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Donald K. Grayson (PhD 1973, Oregon)

Research Interests:
Quaternary paleoecology, zooarchaeology, historic biogeography, evolutionary ecology, North American prehistory (especially the Arid West), European Paleolithic

"My prime interests lie in understanding the interrelationships between people and the biotic landscapes with which they interact. My technical specialization in zooarchaeology provides me with one means of addressing this general area, while theory drawn from both biogeography and evolutionary ecology provides the conceptual tools I have used to understand those interrelationships. Although my research is driven more by questions than by time periods or geography, the bulk of my work has involved the latest Pleistocene and Holocene of the Great Basin (western United States) and Pleistocene southwestern France, areas in which I plan to continue working in the future."

Personal Web Page: [click here]

Selected Publications:

2008

Grayson, D. K., and F. Delpech. The Large Mammals of Roc de Combe (Lot, France): The Châtelperronian and Aurignacian Assemblages. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27:338-362.

2008

Grayson, D. K., and C. Millar. Prehistoric Human Influence on the Abundance and Distribution of Deadwood in Alpine Landscapes.   Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 10:101-108.

2007

Grayson, D. K.  Deciphering North American Pleistocene Extinctions.  Journal of Anthropological Research 63:185-214.

2007

Grayson, D. K., and F. Delpech. Chasse et subsistence aux temps de Néandertal.  In: Vandermeersch, B. (ed.), Les Néandertaliens : Biologie et Cultures.  Editions du CTHS, Paris, pp. 181-198.

2006

Grayson, D. K. Late Pleistocene Faunal Extinctions.  In, Environment, Origins, and Population.  Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 3, edited by D. J. Stanford, B. D. Smith, D. H. Ubelaker, and E. J. E. Szathmáry, pp. 208-218.  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.

2006

Grayson, D. K.  Brief Histories of some Great Basin Mammals: Extinctions, Extirpations, and Abundance Histories. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 2964-2991.

2006

Grayson, D. K.  Holocene Bison in the Great Basin, western USA.  The Holocene 16:913-925.

2006

Grayson, D. K.   Was there Increasing Dietary Specialization Across the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition in France?  In, When Neanderthals and Modern Humans Met, edited by N. Conard, pp. 377-417.  Tübingen Publications in Prehistory , Kerns Verlag, Tübingen, Germany (with F. Delpech).

2005

Grayson DK. A Brief History of Great Basin Pikas. Journal of Biogeography 32:2101-2111

2005

Grayson, D. K., and F. Delpech.  Pleistocene Reindeer and Global Warming.  Conservation Biology 19:557-562.



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