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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Fiscal Year 2015 Scientific Publications Division of Anthropology 2 Division of Invertebrate Zoology 7 Division of Paleontology 13 Division of Physical Sciences Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Department of Astrophysics 20 Division of Vertebrate Zoology 30 Department of Herpetology 30 Department of Ichthyology 33 Department of Mammalogy 34 Department of Ornithology 41 Center for Biodiversity and Conservation 44 Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics 46 1 DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY Archer, W., D.R. Braun, J.W.K. Harris, J.T. McCoy, and B.G. Richmond. 2014. Early Pleistocene aquatic resource use in the Turkana Basin. Journal of Human Evolution 77: 74–87. Chirchir, H., T.L. Kivell, C.B. Ruff, J.J. Hublin, K. Carlson, B. Zipfel, and B.G. Richmond. 2015. Recent origin of low trabecular bone density in modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112 (2): 366–371. Crist, W., A.J. de Voogt, and A.-E. Dunn-Vaturi. 2015. Facilitating interaction: Board games as social lubricants in the ancient Near East. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 34(3) de Voogt, A.J. 2015. Navigating the disciplines: games, scripts and the role of language in cultural transmission. Evolutionary Biology. [doi: 10.1007 /s 11692-015-9316-9] de Voogt, A.J., N. Epstein, and L. Linders. 2014. Duru calculation and the understanding of mancala expertise. Cognition & Culture 15(3): 133–152. de Voogt, A.J. 2014. The cultural transmission of script in Africa: the presence of syllabaries. Scripta 6: 121–143. de Voogt, A.J. 2014. The introduction of mancala to Sai Island. In J.R. Anderson & D.A. Welsby (editors), The fourth cataract and beyond: Proceedings of the 121st International Conference for Nubian Studies, pp. 1017–1020. British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 1. Leuven: Peeters. Eerkens, J.W., A.J. de Voogt, T.L. Dupras, S.C. Rose, E.J. Bartelink, and V. Francigny. 2014. Intra-and inter-individual variation in 813C and 815N in human dental calculus and comparison to bone collagen and apatite isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science 52: 64–71. [IF 2.139] Francigny, V., and de Voogt, A.J. 2015. Jeux de la nature en depots votifs. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 100: 241– 251. Francigny, V., R. David, and A.J. de Voogt. 2015. Soleb & Sedeinga. Paris: El-Nour. [55 pages] 2 Hedquist, S.L., S.B. Koyiyumptewa, W. Bernardini, T.J. Ferguson, P.M. Whiteley, and L.J. Kuwanwisiwma. 2015. Mapping the Hopi Landscape for Cultural Preservation. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research special issue on Geospatial Technologies and Indigenous Communities Engagement 6:1: 39–58. Hedquist, S.L., S.B. Koyiyumptewa, K.C. Hill, T.J. Ferguson, P.M. Whiteley, and L.J. Kuwanwisiwma. 2014. Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language. American Anthropologist 16(2): 324–331. Kendall, L., and J. Yang. 2014. Goddess with a Picasso face; Art markets, collectors and sacred things in the circulation of Korean Shaman paintings. Journal of Material Culture, 19 (4): 401–423. Kendall, L. 2014. Intangible Traces and Material Things: The Performance of Heritage Handicraft. Acta Koreana. 72: 537–555 Kendall, L. 2015. Can Commodities Be Sacred? Material Religion in Seoul and Hanoi. In P. van der Veer (editor), Handbook of Religion and the Asian City. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 367–384. Kendall, L. 2015. A Most Singular and Solitary Expeditionist: Berthold Laufer Collecting China. In J. A. Bell and E. L. Hasinoff (editors), The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 60–90 Kendall, L. 2015. Numinous dress/iconic costume: Korean shamans dressed for the gods and for the camera. In H. Behrend, A Dreschke, and M. Zillinger (editors), Trance Mediums and New Media: Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction. New York: Fordham University Press. 116–136. Kendall, L. 2014. “China to the Anthropologist!”: Franz Boas, Berthold Laufer, and a Road Not Taken in Early American Anthropology. In 3 R. Rarnell and F. W. Gleach (editors), Anthropologists and Their Traditions across national Borders. Histories of Anthropology Annual vol. 8: 1–40. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Kendall, L. 2014. Conclusion: marriages and families in Asia: something old and something new? In S.M. Tam, W.C. A. Wong, and D. Wang (editors), Gender and Family in East Asia: 226–240. London and New York: Routledge. Rabey, K., D.J. Green, A. Taylor, D. Begun, B.G. Richmond, and S. McFarlin. 2015. Locomotor activity influences muscle and bone growth but not muscle attachment site morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 78: 91–102. Roach, N.T., and B.G. Richmond. 2015. Clavicle length, throwing performance and the reconstruction of the Homo erectus shoulder. Journal of Human Evolution 80: 107–113. Smith, A.L., S. Benazzi, J.A. Ledogar, K. Tamvada, L. Smith, G.W. Weber, M.A. Spencer, P.W. Lucas, S. Michael, K. Al-Fadhalah, A.S. Almusallam, P.C. Dechow, I.R. Grosse, C.F. Ross, B.G. Richmond, B.W. Wright, Q. Wang, C. Byron, D.E. Slice, S. Wood, D. Dzialo, M. Berthaume, and D.S. Strait. 2015. The feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Paranthropus boisei. Anatomical Record 298: 145–167. Smith, A.L., S. Benazzi, J.A. Ledogar, K. Tamvada, L. Smith, G.W. Weber, M.A. Spencer, P.C. Dechow, I.R. Grosse, C.F. Ross, B.G. Richmond, B.W. Wright, Q. Wang, C. Byron, D.E. Slice, and D.S. Strait. 2015. Biomechanical implications of intraspecific shape variation in chimpanzee crania: moving towards an integration of geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis. Anatomical Record 298: 122–144. Spencer, C.S. 2014. Modeling the Evolution of Bureaucracy: Political-Economic Reach and Administrative Complexity. Social Evolution & History 13(1): 42–66. Spencer, C.S., and E.M. Redmond. 2014. A Pre-Hispanic Chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela: Excavations at Gaván- complex Sites. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 100. New York, NY. 2 vols. 896 pages, 11 chapters, 7 appendices, 404 figures, 43 tables. Spencer, C.S., and E.M. Redmond. 2014. A Trial Analysis of Use-Wear Evidence on Chipped Stone Tools. Appendix B in A Pre-Hispanic Chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela: Excavations at Gaván- 4 complex Sites. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 100: 821–843. Spencer, C.S. and E.M. Redmond, and R.A. Gassón. 2014. Radiocarbon and Thermoluminescence Dates From Gaván-complex Sites. Appendix E in A Pre-Hispanic Chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela: Excavations at Gaván-complex Sites. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 100: 852–856. Spencer, C.S., and E.M. Redmond. 2014. Analysis of Misfired Sherds and Kiln Wasters from B12, B21, and B97. Appendix F in A Pre-Hispanic Chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela: Excavations at Gaván-complex Sites. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 100: 857–861. Thomas, D.H. 2014. The Life and Times of Junípero Serra: A Pan-Borderlands Perspective [A Tibesar Distinguished Lecture]. The Americas 71(2): 185–225. Thomas, D.H. 2014. Exploring and Explaining Alta Toquima: The Higher You Get, the Higher You Get. The SAA Archaeological Record: 32–37. Thomas, D.H. 2014. The Shellfishers of St. Catherines Island: Hardscrabble Foragers and Farming Beachcombers? Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 9(2): 169–182. Thomas, D.H. 2014. Alta Toquima: Why Did Foraging Families Spend Summers at 11,000 Feet? In Archaeology in the Great Basin and Southwest, edited by Nancy J. Parezo and Joel C. Janetski, pp. 130–148. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Thomas, D.H., and L.N. Stutz. 2014. Perspectives—Socially Responsible and Culturally Conscious Approaches to Cremations in the New and Old Worlds. In I. Kuijt, C.P. Quinn and G. Cooney (editors), Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context: 35–46. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Thomas, D.H., and E. Blair. 2014. The Guale Uprising of 1597: An Archaeological Perspective from Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (Georgia). In 5 L.M. Panich and T.D. Schneider (editors), Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory: 25–40. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press Thomas, D.H., D.K. Kennet, B. Culleton, J. Dexter, and S. Mensing. 2014. High Precision AMS 14C Chronology for Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada. Journal of Archaeological Science 52: 621–632. Wheeler, W.C., and P.M. Whiteley. 2015. Historical Linguistics as a Sequence Optimization Problem: the Evolution and Biogeography of Uto-Aztecan Languages. Cladistics 31:2: 113–125. Whiteley, P.M. 2015. Chacoan Kinship. In C.C. Heitman and S. Plog (editors), Chaco Revisited: New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: 272–304. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. 6 DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY Bird, T.L., R.A. Wharton, and L. Prendini. 2015. Cheliceral morphology in Solifugae (Arachnida): Primary homology, terminology, and character survey. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 394: 1–355. Bolzern, A., N.I. Platnick, and L. Berniker. 2015. Three new genera of soft-bodied goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. American Museum Novitates 3824: 1–59. Clouse, R. M. Janda, B. Blanchard, P. Sharma, B. Hoffman, A. Andersen, J. Czekanski-Moir, P. Krushelnycky, C. Rabeling, E. Economo, E. Sarnat, D. General, G. Alpert, and W.C. Wheeler. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of an Indo-Pacific carpenter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse sources. 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