Rio Muerto, Moquegua, Peru. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2014).

Deborah E. Blom and Kelly J. Knudson. Tracing Tiwanaku Childhoods: A Bioarchaeological Study of Age and Identity in Tiwanaku Society. Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity (2014).

Kelly J. Knudson. La migración en la cultura Sicán: Análisis del movimiento población en el pasado usando la geología y la química (Sicán Migration: Analyzing Population Movement in the Past Using Geology and Chemistry). Cultura Sicán: Esplendor Preincaico de la Costa Norte (Sicán Culture: Pre-Inkaic Splendor in the North Coast) (2014).

Christina Torres-Rouff, Kelly J. Knudson, and Mark Hubbe. Issues of Affinity: Exploring Population Structure in the Middle and Regional Developments Periods of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2013).

Julia I. Giblin, Kelly J. Knudson, Zsolt Bereczki, Gyorgy Palfi, and Ildiko Pap. Strontium Isotope Analysis and Human Mobility during the Neolithic and Copper Age: A Case Study from the Great Hungarian Plain. Journal of Archaeological Science (2012).

Kelly J. Knudson, William J. Pestle, Christina Torres-Rouff and Gonzalo Pimentel,. Assessing the Life History of an Andean Traveler through Biogeochemistry: Stable and Radiogenic Isotope Analyses of Archaeological Human Remains from Northern Chile. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2012).

Kristin L. Nado, Sara J. Marsteller, Laura M. King, Blair M. Daverman, Christina Torres-Rouff, and Kelly J. Knudson. Examining Local Social Identities through Patterns of Biological and Cultural Variation in the Solcor Ayllu, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Chungara (2012).

Maria Cecilia Lozada Cerna, Kelly J. Knudson, Rex C. Haydon, and Jane E. Buikstra. Social Marginalization among the Chiribaya: The ‘Curandero’ of Yaral, Southern Peru. The Bioarchaeology of Individuals (2012).

Christopher M. Stojanowski and Kelly J. Knudson. Biogeochemical Inference of Mobility of Early Holocene Fisher-Foragers from the Central Sahara Desert. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2011).

Kelly J. Knudson and Tiffiny A. Tung. Investigating Regional Mobility in the Southern Hinterland of the Wari Empire: Biogeochemistry at the Site of Beringa, Peru. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2011).

Kelly J. Knudson, Barra O’Donnabhain, Charisse Carver, Robin Cleland, and T. Douglas Price. Migration and Viking Dublin: Paleomobility and Paleodiet through Isotopic Analyses. Journal of Archaeological Science (2011).

Kelly J. Knudson, Kristin R. Gardella, and Jason Yaeger. Provisioning Inka Feasts at Tiwanaku, Bolivia: The Geographic Origins of Camelids in the Pumapunku Complex. Journal of Archaeological Science (2011).

Sara J. Marsteller, Christina Torres-Rouff, and Kelly J. Knudson. Pre-Columbian Andean Sickness Ideology and the Social Experience of Leishmaniasis: A Contextualized Analysis of Bioarchaeological and Paleopathological Data from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. International Journal of Paleopathology (2011).

Tiffiny A. Tung and Kelly J. Knudson. Identifying Locals, Migrants and Captives in the Wari Heartland: A Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemical Study of Human Remains from Conchopata, Peru. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2011).

Kelly J. Knudson. Identifying Archaeological Human Migration using Biogeochemistry: Case Studies from the South Central Andes. Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration (2011).

Andrew D. Somerville, Ben A. Nelson, and Kelly J. Knudson. Isotopic Investigation of Pre-Hispanic Macaw Breeding in Northwest Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2010).

Kelly J. Knudson and Liam Frink. Ethnoarchaeological Analysis of Arctic Fish Processing: Chemical Characterization of Soils on Nelson Island, Alaska. Journal of Archaeological Science (2010).

Kelly J. Knudson and Liam Frink. Soil Chemical Signatures of a Historic Sod House: Activity Area Analysis of an Arctic Semi-Subterranean Structure on Nelson Island, Alaska. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2010).

Kelly J. Knudson, Hope M. Williams, Jane E. Buikstra, Gwyneth Gordon, and Ariel D. Anbar. Introducing d88/86Sr Analysis in Archaeology: A Demonstration of the Utility of Strontium Isotope Fractionation in Paleodietary Studies. Journal of Archaeological Science (2010).

Tiffiny A. Tung and Kelly J. Knudson. Childhood Lost: Abductions, Sacrifice and Trophy Heads of Children in the Wari Empire of the Ancient Andes. Latin American Antiquity (2010).

Izumi Shimada, Rafael Segura Llanos, David J. Goldstein, Kelly J. Knudson, Melody J. Shimada, Ken-ichi Shinoda, Mai Takigami, and Ursel Wagner. Un Siglo Despúes de Uhle: Reflexiones sobre la Arqueología de Pachacamac y Perú (One Century After Uhle: Reflections on the Archaeology of Pachacamac and Peru). Max Uhle (1856-1944): Evaluaciones de Sus Investigaciones y Obras (Max Uhle (1856-1944): Evaluations of His Investigations and Works) (2010).

A. Romero, M. Paz de Miguel Ibañez, Jane E. Buikstra, Kelly J. Knudson, Eleni Anna Prevedorou, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, and J. de Juan. Mutilación dentaria en la Necrópolis Islámica de Plaza del Castillo (siglo VIII DC), Pamplona (Navarra) (Dental Mutlilation in the Islamic Necropolis of Plaza del Castillo (8th century AD), Pamplona (Navarra). Revista Española de Anthopología Física (2009).

Kelly J. Knudson. Book review of Between Biology and Culture. Edited by Holgur Schutkowski. xii+310 pp. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 2008. $130.00 (cloth). American Journal of Human Biology (2009).

Kelly J. Knudson. Oxygen Isotope Analysis in a Land of Environmental Extremes: The Complexities of Isotopic Work in the Andes. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2009).

Kelly J. Knudson and Christina Torres-Rouff. Investigating Cultural Heterogeneity in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile through Biogeochemistry and Bioarchaeology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2009).

Kelly Knudson, Sloan Williams, Rebecca Osborne, Kathleen Forgey, and Patrick Williams. The Geographic Origins of Nasca Trophy Heads in the Kroeber Collection Using Strontium, Oxygen, and Carbon Isotope Data. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2009).

Kelly J. Knudson and Christopher M. Stojanowski. Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas. (2009).

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Kelly J. Knudson. What Biogeochemistry Tells Us About Diet and Provenance of People in the Sicán Society. Sicán Culture and Archaeology (2009).

Kelly J. Knudson and Christopher M. Stojanowski. The Bioarchaeology of Identity. Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas (2009).

Kelly J. Knudson and Deborah E. Blom. The Complex Relationship between Tiwanaku Mortuary Identity and Geographic Origin in the South Central Andes. Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas (2009).

Kelly J. Knudson. Book review of Between Biology and Culture. Edited by Holgur Schutkowski. xii+310 pp. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 2008. $130.00 (cloth). (2009).

Alicia Wilbur, Amy Farnbach, Kelly Knudson, and Jane Buikstra. Diet, Disease and the Paleopathological Record. Current Anthropology (2008).

Kelly Knudson. Tiwanaku Influence in the South Central Andes: Strontium Isotope Analysis and Middle Horizon Migration. Latin American Antiquity (2008).

Kelly Knudson and Christopher Stojanowski. New Directions in Bioarchaeology: Recent Contributions to the Study of Human Social Identities. Journal of Archaeological Research (2008).

Paul C. Sereno, Elena A. A. Garcea, Hélène Jousse, Christopher M. Stojanowski, Jean-François Saliège, Abdoulaye Maga, Oumarou Ide, Kelly J. Knudson, Anna Maria Mercuri, Thomas W. Stafford, Thomas G. Kaye, Carlo Giraudi, and Isabella Massamba N'siala. Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change. PLoS One (2008).

Tiffiny Tung and Kelly Knudson. Social Identities and Geographical Origins of Wari Trophy Heads from Conchopata, Peru. Current Anthropology (2008).

Kelly J. Knudson and Christopher M. Stojanowski. New Directions in Bioarchaeology: Recent Contributions to the Study of Human Social Identities. (2008).

Christina Torres-Rouff, Kelly Knudson. Examining the Life History of an Individual from Solcor 3, San Pedro de Atacama: Combining Bioarchaeology and Archaeological Chemistry. Chungara: Revista Andina (2007).

Kelly Knudson. La influencia de Tiwanaku en San Pedro de Atacama: Una investigación por los isótopos del estroncio (The Influence of Tiwanaku in San Pedro de Atacama: An Investigation using Strontium Isotope Analysis). Estudios Atacameños (2007).

Kelly Knudson, Arthur Aufderheide, Jane Buikstra. Seasonality and Paleodiet in the Chiribaya Polity of Southern Peru. Journal of Archaeological Science (2007).

Kelly Knudson, Douglas Price. Utility of Multiple Chemical Techniques in Archaeological Residential Mobility Studies: Case Studies from Tiwanaku- and Chiribaya-Affiliated Sites in the Andes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2007).

Kelly Knudson, Jane Buikstra. Residential Mobility and Resource Use in the Chiribaya Polity of Southern Peru: Strontium Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Tooth Enamel and Bone. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2007).

Knudson, Kelly (Author) ,Tung, Tiffiny (Author) . Using Archaeological Chemistry to Investigate the Geographic Origin of Trophy Heads in the Central Andes. Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation (2007).

Kelly Knudson, Jane Buikstra. Combining Heavy and Light Stable Isotope Analyses in the Chiribaya Polity of Southern Peru. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin (2006).

Kelly Knudson, Tiffiny Tung, Kenneth Nystrom, T Douglas Price, Paul Fullagar. The Origin of the Juch'uypampa Cave Mummies: Strontium Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Human Remains from Bolivia. Journal of Archaeological Science (2005).

Knudson, Kelly, Price, T, Buikstra, Jane, Blom, Deborah. Strontium Isotope Analysis and Migration in the South Central Andes: Tiwanaku Colonization of the Moquegua Valley. Vrije Universiteit (2005).

David Meiggs, Kelly Knudson. Resolution and Refinement: Recent Advances in Archaeological Chemistry: Introductory Comments. Archaeometry (2004).

Kelly Knudson, Lisa Frink, Brian Hoffman, T Price. Chemical Characterization of Arctic Soils: Activity Area Analysis in Contemporary Yup'ik Fish Camps Using ICP-AES. Journal of Archaeological Science (2004).

Kelly Knudson, T Douglas Price, Jane Buikstra, Deborah Blom. The Use of Strontium Isotope Analysis to Investigate Tiwanaku Migration and Mortuary Ritual in Bolivia and Peru. Archaeometry (2004).