Keith M Prufer

Keith M Prufer

University of New Mexico

H-index: 32

North America-United States

About Keith M Prufer

Keith M Prufer, With an exceptional h-index of 32 and a recent h-index of 24 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of New Mexico, specializes in the field of Mesoamerica, neotropics, Archaeology, Ecology, Climate.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The development of early farming diets and population change in the Maya region and their climate context

AMY E. THOMPSON

The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context

Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies

What we talk about when we talk about seasonality–A transdisciplinary review

Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century

Ancient Lowland Maya neighborhoods: Average Nearest Neighbor analysis and kernel density models, environments, and urban scale

Reproducibility and Validity of Portable ED-XRF Instruments: A Comparison of Spectral and Quantitative Results from Belizean and Ethiopian Obsidian

Keith M Prufer Information

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Position

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Citations(all)

4057

Citations(since 2020)

2220

Cited By

2525

hIndex(all)

32

hIndex(since 2020)

24

i10Index(all)

71

i10Index(since 2020)

51

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University of New Mexico

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Keith M Prufer Skills & Research Interests

Mesoamerica

neotropics

Archaeology

Ecology

Climate

Top articles of Keith M Prufer

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

The development of early farming diets and population change in the Maya region and their climate context

Quaternary International

Erin E Ray

Nadia C Neff

Paige Lynch

Jose Mes

Matthew S Lachniet

...

2023/9/29

AMY E. THOMPSON

Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics

KEITH M PRUFER

2023/7/23

The development and disintegration of a Classic Maya center and its climate context

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

KM Prufer

AE Thompson

AD Wickert

DJ Kennett

2023/4

Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies

Communications Earth & Environment

Tobias Braun

Sebastian FM Breitenbach

Vanessa Skiba

Franziska A Lechleitner

Erin E Ray

...

2023/3/17

What we talk about when we talk about seasonality–A transdisciplinary review

Ola Kwiecien

Tobias Braun

Camilla Francesca Brunello

Patrick Faulkner

Niklas Hausmann

...

2022/2/1

Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century

Cell

Shamam Waldman

Daniel Backenroth

Éadaoin Harney

Stefan Flohr

Nadia C Neff

...

2022/12/8

Ancient Lowland Maya neighborhoods: Average Nearest Neighbor analysis and kernel density models, environments, and urban scale

PloS one

Amy E Thompson

John P Walden

Adrian SZ Chase

Scott R Hutson

Damien B Marken

...

2022/11/2

Reproducibility and Validity of Portable ED-XRF Instruments: A Comparison of Spectral and Quantitative Results from Belizean and Ethiopian Obsidian

Lucas R Martindale Johnson

B Lee Drake

Steven A Brandt

Keith Prufer

Arlen F Chase

2022/10/19

Drought-induced civil conflict among the ancient Maya

Nature communications

Douglas J Kennett

Marilyn Masson

Carlos Peraza Lope

Stanley Serafin

Richard J George

...

2022/7/19

South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region

Nature Communications

Douglas J Kennett

Mark Lipson

Keith M Prufer

David Mora-Marín

Richard J George

...

2022/3/22

Household inequality, community formation, and land tenure in Classic period lowland Maya society

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Amy E Thompson

Keith M Prufer

2021/1/8

Nearer to the Gods

Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context

Julie Mather Saul

Rockshelter Burials From Keith M Prufer

2021/5/3

Caries, Periodontoclasia, and Antemortem Tooth Loss

Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context

Julie Mather Saul

Keith M Prufer

Frank P Saul

2021/5/3

Stone houses and earth lords: Maya religion in the cave context

Keith M. Prufer

James E Brady

2021

Terminal pleistocene through middle holocene occupations in southeastern mesoamerica: linking ecology and culture in the context of neotropical foragers and early farmers

Ancient Mesoamerica

Keith M Prufer

Mark Robinson

Douglas J Kennett

2021/12

Two millennia of seasonal rainfall predictability in the neotropics with repercussions for agricultural societies

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts

Tobias Braun

Sebastian FM Breitenbach

Erin Ray

James UL Baldini

Lisa M Baldini

...

2021/4

Two millennia of changing predictability of seasonal rainfall and repercussions for societies in the Neotropics

AGU Fall Meeting 2021

Tobias Braun

Sebastian FM Breitenbach

James UL Baldini

Erin Ray

Lisa Miller Baldini

...

2021/12/16

Assessing Classic Maya multi-scalar household inequality in southern Belize

PloS one

Amy E Thompson

Gary M Feinman

Keith M Prufer

2021/3/24

Inequality, networks, and the financing of Classic Maya political power

Journal of Archaeological Science

Amy E Thompson

Gary M Feinman

Marina Lemly

Keith M Prufer

2021/9/1

The low-density urban systems of the Classic period Maya and Izapa: insights from settlement scaling theory

Latin American Antiquity

Michael E Smith

Scott G Ortman

José Lobo

Claire E Ebert

Amy E Thompson

...

2021/3

See List of Professors in Keith M Prufer University(University of New Mexico)

Co-Authors

H-index: 70
Douglas J Kennett

Douglas J Kennett

University of California, Santa Barbara

H-index: 54
Yemane Asmerom

Yemane Asmerom

University of New Mexico

H-index: 46
Bruce Winterhalder

Bruce Winterhalder

University of California, Davis

H-index: 45
Colin Macpherson

Colin Macpherson

Durham University

H-index: 32
Jaime Awe

Jaime Awe

Northern Arizona University

H-index: 18
Mark Robinson

Mark Robinson

University of Exeter

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