Peter Stahl
Position
Contact
Credentials
PhD Illinois
Area of expertise
Archaeology, historical ecology, zooarchaeology, South America
I am a retired archaeologist who has worked in various parts of the world, but principally in the neotropics and with a particular focus in the archaeology of Ecuador where I conducted research for over forty years. I continue with my interests in historical ecology, tropical forest ecology, zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, Amazonian ethnography, and the history of endemic South American animal domesticates.
Interests
- Archaeology
- Historical ecology
- Zooarchaeology
- Vertebrate taphonomy
- South America
- Domestication
Selected publications
Articles and chapters
- 2022 - Díaz-Lameiro, Alondra M, Jennifer G.L. Kennedy, Stephanie Craig, William H. Isbell, Peter W. Stahl, and D. Andrew Merriwether. Ancient DNA Confirms Crossbreeding of Domestic South American Camelids in Two Pre-Conquest Archaeological Sites. Journal of Archaeological Science 141: 105593
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2020 - (with Karen E. Stothert) Las Vegas in the Early Holocene of Northwestern South America. In Las Vegas: The Early Holocene Human Occupation of Coastal Ecuador, edited by Peter W. Stahl and Karen E. Stothert, pp. 167-174. Memoirs in Latin American Anthropology 25. University of Pittsburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology, Pittsburgh.
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2020 - (with F.J. Astudillo et al.) Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands: A Legacy of Human Occupation. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
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2020- Mammalian Archaeofaunal Accumulations, Taphonomy, and Early Human/Animal Relationships. In Las Vegas: The Early Holocene Human Occupation of Coastal Ecuador, edited by Peter W. Stahl and Karen E. Stothert, pp. 107-126 Memoirs in Latin American Anthropology 25. University of Pittsburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology, Pittsburgh.
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2020 - (with P. Béarez) Las Vegas Fish Resources and Their Exploitation. In Las Vegas: The Early Holocene Human Occupation of Coastal Ecuador, edited by Peter W. Stahl and Karen E. Stothert, pp. 127-140. Memoirs in Latin American Anthropology 25. University of Pittsburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology, Pittsburgh.
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2020 – (with M. Tellkamp) Avifaunal Specimens in Las Vegas Context. In Las Vegas: The Early Holocene Human Occupation of Coastal Ecuador, edited by Peter W. Stahl and Karen E. Stothert, pp. 141-154. Memoirs in Latin American Anthropology 25. University of Pittsburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology, Pittsburgh.
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2020 - (with N. Sykes et al.) Humanity’s Best Friend: A Dog-Centric Approach to Addressing Global Challenges. Animals 10 (3), 502; doi:10.3390/ani10030502
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2020 - Exotic Dogs and Indigenous Humans in Tropical Northeastern South America. In Dogs: Archaeology Beyond Domestication, edited by Brandi Bethke and Amanda Burtt, pp. 186-205. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
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2018 - Historical Ecology and Archaeology in Theory and Practice. Antiquity 92:1677-1679.
- 2017 - Zooarchaeological Approaches to Pre-Columbian Archaeology in the Neotropics of Northwestern South America. In, The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology, edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers and Sarah Viner-Daniels, pp. 631-642. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- 2016 - Old Dogs and New Tricks: Recent Developments in our Understanding of the Human–dogRelationship, Reviews in Anthropology 45:51-68.
- 2016 - (with Miguel Pinto et al.) Archaeology, biogeography, and mammalogy do not provide evidence for tarukas (Cervidae: Hippocamelus antisensis) in Ecuador. Journal of Mammalogy 97:41-53.
- 2015 - Interpreting Interfluvial Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Amazon. The Holocene, 25:1598-1603.
- 2015 - Domesticated Animals. In, Encyclopedia of the Incas, edited by Gary Urton and Adriana Von Hagen, pp. 26-31. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland.
- 2014 - Perspectival Ontology and Animal Non-Domestication in the Amazon Basin. In, Antes de Orellana. Actas del 3er Encuentro Internacional de Arqueolgía Amazónica, edited by Stéphen Rostain, pp. 221-231.Instituto Francés de Estudios Andines, Quito.
- 2014 - Historical Ecology and Environmental Archaeology. In, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith. Vol. 5, pp. 3396-3403. Springer Science and Business Media, New York.
- 2014 - Vertebrate Taphonomy in Archaeological Research. In, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith. Vol. 11, pp. 7617-7623. Springer Science and Business Media, New York.
- 2014 - Garden Hunting. In, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith. Vol. 5, pp. 2945-2952. Springer Science and Business Media, New York.
- 2013 - Early Dogs and Endemic South American Canids of the Spanish Main. Journal of Anthropological Research 69(4).
- 2012 - Interactions Between Humans and Endemic Canids in Holocene South America. Journal of Ethnobiology 32:108-127.
- 2012 - (with G Larson et al.) Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archaeology, and biogeography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 109:8878-8883.
- 2012 - (with D. M. Pearsall) Late Pre-Columbian Agroforestry in the Tropical Lowlands of Western Ecuador. Quaternary International 249:43-52.
- 2012 - (with D. M. Pearsall), The Origins and Spread of Early Agriculture and Domestication: Environmental and Cultural Considerations. In, The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change: Vol. 2, Human Impacts and Responses, edited by John A. Matthews, Patrick J. Bartlein, Keith R. Briffa, Alastair G. Dawson, Anne De Vernal, Tim Denham, Sherilyn Fritz, and Frank Oldfield, pp. 328-354. Sage, London.
- 2011 - Ethnobiology, Historical Ecology, the Archaeofaunal Record, and Interpreting Human Landscapes. In Ethnobiology, edited by E.N. Anderson, D. Pearsall, E. Hunn, and N. Turner, pp. 97-114. Wiley-Blackwell, New York.
- 2011 - Periodic Volcanism, Persistent Landscapes, and the Archaeofaunal Record in the Jama Valley of Western Ecuador. In Sustainable Lifeways: Cultural Persistence in an Ever-Changing Environment, edited by Naomi Miller, Kate Moore and Kathleen Ryan, pp. 273-309. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
- 2011 - Archaeofaunal Remains. In, Excavations at Cerro de Trincheras, Sonora, México. Vol. 1, edited by Randall H. McGuire and Elisa Villalpando, pp. 323-387. Archaeological Series 204. Arizona State Museum, Tucson.
- 2010 - The Arawak Diaspora. Latin American Antiquity 21: 217-223.
- 2010 - (with A. Oyuela Caycedo, and J. S. Raymond) Cerro Narrío y Max Uhle: El arqueólogo como agente del desarrollo de la arqueología Ecuatoriana. In Max Uhle (1856-1944) Evaluaciones de sus Investigaciones y Obras, edited by Peter Kaulicke, Manuela Fischer, Peter Masson, and Gregor Wolff, pp. 359-377. Fondo Editorial, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.