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David B. Madsen is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Ecology, and Archeology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Geological formations and processes, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by David B. Madsen include:

  • Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Science
  • Temperature-induced dry climate in basins in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the early to middle Holocene, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Quantitative precipitation reconstructions from Chagan Nur revealed lag response of East Asian summer monsoon precipitation to summer insolation during the Holocene in arid northern China, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Lake-level history of Qinghai Lake on the NE Tibetan Plateau and its implications for Asian monsoon pattern - A review, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The coastal migration theory: Formulation and testable hypotheses, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

The research has been published frequently in key venues such as:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • PaleoAmerica

Among frequent collaborators are Loren G. Davis, David Rhode, Guoqiang Li, Wenwei Zhao, and Ming Jin. Collaborative work with these individuals appears throughout multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history

    Fahu Chen;Zicheng Yu;Zicheng Yu;Meilin Yang;Emi Ito

  • Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau

    Dongju Zhang;Dongju Zhang;Huan Xia;Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Bo Li;Bo Li

  • Mass collecting and the diet breadth model: A Great Basin example

    David B. Madsen;Dave N. Schmitt

  • The Late Upper Paleolithic occupation of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin

    David B. Madsen;David B. Madsen;Ma Haizhou;P. Jeffrey Brantingham;Gao Xing

  • Great Salt Lake, and precursors, Utah: The last 30,000 years

    Ronald J. Spencer;M. J. Baedecker;H. P. Eugster;R. M. Forester

  • A mid-Holocene drought interval as evidenced by lake desiccation in the Alashan Plateau, Inner Mongolia China

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Wei Wu;J. A. Holmes;D. B. Madsen

  • Holocene environmental change inferred from a high-resolution pollen record, Lake Zhuyeze, arid China

    Fa-Hu Chen;Bo Cheng;Yan Zhao;Yan Zhu

  • Age constraints on the late Quaternary evolution of Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau

    David B. Madsen;Ma Haizhou;David Rhode;P. Jeffrey Brantingham

  • Last deglacial and Holocene lake level variations of Qinghai Lake, north‐eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Xiang-Jun Liu;Zhongping Lai;David Madsen;Fangming Zeng

  • How old is the human footprint in the world's largest alpine ecosystem? A review of multiproxy records from the Tibetan Plateau from the ecologists' viewpoint

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Jürgen Böhner;Knut Kaiser

  • Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper's Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago.

    Loren G. Davis;David B. Madsen;Lorena Becerra-Valdivia;Thomas Higham

  • Paleoenvironmental implications of new OSL dates on the formation of the "Shell Bar" in the Qaidam Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    ZhongPing Lai;Steffen Mischke;Steffen Mischke;David Madsen

  • Late Quaternary environmental change in the Bonneville basin, western USA

    D.B. Madsen;D. Rhode;D.K. Grayson;J.M. Broughton

  • A short chronology for the peopling of the Tibetan Plateau

    P. Jeffrey Brantingham;Xing Gao;John W. Olsen;Haizhou Ma

  • Yaks, yak dung, and prehistoric human habitation of the Tibetan Plateau

    David Rhode;David B. Madsen;P. Jeffrey Brantingham;Tsultrim Dargye

  • Paleoenvironmental and archaeological investigations at Qinghai Lake, western China: Geomorphic and chronometric evidence of lake level history

    David Rhode;Ma Haizhou;David B. Madsen;P. Jeffrey Brantingham

  • The Fremont Complex: A Behavioral Perspective

    David B. Madsen;Steven R. Simms

  • Luminescence chronology of aeolian deposits from the Qinghai Lake area in the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its palaeoenvironmental implications

    XiangJun Liu;ZhongPing Lai;LuPeng Yu;YongJuan Sun

  • Late Quaternary Glacial and Vegetation Changes, Little Cottonwood Canyon Area, Wasatch Mountains, Utah

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  • Did climatic seasonality control late Quaternary artiodactyl densities in western North America

    Jack M. Broughton;David A. Byers;Reid A. Bryson;William Eckerle

  • Epipaleolithic/early Neolithic settlements at Qinghai Lake, western China

    David Rhode;Zhang Haiying;David B. Madsen;Gao Xing

  • Late Quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China

    David B. Madsen;Fa-Hu Chen;Xing Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

Fahu Chen
Fahu Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
P. Jeffrey Brantingham
P. Jeffrey Brantingham University of California, Los Angeles
ZhongPing Lai
ZhongPing Lai Shantou University
Robert L. Bettinger
Robert L. Bettinger University of California, Davis
Jay Quade
Jay Quade University of Arizona
Steffen Mischke
Steffen Mischke University of Iceland
Jianhui Chen
Jianhui Chen Lanzhou University
Steven L. Forman
Steven L. Forman Baylor University
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Yan Zhao
Yan Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences

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