Alvaro Montenegro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 115861 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alvaro Montenegro |
| NOMBRES | Alvaro |
| APELLIDO | Montenegro |
| FIRMA | MONTENEGRO A |
| AFILIACIONES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6848-1996 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Disaster, Risk, and Resilience
Seafaring and Modelling
Seafaring modeling is still a developing science, and there have been many approaches taken to evaluating human sea-based mobility in the past by researchers focused on different regions and time periods. Many models utilize similar processes or data inputs, including climate models, vessel technology studies, and human capabilities. However, being able to decide on the right approach can be difficult, and often relates to the technological know-…
Culturing island biomes
Do stormy seas lead to better boats? Exploring the origins of the southern Californian plank canoe through ocean voyage modeling
What constraints and conditions are conducive to the innovation of more advanced watercraft technology? This paper explores this question by modeling ancient voyages in the Channel Island region of southern California. The Chumash and Tongva cultures of this region invented an advanced form of boat, the sewn plank canoe, around 500 CE. This new technology led to a rapid increase in maritime travel and transformed the maritime political economy of…
Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000-50 000 years ago
The dynamics of our species' dispersal into the Pacific remains intensely debated. The authors present archaeological investigations in the Raja Ampat Islands, north-west of New Guinea, that provide the earliest known evidence for humans arriving in the Pacific more than 55 000-50 000 years ago. Seafaring simulations demonstrate that a northern equatorial route into New Guinea via the Raja Ampat Islands was a viable dispersal corridor to Sahul at…
Income, Equality, and Economic Development
Objective This article proposes a simple and operational definition of development that combines the level of income per capita with a measure of income distribution. Method Following the definition, an economic development index is constructed by averaging income per capita with Gini coefficients from the well‐known SWIID database. Results A ranking of countries is obtained for the proposed index, and it is compared to the rankings produced usin…
Modeling water crossings leading to the arrival of early Homo in Sulawesi, Indonesia, via paleoclimate drift experiments
From west to east
The prime movers behind the prehistoric colonization of Remote Oceania, and in particular the large c. 2000-year temporal gap (i.e. ‘long pause’) seen between West and East Polynesia, has long been major point of interest in the Pacific. To address these events and the processes that may have led to the known chronological disparity of these diasporas, we present results from two different, but equally powerful, analytical tools which are used to…
Pest outbreak distribution and forest management impacts in a changing climate in British Columbia
Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide
CO 2 released from combustion of fossil fuels equilibrates among the various carbon reservoirs of the atmosphere, the ocean, and the terrestrial biosphere on timescales of a few centuries. However, a sizeable fraction of the CO 2 remains in the atmosphere, awaiting a return to the solid earth by much slower weathering processes and deposition of CaCO 3 . Common measures of the atmospheric lifetime of CO 2 , including the e-folding time scale, dis…
Modeling the prehistoric arrival of the sweet potato in Polynesia
The Discovery of Western Oceania
Settling the islands of Oceania required that thousands of kilometers of open ocean be crossed in stone-age vessels. This feat must surely rank among the most impressive achievements of mankind, but exactly how it occurred is unclear, since nothing definite is known about the navigation skills or vessels used at this time. Here we use a computer simulation to study the potential role of drift voyages and exploration by sailing downwind in the dis…
Parasites, Paleoclimate, and the Peopling of the Americas
Paleoparasitological findings and paleoclimate modelling simulations indicate that early peoples migrating via the Clovis first route across Beringia into North America could not have traversed the required distance in time to provide a reasonable explanation for the presence of the hookworm in the preColumbian Americas. The introduction of the hookworm into the Americas by a land migration at around 13,000 years BP could have happened only under…
Turning Brain Drain into Brain Gain
An increasing number of developing countries are considering their highly qualified citizens living abroad as a potential asset for national development. Renewed policies are consequently designed in order to ensure the return of this expatriated talented group. Besides the repatriation-return-option generally enacted in these policies with varying success, a second one has recently emerged: the diaspora option. It consists of the remote mobilisa…
Constitutional design and economic performance
Parasites, Paleoclimate, and the Peopling of the Americas
Paleoparasitological findings and paleoclimate modelling simulations indicate that early peoples migrating via the Clovis first route across Beringia into North America could not have traversed the required distance in time to provide a reasonable explanation for the presence of the hookworm in the preColumbian Americas. The introduction of the hookworm into the Americas by a land migration at around 13,000 years BP could have happened only under…
From west to east
The prime movers behind the prehistoric colonization of Remote Oceania, and in particular the large c. 2000-year temporal gap (i.e. ‘long pause’) seen between West and East Polynesia, has long been major point of interest in the Pacific. To address these events and the processes that may have led to the known chronological disparity of these diasporas, we present results from two different, but equally powerful, analytical tools which are used to…
The Discovery of Western Oceania
Settling the islands of Oceania required that thousands of kilometers of open ocean be crossed in stone-age vessels. This feat must surely rank among the most impressive achievements of mankind, but exactly how it occurred is unclear, since nothing definite is known about the navigation skills or vessels used at this time. Here we use a computer simulation to study the potential role of drift voyages and exploration by sailing downwind in the dis…
Constitutional design and economic performance
Do stormy seas lead to better boats? Exploring the origins of the southern Californian plank canoe through ocean voyage modeling
What constraints and conditions are conducive to the innovation of more advanced watercraft technology? This paper explores this question by modeling ancient voyages in the Channel Island region of southern California. The Chumash and Tongva cultures of this region invented an advanced form of boat, the sewn plank canoe, around 500 CE. This new technology led to a rapid increase in maritime travel and transformed the maritime political economy of…
Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000-50 000 years ago
The dynamics of our species' dispersal into the Pacific remains intensely debated. The authors present archaeological investigations in the Raja Ampat Islands, north-west of New Guinea, that provide the earliest known evidence for humans arriving in the Pacific more than 55 000-50 000 years ago. Seafaring simulations demonstrate that a northern equatorial route into New Guinea via the Raja Ampat Islands was a viable dispersal corridor to Sahul at…
Modeling water crossings leading to the arrival of early Homo in Sulawesi, Indonesia, via paleoclimate drift experiments
Seafaring and Modelling
Seafaring modeling is still a developing science, and there have been many approaches taken to evaluating human sea-based mobility in the past by researchers focused on different regions and time periods. Many models utilize similar processes or data inputs, including climate models, vessel technology studies, and human capabilities. However, being able to decide on the right approach can be difficult, and often relates to the technological know-…
Income, Equality, and Economic Development
Objective This article proposes a simple and operational definition of development that combines the level of income per capita with a measure of income distribution. Method Following the definition, an economic development index is constructed by averaging income per capita with Gini coefficients from the well‐known SWIID database. Results A ranking of countries is obtained for the proposed index, and it is compared to the rankings produced usin…
Pest outbreak distribution and forest management impacts in a changing climate in British Columbia
Constitutional design and economic performance
Turning Brain Drain into Brain Gain
An increasing number of developing countries are considering their highly qualified citizens living abroad as a potential asset for national development. Renewed policies are consequently designed in order to ensure the return of this expatriated talented group. Besides the repatriation-return-option generally enacted in these policies with varying success, a second one has recently emerged: the diaspora option. It consists of the remote mobilisa…
Parasites, Paleoclimate, and the Peopling of the Americas
Paleoparasitological findings and paleoclimate modelling simulations indicate that early peoples migrating via the Clovis first route across Beringia into North America could not have traversed the required distance in time to provide a reasonable explanation for the presence of the hookworm in the preColumbian Americas. The introduction of the hookworm into the Americas by a land migration at around 13,000 years BP could have happened only under…
The Discovery of Western Oceania
Settling the islands of Oceania required that thousands of kilometers of open ocean be crossed in stone-age vessels. This feat must surely rank among the most impressive achievements of mankind, but exactly how it occurred is unclear, since nothing definite is known about the navigation skills or vessels used at this time. Here we use a computer simulation to study the potential role of drift voyages and exploration by sailing downwind in the dis…
Modeling the prehistoric arrival of the sweet potato in Polynesia
Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide
CO 2 released from combustion of fossil fuels equilibrates among the various carbon reservoirs of the atmosphere, the ocean, and the terrestrial biosphere on timescales of a few centuries. However, a sizeable fraction of the CO 2 remains in the atmosphere, awaiting a return to the solid earth by much slower weathering processes and deposition of CaCO 3 . Common measures of the atmospheric lifetime of CO 2 , including the e-folding time scale, dis…
Pest outbreak distribution and forest management impacts in a changing climate in British Columbia
From west to east
The prime movers behind the prehistoric colonization of Remote Oceania, and in particular the large c. 2000-year temporal gap (i.e. ‘long pause’) seen between West and East Polynesia, has long been major point of interest in the Pacific. To address these events and the processes that may have led to the known chronological disparity of these diasporas, we present results from two different, but equally powerful, analytical tools which are used to…
Income, Equality, and Economic Development
Objective This article proposes a simple and operational definition of development that combines the level of income per capita with a measure of income distribution. Method Following the definition, an economic development index is constructed by averaging income per capita with Gini coefficients from the well‐known SWIID database. Results A ranking of countries is obtained for the proposed index, and it is compared to the rankings produced usin…
Modeling water crossings leading to the arrival of early Homo in Sulawesi, Indonesia, via paleoclimate drift experiments
Do stormy seas lead to better boats? Exploring the origins of the southern Californian plank canoe through ocean voyage modeling
What constraints and conditions are conducive to the innovation of more advanced watercraft technology? This paper explores this question by modeling ancient voyages in the Channel Island region of southern California. The Chumash and Tongva cultures of this region invented an advanced form of boat, the sewn plank canoe, around 500 CE. This new technology led to a rapid increase in maritime travel and transformed the maritime political economy of…
Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000-50 000 years ago
The dynamics of our species' dispersal into the Pacific remains intensely debated. The authors present archaeological investigations in the Raja Ampat Islands, north-west of New Guinea, that provide the earliest known evidence for humans arriving in the Pacific more than 55 000-50 000 years ago. Seafaring simulations demonstrate that a northern equatorial route into New Guinea via the Raja Ampat Islands was a viable dispersal corridor to Sahul at…
Disaster, Risk, and Resilience
Seafaring and Modelling
Seafaring modeling is still a developing science, and there have been many approaches taken to evaluating human sea-based mobility in the past by researchers focused on different regions and time periods. Many models utilize similar processes or data inputs, including climate models, vessel technology studies, and human capabilities. However, being able to decide on the right approach can be difficult, and often relates to the technological know-…
Culturing island biomes
Geography (12 obras) · Archaeology (8 obras) · Geology (7 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 obras) · Ecology (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · Oceanography (5 obras) · Paleontology (5 obras)