Peter D Jordan

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ID142182
NOMBREPeter D Jordan
NOMBRESPeter D
APELLIDOJordan
FIRMAJORDAN P D
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Groningen
ORCID0000-0002-2837-3920
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS38
TOTAL DE CITAS87
TOTAL COMO AUTOR38
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2003
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H7

  • Tracing the early dispersal of reindeer in southern Sweden

    Open AccessMarkus Fjellström, Peter D Jordan et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2026Referencias: 12

    After the wider deglaciation of Northern Europe, pioneer reindeer populations started to move into southern Scandinavia; however, this process is poorly understood. In this paper we aim to reconstruct dispersal processes of reindeer into southern and western Sweden from the Late Palaeolithic through to the Early Mesolithic, when reindeer disappear from the record. Has presence of reindeer in southern Sweden changed over time, were there changes i…

  • Cultural responses to the 8.2 ka climatic event in North China

    Open AccessYunchen Tan, Junzo Uchiyama et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025

    While the 8.2 ka abrupt cooling event is increasingly recognised as a major Holocene climatic anomaly, archaeological discussions of its cultural consequences have often been framed in terms of societal distress, including the collapse and abandonment of settlements. However, prehistoric communities must have responded in more diverse ways. This paper investigates the site-based socio-ecological adaptations at the Jiahu settlement in North China,…

  • Exploring the environmental and cultural consequences of the 8.2 ka cooling event in Kyushu, Southwestern Japan

    Open AccessJunzo Uchiyama, Mitsuhiro Kuwahata et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025

    Japan’s rich archaeological record, supported by well-established chronological and typological frameworks, offers valuable opportunities to investigate prehistoric socio-cultural responses to climate change, although comprehensive studies remain limited. This exploratory paper examines the impact of climatic disruptions—particularly the 8.2 ka event—on Jomon foragers in Kyushu, aiming to develop an analytical framework and identify future resear…

  • The emergence of cultural complexity in the Bering strait

    Open AccessGunilla Eriksson, Arkady Savinetsky et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2025Referencias: 31

    Two major debates frame Arctic prehistory: the emergence of specialized maritime economies that support sedentism and growing socio-political complexity, and the role of these economies in the transition from Paleo-Inuit to Neo-Inuit traditions. This shift, originating in the Bering Strait, led to Thule Inuit dispersal across the Arctic, impacting Indigenous communities today. However, understanding these themes is still hampered by the challenge…

  • Exploring alternative Neolithization trajectories in Northeast China (Nen River Basin)

    Open AccessYan-Xin Tan, Henny Piezonka et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 12

    Understanding the drivers of diversity and change in regional Neolithization trajectories has emerged as a major theme in World Prehistory with new insights appearing in many parts of the globe. In Northeast Asia, research on Neolithic transition over the past two decades has focused primarily on millet and rice domestication and their role in the rise of farming, social complexity, and early Chinese civilization. However, not all regions followe…

  • Ideas with Histories

    Open AccessM J Walsh, Sean O''Neill et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2023

    Anthropologists have long been fascinated by the strikingly similar adaptations of circumpolar cultures as well as their puzzling differences. These patterns of diversity have been mapped, studied, and interpreted from many perspectives and often at different social and spatiotemporal scales. While this work has generated vast archives of legacy data, it has also left behind a fragmented understanding of what underpins Arctic cultural diversity a…

  • The role of salmon fishing in the adoption of pottery technology in subarctic Alaska

    Open AccessMarjolein Admiraal, Peter D Jordan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 7

    Ceramic technology makes an abrupt appearance in the New World Arctic at circa 2800 cal BP. While there is general consensus that the ultimate source of these Alaskan pottery traditions lay in continental NE Asia, the motivations for the adoption of pottery in Alaska have remained unclear. Through organic residue analysis we investigated the function of Norton pottery in Southwest Alaska, and the extent to which its function changed in later peri…

  • Disaster, survival and recovery

    Open AccessJunzo Uchiyama, Mitsuhiro Kuwahata et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2023Referencias: 22

    Archaeologists have traditionally framed the impacts of natural disasters in terms of societal collapse versus cultural resilience. The 7.3ka cal BP Kikai-Akahoya (K-Ah) ‘super-eruption’ in south-western Japan was among the largest volcanic events of the Holocene. Here, the authors deploy a multi-proxy approach to examine how K-Ah devastated Tanegashima Island. While local Jōmon populations were annihilated, surrounding communities survived and e…

  • Integrating cultural and biological perspectives on long-term human-walrus ( Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus ) interactions across the North Atlantic

    Open AccessXénia Keighley, Morten Tange Olsen et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2022

    The hunting of marine mammals as a source of subsistence, trade, and commercial revenue has formed an important part of human cultures across the North Atlantic. One important prey species has been the Atlantic walrus ( Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus ), sought after for meat, skin, blubber, ivory, and bone. Unfortunately, biological studies of current walrus populations and studies across the humanities and social sciences into past use and hunting o…

  • Cultural adaptations and island ecology

    Open AccessAri Junno, Hiroko Ono et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2022

    Island chains provide access to terrestrial, coastal and offshore marine resources, attracting peoples and cultures and serving as conduits for migrations and long-distance exchange networks. Situated between Hokkaido and Sakhalin, Rebun Island connected the prehistoric cultures of northeast Asia in a major “marine highway”. Rebun was repeatedly settled by distinct cultures who originated in different geographic locations and left an imprint on t…

  • Building a high-resolution chronology for northern Hokkaido – A case study of the Late Holocene Hamanaka 2 site on Rebun Island, Hokkaido (Japan)

    Open AccessAri Junno, Jack P R Dury et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Referencias: 13

    Archaeological radiocarbon dating in coastal northern Hokkaido is challenged by the marine reservoir effect and the scarcity of materials with terrestrial carbon sources. This has contributed to gaps and general uncertainty in the timing of the region's culture-historical periods. The Late Holocene site of Hamanaka 2 on Rebun Island, featuring a stratified shell midden context with excellent preservation of organic remains, provides an ideal sett…

  • Peopling Prehistoric Coastlines

    Open AccessChris Damm, Marianne Skandfer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maritime Archaeology2021Referencias: 13

    In circumpolar regions, coastlines offer rich constellations of diverse resources and have long been a focus of human habitation. Despite the rich archaeological records that are located along many northern coastlines, there is a relatively limited understanding of the range of factors that informed local settlement strategies. Northern Norway has one of the world’s longest and best-preserved archaeological records of coastal habitation due to po…

  • Technology as Human Social Tradition

    Open AccessPeter D JordanARTICLEInternet Archaeology2021

    How are particular material culture traditions passed from one generation to the next? The digital archive supports "Technology as Human Social Tradition: Cultural Transmission among Hunter-Gatherers" (Jordan 2015) published by University of California Press. The archive consists of 15 Excel files which were used to conduct in-depth analysis of the factors driving diversity and change in material culture traditions. Each file contains a high-reso…

  • Species-specific reservoir effect estimates

    Open AccessJack P R Dury, Gunilla Eriksson et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2021Citada por: 2Referencias: 9

    Due to the marine reservoir effect, radiocarbon dates of marine samples require a correction. Marine reservoir effects, however, may vary among different marine species within a given body of water. Factors such as diet, feeding depth and migratory behaviour all affect the 14 C date of a marine organism. Moreover, there is often significant variation within single marine species. Whilst the careful consideration of the Δ R values of a single mari…

  • Genomic sex identification of ancient pinnipeds using the dog genome

    Open AccessMaiken Hemme Bro‐Jørgensen, Maiken Hemme Bro-Jørgensen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2021Citada por: 2Referencias: 10

    Determining the proportion of males and females in zooarchaeological assemblages can be used to reconstruct the diversity and severity of past anthropogenic impacts on animal populations, and can also provide valuable biological insights into past animal life-histories, behaviour and demography, including the effects of environmental change. However, such inferences have often not been possible due to the fragmented nature of the zooarchaeologica…

  • Neolithic farmers or Neolithic foragers? Organic residue analysis of early pottery from Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don (Russia)

    Open AccessManon Bondetti, Lara González Carretero et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2021Citada por: 11Referencias: 98

    The emergence of pottery in Europe is associated with two distinct traditions: hunter-gatherers in the east of the continent during the early 6th millennium BC and early agricultural communities in the south-west in the late 7th millennium BC. Here we investigate the function of pottery from the site of Rakushechny Yar, located at the Southern fringe of Eastern Europe, in this putative contact zone between these two economic 'worlds'. To investig…

  • Looking back while moving forward

    Open AccessSean P A Desjardin, T Max Friesen et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

    Modern Arctic Indigenous peoples face many interconnected pressures, not the least of which is anthropogenic climate change, which is emerging as one of the most dramatic drivers of social and economic change in recent memory. In this paper, we investigate whether or not insights into premodern strategies for coping with climate change—and especially the “deeper histories” of traditional ways-of-knowing—can play a useful role in future planning, …

  • Long-term perspectives on circumpolar social-ecological systems

    Open AccessSean P A Desjardin, Sean P A Desjardins et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

  • The adoption of pottery on Kodiak Island

    Open AccessMarjolein Admiraal, Alexandre Lucquin et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

    Pottery technology, originating in Northeast Asia, appeared in Alaska some 2800 years ago. It spread swiftly along Alaska's coastline but was not adopted on Kodiak Island until around 500 cal BP, as part of the Koniag tradition. While in the southeast pottery was used extensively, people on the northern half of the island did not adopt the technology. What drove these patterns of adoption and non-adoption on Kodiak Island? To better understand th…

  • Evidence of increasing functional differentiation in pottery use among Late Holocene maritime foragers in northern Japan

    Open AccessAri Junno, Sven Isaksson et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Research in Asia2020Citada por: 7Referencias: 12

    Hamanaka 2 is a multi-phase coastal site in Rebun Island with a ~ 3000-year occupation sequence extending from the final-stage Jōmon and Okhotsk to the Ainu Culture period (1050 BCE-1850 CE). To examine long-term trends in food processing at the site, we collected 66 ceramic sherds across six distinct cultural layers from the Final Jōmon to the Late Okhotsk period for lipid residue analysis. Given the site's beachfront location in an open bay, wi…

  • Resource processing, early pottery and the emergence of Kitoi culture in Cis-Baikal

    Open AccessManon Bondetti, Alexandre Lucquin et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Research in Asia2020Citada por: 5Referencias: 18

    In the early Holocene, Mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities inhabiting the Cis-Baikal region of Eastern Siberia were participating in a series of important cultural changes. These included the establishment of large cemeteries in the Angara Valley and on the Southwest shores of Lake Baikal, culminating in the formation of the distinctive Early Neolithic Kitoi cultural pattern ca. 7560 cal. BP. Around the same time, the appearance of clay pots i…

  • Leftovers

    Open AccessMarjolein Admiraal, Alexandre Lucquin et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2020Referencias: 34

    Lipids preserved within the walls of ancient pottery vessels are routinely analysed to reveal their original contents. The provenience of aquatic lipids in pottery is generally connected to vessel function (e.g., for cooking or storing fish, shellfish and aquatic mammals). However, ethnographic reports from early historic Alaska mention the use of aquatic oils for waterproofing low‐fired pottery. Results of lipid residue studies on Alaskan potter…

  • Walnuts, salmon and sika deer

    Open AccessH K Robson, Alexandre Lucquin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2020Citada por: 5Referencias: 45

  • Investigating the function of prehistoric stone bowls and griddle stones in the Aleutian Islands by lipid residue analysis

    Open AccessMarjolein Admiraal, Alexandre Lucquin et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2019

    The earliest durable cooking technologies found in Alaska are stone bowls and griddle stones recovered from the Aleutian Islands. This article aims to identify the function of these artefacts. Molecular and chemical analyses of carbonised residues found on their surfaces confirm that these artefacts were used to process marine resources. Both artefacts have high lipid content and C:N ratios, suggesting they were used to process oily substances. S…

  • Arctic Archaeology and Climate Change

    Sean P A Desjardin, Sean P A Desjardins et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2019Citada por: 9Referencias: 56

    An enduring debate in the field of Arctic archaeology has been the extent to which climate change impacted cultural developments in the past. Long-term culture change across the circumpolar Arctic was often highly dynamic, with episodes of rapid migration, regional abandonment, and-in some cases-the disappearance or wholesale replacement of entire cultural traditions. By the 1960s, researchers were exploring the possibility that warming episodes …