Bruce Winterhalder

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Bruce Winterhalder is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Ecology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Winterhalder has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Bruce Winterhalder's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers). Bruce Winterhalder is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers). Bruce Winterhalder collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Mexico. Bruce Winterhalder's co-authors include Eric Alden Smith, Douglas J. Kennett, Flora Lu, Cody T. Ross, Bram Tucker, Richard McElreath, Christopher S. Jazwa, Paul W. Leslie, Mark N. Grote and Claire E. Ebert and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Winterhalder

76 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change

2012 391 citations Douglas J. Kennett, Christopher S. Jazwa et al. Science profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Regional patterns of pastoralist migrations under the push of reduced precipitation in imperial China 2019 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Qing Pei, Guodong Li, Bruce Winterhalder, Margaret D. Lowman	6
2	A general model of forager search: Adaptive encounter-conditional heuristics outperform Lévy flights in the search for patchily distributed prey 2018 ·Journal of Theoretical Biology ·Cody T. Ross, Luís Pacheco-Cobos, Bruce Winterhalder	13
3	Frequency-Dependent Social Transmission and the Interethnic Transfer of Female Genital Modification in the African Diaspora and Indigenous Populations of Colombia 2015 ·Human Nature ·Cody T. Ross, (unknown), Bruce Winterhalder	7
4	Economic benefits of hunting dogs in the context of tropical horticulture 2015 ·Luís Pacheco-Cobos, Bruce Winterhalder	1
5	Epidemics in Ming and Qing China: Impacts of changes of climate and economic well-being 2015 ·Social Science & Medicine ·Qing Pei, David Zhang, Guodong Li, Bruce Winterhalder, Harry F. Lee	30
6	A Test of Ideal Free Distribution Predictions Using Targeted Survey and Excavation on California’s Northern Channel Islands 2015 ·Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory ·Christopher S. Jazwa, Douglas J. Kennett, Bruce Winterhalder	29
7	The Population Ecology of Despotism 2014 ·Human Nature ·Adrian V. Bell, Bruce Winterhalder	35
8	The Invisible Cliff: Abrupt Imposition of Malthusian Equilibrium in a Natural-Fertility, Agrarian Society 2014 ·PLoS ONE ·Cedric O. Puleston, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Bruce Winterhalder	31
9	Nutritional and Social Benefits of Foraging in California 1 2010 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Bruce Winterhalder, Robert L. Bettinger	0
10	Incorporating sociocultural adaptive capacity in conservation hotspot assessments 2010 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Jason P. Sexton, Mark W. Schwartz, Bruce Winterhalder	9
11	Ideal free settlement of California’s Northern Channel Islands 2010 ·Journal of Anthropological Archaeology ·Bruce Winterhalder, Douglas J. Kennett, Mark N. Grote, (unknown)	115
12	Four Neglected Concepts with a Role to Play in Explaining the Origins of Agriculture 2009 ·Current Anthropology ·Bruce Winterhalder, Douglas J. Kennett	43
13	The half of it 2004 ·Bruce Winterhalder	2
14	Evolutionary social science: The behavioral ecology approach 2002 ·Eric Alden Smith, Bruce Winterhalder	1
15	Comment on Bliege Bird and Bird, "Delayed reciprocity and tolerated theft" 1997 ·Current Anthropology ·Bruce Winterhalder	2
16	Social foraging and the behavioral ecology of intragroup resource transfers 1996 ·Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews ·Bruce Winterhalder	3
17	Preparing for Scarcity: Bad Year Economics . Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty. Paul Halstead and John O'Shea, Eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1989. x, 145 pp., illus. $49.50. New Directions in Archaeology. 1990 ·Science ·Bruce Winterhalder	16
18	Optimal foraging: Simulation studies of diet choice in a stochastic environment 1986 ·Journal of Ethnobiology ·Bruce Winterhalder	23
19	Household Economics and Hominid Origins [and Comments and Reply] 1985 ·Current Anthropology ·Duane Quiatt, (unknown), Colin P. Groves, (unknown), Adriaan Kortlandt, William C. McGrew, Martin K. Nickels, John F. Oates, (unknown), Euclid O. Smith, Mark F. Teaford, Peter M. Waser, Richard D. Howard, Bruce Winterhalder	9
20	New perspectives on hunter-gatherer socioecology 1981 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Eric Alden Smith, Bruce Winterhalder	15

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