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67
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25998
World Ranking
1923
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799

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jon M. Erlandson is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences. Their scholarly work spans fields such as Paleontology, Anthropology, Geography, Planning and Development, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research primarily focuses on areas including:

  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine animal studies overview

Notable recent publications include:

  • Ice and ocean constraints on early human migrations into North America along the Pacific coast, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Earliest Evidence for Geophyte Use in North America: 11,500-Year-Old Archaeobotanical Remains from California's Santarosae Island, 2021, American Antiquity
  • Maritime Paleoindian technology, subsistence, and ecology at an ~11,700 year old Paleocoastal site on California's Northern Channel Islands, USA, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Archaeology as Sustainability Science: Perspectives from Ancient Island Societies, 2022, Sustainability
  • Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum, 2022, Quaternary International

Recurring collaborators in their research include:

  • Todd J. Braje
  • Torben C. Rick
  • Kristina M. Gill
  • Scott M. Fitzpatrick
  • Amy E. Gusick

They have published in venues such as:

  • California Archaeology
  • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
  • American Antiquity
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In addition to journal articles, Jon M. Erlandson is the author of a book titled Islands through Time, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2021.

Recognition for their academic contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems.

    Jeremy B. C. Jackson;Jeremy B. C. Jackson;Michael Xavier Kirby;Wolfgang H. Berger;Karen A. Bjorndal

  • Kelp forest ecosystems: biodiversity, stability, resilience and future

    Robert S. Steneck;Michael H. Graham;Bruce J. Bourque;Debbie Corbett

  • Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

    Nicole L. Boivin;Melinda A. Zeder;Melinda A. Zeder;Dorian Q. Fuller;Alison Crowther

  • The Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations: Paradigms for a New Millennium

    Jon M. Erlandson

  • Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling

    R. B. Firestone;A. West;J. P. Kennett;L. Becker

  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

    Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

  • Paleoindian seafaring, maritime technologies, and coastal foraging on california’s channel islands

    Jon M. Erlandson;Torben C. Rick;Todd J. Braje;Molly Casperson

  • The Kelp Highway Hypothesis: Marine Ecology, the Coastal Migration Theory, and the Peopling of the Americas

    Jon M. Erlandson;Michael H. Graham;Bruce J. Bourque;Debra Corbett

  • Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast

    Jon M. Erlandson

  • Early human dispersals within the Americas.

    J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar;Lasse Vinner;Peter De Barros Damgaard;Constanza De La Fuente

  • Oceans, Islands, and Coasts: Current Perspectives on the Role of the Sea in Human Prehistory

    Jon M. Erlandson;Scott M. Fitzpatrick

  • Archaeology meets marine ecology: the antiquity of maritime cultures and human impacts on marine fisheries and ecosystems.

    Jon M. Erlandson;Torben C. Rick

  • An archaeological and paleontological chronology for Daisy Cave (CA-SMI-261), San Miguel Island, California

    Jon M. Erlandson;Douglas J. Kennett;B. Lynn Ingram;Daniel A. Guthrie

  • From Pleistocene Mariners to Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Archaeology of the California Channel Islands

    Torben C. Rick;Jon M. Erlandson;René L. Vellanoweth;Todd J. Braje

  • The Role of Shellfish in Prehistoric Economies: A Protein Perspective

    Jon M. Erlandson

  • Human impacts on ancient shellfish: a 10,000 year record from San Miguel Island, California

    Jon M. Erlandson;Torben C. Rick;Todd J. Braje;Alexis Steinberg

  • Dental evidence for prehistoric dietary change on the northern Channel Islands, California.

    Phillip L. Walker;Jon M. Erlandson

  • Life on the edge: early maritime cultures of the Pacific Coast of North America

    Jon M. Erlandson;Madonna L. Moss;Matthew Des Lauriers

  • Paleocoastal marine fishing on the Pacific Coast of the Americas: perspectives from Daisy Cave, California.

    Torben C. Rick;Jon M. Erlandson;René L. Vellanoweth

  • Human acceleration of animal and plant extinctions: A Late Pleistocene, Holocene, and Anthropocene continuum

    Todd J. Braje;Jon M. Erlandson

  • Evidence for Temporal Fluctuations in Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Ages in the Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California

    Douglas J. Kennett;B. Lynn Ingram;Jon M. Erlandson;Phillip Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Torben C. Rick
Torben C. Rick National Museum of Natural History
Douglas J. Kennett
Douglas J. Kennett University of California, Santa Barbara
Scott M. Fitzpatrick
Scott M. Fitzpatrick University of Oregon
James P. Kennett
James P. Kennett University of California, Santa Barbara
Ted E. Bunch
Ted E. Bunch Northern Arizona University
Thomas W. Stafford
Thomas W. Stafford Aarhus University
Nicole Boivin
Nicole Boivin Max Planck Society
Greger Larson
Greger Larson University of Oxford
Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick V. Kirch University of Hawaii at Manoa
Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University

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