K D Lupo

Biographic Data

ID	966
NAME	K D Lupo
GIVEN NAMES	K D
FAMILY NAME	Lupo
SIGNATURE	LUPO K D
AFFILIATIONS	Southern Methodist University
ORCID	0000-0003-3652-3105
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	43
TOTAL CITATIONS	637
AUTHOR COUNT	43
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	12

Regional patterns of wild animal hunting in African tropical forests
Open AccessDaniel J Ingram, Graden Z L Froese et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2025References: 5
Wildlife contributes to the diets, livelihoods and socio-cultural activities of people worldwide; however, unsustainable hunting is a major pressure on wildlife. Regional assessments of the factors associated with hunting offtakes are needed to understand the scale and patterns of wildlife exploitation relevant for policy. We synthesized 83 studies across West and Central Africa to identify the factors associated with variation in offtake. Our mo…
An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion: Early settlers south of the Congo rainforest, edited by Coutros P.R., Doman J.H., Sakala I.M. and Bostoen K
K D LupoARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2025
What’s New in Applications of Evolutionary Theory to the Zooarchaeological Record of Hunter-Gatherers
Open AccessK D LupoARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Research2025References: 114
The use of evolutionary models in zooarchaeological analysis is a well-established practice but the last few decades have witnessed modifications to existing foraging theory and insights from other evolutionary perspectives. Traditional applications of foraging theory continue to be successfully applied in zooarchaeological contexts, but researchers are increasingly focused on re-evaluating and exploring how trade-offs are made under circumstance…
Forager and food producer interrelationships in the zooarchaeological record: Lessons from Central Africa
Open AccessK D Lupo, Nicolette M Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2025References: 111
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community
Open AccessD N Schmitt, K D Lupo et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2024Cited by: 1References: 67
We repurpose multidecadal ethnoarchaeological investigations of human hunting, prey availability, and socioeconomics in a rural Central African Republic village in the service of human ecology. Focusing on forest foragers in the village of Grima, initial 1999-2005 (Old Grima) data collection included documentation of hunting technology and offtakes, identification of wild meat bone assemblages, inventories of household material goods, and measure…
Recasting forest forager and food-producer population interaction as a pivotal prehistoric process of change
Open AccessK D Lupo, D N SchmittARTICLEAfriques2023Cited by: 4References: 30
In the ethnographic and recent past, forested areas of West and Central Africa were populated by forest foragers and food producers who maintained multidimensional interrelationships. While the timing of the emergence of these interrelationships is unknown, forest forager-farmer interactions are rarely considered as a process of cultural or ecological change in the archeological record of Central Africa. Here we argue that Central African prehist…
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions: On the Use and Implications of Ethnohistoric Records for Understanding the Productivity of Hunting Megaherbivores
Open AccessK D Lupo, D N SchmittARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2023Cited by: 2References: 112
The role that humans played in the extinction of Pleistocene proboscideans is highly controversial. Ethnohistoric records of elephant hunting, in concert with theoretical rationales, are often used as proxy evidence to support the view that ancient humans regularly and efficiently targeted large-sized proboscideans to the point of extinction. This paper examines the socioeconomic and technological contexts of elephant hunting in contemporary and …
New Holocene Radiocarbon Dates from the Heart of the Sangha River Interval, Southwestern Central African Republic
D N Schmitt, K D Lupo et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2023References: 10
Radiocarbon assay of charcoal from four sites in Nola, Central African Republic, provide new age estimates from the Sangha River Interval and doubles the number of radiocarbon dates from the center of this important and controversial biogeographical tract. The new age estimates mark the occupation of a village ~575 cal BP , two iron-smelting events about 1550 cal BP , and a ~2750–2520 cal BP iron production feature that represents one of the earl…
Hunters Who Haul with Dogs: Man’s Best-Friend or Woman’s Little Helper
Open AccessK D LupoARTICLEHuman Ecology2021
The Floating Island Cave mammals: Paleoecology, abundance indices, and human subsistence through a taphonomic lens
Open AccessK D Lupo, D N Schmitt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Cited by: 1References: 35
Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge: A preliminary look at Holocene human occupation of Nangara-Komba Shelter, Central African Republic
K D Lupo, D N Schmitt et al.ARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2021Cited by: 12References: 72
Limited excavations at Nangara-Komba Shelter along the northern margin of the Congo Basin have recovered evidence for intermittent and at times intensive human visits beginning approximately 5100 cal. BC. Numerous rock art panels adorn the shelter’s walls and ceramics appear to have initially been brought to the site between 1050 and 900 cal. BC, if not earlier. Charred Canarium schweinfurthii endocarp fragments were collected in all stratigraphi…
Size matters only sometimes: The energy-risk trade-offs of Holocene prey acquisition in the Bonneville basin, western USA
Open AccessK D Lupo, D N Schmitt et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2020Cited by: 13References: 83
An elusive record further exposed: Additional excavations and chronometric data on human settlement in the northern Congo Basin rain forest, southern Central African Republic
D N Schmitt, K D Lupo et al.ARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2019Cited by: 2References: 34
Recently, Lupo et al. (2015, 2018) reported novel data on the nature and timing of late Holocene human settlement and iron production in the northern Congo Basin rain forest, southern Central African Republic. This paper expands those data by presenting new archaeological and chronological information discovered in field investigations conducted in 2017–2018. Twenty-five archaeological sites were identified and radiocarbon dates from 14 signal hu…
Stable isotope ratio analysis (C, N, S) of hair from modern humans in Ethiopia shows clear differences related to subsistence regimes
Open AccessCatherine G Cooper, K D Lupo et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2019Cited by: 7References: 51
Hounds follow those who feed them: What can the ethnographic record of hunter-gatherers reveal about early human-canid partnerships
Open AccessK D LupoARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2019Cited by: 13References: 88
The incredible edible hare: A Great Basin history
D N Schmitt, K D Lupo et al.ARTICLEHunter Gatherer Research2018
Hares (Lepus spp) have been common residents of Great Basin valley bottoms and piedmonts throughout the late Pleistocene and Holocene. Although their skeletal remains often dominate regional zooarchaeological collections and ethnographic records across the American West detail the importance of Lepus to native peoples, many studies of human subsistence productivity consider these mammals to be a low-ranked resource. We critique some methodologica…
An elusive record exposed: Radiocarbon chronology of late Holocene human settlement in the northern Congo Basin, southern Central African Republic
K D Lupo, Christopher A Kiahtipes et al.ARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2018Cited by: 3References: 30
Archaeological surveys and excavations in the NGotto Forest Reserve, Central African Republic, discovered 98 artefact concentrations or cultural features that included ceramic scatters, iron-ore mines and iron smelting features. These investigations provide, for the first time, a series of radiocarbon dates that chronicle the timing and context of prehistoric occupation along the northern margin of the Congo Basin rain forest in the Central Afric…
On Late Holocene Population Interactions in the Northwestern Congo Basin: When, How, and Why Does the Ethnographic Pattern
K D Lupo, Karen Lupo et al.CHAPTERHunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin2017
The ethnographically observed interrelationships between forest foragers and Bantu agriculturalists found throughout Congo Basin were traditionally cast as necessary responses to rainforest resource insufficiency. The introduction of high-value prestige items set stage for amplifying sociopolitical asymmetries between forest foragers and agricultural populations across the Congo Basin that continued into the ethnohistoric period. The insufficienc…
How do Meat Scarcity and Bushmeat Commodification Influence Sharing and Giving among Forest Foragers? A View from the Central African Republic
Open AccessK D Lupo, D N SchmittARTICLEHuman Ecology2017
When and where do dogs improve hunting productivity? The empirical record and some implications for early Upper Paleolithic prey acquisition
Open AccessK D LupoARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2017
On early-Holocene moisture and small-mammal histories in the Bonneville basin, Western United States
Open AccessD N Schmitt, K D LupoARTICLEThe Holocene2017Cited by: 2References: 15
Comparisons of Bonneville basin small-mammal skeletal assemblages from low-elevation caves with a collection from an upper piedmont rock shelter support Oviatt et al.’s hypothesis that early-Holocene moisture may have been the result of groundwater discharge rather than precipitation and runoff. After cool and moist late-Pleistocene environs were replaced by warmer and drier Holocene climates, low-elevation small-mammal communities increased in t…
When bigger is not better: The economics of hunting megafauna and its implications for Plio-Pleistocene hunter-gatherers
Open AccessK D Lupo, D N SchmittARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2016
Short-term variability of human diet at Basketmaker II Turkey Pen Ruins, Utah: Insights from bulk and single amino acid isotope analysis of hair
Open AccessCatherine G Cooper, K D Lupo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2015Cited by: 4References: 11
The Bonneville Estates Rockshelter rodent fauna and changes in Late Pleistocene–Middle Holocene climates and biogeography in the Northern Bonneville Basin, USA
Open AccessD N Schmitt, K D LupoARTICLEQuaternary Research2012
Excavations at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Nevada recovered rodent remains from stratified deposits spanning the past ca. 12,500 14 C yr BP (14,800 cal yr BP). Specimens from horizons dating to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene include species adapted to montane and moist and cool habitats, including yellow-bellied marmot ( Marmota flaviventris ) and bushy-tailed woodrat ( Neotoma cinerea ). Shortly after 9000 14 C BP (10,200 cal yr BP)…
Stone Tools and Fossil Bones: Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins
Open AccessJavier Baena, Charles P Egeland et al.BOOKStone Tools and Fossil Bones2012
The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret how early hominins lived, foraged, behaved and communicated and how early and modern humans evolved. In this book, an international team of archaeologists and primatologists examines early Stone Age tools and bones and uses scientific methods to test alternative hypotheses that explain the arch…