David Keith Wright

Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals

• Choi, Jungyu; Wright, David K.; Lima, Helena Pinto (2020) A new local scale prediction model of Amazonian landscape domestication sites. Journal of Archaeological Science 123:105240.
• Wright, David K.; Kim, Junkyu; Park, Jiyoung; Yang, Jiwon; Kim, Jangsuk (2020) Spatial modeling of archaeological site locations based on summed probability distributions and hot-spot analyses: A case study from the Three Kingdoms Period, Korea. Journal of Archaeological Science 113:105036.
• Stevens, Lucas; Fuller, Dorian; Boivin, Nicole;…ARCHAEOGLOBE Project members 109^thout of 120 authors arranged alphabetically…; Ellis, Erle (2019) Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 365:897-902.
• Wright, David K. (2019) Long-term dynamics of pastoral ecology in northern Kenya: An old model for new resilience. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 55:101068.
• Wright, David K.; MacEachern, Scott; Ambrose, Stanley H.; Choi, Jungyu; Choi, Jeong-Heon; Lang, Carol; Wang, Hong (2019) Iron Age landscape changes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon. Quaternary Research 92(2):323-339.
• Thompson, Jessica C.; Mackay, Alex; Nightingale, Sheila; Wright, David K.; Choi, Jeong-Heon; Welling, Menno; Blackmore, Hari; Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth (2018) Ecological risk, demography, and technological complexity in the Late Pleistocene of northern Malawi: Implications for geographical patterning in the Middle Stone Age. Journal of Quaternary Science 33(3):261-284.
• Wright, David K. (2017) Accuracy vs. precision: Understanding potential errors from radiocarbon dating on African landscapes. African Archaeological Review 34(3):303-319.
• Wright, David K. (2017) Humans as agents in the termination of the African Humid Period. Frontiers in Earth Science5(4):DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00004.
• Wright, David K.; Thompson, Jessica C.; Schilt, Flora; Cohen, Andrew S.; Choi, Jeong-Heon; Mercader, Julio; Nightingale, Sheila; Miller, Christopher; Mentzer, Susan; Walde, Dale; Welling, Menno; Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth (2017) Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science (Special issue: Geoarchaeology of the Humid Tropics; Michael Morley and Paul Goldberg, [Eds.]) 77:64-77.
• Kim, Jangsuk; Wright, David K.; Lee, Youngseon; Lee, Jaeyong; Choi, Seonho; Kim, Junkyu; Ahn, Sung-Mo; Choi, Jongtaik; Seong, Chuntaek; Hwang, Jaehoon; Yang, Hyemin; Yang, Jiwon (2016) AMS dates from two archaeological sites of Korea: Blind tests. Radiocarbon 58(1):1-16.
• Wright, David K.; Forman, Steven L.; Kiura, Purity; Bloszies, Christopher; Beyin, Ammanuel (2015) Lakeside view: Socio-cultural responses to changing water levels of Lake Turkana, Kenya. African Archaeological Review (Special issue: New Environmental Research and Techniques in Africa; Roderick McIntosh, Jean Maley, and Robert Vernet, [Eds.]) 32(2):335-367.
• Bloszies, Christopher; Forman, Steven L.; Wright, David K. (2015) Water level history for Lake Turkana, Kenya in the past 15,000 years and a variable transition from the African Humid Period to Holocene aridity. Global and Planetary Change 132:64-76.
• Wright, David K.; MacEachern, Scott; Lee, Jaeyong (2014) Analysis of feature intervisibility and cumulative visibility using GIS, Bayesian and spatial statistics: A study from the Mandara Mountains, northern Cameroon. PLoS ONE 9(11):e112191. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112191.
• Wright, David K.; Thompson, Jessica C.; Mackay, Alex; Welling, Menno; Forman, Steven L.; Price, Gilbert; Zhao, Jian-xin; Cohen, Andrew S.; Malijani, Oris;Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth (2014) Renewed geoarchaeological investigations of the “Elephant Butchery Site” at Mwanganda's Village, Karonga, Malawi. Geoarchaeology 29(2):98-120.
• Wright, David K.; Waters, Michael R.; Loendorf, Chris; Woodson, M. Kyle; Miles, Wesley D.; Darling, J. Andrew (2013) Late Archaic wells on the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(1):45-57.
• Thompson, Jessica C.; Mackay, Alex; Wright, David K.; Welling, Menno; Greaves, Amanda; Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth; Simengewa, Davie (2012) Renewed investigations into the Middle Stone Age of northern Malawi. Quaternary International 270:129-139.
• Wright, David K.; Forman, Steven L.; Waters, Michael R.; Ravesloot, John C. (2011) Holocene eolian activity as a proxy for broad-scale landscape change on the middle Gila River, Arizona. Quaternary Research 76:10-21.
• Wright, David K. (2011) Frontier animal husbandry in the Northeast and East African Neolithic: A multiproxy paleoenvironmental and paleodemographic study. Journal of Anthropological Research 67(2):213-244.
• Wright, David K.; Forman, Steven L.; Kusimba, Chapurukha M.; Pierson, James; Gomez, Jeanette; Tattersfield, Peter (2007) Stratigraphic and geochronological context of human habitation along the Galana River, Kenya. Geoarchaeology 22(7):709-730.  
• Wright, David K. (2007) Tethered mobility and riparian resource exploitation among Neolithic hunters and herders in the Galana River Basin, Kenyan Coastal Lowlands. Environmental Archaeology 12(1):25-47.
• Wright, David K. (2005) New perspectives on early regional interaction networks in East Africa: A view from Tsavo National Park, Kenya. African Archaeological Review 15(3):111-141.

Book chapters

• Wright, David K. (2017) East and southern African Neolithic: Geography and overview. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, C. Smith (Ed.). Springer, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1888-2.
• Wright, David K.(2017) Palaeoenviromental science: Methods. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, Thomas Spear (Ed.). Oxford University Press, Oxford. DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.211
• Wright, David K. (2017) Other radiometric dating techniques (within Chapter 5: Ecofacts and related studies). In Field Manual for African Archaeology/Manuel de Terrain en Archéologie Africaine, Alexandre Livingstone Smith, Els Cornelissen, Olivier Gosselain, Scott MacEachern (Eds.). Pp. 35-40 / 237-242. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Brussels.
• Wright, David K. (2017) Relative dating techniques (within Chapter 5: Ecofacts and related studies). In Field Manual for African Archaeology/Manuel de Terrain en Archéologie Africaine, Alexandre Livingstone Smith, Els Cornelissen, Olivier Gosselain, Scott MacEachern (Eds.). Pp. 41-43 / 243-246. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Brussels.
• Wright, David K. (2013) Fits and starts: Why did domesticated animals ‘trickle’ before they ‘splashed’ into Sub-Saharan Africa? In Comparative Archaeology and Paleoclimatology: Socio-cultural Responses to a Changing World, M. O. Baldia, T. Perttula, and D. Frink (Eds.). BAR International Series 2456. Pp. 63-82. Archaeopress, Oxford.

• Birk, Jago J.; Reetz, Kristina; Sirocko, Frank; Wright, David K. & Fiedler, Sabine (2021). Faecal biomarkers as tools to reconstruct land-use history in maar sediments in the Westeifel Volcanic Field, Germany. Boreas. ISSN 0300-9483. doi: 10.1111/bor.12576.
• Thompson, Jessica; Wright, David K.; Ivory, Sarah J; Choi, Jeong-Heon; Nightingale, Sheila & Mackay, Alex [Vis alle 28 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2021). Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa. Science Advances. ISSN 2375-2548. 7(19). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf9776. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Thompson, Jessica C'; Wright, David K. & Ivory, Sarah J (2020). The emergence and intensification of early hunter-gatherer niche construction. Evolutionary Anthropology (print). ISSN 1060-1538. 30(1), s. 17–27. doi: 10.1002/evan.21877. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Hunter‐gatherers, especially Pleistocene examples, are not well‐represented in archeological studies of niche construction. However, as the role of humans in shaping environments over long time scales becomes increasingly apparent, it is critical to develop archeological proxies and testable hypotheses about early hunter‐gatherer impacts. Modern foragers engage in niche constructive behaviors aimed at maintaining or increasing the productivity of their environments, and these may have had significant ecological consequences over later human evolution. In some cases, they may also represent behaviors unique to modern Homo sapiens. Archeological and paleoenvironmental data show that African hunter‐gatherers were niche constructors in diverse environments, which have legacies in how ecosystems function today. These can be conceptualized as behaviorally mediated trophic cascades, and tested using archeological and paleoenvironmental proxies. Thus, large‐scale niche construction behavior is possible to identify at deeper time scales, and may be key to understanding the emergence of modern humans.

• Choi, Jungyu; Wright, David K. & Lima, Helena Pinto (2020). A new local scale prediction model of Amazonian landscape domestication sites. Journal of Archaeological Science. ISSN 0305-4403. 123. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105240. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wright, David; Kim, Junkyu; Park, Jiyoung; Yang, Jiwon & Kim, Jangsuk (2020). Spatial modeling of archaeological site locations based on summed probability distributions and hot-spot analyses: A case study from the Three Kingdoms Period, Korea. Journal of Archaeological Science. ISSN 0305-4403. 113. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2019.105036. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wright, David (2019). Late Middle Stone Age Behavior and Environments at Chaminade I (Karonga, Malawi). Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. ISSN 2520-8217. 2, s. 258–297. doi: 10.1007/s41982-019-00035-3.
• Wright, David; MacEachern, Scott; Ambrose, Stanley H; Choi, Jungyu; Choi, Jeong-Heon & Lang, Carol [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2019). Iron Age landscape changes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon. Quaternary Research. ISSN 0033-5894. 92(2), s. 323–339. doi: 10.1017/qua.2019.25. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The introduction of agriculture is known to have profoundly affected the ecological complexion of landscapes. In this study, a rapid transition from C3 to C4 vegetation is inferred from a shift to higher stable carbon (13C/12C) isotope ratios of soils and sediments in the Benoué River Valley and upland Fali Mountains in northern Cameroon. Landscape change is viewed from the perspective of two settlement mounds and adjacent floodplains, as well as a rock terrace agricultural field dating from 1100 cal yr BP to the recent past (<400 cal yr BP). Nitrogen (15N/14N) isotope ratios and soil micromorphology demonstrate variable uses of land adjacent to the mound sites. These results indicate that Early Iron Age settlement practices involved exploitation of C3 plants on soils with low δ15N values, indicating wetter soils. Conversely, from the Late Iron Age (>700 cal yr BP) until recent times, high soil and sediment δ13C and δ15N values reflect more C4 biomass and anthropogenic organic matter in open, dry environments. The results suggest that Iron Age settlement practices profoundly changed landscapes in this part of West Africa through land clearance and/or utilization of C4 plants.

• Wright, David (2019). Long-term dynamics of pastoral ecology in northern Kenya: An old model for new resilience. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. ISSN 0278-4165. 55. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101068.
• Wright, David (2019). Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science. ISSN 0036-8075. 365, s. 897–902. doi: 10.1126/science.aax1192.

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• Wright, David K. (2021). Can the past inform a sustainable future in desert ecosystems of northern Kenya?
• Wright, David K. (2021). Landscapes in flux: The changing influence of humans on the environments in Malawi (100,000 years ago to today).
• Wright, David K. (2021). The past is the future: Evolutionary roadmaps to navigate climate stress and conflict in the 21st century and beyond.
• Schilt, Flora; Wright, David K.; Thompson, Jessica; Miller, Christopher C.; Mentzer, Susan M & Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth (2021). From wetland to terrestrial landscape: interpretation of open-air MSA sites in Malawi using micromorphology and stable isotopes of pedogenic carbonates.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Wright, David K. & Reitan, Gaute (2021). Possibilities and challenges with practical ‘outdoor education’ in a new digital age.
• Wright, David K. & Reitan, Gaute (2021). Possibilities and Challenges with Practical ‘Outdoor Education’ in a New Digital Age.
• Wright, David Keith & Reitan, Gaute (2021). Possibilities and Challenges with Practical ‘Outdoor Education’ in a New Digital Age.

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