Brian M Kemp

Biographic Data

ID90830
NAMEBrian M Kemp
GIVEN NAMESBrian M
FAMILY NAMEKemp
SIGNATUREKEMP B M
AFFILIATIONSWashington State University
ORCID0000-0003-3945-3392
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS333
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX12

  • Biodiversity science of ancient fisheries

    Open AccessTushingham, Justin Hopt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2025References: 3

  • What ancient DNA reveals about the ubiquitous rockfish of the Pacific Coast of North America

    Open AccessM L Mo, Brittany Bingham et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2022Cited by: 2References: 28

  • Ancient DNA Identification of Giant Snakehead (Channa micropeltes) Remains from the Market Street Chinatown and Some Implications for the Nineteenth-Century Pacific World Fish Trade

    Open AccessJ Ryan Kennedy, Brittany Bingham et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2022Cited by: 2References: 41

    This study presents the results of ancient DNA analyses of eight snakehead (Channasp.) bones from the Market Street Chinatown, a nineteenth-century Chinese diaspora archaeological site in San Jose, California. The sequences of a short stretch of the mitochondrial DNA identify the Market Street Chinatown snakeheads as Giant Snakehead (Channa micropeltes), a species native to Southeast Asia. These results provide the first archaeological evidence o…

  • Finny Merchandise

    C Conrad, Upuli Desilva et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2021Cited by: 2References: 22

    During California’s Gold Rush of 1849-1855, thousands of miners rushed to San Francisco, Sacramento, and elsewhere throughout northern California, creating a significant demand for food. In this work, we investigate the role of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and Pacific cod (G. macrocephalus) during the Gold Rush era using historical records, ancient DNA, and vertebral morphology in the cod assemblage recovered from Thompson’s Cove (CA-SFR-186H), a …

  • Testing for Mississippian Period Turkey Management in the Archaeological Record of the Southeastern United States

    Open AccessErin Kennedy Thornton, Tanya M Peres et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2021Cited by: 2References: 71

    People living in Mesoamerica and what is now the eastern and southwestern United States used turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) as sources of meat, eggs, bones, and feathers. Turkey husbandry and domestication are confirmed in two of these regions (Mesoamerica and the American Southwest), but human-turkey interactions in Eastern North American (eastern United States and Canada) are not fully explored. We apply stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) and ancient m…

  • Constrained Agency while Negotiating Spanish Colonialism

    T A Tung, Rick W A Smith et al.ARTICLEBioarchaeology International2020

    Spanish colonial rule in Peru was marked by dramatic changes to indigenous mortuary customs, bodily practices, and morbidity profiles. However, that era of transformation was not solely shaped by Spanish policies; Native Andeans creatively negotiated with those newcomers, sculpting novel practices that sometimes integrated, and other times challenged, the Spanish agenda. Theoretical perspectives on the constrained agency of indigenous communities…

  • Genetic Diversity and Relationships of Tlingit Moieties

    Rodrigo De Los Santos, Cara Monroe et al.ARTICLEHuman Biology2020References: 5

    The Tlingit from Southeast Alaska belong to the Northwest Coast cultural tradition, which is defijined by regionally shared sociocultural practices. A distinctive feature of Tlingit social organization is the matrilineal exogamous marriage system among clans from two opposite moieties: the Raven/Crow and Eagle/Wolf. Clan and moiety membership are determined by matrilineal descent, and previous genetic studies of Northwest Coast populations have s…

  • Applications of Bayesian Skyline Plots and Approximate Bayesian Computation for Human Demography

    Fernando A Villanea, Fernando Villanea et al.ARTICLEHuman Biology2020

    Bayesian methods have been adopted by anthropologists for their utility in resolving complex questions about human history based on genetic data. The main advantages of Bayesian methods include simple model comparison, presenting results as a summary of probability distributions, and the explicit inclusion of prior information into analyses. In the fijield of anthropological genetics, for example, implementing Bayesian skyline plots and approxima…

  • Applications of Bayesian Skyline Plots and Approximate Bayesian Computation for Human Demography

    Fernando A Villanea, Villanea Villanea et al.ARTICLEHuman Biology2019References: 3

    Bayesian methods have been adopted by anthropologists for their utility in resolving complex questions about human history based on genetic data. The main advantages of Bayesian methods include simple model comparison, presenting results as a summary of probability distributions, and the explicit inclusion of prior information into analyses. In the field of anthropological genetics, for example, implementing Bayesian skyline plots and approximate…

  • Human use of small forage fish

    Open AccessErica Palmer, Tushingham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2018Cited by: 12References: 6

  • Ancient DNA Analysis and Stable Isotope Ecology of Sea Turtles (Cheloniidae) from the Gold Rush-era (1850s) Eastern Pacific Ocean

    Open AccessC Conrad, Laura Pagès Barceló et al.ARTICLEOpen Quaternary2018Cited by: 4References: 60

    Historical and archaeological evidence documents the importation of sea turtles from the eastern Pacific Ocean (Baja California) to California during the Gold Rush (1848–1855) and through the end of 19th century, but it is unknown whether these 19th century sea turtles foraged in similar ways to their modern counterparts. To identify the species of two Gold Rush-era sea turtle specimens recovered from archaeological deposits in San Francisco, Cal…

  • Rescue PCR

    Open AccessBobbi M Johnson, Brian M KempARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2017References: 10

  • Turkeys on the fringe

    Open AccessE L Jones, C Conrad et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2016Cited by: 10References: 16

    Previous research reporting stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope values of prehistoric turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) remains from the American Southwest indicates that these birds were husbanded in consistent ways: the majority of samples suggest a diet dominated by maize, a domesticate that uses the C4 photosynthetic pathway. However, most of these studies have focused on turkey remains from locations where maize would likely have bee…

  • Cultural and Genetic Contexts for Early Turkey Domestication in the Northern Southwest

    Open AccessWilliam D Lipe, R Kyle Bocinsky et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2016Cited by: 16References: 26

    The turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) was independently domesticated in Mesoamerica and the Southwest, the latter as the only case of Native American animal domestication north of Mexico. In the upland (non-desert) portion of the American Southwest, distinctive closely related mtDNA lineages belonging to haplogroup H1 (thought to indicate domestication) occur from ca. 1 A.D. (Basketmaker II period) through early historic times. At many sites, low freq…

  • Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Open AccessMaanasa Raghavan, Matthias Steinrücken et al.ARTICLEScience2015

    Genetic history of Native Americans Several theories have been put forth as to the origin and timing of when Native American ancestors entered the Americas. To clarify this controversy, Raghavan et al. examined the genomic variation among ancient and modern individuals from Asia and the Americas. There is no evidence for multiple waves of entry or recurrent gene flow with Asians in northern populations. The earliest migrations occurred no earlier…

  • Origins of an Unmarked Georgia Cemetery Using Ancient DNA Analysis

    Andrew T Ozga, Ozga Ozga et al.ARTICLEHuman Biology2015Cited by: 2References: 10

    Determining the origins of those buried within undocumented cemeteries is of incredible importance to historical archaeologists and, in many cases, the nearby communities. In the case of Avondale Burial Place, a cemetery in Bibb County, Georgia, in use from 1820 to 1950, all written documentation of those interred within it has been lost. Osteological and archaeological evidence alone could not describe, with confidence, the ancestral origins of …

  • Ancient marine hunter‐gatherers from P atagonia and T ierra D el F uego

    Open AccessConstanza De La Fuente, Jacqueline Galimany et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2015Cited by: 13References: 42

    OBJECTIVES: The human population history from Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego has been of great interest in the context of the American peopling. Different sources of evidence have contributed to the characterization of the local populations, but some main questions about their history remain unsolved. Among the native populations, two marine hunter-gatherers groups inhabited the Patagonian channels below the 478S: Kawéskar and Yámana. Regardless …

  • DNA analysis of ancient dogs of the Americas

    Open AccessKelsey E Witt, Kathleen Judd et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2015Cited by: 10References: 67

  • Tobacco use vs. helminths in Congo basin hunter-gatherers

    Open AccessCasey J Roulette, Hayley Mann et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2014

  • Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native Americans

    Open AccessJames C Chatters, D J Kennett et al.ARTICLEScience2014

    American Beauty Modern Native American ancestry traces back to an East Asian migration across Beringia. However, some Native American skeletons from the late Pleistocene show phenotypic characteristics more similar to other, more geographically distant, human populations. Chatters et al. (p. 750 ) describe a skeleton with a Paleoamerican phenotype from the eastern Yucatan, dating to approximately 12 to 13 thousand years ago, with a relatively com…

  • Evaluation of methods that subdue the effects of polymerase chain reaction inhibitors in the study of ancient and degraded DNA

    Open AccessBrian M Kemp, Cara Monroe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2014

  • One of the key characteristics of ancient DNA, low copy number, may be a product of its extraction

    Open AccessJodi Lynn Barta, Cara Monroe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2014Cited by: 4References: 9

  • Introduction

    Ripan S Malhi, Ripan S Malhi Ripan S Malhi et al.ARTICLEHuman Biology2014

    IntroductionProviding a Venue for Influential Research in Anthropological Genomics Ripan S. Malhi and Brian M. Kemp, Executive Editors We would like to thank the previous editorial team of Human Biology for improving the journal in numerous ways. By decreasing the review period to three months and over doubling the impact factor, Franz Manni and his team placed the journal back on a track of success. Since taking over the editorship almost a year…

  • How Much DNA Is Lost? Measuring DNA Loss of Short-Tandem-Repeat Length Fragments Targeted by the PowerPlex 16® System Using the Qiagen MinElute Purification Kit

    Brian M Kemp, Brian M Kemp Brian M Kemp et al.ARTICLEHuman Biology2014References: 60

    The success in recovering genetic profiles from aged and degraded biological samples is diminished by fundamental aspects of DNA extraction, as well as its long-term preservation, that are not well understood. While numerous studies have been conducted to determine whether one extraction method was superior to others, nearly all of them were initiated with no knowledge of the actual starting DNA quantity in the samples prior to extraction, so the…

  • Brief communication

    Open AccessFernando A Villanea, Deborah A Bolnick et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2013Cited by: 2References: 45

    In this study, we explore the geographic and temporal distribution of a unique variant of the O blood group allele called O1v G542A , which has been shown to be shared among Native Americans but is rare in other populations. O1v G542A was previously reported in Native American populations in Mesoamerica and South America, and has been proposed as an ancestry informative marker. We investigated whether this allele is also found in the Tlingit and …