Michael E. Moseley

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

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Michael E. Moseley is a scholar working on Paleontology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael E. Moseley has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Paleontology, 12 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michael E. Moseley's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 papers), Latin American history and culture (12 papers) and Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (7 papers). Michael E. Moseley is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 papers), Latin American history and culture (12 papers) and Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (7 papers). Michael E. Moseley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Peru and Mexico. Michael E. Moseley's co-authors include David K. Keefer, Susan D. deFrance, Jerry D. Moore, Charles R. Ortloff, Timothy Earle, John R. Topic, Robert A. Feldman, Patrick Ryan Williams, John V. Murra and Katharina Schreiber and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

In The Last Decade

Michael E. Moseley

57 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael E. Moseley United States	25	1.3k	648	475	425	363	60	2.1k
Richard L. Burger United States	27	1.4k 1.1×	723 1.1×	682 1.4×	410 1.0×	391 1.1×	83	2.2k
Jeremy A. Sabloff United States	25	1.6k 1.3×	858 1.3×	406 0.9×	503 1.2×	438 1.2×	85	2.5k
Warwick Bray United Kingdom	17	923 0.7×	500 0.8×	302 0.6×	407 1.0×	386 1.1×	83	1.7k
Arlen F. Chase United States	30	2.0k 1.6×	629 1.0×	458 1.0×	881 2.1×	448 1.2×	154	3.2k
Gordon R. Willey United States	27	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.7×	435 0.9×	484 1.1×	450 1.2×	107	2.5k
Vernon L. Scarborough United States	24	1.2k 1.0×	379 0.6×	310 0.7×	356 0.8×	200 0.6×	72	1.9k
Alan L. Kolata United States	17	793 0.6×	419 0.6×	238 0.5×	191 0.4×	206 0.6×	30	1.4k
Diane Z. Chase United States	28	1.8k 1.4×	641 1.0×	406 0.9×	817 1.9×	398 1.1×	137	2.8k
Jaime J. Awe United States	22	1.3k 1.0×	535 0.8×	376 0.8×	307 0.7×	346 1.0×	102	2.1k
Charles Stanish United States	22	938 0.7×	488 0.8×	397 0.8×	368 0.9×	266 0.7×	65	1.4k

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Moseley, Michael E., et al.. (2017). Droughts, floods, and farming at Quebrada Tacahuay from late prehispanic to colonial times. Ñawpa Pacha. 37(1). 25–37. 4 indexed citations

Moseley, Michael E., et al.. (2013). Modeling Protracted Drought,Collateral Natural Disaster,and Human Responses in the Andes. 34–46. 8 indexed citations

Ortloff, Charles R. & Michael E. Moseley. (2009). Climate, Agricultural Strategies, and Sustainability in the Precolumbian Andes. DigitalCommons (California Polytechnic State University). 9(1). 15. 1 indexed citations

Williams, Patrick Ryan, et al.. (2005). Los encuentros y las bases para la administración política Wari. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP. 207–232. 5 indexed citations

Keefer, David K. & Michael E. Moseley. (2004). Southern Peru desert shattered by the great 2001 earthquake: Implications for paleoseismic and paleo-El Niño–Southern Oscillation records. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(30). 10878–10883. 42 indexed citations

Keefer, David K., Michael E. Moseley, & Susan D. deFrance. (2003). A 38 000-year record of floods and debris flows in the Ilo region of southern Peru and its relation to El Niño events and great earthquakes. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 194(1-3). 41–77. 101 indexed citations

Moore, J. H. & Michael E. Moseley. (2001). How Many Frogs Does It Take to Leap around the Americas? Comments on Anderson and Gillam. American Antiquity. 66(3). 526–529. 13 indexed citations

Moseley, Michael E., et al.. (2000). The Miraflores El Nino Disaster: Convergent Catastrophes and Prehistoric Agrarian Change in Southern Peru. DigitalCommons (California Polytechnic State University). 6(1). 91–110. 26 indexed citations

Keefer, David K., et al.. (1998). Early Maritime Economy and El Nino Events at Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru. Science. 281(5384). 1833–1835. 161 indexed citations

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Moseley, Michael E.. (1992). Maritime Foundations and Multilinear Evolution: Retrospect and Prospect. DigitalCommons (California Polytechnic State University). 3(1). 5. 32 indexed citations

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Moseley, Michael E., et al.. (1990). The Northern dynasties : kingship and statecraft in Chimor : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 12th and 13th October 1985. 8 indexed citations

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Moseley, Michael E.. (1989). Early Settlement and Subsistence in the Casma Valley, Peru. Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1987. vi + 149 pp., references, index. $20.00 (cloth).. American Antiquity. 54(4). 880–881. 1 indexed citations

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Ortloff, Charles R., Robert A. Feldman, & Michael E. Moseley. (1985). Hydraulic Engineering and Historical Aspects of the Pre-Columbian Intravalley Canal Systems of the Moche Valley, Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology. 12(1). 77–98. 26 indexed citations

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Topic, John R. & Michael E. Moseley. (1983). CHAN CHAN: A CASE STUDY OF URBAN CHANGE IN PERU. Ñawpa Pacha. 21(1). 153–182. 17 indexed citations

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Ortloff, Charles R., Michael E. Moseley, & Robert A. Feldman. (1982). Hydraulic Engineering Aspects of the Chimu Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal. American Antiquity. 47(3). 572–595. 47 indexed citations

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Moseley, Michael E.. (1977). Archaeology: An Ancient World Preserved: Relics and Records of Prehistory in the Andes. Frederic André Engel. American Anthropologist. 79(4). 973–974. 1 indexed citations

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Moseley, Michael E.. (1975). The maritime foundations of Andean civilization. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 210 indexed citations

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Moseley, Michael E. & Carol J. Mackey. (1974). Twenty-four architectural plans of Chan Chan, Peru : structure and form at the capital of Chimor. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7 indexed citations

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Moseley, Michael E. & Carol J. Mackey. (1972). Peruvian Settlement Pattern Studies and Small Site Methodology. American Antiquity. 37(1). 67–81. 19 indexed citations

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Moseley, Michael E.. (1971). Archeology: Prehistoria de Suramérica. JUAN SCHOBINGER. American Anthropologist. 73(4). 932–933. 2 indexed citations

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