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Recent Publications

Bryson, R. A. and K. M. DeWall
2007a. (editors) A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling. The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, SD. Available for purchase here.

- 2007b. Environments of the Northwest Entrada: an examination of climate, environment, and timing in the peopling of the Americas from the northwest. In Proceedings of the International Science Conference, Science in Archaeology, Houston 2007, edited by A. Stenger and A. L. Schneider, pp. 35-59. Institute for Archaeological Studies.

Bryson, R.U., R.A. Bryson, and A. Ruter
2006. A calibrated radiocarbon database of late quaternary volcanic eruptions. eEarth Discuss 1:123-134. Available online.

Arzt, J.M.
2006.  Modeled Climate of Holocene Mesopotamia (in prep).

Bryson, R.A.
2005. Archaeoclimatology, in The Encyclopedia of World Climatology, J.E. Oliver, Ed., Dordrecht, Springer  pp 68-72.

Bryson, R.A., E.J. Hopkins, and J.M. Moran.
2005.  Contributions to Glossary of Geology, 5th Edition.  Nuendorf, K.K.E., J.P. Mehl Jr., and J.A. Jackson, eds, American Geological Institute, Alexandria VA, 779 pps.

Bryson, R. A. and A. Ruter. 
2003. Archaeoclimatology  in Southern India, in Late Quaternary Environment Change: Emerging Issues, Anupama K and Hema Achyuthan, eds., Pondicherry, India,  Publications du départment  d’écologie, Institute Français de Pondichery  pp.221-230.

Ruter, A., J. Arzt, S. Vavrus, Bryson, R.A.,  and J.E. Kutzbach.
2003. Climate and Environment of the Tropical Americas (NH), in the mid-Holocene: comparison of observations with climate model simulations. Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 663-679.

Ruter, A. and R.A. Bryson. 
2003. Spatial Variability of Holocene Climate Change  in Pakistan and Rajasthan  and  its Relevance  to the  Indus Civilization;  an Evaluation using Biotic Proxy and Macrophysical Models, in Late Quaternary Environment Change: Emerging Issues, Anupama K and Hema Achyuthan, eds.  Pondicherry, India,Publications du départment  d’écologie, Institute Français de Pondichery  pp. 69-74.

Bryson, R.A. and R.U. Bryson. 
1999. Holocene climates of Anatolia as simulated with archaeoclimatic models. Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology 2, 1-13.


 

Recent Conference Presentations

Anderson, P. C., L. S. Cummings and R. A. Bryson
2007. Agriculture, Sustainability, Risk, and Climate in Modern Tunisia. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.

Bryson, R. A., R. P. Wright and J. Schuldenrein
2007. Archaeoclimatology: Applications of a Century-Resolution, Site-Specific, Climate Model to Indus Culture History. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.

Gear, M. W., L. S. Cummings and R. A. Bryson
2007. Climate, Agriculture, Sustainability, and Risk - a Look to the Past. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.

Schuldenrein, J., R. P. Wright and R. A. Bryson
2007. Modeling Holocene Landscape Histoy and Climate Change in the Indus: Environmental Perspectives on Human Geography. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.

Bryson, R. A. and K. M. DeWall
2007b  Environments of the Northwest Entrada: an examination of climate, environment, and timing in the peopling of the Americas from the northwest. Paper presented at the International Science Conference: Defining Parameters of Scientific Inquiry and Cultural Affiliation, February 25-28, 2007, Houston, TX.

Bryson, R.A., K.A. McEnaney, and A.H. Ruter
2006. Modeling the History of the Great Rivers of the World. International Conference on Rivers and Civilization, La Crosse, WI. Download powerpoint slides here.

McEnaney, K.A., A.H. Ruter, and R.A. Bryson
2006. The Modeled Discharge of the Mississippi during the Holocene. International Conference on Rivers and Civilization, La Crosse, WI. Download jpg version here.

Ruter, A.H. and R.A. Bryson
2006. Modeled Holocene Discharge of the Danube. International Conference on Rivers and Civilization, La Crosse, WI. Download jpg version here.

Kaplan, S.W., McEnaney, K.A., and R.A. Bryson.
2005.  The Testing of a Macrophysical Climate Model with Field Data in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest.  Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America: Salt Lake. 

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Archaeoclimatology Theory References

Bryson, R. A.
1997  The Paradigm of Climatology: an essay. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 78(3):449-455.

- 2005  Archeoclimatology. In Encyclopedia of World Climatology, edited by J. E. Oliver, pp. 58-63. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York.

Bryson, R. A. and G. Dittberner
1976    A non-equilibrium model of hemispheric mean surface temperatures. Journal of Atmospheric Science 33(11):2094-2106.

 

Development of Milankovitch

Bryson, R. A. and B. M. Goodman
1986    Milankovitch and Global Ice Simulation. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 37:22-28.

Bryson, R. A. and A. M. Swain
1981    Holocene Variations of Monsoon Rainfall in Rajasthan. Quaternary Research 16(2):135-145.

Hopkins, E. J.
1985    Analysis of Astronomically-Induced Monthly and Zonally Averaged Extra-Atmospheric Irradiance Variations of the Earth over the Last 500,000 Years. PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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Development of Volcanic Aerosols

Bryson, R. A.
1988    Late Quaternary Volcanic Modulation of Milankovitch Climate Forcing. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 39:115-125.

Bryson, R. A. and B. M. Goodman
1980    Volcanic Activity and Climatic Changes. Science 207(7):1041-1044. Abstract available online.

Bryson, R. U. and R. A. Bryson
- 1998  Application of a Global Volcanicity Time-Series on High-Resolution Paleoclimatic Modeling of the Eastern Mediterranean. In Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change, edited by A. S. Issar and N. Brown, pp. 1-19. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.

Bryson, R.U., R.A. Bryson, and A. Ruter
2006. A calibrated radiocarbon database of late quaternary volcanic eruptions. eEarth Discuss 1:123-134. Available online.

Goodman, B. M.
1984    The Climatic Impact of Volcanic Activity. PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

The Role of the ITC

Bryson, R. A.
1989    Modelling the NW India Monsoon for the Last 40 000 Years. Climate Dynamics 3:169-177.

- 1992  A Macrophysical Model of the Holocene Intertropical Convergence and Jetstream Positions and Rainfall for the Saharan Region. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 47:247-258.

 

 

 

 

 


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The Role of Albedo

Kung, E. C., R. A. Bryson and D. H. Lenshow
1964    Study of a Continental Surface Albedo on the Basis of Flight Measurements and Structure of the Earth's Surface Cover over North America. Monthly Weather Review 92(12):543-564.

 

 

Testing Against GCMs

Ruter, A., J. Arzt, S. Vavrus, R. A. Bryson and J. E. Kutzbach
2004    Climate and environment of the subtropical and tropical Americas (NH) in the mid-Holocene: comparison of observations with climate model simulations. Quaternary Science Reviews 23:663-679.

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Climatology Background Papers

Bryson, R. A.
1985    On Climatic Analogs in Paleoclimatic Reconstruction. Quaternary Research 23(3):275-286.

- 1986  Airstream Climatology of Asia. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and Mountain Meteorology, March 20-24, 1984, Beijing, China, pp. 604-619. American Meteorological Society, Boston.

Bryson, R. A., W. M. Wendland, J. D. Ives and J. T. Andrews
1969    Radiocarbon Isochrones on the Disintegration of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Arctic and Alpine Research 1(1):1-13.

 

 

Webb, T. I. and R. A. Bryson
1972    Late- and Postglacial Climate Change in the Northern Midwest, USA: Quantitative Estimates Derived from Fossil Pollen Spectra by Multivariate Statistical Techniques. Quaternary Research 2:70-115.

Wendland, W. M. and R. A. Bryson
1974    Dating Climatic Episodes of the Holocene. Quaternary Research 4:9-24.

 


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Applications and Case Studies

 

 

     

Anderson, P. C., L. S. Cummings and R. A. Bryson
2007  Agriculture, Sustainability, Risk, and Climate in Modern Tunisia. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.

Arzt, J.
2003  Climate Change in Mesopotamia, 9000-3000 BC. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI.

- 2005  Climate and Settlement in the Jebel Abd al-Aziz, Syria: a comparison of the Yale Khabur Basin Project Survey and a model of the Holocene climate for Hasseke. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT.

Barton, C. M., H. Sarjoughian, S. E. Falconer, H. Mitasova, R. Arrowsmith and P. Fall
2006  Modeling Long-Term Landscape Dynamics and the Emergence of Intensification. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Bay, R. C., N. Bramall and P. B. Price
2004  Bipolar correlation of volcanism with millennial climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101(17):6341-6345.

Binford, L. R.
2001  Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Hunter-Gatherer and Environmental Data Sets. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

Bochenski, Z. M. and K. E. Campbell Jr.
2006  The Extinct California Turkey, Meleagris californica, from Rancho La Brea: Comparative Osteology and Systematics. Contributions in Science, Number 509. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles.

Bryson, R. A.
1989  Modelling the NW India Monsoon for the Last 40 000 Years. Climate Dynamics 3:169-177.

- 1992  A Macrophysical Model of the Holocene Intertropical Convergence and Jetstream Positions and Rainfall for the Saharan Region. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 47:247-258.

- 1993  Simulating Past and Forecasting Future Climates. Environmental Conservation 20(4):339-346.

- 1994  On Integrating Climatic Change and Culture Change Studies. Human Ecology 22(1):115-128.

- 1995  Ten Millennia of Climatic Variation in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Academy Review:44-45.

- 1997  Proxy Indications of Holocene Winter Rains in Southwest Asia Compared with Simulated Rainfall. In Third Millenium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse, edited by H. N. Dalfes, G. Kukla and H. Weiss, pp. 465-473. vol. I 49. NATO ASI Series, Berlin.

- 2003a  A PEP III Transect as Modeled with a Macrophysical or Archaeoclimatic Model. Paper presented at the XVI INQUA Congress, July 24-30, Reno, NV.

- 2003b  Lindenmeier and George Frison: a brief comparison of cultural and climatic "stages". Screenings: The Oregon Archaeological Society Newsletter 52(8):1-2.

- 2004  Climatic Modeling for Archaeologists: Archaeoclimatology. Paper presented at the 57th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, OR.

- 2005  The Holocene History of Cordilleran Rivers [Poster]. Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Park City, UT.

Bryson, R. A. and R. U. Bryson
1995  A Portfolio of Archaeoclimatic Simulations for the High Plains (in Honor of George Frison). Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, October 18-21, Laramie, WY.

- 1997a  High Resolution Simulation of Iowa Holocene Climates. Journal of the Iowa Archaeological Society 44:121-128.

- 1997b  High Resolution Simulations of Regional Holocene Climate: North Africa and the Near East. In Third Millenium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse, edited by H. N. Dalfes, G. Kukla and H. Weiss, pp. 565-593. vol. I 49. NATO ASI Series, Berlin.

- 1997c  Macrophysical Climatic Modeling of Africa's Late Quaternary Climate: Site-Specific, High-Resolution Applications for Archaeology. African Archaeological Review 14(3):143-160.

- 1999  Holocene Climates of Anatolia: as Simulated with Archaeoclimatic Models. TÜBA-AR II:1-13.

- 2000a  Site-Specific High-Resolution Models of the Monsoon for Africa and Asia. Global and Planetary Change 26:77-84.

- 2000b  The History of Woodland Climatic Environments as Simulated with Archaeoclimatic Models. Paper presented at the Joint Midwest Archaeological and Plains Anthropological Conference, St. Paul, MN.

- 2004b  The Wasting of Gades: according to Rufus Avienus. Boletin RECLIDO 1(2):11-12. Article reprinted in A Paleoclimatology Atlas, available for purchase here.

- 2007a  Calendars and Cycles. In A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling, edited by R. A. Bryson and K. M. DeWall, pp. 141-143. The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, SD. Available for purchase here.

- 2007b  Horse Nomads of the Asian Steppe. In A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling, edited by R. A. Bryson and K. M. DeWall, pp. 127-130. The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, SD. Available for purchase here.

- 2007c  Mesopotamian Mid-Holocene floods. In A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling, edited by R. A. Bryson and K. M. DeWall, pp. 121-126. The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, SD. Available for purchase here.

- 2007d  The Prairie Peninsula. In A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling, edited by R. A. Bryson and K. M. DeWall, pp. 79-85. The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, SD. Available for purchase here.

- 2007e   The Volcanic Record and Climatic Cycles. In A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling, edited by R. A. Bryson and K. M. DeWall, pp. 137-140. The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, SD. Available for purchase here.

Bryson, R. A. and K. M. DeWall
2007a  (editors) A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling. The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, SD. Available for purchase here.

- 2007b  Environments of the Northwest Entrada: an examination of climate, environment, and timing in the peopling of the Americas from the northwest. In Proceedings of the International Science Conference, Science in Archaeology, Houston 2007, edited by A. Stenger and A. L. Schneider, pp. 35-59. Institute for Archaeological Studies.

- 2007c  Environments of the Northwest Entrada: an examination of climate, environment, and timing in the peopling of the Americas from the northwest. Paper presented at the International Science Conference: Defining Parameters of Scientific Inquiry and Cultural Affiliation, February 25-28, 2007, Houston, TX.

Bryson, R. A. and E. J. Hopkins
2001  Climates of the Periglacial Region in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Conference, International Association for Great Lakes Research, Green Bay, WI. Article reprinted in A Paleoclimatology Atlas, available for purchase here.

Bryson, R. A., K. A. McEnaney and A. H. Ruter
2006  Modeling the History of the Great Rivers of the World. Paper presented at the International Conference on Rivers and Civilization, June 25-28, La Crosse, WI.  Available online.

Bryson, R. A. and A. H. Ruter
2003  Archaeoclimatology in South India. In Late quaternary environment change: emerging issues, edited by A. K and H. Achyuthan, pp. 221-230. Publications du départment d'écologie, Institute Français de Pondicherry, Pondicherry, India.

Bryson, R. A., A. H. Ruter, M. T. Coe and K. E. Kohfeld
2003  Simulating the Late Pleistocence / Holocene Record of River Discharge in Europe. Paper presented at the XVI INQUA Congress, July 24-30, Reno, NV.

Bryson, R. A. and A. Stenger
2004  Typhoons in Oregon Prehistory. Paper presented at the 57th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, OR.

- 2005  Abrupt Climatic Changes and Events in the Cordilleran Holocene and Possible Cultural Implications. Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Park City, UT.

Bryson, R. A., R. P. Wright and J. Schuldenrein
2007  Archaeoclimatology: Applications of a Century-Resolution, Site-Specific, Climate Model to Indus Culture History. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.

Bryson, R. U. and R. A. Bryson
1994  A Comparison of Cultural Evidence and Simulated Holocene Climates of the Pacific Northwest. Paper presented at the Abstracts of the 59th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.

- 1995  An Archaeoclimatic Reconstruction of the Holocene Climate of Lake Ilo, North Dakota. Report submitted by Archaeoclimatology Consultants, Davis, CA to the Knife River Flint Quarries Archaeological Project, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

- 1997a  A Comparison of Cultural Evidence and Simulated Holocene Climates of the Pacific Northwest: An Experiment in Archaeoclimatology. In Contributions to the Archaeology of Oregon, 1995-1997, edited by A. E. Oetting. Association of Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers No. 6.

- 1997b  The Modeled Holocene Climatic History of the Yellowstone Park Area. Archaeoclimatology Consultants, Davis, CA, submitted to the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist, Laramie, Wyoming.

 

 

- 1998  Application of a Global Volcanicity Time-Series on High-Resolution Paleoclimatic Modeling of the Eastern Mediterranean. In Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change, edited by A. S. Issar and N. Brown, pp. 1-19. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.

- 2000a  A Perspective on Modeling Paleoclimatic Hazards. Transactions AGU 81:F12.

- 2000b  Holocene Climatic Change in Sand Hollow, Utah: Proxy Records and Macrophysical Modeling Results. Report submitted by Archaeoclimatology Consultants, Davis, CA to the Office of the Public Archaeology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

- 2000c  The modeled climatic history of Green River, Wyoming since the last glacial maximum. In "Seeds-Kee-Dee" Riverine Adaptation in Southwest Wyoming, Appendix F, edited by J. V. Pastor, K. W. Thompson, R. K. Talbot, W. P. Eckerle and E. E. Ingbar. Brigham Young University Press, Museums of People and Cultures Technical Series No. 99-3, Provo.

- 2005  Implicaciones Macrofísicas de Modelos Paleoclimáticos de Agricultura de Irrigación en Ramaditas (Universidad de Wisconsin, Madison, USA). In Arqueologia del Desierto de Atacama: La etapa formativa en el area de Ramaditas / Guatacondo, edited by M. A. Rivera. Ediciones Universidad Bolivariana, Santiago, Chile.

Bryson, R. U., R. A. Bryson and L. M. Ramirez
1996  An Archaeoclimatic Reconstruction of the Holocene Climate of Edwards Air Force Base, California. In Overview of the Prehistoric Cultural Resources of Edwards AFB, California, edited by T. Hettich. Computer Sciences Corporation, Environmental Services Department, Edwards AFB, California.

- 1997  Paleoclimates of the Northwestern Great Basin: northeast California and western Nevada. In Culture Change along the Eastern Sierra Nevada / Cascade Front, Volume I: History of Investigations and Summary of Findings, edited by M. Delacorte, pp. 14-45. vol. I. Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc., Davis, CA.

Bryson, R. U., L. M. Ramirez de Bryson and R. A. Bryson
1996  Holocene Climates of Yosemite National Park. Report submitted by Archaeoclimatology Consultants, Davis, CA to the Yosemite Research Center, El Portal, CA.

Byers, D. A., C. S. Smith and J. M. Broughton
2005  Holocene artiodactyl population histories and large game hunting in the Wyoming Basin, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:125-142.

Callaghan, R. T.
2003  Comments on the Mainland Origins of the Preceramic Cultures of the Greater Antilles. Latin American Antiquity 14(3):323-338.

Cummings, L. S.
2004  Comparison of Archaeoclimatic Models with Strategraphic Pollen Records in Hawai'i. Paper presented at the SHA Conference, Place and Practice:  Linking Archaeologists and Indigenous Peoples, November 13-14, 2004, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Island.

Cummings, L. S. and R. A. Bryson
2003  Comparison of Pollen Records and Archaeoclimatic Modeling. Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Estes Park, CO. Available online.

- 2006  River Discharge, Trade, and the Demise of the Poverty Point Archaic Culture [Poster]. Paper presented at the International Conference on Rivers and Civilization, June 25-28, La Crosse, WI.

Cummings, L. S., R. A. Varney and R. A. Bryson
2006  Building a Picture of the Landscape using Close-Interval Pollen Sampling and Archaeoclimatic Modeling - an Example from the KibRidge-Yampa Paleoindian Sie, Western Colorado. In From the Dent Prairie to the Peaks of the Rockies: Recent Paleoindian Research in Colorado, edited by R. H. Brunswig and B. L. Pitblado.

DeWall, Katherine McEnaney
2007  Pfahlbauten, Habitations Lacustre, Lake Dwellings: Climate, people, and the environment in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Alps. In A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling, edited by R. A. Bryson and K. M. DeWall, pp. 99-109. The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, SD. Available for purchase here.

Gear, M. W., L. S. Cummings and R. A. Bryson
2007  Climate, Agriculture, Sustainability, and Risk - a Look to the Past. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.

Hassan, F. A.
1997  The Dynamics of a Riverine Civilization: A Geoarchaeological Perspective on the Nile Valley, Egypt. World Archaeology 29(1, Riverine Archaeology):51-74.

- 2000  Environmental Perception and Human Responses in History and Prehistory. In The Way the Wind Blows: Climate, History, and Human Action, edited by J. A. Tainter, R. McIntosh and S. McIntosh, pp. 121-140. Columbia University Press, New York.

Jeraj, M. and R. A. Bryson
2003  Pollen Evidence and Simulated Late Glacial and Holocene Climate of Ljubljana Moor, Slovenia. Paper presented at the XVI INQUA Congress, July 24-30, Reno, NV.

Kaplan, S. W., K. A. McEnaney and R. A. Bryson
2005  The Testing of a Macrophysical Climate Model with Field Data in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.

McEnaney, K. A.
2005  Atlases of Archaeoclimatology: Spatial Interpolation of Model Output. Paper presented at the Climate, People, and the Environment Program Seminar Series, Sept. 27, 2005, Madison, WI. Available online.

McEnaney, K. A. and R. A. Bryson
2005  Some of the Many Applications of Archaeoclimatology. Paper presented at the Wisconsin Archaeological Survey Research Reports Meeting, April 23, 2005, Madison, WI. Available online.

McEnaney, K. A., A. H. Ruter and R. A. Bryson
2006  The Modeled Discharge of the Mississippi during the Holocene [Poster]. Paper presented at the International Conference on Rivers and Civilization, June 25-28, La Crosse, WI.  Available online.

Palombini, A.
2003  A Possible New Approach to Paleoenvironment: Climatic Models and Agronomical Tools. PAGES: Past Global Changes Oct-Nov. Available online.

Ramirez de Bryson, L. M., R. U. Bryson and R. A. Bryson
2001  Paleoclimatic and Material Culture Perspective on the Formative Period of Northern Chile. Chungara (Arica) 33(1):5-12. Available online.

Ramirez, L. M. and R. U. Bryson
1996  Paleoenvironments of Edwards Air Force Base. In Overview of the Prehistoric Cultural Resources of Edwards AFB, California, edited by T. Hettich. Computer Sciences Corporation, Environmental Services Department, Edwards AFB, California.

Ruter, A. H.
2005  Macrophysical Modeling of Climatic Variability in the Pontic Basin. Paper presented at the International round table seminar on "Paleoclimate and Environmental Changes in the Black Sea Area", University of Aarhus, Denmark. Available online.

Ruter, A. H., J. Arzt, S. Vavrus, R. A. Bryson and J. E. Kutzbach
2004  Climate and environment of the subtropical and tropical Americas (NH) in the mid-Holocene: comparison of observations with climate model simulations. Quaternary Science Reviews 23:663-679.

Ruter, A. H. and R. A. Bryson
2003a  Archaeoclimatic Simulations for Temperature, Precipitation, and Stream Discharge during the Woodland Period in the Ohio Valley. Paper presented at the Midwestern Archaeological Conference, Columbus, Ohio.

- 2003b  Spatial Variability of Holocene Climate Change in Pakistan and Rajasthan and its Relevance to the Indus Civilization; An Evaluation of Using Biotic Proxy and Macrophysical Models. In Late quaternary environment change: emerging issues, edited by A. K and H. Achyuthan, pp. 69-74. Publications du départment d'écologie, Institute Français de Pondicherry, Pondicherry, India.

- 2004  Oregon Archaeoclimatology: Diamond Pond. Screenings: The Oregon Archaeological Society Newsletter 53(7):1-3.

- 2006  Modeled Holocene Discharge of the Danube [Poster]. Paper presented at the International Conference on Rivers and Civilization, June 25-28, La Crosse, WI.  Available online.

Schuldenrein, J., R. P. Wright and R. A. Bryson
2007  Modeling Holocene Landscape Histoy and Climate Change in the Indus: Environmental Perspectives on Human Geography. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.

Sinclair, P., R. U. Bryson, R. A. Bryson and M. Pyykonen
2003  Modelling socio-environmental interactions in southern Africa at the regional scale. Paper presented at the Conference on Urban Landscape Dynamics and Resource Use, August 28-31, Uppsala, Sweden. Available online here.

Stenger, A. and R. A. Bryson
2003  Oregon Archaeoclimatology: Salem. Screenings: The Oregon Archaeological Society Newsletter 52(11):1-4.

- 2004  Oregon Archaeoclimatology: Sauvie Island and Vancouver Lake. Screenings: The Oregon Archaeological Society Newsletter 53(3):1-5.

Surovell, T. A. and P. J. Brantingham
2007  A note on the use of temporal frequency distributions in studies of prehistoric demography. Journal of Archaeological Science doi:10.1016/j.jas.2007.01.003.

Varney, R. A., L. S. Cummings, R. A. Bryson and S. Caporale
2007  Colorado Climate and Human Distribution through the Holocene: Where do you go when everything changes? Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.


Workbook

Now available for purchase: A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High-Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling. Includes directions and template files for the model itself. Click here.

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