Colin Grier

767 total citations
28 papers, 447 citations indexed

About

Colin Grier is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Grier has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 447 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Paleontology, 15 papers in Anthropology and 8 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Colin Grier's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 papers), Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (8 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 papers). Colin Grier is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 papers), Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (8 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 papers). Colin Grier collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Korea. Colin Grier's co-authors include Bill Angelbeck, Brian M. Kemp, Cara Monroe, Jangsuk Kim, Matthew Spriggs, Martin Furholt, Timothy Earle, Kenneth M. Ames, Scott G. Ortman and Kelsey E. Witt and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Human Evolution and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Colin Grier

27 papers receiving 416 citations

Peers

Colin Grier
William Taylor United States
Andrew K.G. Jones United Kingdom
Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan United States
Anneke Janzen United States
Alicia Ventresca Miller Germany
Tammy Buonasera United States
Bryan Hanks United States
Mary E. D. Pohl United States
Sheila Hamilton‐Dyer United Kingdom
R. G. Matson Canada
William Taylor United States
Colin Grier
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All Works

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Grier, Colin, et al.. (2025). The Archaeological Prospection of Plankhouse Villages on the Northwest Coast of North America. ArchéoSciences. 49-1. 569–574.
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Martindale, Andrew, et al.. (2023). The challenges of signal interpretation of burials in ground‐penetrating radar. Archaeological Prospection. 31(4). 337–351. 4 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin, Lilian Alessa, & Andrew Kliskey. (2017). Looking to the past to shape the future: addressing social-ecological change and adaptive trade-offs. Regional Environmental Change. 17(4). 1205–1215. 7 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin, et al.. (2017). Terraforming and monumentality in hunter-gatherer-fisher societies. 3(1). 3–8. 9 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin, et al.. (2017). Magnetic Gradient Survey of the Marpole Period Dionisio Point (DgRv-003) Plankhouse Village, Northwest Coast of North America. Journal of Field Archaeology. 42(5). 437–449. 1 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin. (2016). Thinking through Local and Regional Histories: Recent Research at Dionisio Point and in the Outer Gulf Islands. 44(1). 1 indexed citations
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Witt, Kelsey E., Andrew Kitchen, Colin Grier, et al.. (2014). DNA analysis of ancient dogs of the Americas: Identifying possible founding haplotypes and reconstructing population histories. Journal of Human Evolution. 79. 105–118. 36 indexed citations
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Monroe, Cara, Colin Grier, & Brian M. Kemp. (2013). Evaluating the efficacy of various thermo-stable polymerases against co-extracted PCR inhibitors in ancient DNA samples. Forensic Science International. 228(1-3). 142–153. 34 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin, et al.. (2012). On Villages, Quantification, and Appropriate Context: A Comment on “Social Zooarchaeology of a Northwest Coast House” by Paul A. Ewonus. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 7(3). 430–436. 5 indexed citations
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Angelbeck, Bill & Colin Grier. (2012). Anarchism and the Archaeology of Anarchic Societies: Resistance to Centralization Resistance to Centralization in the Coast Salish Region of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 547–587. 4 indexed citations
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Angelbeck, Bill & Colin Grier. (2012). Anarchism and the Archaeology of Anarchic Societies. Current Anthropology. 53(5). 547–587. 85 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin & Jangsuk Kim. (2012). Resource Control and the Development of Political Economies in Small-Scale Societies. Journal of Anthropological Research. 68(1). 1–34. 17 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin. (2010). Probables pasados y posibles futuros: sobre la reconstrucción de cazadores-recolectores complejos de la NWC. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 147–166. 3 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin & Jangsuk Kim. (2006). Beyond affluent foragers : rethinking hunter-gatherer complexity. Oxbow Books. 14 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin. (2001). The social economy of a prehistoric Northwest Coast plankhouse. Bell & Howell Information and Learning eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Grier, Colin & James M. Savelle. (1994). Intrasite spatial patterning and Thule Eskimo social organization. Arctic Anthropology. 31(2). 95–107. 8 indexed citations

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