Lora Stevens

Biographic Data

ID5643750
NAMELora Stevens
GIVEN NAMESLora
FAMILY NAMEStevens
SIGNATURESTEVENS L
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University, Long Beach
ORCID0000-0002-8762-7900
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS49
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX4

  • Reply to Skousen and Aiuvalasit

    Open AccessA J White, Samuel E Munoz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2021References: 5

    Skousen and Aiuvalasit critique our article on the post-Mississippian occupation of the Horseshoe Lake watershed (White et al. 2020) along two lines: (1) that our findings are not supported due to a lack of archaeological evidence, and (2) that we do not consider alternative hypotheses in explaining the lake's fecal stanol record. We first respond to the matter of fecal stanol deposition in Horseshoe Lake and then address the larger issue, the pr…

  • After Cahokia

    Open AccessA J White, Samuel E Munoz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2020Cited by: 9References: 68

    The occupation history of the Cahokia archaeological complex (ca. AD 1050-1400) has received significant academic attention for decades, but the subsequent repopulation of the region by indigenous peoples is poorly understood. This study presents demographic trends from a fecal stanol population reconstruction of Horseshoe Lake, Illinois, along with information from archaeological, historical, and environmental sources to provide an interpretatio…

  • An evaluation of fecal stanols as indicators of population change at Cahokia, Illinois

    Open AccessA J White, Lora R Stevens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2018Cited by: 11References: 5

  • Comparison of the vegetational and hydroclimatic evolution during the Holocene and Last Interglacial in western Iran

    Open AccessLora StevensARTICLEQuaternary International2012

  • Indian Summer Monsoon variations could have affected the early-Holocene woodland expansion in the Near East

    Open AccessMorteza Djamali, Hossein Akhani et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2010Cited by: 8References: 6

    Postglacial expansion of deciduous oak woodlands of the Zagros—Anti-Taurus Mountains, a major biome of the Near East, was delayed until the middle Holocene at ~6300 cal. yr BP. The current hypotheses explain this delay as a consequence of a regional aridity during the early Holocene, slow migration rates of forest trees, and/or a long history of land use and agro-pastoralism in this region. In the present paper, support is given to a hypothesis t…

  • A late Pleistocene long pollen record from Lake Urmia, Nw Iran

    Open AccessMorteza Djamali, Jacques‐louis De Beaulieu et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2008

    A palynological study based on two 100-m long cores from Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran provides a vegetation record spanning 200 ka, the longest pollen record for the continental interior of the Near East. During both penultimate and last glaciations, a steppe of Artemisia and Poaceae dominated the upland vegetation with a high proportion of Chenopodiaceae in both upland and lowland saline ecosystems. While Juniperus and deciduous Quercus trees…

  • Stable isotope records of Late Quaternary climate and hydrology from Mediterranean lakes

    Open AccessNeil Roberts, Matthew D Jones et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Science Reviews2008

  • A 2650-year-long record of environmental change from northern Yellowstone National Park based on a comparison of multiple proxy data

    Open AccessCathy Whitlock, Walter Dean et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2008

  • A 2200-yr record of hydrologic variability from Foy Lake, Montana, USA, inferred from diatom and geochemical data

    Open AccessLora R Stevens, Lora Stevens et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2006

    A 2200-yr long, high-resolution (∼5 yr) record of drought variability in northwest Montana is inferred from diatoms and δ 18 O values of bio-induced carbonate preserved in a varved lacustrine core from Foy Lake. A previously developed model of the diatom response to lake-level fluctuations is used to constrain estimates of paleolake levels derived from the diatom data. High-frequency (decadal) fluctuations in the de-trended δ 18 O record mirror v…

  • Timing of Atmospheric Precipitation in the Zagros Mountains Inferred from a Multi-Proxy Record from Lake Mirabad, Iran

    Open AccessLora R Stevens, Lora Stevens et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2006

    A sediment core 7.2 m long from Lake Mirabad, Iran, was examined for loss-on-ignition, mineralogy, oxygen-isotopic composition of authigenic calcite, and trace-element composition of ostracodes to complement earlier pollen and ostracode-assemblage studies. Pollen, ostracode-inferred lake level, and high Sr/Ca ratios indicate that the early Holocene (10000 to 6500 cal yr BP) was drier than the late Holocene. Low δ 18 O values during this interval …

  • Proposed changes in seasonality of climate during the Lateglacial and Holocene at Lake Zeribar, Iran

    Open AccessLora Stevens, L R Stevens et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2001Cited by: 17References: 11

    Calcareous sediments spanning the last 13 ka from Lake Zeribar, western Iran, were sampled for stable-isotope analysis as a means of augmenting earlier climatic interpretations based on pollen and macrofossils. The Lateglacial period was cold and dry, supporting semi-desert vegetation and highly concentrated lake water. Low evaporation rates due to the cold resulted in long residence times and high lake stands. Durinig the early Holocene, the upl…

  • Evironmental change in southwestern Iran

    Open AccessHuw I Griffiths, Antje Schwalb et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2001Cited by: 4References: 9

    Ostracod faunal data are presented from a sediment core taken from extant Iranian Lake Mirabad. Ostracod faunal successions indicate relatively high concentrations of mainly nektonic taxa between c. 9265 and 6505 cal. 14C yr BP, followed by lower concentrations of mainly benthic forms after 6505 cal.BP. These results suggest that lake levels were low during the early Holocene, and that water levels rose during mid- Holocene times, notably after c…