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Archaeology, Paleoclimate

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Employment (5)

University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation: Missoula, MT, US

2021-01-01 to present | Director of Climate Extension (Montana Climate Office)
Employment
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Desert Research Institute: Reno, NV, US

2017-06-01 to present | Hourly Assistant Research Professor (Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences)
Employment
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center: Cortez, Colorado, US

2018-08-01 to 2020-12-31 | Director (Research Institute)
Employment
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation: Missoula, MT, US

2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31 | Research Associate (Montana Climate Office)
Employment
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center: Cortez, Colorado, US

2016-01-01 to 2016-12-31 | Director of Sponsored Projects (Research Institute)
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Education and qualifications (3)

Washington State University: Pullman, WA, US

2011-05-01 to 2014-12-14 | PhD (Anthropology)
Education
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Washington State University: Pullman, WA, US

2008-08-01 to 2011-05-01 | MA (Anthropology)
Education
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

University of Notre Dame: Notre Dame, IN, US

2004-08-01 to 2008-05-01 | BA (Anthropology)
Education
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Professional activities (2)

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center: Cortez, Colorado, US

2021-01-01 to present | Research Associate
Invited position
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Washington State University: Pullman, Washington, US

2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31 | Adjunct Research Faculty (Anthropology)
Invited position
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Funding (2)

RIDIR: Collaborative Research: Developing and Deploying SKOPE--A resource for Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments

2016-09-15 to 2020-02-29 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1637171
Source: Self-asserted source
R. Kyle Bocinsky via DimensionsWizard

BCC: Collaborative Research: Designing SKOPE: Synthesized Knowledge of Past Environments

2014-09-01 to 2016-02-29 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1439516
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R. Kyle Bocinsky via DimensionsWizard

Works (47)

SKOPE — PaleoCAR v3 — Annual Ancestral Cotton Growing Degree Day reconstruction for the Southwestern US

Zenodo
2025-01-08 | Dataset
Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky; Kaitlyn Davis
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SKOPE — PaleoCAR v3 — Annual Ancestral Cotton Growing Degree Day reconstruction for the Southwestern US

Zenodo
2025-01-08 | Dataset
Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky; Kaitlyn Davis
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Optimizing Drought Assessment for Soil Moisture Deficits

Water Resources Research
2024-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Zachary H. Hoylman; Zachary Holden; R. Kyle Bocinsky; David Ketchum; Alan Swanson; Kelsey Jencso
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A low-frequency summer temperature reconstruction for the United States Southwest, 3000 BC–AD 2000

The Holocene
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Andrew Gillreath-Brown; R Kyle Bocinsky; Timothy A Kohler
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Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments (SKOPE) Web Application

Zenodo
2022-06-09 | Other
Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky; Andrew Gillreath-Brown; Keith Kintigh; Ann Kinzig; Timothy A. Kohler; Allen Lee; Bertram Ludäscher; Timothy McPhillips; Christine Nguyễn; Calvin Pritchard
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Drought assessment has been outpaced by climate change: empirical arguments for a paradigm shift

Nature Communications
2022-05-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Zachary H. Hoylman; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Kelsey G. Jencso
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p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates.

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2022-03-01 | Other
Contributors: Darcy Bird; Lux Miranda; Marc Vander Linden; Erick Robinson; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Chris Nicholson; José M Capriles; Judson Byrd Finley; Eugenia M Gayo; Adolfo Gil et al.
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p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates

OpenAlex
2022-01-27 | Other
Contributors: Darcy Bird; Lux Miranda; Marc Vander Linden; Erick Robinson; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Christopher Nicholson; José M. Capriles; Judson Finley; Eugenia M. Gayo; Adolfo F. Gil et al.
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p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates

OpenAlex
2022-01-27 | Other
Contributors: Darcy Bird; Lux Miranda; Marc Vander Linden; Erick Robinson; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Christopher Nicholson; José M. Capriles; Judson Finley; Eugenia M. Gayo; Adolfo F. Gil et al.
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p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates

Scientific Data
2022-01-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Darcy Bird; Lux Miranda; Marc Vander Linden; Erick Robinson; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Chris Nicholson; José M. Capriles; Judson Byrd Finley; Eugenia M. Gayo; Adolfo Gil et al.
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End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates

Journal of Archaeological Science
2021-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Michael Holton Price; José M. Capriles; Julie A. Hoggarth; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Claire E. Ebert; James Holland Jones
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Normals: An R Package for Creating Montana's Climate Normals

Zenodo
2021-11-03 | Other
Contributors: Brust Colin; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Zachary Hoylman; Jencso Kelsey
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Loss of resilience preceded transformations of pre-Hispanic Pueblo societies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-05-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Marten Scheffer; Egbert H. van Nes; Darcy Bird; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Timothy A. Kohler
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Scalar Mismatches and Underlying Factors for Underutilization of Climate Information: Perspectives From Farmers and Ranchers

Frontiers in Climate
2021-04-21 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2624-9553
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Dendrochronological dates confirm a Late Prehistoric population decline in the American Southwest derived from radiocarbon dates

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2021-01-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Erick Robinson; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Darcy Bird; Jacob Freeman; Robert L. Kelly
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A Landscape Perspective on Climate-Driven Risks to Food Security: Exploring the Relationship between Climate and Social Transformation in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest

American Antiquity
2020-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0002-7316
Part of ISSN: 2325-5064
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice

Nature Plants
2020-05-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Rafal M. Gutaker; Simon C. Groen; Emily S. Bellis; Jae Y. Choi; Inês S. Pires; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Emma R. Slayton; Olivia Wilkins; Cristina C. Castillo; Sónia Negrão et al.
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Dendrochronological dates confirm a Late Prehistoric population decline in the American Southwest derived from radiocarbon dates

2020-04-21 | Other
Contributors: Erick Robinson; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Darcy Bird; Jacob Freeman; Robert L. Kelly
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Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice

2019-08-31 | Other
Contributors: Rafal M. Gutaker; Simon C. Groen; Emily S. Bellis; Jae Y. Choi; Inês S. Pires; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Emma R. Slayton; Olivia Wilkins; Cristina C. Castillo; Sónia Negrão et al.
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Refining Potential Source Regions via Combined Maize Niche Modeling and Isotopes: a Case Study from Chaco Canyon, NM, USA

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
2019-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1072-5369
Part of ISSN: 1573-7764
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Paleodata for and from archaeology

Past Global Change Magazine
2018-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2411-605X
Part of ISSN: 2411-9180
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Climate change stimulated agricultural innovation and exchange across Asia

Science Advances
2018-10-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Jade d’Alpoim Guedes; R. Kyle Bocinsky
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Data Output For: Climate Change Stimulated Agricultural Innovation And Exchange Across Asia, In Review.

Zenodo
2018-05-01 | Dataset
Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky; Jade d'Alpoim Guedes
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Models And Car Scores Reported In R. Kyle Bocinsky, Johnathan Rush, Keith W. Kintigh, And Timothy A. Kohler. Exploration And Exploitation In The Macrohistory Of The Prehispanic Pueblo Southwest. Science Advances.

Zenodo
2018-03-07 | Dataset
Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky
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Sociopolitical Evolution in Midrange Societies: The Prehispanic Pueblo Case

Unpublished
2017 | Other
Contributors: Tim Kohler; Stefani A. Crabtree; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Paul L. Hooper
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A Reply to Bellezza

Current Anthropology
2017-08-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0011-3204
Part of ISSN: 1537-5382
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

A Dialogue Between Empirical and Model-Based Agricultural Studies in Archaeology

Journal of Ethnobiology
2017-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0278-0771
Part of ISSN: 2162-4496
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Comparing Maize Paleoproduction Models with Experimental Data

Journal of Ethnobiology
2017-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0278-0771
Part of ISSN: 2162-4496
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

HOW TO MAKE A POLITY (IN THE CENTRAL MESA VERDE REGION)

American Antiquity
2017-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0002-7316
Part of ISSN: 2325-5064
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Open Science in Archaeology

2017-01-25 | Other
Contributors: Ben Marwick; C Michael Barton; Lynsey Bates; Elizabeth Bollwerk; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Alison Kyra Carter; Cyler Conrad; Stefano Costa; Enrico R. Crema; Benjamin Davies et al.
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Can Hopi Corn Save Ethiopian Farms? Employing 1,400 Years of Pueblo Agronomic Knowledge Towards Global Sustainability

2016 Southwest Symposium
2016 | Other
Contributors: Kohler, Timothy A., AUTHOR (Washington State University); Caudell, Mark, AUTHOR (Washington State University); Quinlan, Rob, AUTHOR (Washington State University); Adams, Karen, AUTHOR (Crow Canyon Archaeological Center); Guedes, Jade d'Alpoim, AUTHOR (Washington State University); Bocinsky, R. Kyle, AUTHOR (Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and Washington State University)
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Twenty-first century approaches to ancient problems: Climate and society

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2016-12-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Jade A. d’Alpoim Guedes; Stefani A. Crabtree; R. Kyle Bocinsky; Timothy A. Kohler
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A 5,500-Year Model of Changing Crop Niches on the Tibetan Plateau

Current Anthropology
2016-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0011-3204
Part of ISSN: 1537-5382
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Exploration and exploitation in the macrohistory of the pre-Hispanic Pueblo Southwest

Science Advances
2016-04 | Journal article
Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky; Johnathan Rush; Keith W. Kintigh; Timothy A. Kohler
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Great Houses, Shrines, and High Places: Intervisibility in the Chacoan World

American Antiquity
2016-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0002-7316
Part of ISSN: 2325-5064
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Cultural and Genetic Contexts for Early Turkey Domestication in the Northern Southwest

American Antiquity
2016-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0002-7316
Part of ISSN: 2325-5064
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

The Social Consequences of Climate Change in the Central Mesa Verde Region

American Antiquity
2016-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0002-7316
Part of ISSN: 2325-5064
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Compiled Tree-ring Dates from the Southwestern United States (Restricted)

(:unav)
2015 | Dataset
Contributors: Timothy A. Kohler; R. Kyle Bocinsky
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SKOPE: Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments Prototype

SKOPE
2015 | Dataset
Contributors: Bocinsky, R. Kyle;Brin, Adam; Kintigh, Keith; Kohler, Tim; Ludaescher, Bertram; McPhillips, Timothy;Rush, Johnathan;
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The Impact of Climate on the Spread of Rice to North-Eastern China: A New Look at the Data from Shandong Province

PLOS ONE
2015-06-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1932-6203
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Comment on "Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P. "

Science
2015-05-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0036-8075
Part of ISSN: 1095-9203
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

YesWorkflow: A User-Oriented, Language-Independent Tool for Recovering Workflow Information from Scripts

International Journal of Digital Curation
2015-05-21 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1746-8256
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

A 2,000-year reconstruction of the rain-fed maize agricultural niche in the US Southwest

Nature Communications
2014-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Extrinsic site defensibility and landscape-based archaeological inference: An example from the Northwest Coast

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
2014-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0278-4165
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Simulating Social and Economic Specialization in Small-Scale Agricultural Societies

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
2013 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1460-7425
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Modelling prehispanic Pueblo societies in their ecosystems

Ecological Modelling
2012-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0304-3800
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

THE COEVOLUTION OF GROUP SIZE AND LEADERSHIP: AN AGENT-BASED PUBLIC GOODS MODEL FOR PREHISPANIC PUEBLO SOCIETIES

Advances in Complex Systems
2012-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0219-5259
Part of ISSN: 1793-6802
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R. Kyle Bocinsky

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Journal of archaeological method and theory. (1)