Douglas J. Kennett
Department of Anthropology Phone (Office): 541-346-5237
University of Oregon e-mail: dkennett@uoregon.edu
Eugene, OR 97403-1218
BORN: June 16, 1967; Los Angeles, California
DUAL CITIZENSHIP: United States of America and New Zealand
LANGUAGES: English and Spanish
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998, Anthropology (Archaeology Specialization) Dissertation: Behavioral Ecology and the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Societies on the Northern Channel Islands, California. (Research Advisor: Michael Jochim).
M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994, Anthropology (Archaeology Specialization), Master's Thesis: Evolution of Estuarine Resource Use during the Late Archaic Period on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico (Research Advisor: Barbara Voorhies).
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990, Anthropology (Cultural Anthropology Specialization).
Academic Honors
Bray Fellow, University of Oregon, 2004-present
Sigma Xi, Elected member, 2003
University of California Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998.
Albert Spaulding Memorial Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996-1998.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (current appointments indicated in bold)
Associate Professor, 2004-present, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.
Research Associate, 2001-present, Stable Isotope and Microanalytical Laboratories, College of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Oregon State University
Research Associate, 1992-present, Stable Isotope Laboratory, Department of Geology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Research Associate, 1998-present, Anthropology Department, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
Assistant Professor, 2001-2004, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.
Assistant Professor, 1998-2001, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Long Beach.
Director, 1998-2001, Archaeometry Program, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Long Beach.
Professional Researcher, 1998-2000, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Research Assistant, 1996-1998 Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Teaching Assistant, 1993-1996, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Research Assistant,1992-1993, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Editorial Boards
Editorial Board, Origins of Human Behavior and Culture (Book Series), University of California Press, 2004-present
Correspondent, Antiquity, 2003-present
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Research Interests
Evolutionary Theory, Human Behavioral Ecology, Scientific Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Human Impacts on Ancient Environments, Transition to Agriculture, Economic Intensification, Emergence of Social Hierarchies, Coastal and Island Archaeology, Pacific Rim, Mesoamerican, Oceania, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Isotope Geochemistry, Archaeometry, GIS
Books
(all are refereed/peer-reviewed except those indicated by an "*" which were peer-edited)
D. J. Kennett and B. Winterhalder, 2006, (eds.) Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture. University of California Press, Berkeley. (reviewed in Science 313: 173-174; July 2006)
D. J. Kennett, 2005, The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society, University of California Press, Berkeley. [excerpts] [reviews] [details]
A. Anderson and D. J. Kennett (eds.) The Prehistory of Rapa: An isolated high island in French Polynesia. New Zealand Archaeological Association Monographs.
Published Papers
D. J. Kennett, J. P. Kennett, J. M. Erlandson, and K. G. Cannariato, 2007. Human Responses to Middle Holocene Climate Change on California’s Channel Islands, Quaternary Science Reviews. in press
A. Arrow, O. Smirnov, J. Orbell, and D. J. Kennett, 2007. Selective Consequences of War,. In Conflict in Organizational Teams: New Directions in Theory and Practice, edited by L. Thompson and K. Behfar, Northwestern University Press Board, Evanston, IL., in press.
D. J. Kennett, A. Anderson, M. Prebble, E. Conte and J. Southon, 2006, Human Impacts on Rapa, French Polynesia. Antiquity 80: 340-354.
D. J. Kennett and J. P. Kennett, 2006, Sea Levels, Shorelines, Climate Change, and Cultural Evolution in Southern Mesopotamia. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology 1(1): 39-71. (Science, 312: 1109, May 2006, Editor’s Choice)
T. J. Braje, J. M. Erlandson, D. J. Kennett, and T. C. Rick, 2006, Archaeology and Marine Conservation. The Archaeological Record 6 (1): 14-18.*
D. J. Kennett, B. Voorhies, and Dean Martorana, 2006, An Evolutionary Model for the Origins of Agriculture on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico. In Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture, edited by D. J. Kennett and B. Winterhalder, University of California Press, Berkeley.
D. J. Kennett, A. Anderson, and B. Winterhalder, 2006, The Ideal Free Distribution, Food Production, and the Colonization of Oceania, In Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture, edited by D. J. Kennett and B. Winterhalder, University of California Press, Berkeley.
B. Winterhalder and D. J. Kennett, 2006, Introduction: Foraging Theory Assumptions, Concepts and Models. In Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture, edited by D. J. Kennett and B. Winterhalder, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Rick, T. C., D. J. Kennett and J. M. Erlandson (2006) Early Holocene Land Use and Subsistence on Eastern Santa Rosa Island, California. Current Research in the Pleistocene 22: 60-62.
T. J. Braje, J. M. Erlandson, D. J. Kennett, T. C. Rick, J. E. Peterson, 2005, Deep History: Using Archaeology and Historical Ecology to Promote Marine Conservation, Alternative Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research 21: 5-17.
Rick, T. C., D.J. Kennett, and J. M. Erlandson, 2005. Preliminary Report on the Archaeology and Paleoecology of the Abalone Rocks Estuary, Santa Rosa Island, California. In Proceedings of the Sixth California Islands Symposium, edited by D. Garcelon and C. Schwemm. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
T. L. Jones, W. R. Hildebrandt, D. J. Kennett and J. F. Porcasi, 2004, Prehistoric Marine Mammal Overkill in the Northeastern Pacific: A Review of New Evidence. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 24: 69-80.
D. J. Kennett and R. Clifford, 2004, Flexible Strategies for Resource Defense on the Northern Channel Islands of California: An Agent-Based Model. In The Archaeology of Insularity: Examining the Past in Island Environments, edited by Scott Fitzpatrick, pp. 21-50. West Port, CT: Greenwood Press.
D. J. Kennett, A. J. Anderson, M. J. Cruz, G.R. Clark and G. R. Summerhayes 2004. Geochemical Characterization of Lapita Ceramics Via Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). Resolution and Refinement: Recent Advances in Archaeological Chemistry. Edited by Kelly Knudson and David Meiggs, Archaeometry (special issue) 46 (1): 35-46.
D. J. Kennett, A. J. Anderson, M. Prebble and E. Conte, 2003, La Colonisation et les Fortifications de Rapa, In Bilan de la recherché archeologique en Polynesie francaise, edited by H. Marchesi, Service de la Culture et du Patrimoine, Papeete, Tahiti.
D. J. Kennett and C. A. Conlee, 2003. Emergence of Late Holocene Sociopolitical Complexity on Santa Rosa and San Miguel Islands. In Catalist to Complexity: The Late Holocene Archaeology of the California Coast, edited by J. M. Erlandson and T. L. Jones, Perspectives in California Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles (Back dated to 2002).
D. J. Kennett, 2003. Oxygen Isotope analysis of California Mussel (Mytilus californianus) Shells from CA-MNT-521, -569B, -1223, -1227, 1233, and CA-SLO-267. In Prehistoric Human Ecology of the Big Sur Coast, California (Terry Jones), Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley.
J. M. Erlandson, T. C. Rick, D. J. Kennett and P. L. Walker, 2003. Dates, Demography, and Disease: Cultural Contacts and Possible Evidence for Old World Epidemics among the Island Chumash. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 37 (3): 1-16 (Back dated to 2001).
D. J. Kennett, B. Voorhies and S. B. McClure, 2002. Los Cerritos: an early fishing-farming community on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Antiquity 76: 631-632.
D. J. Kennett, B. L. Ingram, J. R. Southon, K. Wise, 2002. Differences in 14C Age Between Stratigraphically Associated Charcoal and Marine Shell from the Archaic Period Site of Kilometer 4, Southern Peru: Old Wood or Old Water? Radiocarbon 44(1): 53-58.
D. J. Kennett, S. Sakai, H. Neff; R. Gossett, and D. O. Larson, 2002. Compositional Characterization of Prehistoric Ceramics: A New Approach. Journal of Archaeological Science 29: 443-455.
B. Voorhies, D. J. Kennett, J.G. Jones and T. A. Wake, 2002. A Middle Archaic Archaeological Site on the West Coast of Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 13 (2): 179-200.
T. L. Jones, R. T. Fitzgerald, D. J. Kennett, C. Misicek, J. Fagan, J. Sharp and J. E. Erlandson, 2002. The Cross Creek Site and Its Implications for New World Colonization. American Antiquity 67 (2): 213-230.
T. C. Rick, R. L. Vellanoweth, J. M. Erlandson, and D. J. Kennett, 2002. On the Antiquity of the Single-Piece Shell Fishhook: AMS Radiocarbon Evidence from the Southern California Coast. Journal of Archaeological Science 29: 933-942.
*D. J. Kennett, H. Neff, M. D. Glascock, and A. Z. Mason, 2001. A Geochemical Revolution: Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. The SAA Archaeological Record 1: 22-26.
D. J. Kennett, J. R. Johnson, T. Rick, D. P. Morris, and J. Christy, 2000. Historic Chumash Settlement on Eastern Santa Cruz Island, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 22(2): 212-222.
D. J. Kennett and J. P. Kennett, 2000. Competitive and Cooperative Responses to Climatic Instability in Southern California, American Antiquity 65(2): 379-395.
P. Walker, D. J. Kennett, T. Jones and R. DeLong, 2000. Archaeological Investigations of the Point Bennett Pinniped Rookery on San Miguel Island. In The Fifth California Islands Symposium, edited by D. R. Brown, K. C. Mitchell and H. W. Chaney, pp 628-632. U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service, Pacific OCS Region.
J. M. Erlandson, T. C. Rick, R. L. Vellanoweth, D. J. Kennett, 1999. Maritime Subsistence Patterns at CA-SRI-6: A 9300 Year Old Shell Midden from Santa Rosa Island, California, Journal of Field Archaeology 26(3): 255-265.
T. L. Jones and D. J. Kennett, 1999. Late Holocene Sea Temperatures along the Central California Coast. Quaternary Research 51: 74-82.
T. L. Jones, G. M. Brown, J. McVicar, M. Raab, D. J. Kennett, G. Spaulding, and A. York, 1999. Environmental Imperatives Reconsidered: Demographic Crises in Western North America during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly. Current Anthropology 40(2): 137-170.
*D. J. Kennett, 1998. Behavioral Ecology and the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Societies on the Northern Channel Islands, California. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara.
D. J. Kennett, B. L. Ingram, J. Erlandson and P. Walker, 1997. Evidence for Temporal Fluctuations of Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Ages in the Santa Barbara Channel Region, California. Journal of Archaeological Science 24: 1051-1059.
J. M. Erlandson, D. J. Kennett, R. L. Behl and I. Hough, 1997. Cico: A Chert Source on San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara County, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 19(2): 124-130.
J. M. Erlandson, D. J. Kennett, L. Ingram, D. Guthrie, D. Morris and G. J. West, 1997. A Radiocarbon Chronology for the Archaeology and Paleontology of Daisy Cave, San Miguel Island, California. Radiocarbon 38(2): 355-373.
J. M. Erlandson, M. A. Tveskov, D. J. Kennett, and L. Ingram, 1997. Further Evidence for a Terminal Pleistocene Occupation of Daisy Cave, San Miguel Island, California. Current Research in the Pleistocene 13: 161-168.
D. J. Kennett and B. Voorhies, 1996. Oxygen Isotopic Analysis of Archaeological Shells to Detect Seasonal Use of Wetlands on the Southern Pacific Coast of Mexico, Journal of Archaeological Science 23: 689-704.
*D. J. Kennett, 1996. The Scientific Method in Archaeology. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian Fagan, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 629-631.
*D. J. Kennett, 1996. Seasonality Studies. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian Fagan, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 631-632.
*D. J. Kennett, 1996. General Systems Theory in Archaeology. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian Fagan, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 245-246.
B. Voorhies and D. J. Kennett, 1995. Buried Sites on the Soconusco Coastal Plain. Journal of Field Archaeology 22(1): 65-79.
D. J. Kennett and B. Voorhies, 1995. Middle Holocene Periodicities in Rainfall Inferred from Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Fluctuations in Prehistoric Tropical Estuarine Mollusc Shells. Archaeometry 37 (1): 157-170.
M. A. Glassow, D. J. Kennett, J. P. Kennett and L. R. Wilcoxan, 1994. Confirmation of Middle Holocene Water Temperature Cooling Inferred from Stable Isotopic Analysis of Prehistoric Marine shells from Santa Cruz Island, California. In The Fourth California Islands Symposium: Update on the Status of Resources, edited by W. L. Halvorson and G. J. Maender, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, pp. 223-232.
Reprinted Papers
D. J. Kennett and J. P. Kennett, 2004. Competitive and Cooperative Responses to Climatic Instability in Southern California, In Trouble in Paradise: Myth-Making and the Rediscovery of California Prehistory, edited by L. M. Raab and T. L. Jones, University of Utah Press.
T. L. Jones, R. T. Fitzgerald, D. J. Kennett, C. Misicek, J. Fagan, J. Sharp and J. E. Erlandson, 2004. The Cross Creek Site and Its Implications for New World Colonization. In Trouble in Paradise: Myth-Making and the Rediscovery of California Prehistory, edited by L. M. Raab and T. L. Jones, University of Utah Press.
T. L. Jones, G. M. Brown, J. McVicar, M. Raab, D. J. Kennett, G. Spaulding, and A. York, 1999. Environmental Imperatives Reconsidered: Demographic Crises in Western North America during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly. In Trouble in Paradise: Myth-Making and the Rediscovery of California Prehistory, edited by L. M. Raab and T. L. Jones, University of Utah Press.
Publications in Review
D. J. Kennett and J. P. Kennett, In review, Influence of Holocene Marine Transgression and Climate Change on Human Cultural Evolution in Southern Mesopotamia Middle Holocene. In Climate and Culture Change, edited by D. Sandweiss and K. A. Maasch, Academic Press, New York.
D. J. Kennett, B. J. Culleton, J. P. Kennett, J. M. Erlandson, and K. G. Cannariato, In review, Middle Holocene Climate Change and Population Dispersal in Western North America. In Climate and Culture Change, edited by D. Anderson, D. Sandweiss, and K. A. Maasch, Academic Press, New York.
D. J. Kennett, Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Analyses of Concholepas concholepas Shells from K4, a Late Archaic Period Archaeological Site on the Southern Coast of Peru. In Archaeological Investigation of K4, an Archaic Period Site on the South Coast of Peru, edited by K. Wise, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
D. J. Kennett, L. Ingram, and J. Southon, A Radiocarbon Chronology for the Railroad Profile at K4, a Late Archaic Period Site on the Southern Coast of Peru. In Archaeological Investigation of K4, an Archaic Period Site on the South Coast of Peru, edited by K. Wise, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
O. Smirnov, H. Arrow, D. J. Kennett, and J. M. Orbell. Why are People Willing to Die for their Country? “Heroism” in Warfare as a Functionally Specific Form of Altruism., Journal of Politics
D. J. Kennett, B. Voorhies, T. Wake, and N. Martinez, Prehistoric Impacts on Marine Ecosystems in Guerrero, Mexico. In Human Impacts on Marine Environments, edited by T. Rick and J. M. Erlandson, University of California Press, Berkeley, In review.
L. A. Raynor, D. J. Kennett, and S. Pfeiffer. Dietary Variability among United States Soldiers during the War of 1812, Journal of Historical Archaeology.
T. J. Braje, D. J. Kennett, J. M. Erlandson, and B.J. Culleton, Trans-Holocene Subsistence Changes and Human Impacts on a Marine Ecosystem on Santa Rosa Island, California. American Antiquity.
N. E. Graham, M. K. Hughes, C. M. Ammann, K. M. Cobb, M. P. Hoerling, D. J. Kennett, J. P. Kennett, B. Rein, L. Stott, P. E. Wigand, and T. Xu, Tropical Pacific-Mid-latitude Teleconnections in Medieval Times, Climate Change. edited by H. Diaz.
Rosenswig, R. M. and D. J. Kennett, In review, Reassessing San Estevan’s Role in the Late Formative Political Landscape of Northern Belize. Ancient Mesoamerica.
Culleton, B. J., D. J. Kennett, B. L. Ingram, J. Erlandson, and J. Southon, In review, Intra-shell Radiocarbon Variability in Marine Mollusks, Radiocarbon.
Unpublished Manuscripts
D. J. Kennett and T. Bottman, 2005, Oxygen Isotope Analysis of California Mussel (Mytilus californianus) Shells from CA-MNT-100, CA-1770 and CA-SLO-9. Final Report submitted to CALTRANS.
D. J. Kennett and R. Clifford, 2004, An Archaeological Survey of Eastern Santa Cruz Island, California Conducted by Robert Clifford, Final Report submitted to Channel Islands National Park.
D. J. Kennett, J. G. Jones, H. Neff, T. Ramirez Harrera y B. Voorhies, 2004, Proyecto Costero Arcaico-Formativo: La Costa De Guerrero. Entregado al Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
D. J. Kennett, J. G. Jones, H. Neff, T. Ramirez Harrera y B. Voorhies, 2003, Proyecto Costero Arcaico-Formativo: La Costa De Guerrero. Entregado al Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
D. J. Kennett, A. Anderson, M. Prebble and E. Conte. 2003, Research Report-National Geographic Society: The Colonization and Fortification of Rapa, French Polynesia.
D. J. Kennett, A. Anderson, and E. Conte, 2002. Archeological Field Study on Rapa, French Polynesia: A Preliminary Summary, Report to the Ministry of Culture, French Polynesia.
D. J. Kennett and B. Voorhies, 2002. Informe Final de Temporada del Campo: Proyecto Costero Arcaico-Formativo, Chiapas (2001-2002). Entregado al Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. (Report)
D. J. Kennett and B. Voorhies, 2001. Informe de Campo: Proyecto Costero Arcaico-Formativo, Chiapas. Entregado al Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. (Report)
Published Abstracts, Presented Papers and Organized Symposia
Fitzhugh, B. and D. Kennett, 2007, Trends and transects in the prehistory of seafaring along the Pacific coast of North America
McClure, S. B. and D. Kennett, 2007, Cultural Transmission and the Generation of Variation in Spanish Neolithic Pottery, In Approaching Darwin’s Bicentennial: The State of the Art in Evolutionary Archaeology. Session Organized by J. L. Lanata, C. Lipo, and H. Neff.
D. J. Kennett, B. Winterhalder, and A. Anderson, 2006 Habitat saturation, competition, and the emergence of institutionalized social inequality in East Polynesia. Invited session (AAA Presidential): The Evolution of Social Inequality, Organized by E. A. Smith and J. L. Boone. American Anthropological Association.
B. Voorhies and D. J. Kennett, 2006, El Período Arcaico de la Costa Pacifica en el Sur de México: Una Comparación entre Guerrero y Chiapas. Round Table Guerrero, Mexico.
D. J. Kennett, 2005 (September). Aggregation as Adaptation: Corporate Group Formation on California’s Northern Channel Islands, Invited conference at the Center for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behavior, University College London. Organized by Stephen Shennan.
Orbell, J., Smirnov, O., Kennett, D., and Arrow, H. (2005, September). Evolution of altruism/group solidarity through warfare. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. Washington, DC.
Smirnov, O., Arrow, H, Orbell, J. and Kennett, D. (2005, June). The selective consequence of war: A formal model. Kellogg Conference on Conflict in Teams. Evanston, IL.
D. J. Kennett, 2005. Emergence of Social Ranking on California’s Northern Channel Islands, In Recent Research on the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Arid American West. Organized by James O’Connell, (Opening [plenary] session), 70th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
D. J. Kennett, B. Voorhies, and T. Wake, 2005. Human Impacts on Maritime Ecosystems along the Pacific Coast of Mexico, In Archaeology, Historical Ecology, and Human Impacts on Marine Environments. Organized by T. Rick and J. Erlandson, 70th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
B. Voorhies, D. J. Kennett, D. Piperno, T. Wake and J. Iriarte, 2005. Formative Period Lifeways on the Central Coast of Guerrero, Mexico: Fresh Evidence from Puerto Marques and La Zanja. In Formative Period Social Transformations in Central and Western Mexico, Organized by D. Carballo and J. Carballo, 70th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
T. Braje, D. J. Kennett, and J. M. Erlandson, 2005. Trans-Holocene Subsistence Changes and Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems on Santa Rosa Island, California. In Theory, History, and Archaeology: Explaining Variability and Continuity among California Islands. Organized by J. Perry and M Des Lauriers, 70th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
D. J. Kennett, H. Neff, B. Voorhies, A. Roberts and M. Glascock. 2004 Evidence for Early Olmec Influences on the Soconusco Coast, Session: Recent Research in Pacific Chiapas and Guatemala. Organized by M. Love, R. Rosenwig, and J. Kaplan. 69th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
B. Voorhies and D. J. Kennett, 2004, Central Place Foraging and the Cessation of Intensive Archaic Period Mollusk Harvesting on the Soconusco Coast. Session: Recent Research in Pacific Chiapas and Guatemala. Organized by M. Love, R. Rosenwig, and J. Kaplan. 69th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology. 69th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
D. J. Kennett, 2003, The Ideal Despotic Distribution and Prehistoric Warfare on Rapa, French Polynesia. Presidential Session, 101st Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association.
K. G. Cannariato, J. P. Kennett, D. J. Kennett, J. S. Revenaugh, B. A. Malmgren 2003. Centennial and Millennial Variability of the California Current System During the Holocene Recorded in Santa Barbara Basin. American Geophysical Union: Annual Meeting.
J. P. Kennett and D. J. Kennett, 2003, Confluence of Climate Change and Cultural Complexity in Southern Mesopotamia: Implications for Biblical Flood Mythology. Invited comment in Special Session: “Noah’s Flood” and the Late Quaternary Geological and Archaeological History of the Black Sea and Adjacent Basins. Geological Society of America, Seattle.
T. Ramirez Herrera, D. J. Kennett, J. G. Jones, H. Neff, T. Ramirez Herrera y B. Voorhies, 2003, Holocene Evolution, Sea Level Changes and Active Tectonics of the Guerrero Coast. Geological Society of America, Seattle.
B. Voorhies, D. J. Kennett, J. G. Jones, T. A. Wake, 2003. Early Agriculture in the Wetlands of the South Pacific Coast of Chiapas, Mexico. 68th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
D. J. Kennett and B. Winterhalder, 2002. Human Behavioral Ecology and the Origin of New World Agricultural Economies, Session: New Research in Human Behavioral Ecology I, (M. Alvard and L. Sugiyama, organizers), 100th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association.
D. J. Kennett, 2001. Foraging Theory and the Transition to Agriculture. 66th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology. [organizer]
D. J. Kennett, B. Voorhies and D. Martorana, 2001. Foraging to Farming on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico. Session: Foraging Theory and the Transition to Agriculture (D. J. Kennett, organizer). 66th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
M. J. Cruz, D. J. Kennett, and A. Anderson, 2001. Reconstructing Trade and Interaction in Oceania with Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) of Lapita Ceramics. Session: Resolution and Refinement: Leading Edge Research in Archaeological Chemistry (K. Knudson and D. Meiggs, organizers). 66th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
J. Christy and D. J. Kennett, 2001. The Use of Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry to Track Exchange of Chert Artifacts on the Northern Channel Islands, California. 66th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
D. J. Kennett, S. B. McClure and M. J. Cruz, 2000. Transition to Agriculture in Island Contexts. Session: Archaeology of Landscapes and Subsistence. 99th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association.
R. A. Clifford and D. J. Kennett, 2000. Middle Holocene Inland Settlement on the Northern Channel Islands, California: A Study of Evolutionary Stability. Session: Archaeology of Landscapes and Subsistence. 99th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association.
D. J. Kennett, 2000. Session: Paleoecology and Archaeology of the North American Pacific Coast (organizer). Paleoclimate and People Workshop, Taos, New Mexico.
D. J. Kennett, 2000. Competitive and Cooperative Responses to Late Holocene Climatic Instability in Coastal Southern California. Session: Paleoecology and Archaeology of the North American Pacific Coast (D. J. Kennett, organizer). Paleoclimate and People Workshop, Taos, New Mexico.
D. J. Kennett and J. P. Kennett, 2000. Episodic Holocene Climatic Instability in the Santa Barbara Channel Region. Session: Paleoclimate: Chemical, Isotopic and Physical Records: Continental and Marine (L. Benson, organizer). Paleoclimate and People Workshop, Taos, New Mexico.
D. J. Kennett and B. Voorhies, 2000. An Evolutionary Model for the Origins of Agriculture on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico. 65th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
S. Sakai, D. O. Larson, H. Neff, D. J. Kennett, and R. Gossett, 2000. Comparative Analyses of NAA and ICP-MS: A Provenance Investigation of Ceramics in the American Southwest. 65th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
R. Clifford and D. J. Kennett, 2000. Flexible Strategies for Resource Defense on the Northern Channel Islands, California: An Actor Based Model. 65th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
D. J. Kennett, J. P. Kennett, P. Lambert, D. Larson, and P. Walker, 1999. Behavioral Responses to Climatic and Social Instability: A Case from the Northern Channel Islands, California. 64th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
P. Walker, D. J. Kennett, T. L. Jones, and R. DeLong, 1999. Archaeological Investigations of the Point Bennett Pinniped Rookery on San Miguel Island. 5th Channel Islands Symposium.
D. J. Kennett and J. P. Kennett, 1998. Middle Holocene Climate and Culture Change on the California Coast. FERCO International Meeting on Middle Holocene Climate and Culture Change.
D. J. Kennett and T. L. Jones, 1998. Session: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives on New World Coastal Foragers (organizers). 63rd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
D. J. Kennett, 1998. Economic Defendability and the Origins of Territorial Behavior on the Northern Channel Islands, California. Session: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives on New World Coastal Foragers(D. J. Kennett and T. L. Jones, organizers). 63rd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
T. L. Jones, P. Walker and D. J. Kennett, 1998. Self Interest in Ecological Context: The Case for Marine Mammal Overexploitation at Point Bennett, San Miguel Island, California. Session: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives on New World Coastal Foragers (D. J. Kennett and T. L. Jones, organizers). 63rd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
D. J. Kennett and C. A. Conlee, 1998. Late Holocene Behavioral Variability and Cultural Change on the Northern Channel Islands, California. Session: Cultural Complexity on the California Coast: Late Holocene (J. M. Erlandson and T. L. Jones, organizers). Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology.
C. Woodman and D. J. Kennett, 1998. Prehistoric Settlement Strategies on the Southern California Coast. Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology.
J. M. Erlandson, D. J. Kennett and P. Walker, 1997. Prehistory, Protohistory and History on the Alta California Coast: Demographic Trends and the Potential for Old World Epidemic Diseases. Session: The Entangled Past: Integrating History and Archaeology . 30th Annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary.
J. P. Kennett, D. J. Kennett, and L. B. Ingram, 1997. Episodic Holocene Climatic Instability: Santa Barbara Basin. ODP Hole 893A. American Geophysical Union: Annual Meeting.
D. J. Kennett, 1997. Late Holocene Settlement Shifts on Santa Rosa Island, Southern California. Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology.
J. P. Kennett and D. J. Kennett, 1997. Holocene Paleoceanographic Changes in the Santa Barbara Basin Holocene Climate. Mini-conference: Columbia University.
T. Jones and D. J. Kennett, 1996. Late Holocene Climate Change Along the Central California Coast Inferred from Oxygen Isotope Analyses of Prehistoric Midden Shells. Southern California Environment and History Conference, California State University, Northridge.
T. L. Jones and D. J. Kennett, 1996. Hunter-Gatherer Response to Crisis? Transitions in Settlement, Diet, and Exchange during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly on the Big Sur Coast, California. 61st Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology.
B. L. Ingram, D. J. Kennett and J. M. Erlandson, 1996. Radiocarbon Evidence for Holocene Circulation Changes in the Santa Barbara Basin. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
T. L. Jones and D. J. Kennett, 1995. Social Response to Crisis: Environment, Diet, Mobility, and Social Organization during the Middle/Late Transition on the Big Sur Coast. Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology.
D. J. Kennett, 1994. Oxygen Isotopic Analysis as a method for reconstructing the seasonal use of molluscs by late Archaic Period Foragers on the Pacific Coast of Southwestern Mexico. 59th Annual Meeting, Society of American Archaeology.
M. A. Glassow, D. J. Kennett, J. P. Kennett, and L. R. Wilcoxon, 1994. Confirmation of Middle Holocene Ocean Cooling Inferred from Stable Isotopic Analysis of Prehistoric Shells from Santa Cruz Island, California. 4th Annual Channel Island Symposium.
D. J. Kennett and B. Voorhies, 1993. Ancient Water Regimes on the Soconusco Coastal Plain of Southern Mexico. 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Congreso Internacional de Ciencias Antropologicas y Etnologicas.
Awards and Grants
Grant, CALTRANS, 2004, Seasonality of Site Settlement on the Central California Coast ($5,000; June 2005) (w/ Terry Jones, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo).
Grant, New World Archaeological Foundation, 2004, Seasonality at an Early Formative Estuary Site in the Mazatan Region, Chiapas, Mexico ($3,300) (with Richard Lesure, UC Los Angeles)
Grant, National Science Foundation, 2004, (EAR: Geology and Paleontology), The Paleoecology of Pinnipeds on the Pacific Rim, 2 years ($147,515.00) (with Paul Koch, UC Santa Cruz)
Grant, National Science Foundation, 2002-2004, Transition to Maize Agriculture Along the Pacific Coast of Mexico, ($186,354.00) 2 years
Grant, University of Oregon, 2002, Office of Research and Faculty Development, Summer Research Award, Prehistoric Colonization and Fortification of Rapa, French Polynesia ($4,500).
Grant, National Geographic Society, 2001. Prehistoric Colonization and Fortification of Rapa Iti, French Polynesia. ($24,000.00) (D. J. Kennett, A. Anderson and E. Conte).
Grant, National Science Foundation, 2000. Foraging to Farming on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico, ($64,557.00) Archaeology Program (D. J. Kennett and B. Voorhies).
Grant, Extension Services, California State University, Long Beach, 2000. Acquisition of a UV Laser Ablation System for Elemental Analysis of Solid Materials Via Inductively Coupled-Mass Spectrometry ($45,221.00) (D. J. Kennett, A. Mason, J. Sample, and others).
Travel Grant, 2000. Exploratory Field Study of Fortifications on the Island of Vanuabalavu, Fiji. ($2000.00) California State University, Long Beach.
Faculty Enhancement Award, 2000. The Evolution of Prehistoric Fijian Warfare and Trade, California State University ($5000.00).
Grant, National Park Service, 2000. Archaeological Survey of Eastern Santa Cruz Island, California. ($10,000.00) (D. J. Kennett and R. Clifford).
Travel Grant, 2000. United States Geological Survey, Paleoclimate and People Meeting, Taos, New Mexico ($850.00).
Grant, National Science Foundation, 1999. Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University, Long Beach ($138,886.00) (with A. Mason, R. Behl, D. McAbee, J. Sample, F. Zhou and others).
Grant, Inter-Disciplinary Educational Innovation Award, 1999. Elemental Analysis of Archaeological Materials: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Students to Reconstruct Prehistoric Patterns of Exchange, California State University ($6000.00).
Faculty Enhancement Award, 1999. Long-Distance Trade and Interaction in Polynesia: Elemental Analysis of Fijian Lapita Ceramics, California State University ($4500.00).
Scholarly and Creative Activity Award (SCAC), 1999. The Evolution of Warfare and Trade in Fijian Prehistory, California State University (Assigned Time: $3000.00).
Travel Grant, 1999. California State University, Long Beach ($800.00).
Scholarly and Creative Activity Award (SCAC), 1999. The Nature of Long-Distance Trade and Interaction in Remote Oceania: ICP-Mass Spectrometry of Fijian Lapita and Navatu Ceramics (Assigned Time: $3000.00).
Grant, Foundation for Exploration and Research on Cultural Origins (FERCO), 1999. The Nature of Long-Distance Trade and Interaction in Remote Oceania: ICP-Mass Spectrometry of Fijian Lapita and Navatu Ceramics ($10,000.00).
SCAC Travel Grant, 1999. California State University, Long Beach ($200.00).
Equipment Grant (Microwave Digestion System), 1999. California State University, Long Beach ($22,000.00).
Education Innovation Award, 1999. California State University, Long Beach (WEB based assignments for Anthropology 345: Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America).
Travel Grant, 1998. Foundation for Exploration and Research on Cultural Origins, FERCO International Meeting on Middle Holocene Climate and Culture Change ($700.00).
Equipment Grant (Flotation System), 1998. California State University, Long Beach ($5000.00).
Travel Grant, 1998. California State University, Long Beach ($700.00).
Grant, National Park Service, 1998. Strategic Sampling of Archaeological Deposits on Santa Rosa Island, California ($31,470.00).
Grant, National Park Service, 1996. Archaeological Survey of Arlington Canyon, Santa Rosa Island, California. ($70,000).
Grant, National Park Service, 1995. Archaeological Site Survey of upper Canada Verde drainage, Santa Rosa Island, California ($2000).
Grant, National Science Foundation (Dissertation Improvement Grant), 1995. The Development of Hunter-Gatherer Sedentism in the Santa Barbara Channel Region, California ($12,000).
Grant, Humanities/Social Science Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995. Season of Mollusc Harvesting and Site Occupation Inferred from Oxygen Isotopic Analysis of Shells from a Midden Deposit on Santa Cruz Island ($2000).
Grant, National Park Service, 1994. Archaeological Site Survey of lower Canada Verde drainage, Santa Rosa Island, California ($2000).
Grant, Sigma Xi, 1992. A New Approach to Determining the Season of Site Occupation in Tropical Coastal Regions ($1000).
Grant, Humanities/Social Science Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992. A New Approach to Determining the Season of Site Occupation in Tropical Coastal Regions ($2000).
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Fields of Special Competence
Archaeological Method and Theory, World Prehistory, New World Prehistory, Evolutionary Theory, Human Behavioral Ecology, Transition to Agriculture, Coastal and Island Archaeology, Pacific Rim, Western North America, Mesoamerica, Oceania, Isotope Geochemistry, Geographic Information Systems, Computing in Anthropology, Anthropological Statistics, Archaeometry.
Courses Taught
Lower Division Undergraduate
World Prehistory (Lecture), Anth 150, (UO), S2002, F 2002, S2003, S2004, S2005
World Prehistory (Lecture), Anth 140 (CSULB), F1999, S2000 (2), F2000(2).
Introduction to Archaeology (Lecture), Anth 250, (UO), F 2004