Brendan J Culleton

Biographic Data

ID103703
NAMEBrendan J Culleton
GIVEN NAMESBrendan J
FAMILY NAMECulleton
SIGNATURECULLETON B J
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
ORCID0000-0003-1200-9531
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS497
AUTHOR COUNT52
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX15

  • Experimental Observations on Processing Leather, Skin, and Parchment for Radiocarbon Dating

    Open AccessMargaret A Davis, Brendan J Culleton et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2024Cited by: 2References: 32

    Skin-based samples (leather, skin, and parchment) in archaeological, historic and museum settings are among the most challenging materials to radiocarbon ( 14 C) date in terms of removing exogenous carbon sources—comparable to bone collagen in many respects but with much less empirical study to guide pretreatment approaches. In the case of leather, the 14 C content of materials used in manufacturing the leather can vary greatly. The presence of l…

  • Refining Ceramic Chronology and Epiclassic Reoccupation at La Ventilla, Teotihuacan Using Trapezoidal Bayesian Modeling

    Open AccessGeorge M Buckley, Sarah C Clayton et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2023References: 44

    Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) dates ( n = 78) from human bone collagen were analyzed in the largest high-resolution chronology study to date at the ancient city of Teotihuacan in central Mexico (ca. AD 1–550). Samples originate from the residential neighborhood of La Ventilla, located in the heart of this major urban center. Here, a trapezoidal model using Bayesian statistics is built from 14 C dates combined with data deri…

  • Radiocarbon dates of burials from Ceibal and other Pasión Maya sites, Guatemala, and the examination of freshwater reservoir effect through diet reconstruction

    Open AccessTakeshi Inomata, Andrew Sharpe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2022References: 25

  • Investigating Past Livestock Mobility Using δ34S Stable Isotopes

    Open AccessE Zavodny, B Mcclure et al.ARTICLEOpen Quaternary2022Cited by: 2References: 56

    The benefit of including sulfur (δ34S) stable isotopes in studies of past human diet and migration is increasingly clear, but δ34S analyses remain underutilized in addressing other patterns of mobility, animal management, and environmental change in the archaeological record. Here we evaluate the ability of δ34S isotope values to act as proxies for prehistoric environments in three distinct regions of Croatia: northern Dalmatia, Lika, and central…

  • The Cinematic Sublime

    Brendan J Culleton, Brendan CulletonARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2021

    What is the ‘sublime’? Editor Nathan Carroll writes in his introduction that ‘the only common factor in all the theories of the sublime is the lack of agreement between them’ (p. 1). Applying the c

  • Building High-Precision Ams 14 C Bayesian Models for the Formation of Peri-Abandonment Deposits at Baking Pot, Belize

    Open AccessJulie A Hoggarth, Brendan J Culleton et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2021Cited by: 2References: 49

    Deposits linked to abandonment have been widely recorded across the Maya lowlands, associated with the final activities occurring in ceremonial areas of Classic Maya centers. Various models have been applied to explain the activities that lie behind the formation of these contexts, including those linked to rapid abandonment (e.g., warfare) and others focused on more protracted events (termination rituals, and/or pilgrimages). Here, we assess Bay…

  • The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

    Open AccessVagheesh M Narasimhan, Nick Patterson et al.ARTICLEScience2019

    Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, incl…

  • The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

    Open AccessIñigo Olalde, Swapan Mallick et al.ARTICLEScience2019

    Genomics of the Iberian Peninsula Ancient DNA studies have begun to help us understand the genetic history and movements of people across the globe. Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Olalde et al. report genome-wide data from 271 ancient individuals from Iberia (see the Perspective by Vander Linden). The findings provide a comprehensive genetic time transect of the region. Linguistics analysis and genetic analysis of archaeological human remains…

  • Origin and diet of inhabitants of the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico during the Classic Period - Sr, C and N isotopes

    Open AccessVirginie Renson, Marx Navarro Castillo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2019Cited by: 4References: 17

  • Recalibrating grave-good chronologies

    Open AccessE Zavodny, Brendan J Culleton et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2019Cited by: 1References: 15

  • The Role of Diet in Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Change among Early Agricultural Communities in the Maya Lowlands

    Claire E Ebert, Julie A Hoggarth et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2019Cited by: 20References: 32

    The Terminal Classic Period (AD 750-1000) collapse of lowland Maya social, economic, and political systems has been temporally correlated with severe and extended drought in regional paleoclimate records. Ancient Maya society also experienced a protracted multicentury drought earlier during the end of the Late Preclassic Period (AD 100-300). While some large Preclassic polities declined, many more flourished through the Early Classic. Why were th…

  • Great Lakes Copper and Shared Mortuary Practices on the Atlantic Coast

    Open AccessMatthew C Sanger, Brian D Padgett et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2019Cited by: 3References: 41

    Analysis of human remains and a copper band found in the center of a Late Archaic (ca. 5000-3000 cal BP) shell ring demonstrate an exchange network between the Great Lakes and the coastal southeast United States. Similarities in mortuary practices suggest that the movement of objects between these two regions was more direct and unmediated than archaeologists previously assumed based on 'down-the-line' models of exchange. These findings challenge…

  • Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

    Open AccessCosimo Posth, Nathan Nakatsuka et al.ARTICLECell2018

    We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 49 individuals forming four parallel time transects in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and the Southern Cone, each dating to at least ∼9,000 years ago. The common ancestral population radiated rapidly from just one of the two early branches that contributed to Native Americans today. We document two previously unappreciated streams of gene flow between North and South America. One affected the Central And…

  • Radiocarbon dating legacy collections

    Open AccessGabriel M Sanchez, T C Rick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018Cited by: 3References: 18

  • Scaling up

    Open AccessE Zavodny, B Mcclure et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018Cited by: 3References: 35

  • The Early Izapa Kingdom

    Open AccessR M Rosenswig, Brendan J Culleton et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2018Cited by: 9References: 20

    Izapa is famous for its monumental architecture and extensive corpus of carved stelae dated to the Late Formative Guillén phase (300–100 calb.c.). The site was first established, however, as the capital of a kingdom during the second half of the Middle Formative period (750–300 calb.c.). Little is known of the first centuries of the site's occupation or how this early kingdom coalesced with Izapa as its capital. In 2012, the Izapa Regional Settle…

  • Izapa's Industrial Hinterland

    Open AccessHector Neff, Paul H Burger et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2018Cited by: 4References: 19

    Archaeological survey and excavations in the mangrove-estuary zone south of Izapa have generated an understanding of how the environment and human exploitation patterns changed during the Archaic and Formative periods. Archaic-period archaeological remains are not present, but the sedimentary record shows that Archaic people were clearing the coastal-plain forest for agricultural purposes. This activity augmented delivery of sediments to the litt…

  • Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty

    Open AccessD J Kennett, Plog et al.ARTICLENature Communications2017

    For societies with writing systems, hereditary leadership is documented as one of the hallmarks of early political complexity and governance. In contrast, it is unknown whether hereditary succession played a role in the early formation of prehistoric complex societies that lacked writing. Here we use an archaeogenomic approach to identify an elite matriline that persisted between 800 and 1130 CE in Chaco Canyon, the centre of an expansive prehist…

  • The Classic Period Maya transition from an ideal free to an ideal despotic settlement system at the polity of Uxbenká

    Open AccessKeith M Prufer, Amy E Thompson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2017

  • Minimizing risk on the margins

    Open AccessE Zavodny, Brendan J Culleton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2017

  • A Younger Dryas signature in bison bone stable isotopes from the southern Plains of North America

    Open AccessKristen Carlson, Leland C Bement et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2017Cited by: 2References: 12

  • Tightening Chronology of Paleoindian Bison Kill Sites on the Northern and Southern Plains

    Kristen Carlson, Brendan J Culleton et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2016Cited by: 3References: 8

    Researchers on the Great Plains of North America have come to terms with a need to better understand the chronological sequence of the Paleoindian period. Dating this period has been problematic; however, current improved methods are now available to reevaluate this chronology. To evaluate change through time of hunting strategies and land use practices we need to step back and clarify chronology. This article looks at six Paleoindian bison kill …

  • High-Resolution AMS 14 C Dates for the Par-Tee Site (35CLT20) and Prehistoric Whale Hunting on the Oregon Coast

    Open AccessGabriel M Sanchez, Jon M Erlandson et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2016References: 28

    Evidence for aboriginal whale hunting, long thought to be a practice limited to Northwest Coast tribes in northern Washington and British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, was previously reported at the Par-Tee site on the Oregon coast between about cal AD 620 and 990. An age estimate for a humpback whale phalanx with an embedded elk bone harpoon point was based on radiocarbon dates on charcoal not directly associated with the whale bone. We present h…

  • AMS 14 C Dating of Preclassic to Classic Period Household Construction in the Ancient Maya Community of Cahal Pech, Belize

    Open AccessClaire E Ebert, Brendan J Culleton et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2016Cited by: 11References: 44

    Archaeologists have traditionally relied upon relative ceramic chronologies to understand the occupational histories of large and socially complex polities in the Maya lowlands. High-resolution accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating can provide independent chronological control for more discrete events that reflect cultural change through time. This article reports results of AMS 14 C dating of stratified sequences at the resident…

  • Chronology and Ecology of Late Pleistocene Megafauna in the Northern Willamette Valley, Oregon

    Open AccessDaniel M Gilmour, Virginia L Butler et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2015

    Since the mid-19th century, western Oregon's Willamette Valley has been a source of remains from a wide variety of extinct megafauna. Few of these have been previously described or dated, but new chronologic and isotopic analyses in conjunction with updated evaluations of stratigraphic context provide substantial new information on the species present, timing of losses, and paleoenvironmental conditions. Using subfossil material from the northern…