GEOARCHAEOLOGY AND PALEOECOLOGY IN
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CARLOS E. CORDOVA,
Ph.D. Teaching
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Office: 226
Scott Hall Lab
phone: (405) 744-6620 |
Applied G |
Mailing
address: Department
of Geography 225
Scott Hall Oklahoma
State University Stillwater,
OK 74078 United States of America |
TEACHING
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GEOG
1114 Introduction to Physical Geography |
SPRING 2011 |
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GEOG
4023/5023 Geography of Arid Lands |
SPRING
2011 |
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GEOG
4053 Biogeography |
FALL 2010 |
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GEOG
4073/5073 Climate Change: Past, Present &Future |
FALL 2010 |
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GEOG
5450.352 Historical Ecology & Geoarchaeology |
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GEOG
6013 Quaternary Paleoecology |
RESEARCH
Current research projects:
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NEANDERTHAL LIFEWAYS: The Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the Madaba-Ma'in and Azraq regions of Jordan
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Lake Ngami, Botswana. Pollen and paleoenvironmental records |
Pollen and phytolith record of Hall’s
Cave Texas, LGM to present |
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Paleoecology and Geoarchaeology of the Chersonesos Chora, Crimea,
Ukraine |
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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INFORMATION ABOUT MY CURRENT AND FORMER
GRADUATE STUDENTS
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
In Press
Cordova, C.E.,
Gerasimenko, N., and Kliukin, A.A., (In press) Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments of
Crimea: pollen, soils, geomorphology, and geoarchaeology in
Buynevich, I., Geology and Geoarchaeology of the Black Sea Region: Beyond the
Flood Hypothesis, Geological Society of America, Special Paper, Boulder, CO.
Cordova,
C.E., Johnson, W.C., Mandel, R., and Palmer, M. Opal phytoliths, carbon stable isotopes, and
other microfossils from soils and paleosols of the south-central
Cordova, C.E. and
Scott, L. The potential of Poaceae,
Cyperaceae, and Restionaceae phytoliths to reflect past environmental
conditions in
2010
Cordova, C.E.,
2010. Palynology of anthropicized landscapes in Jordan: a survey of modern and
fossil records of Quercus, Pistacia
and Olea pollen. In Archaeology of Anthropogenic Environments,
ed. By Rebecca Dean, 95-121. Center for Archaeological Investigations,
Occasional Paper No. 37. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University.
2009
Cordova, C.E., and Agenbroad, L., 2009, Opal phytoliths from teeth calculus in the mammoths of the Hot Springs Site, South Dakota, Current Research in the Pleistocene 26 (in press). Expected publication date: December 2009
Cordova, C.E., S. Harrison, P. Mudie, S. Leroy and N. Ortiz. 2009. Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal records for paleovegetation reconstruction in the Mediterranean-Black Sea Corridor since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary International 197, 12-26.
2008
Cordova, C.E. 2008. Floodplain degradation and settlement history in Wadi al-Wala and Wadi ash-Shallalah, Jordan. Geomorphology 101: 443-457.
Butzer, K.W., J. T. Abbott, C.D. Frederick, P.H. Lehman, C.E. Cordova, and J.F. Oswald. 2008. Soil-geomorphology and ‘wet” cycles in the Holocene record of North-Central Mexico. Geomorphology 101: 237-277.
M. J. Power, J. Marlon, N. Ortiz, P. J. Bartlein, S. P. Harrison, F. E. Mayle, A. Ballouche, R. H. W. Bradshaw, C. Carcaillet, C. Cordova, and others. 2008. Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics 30: 887-907.
Cordova, C.E., Rollefson, G.O., Kalchgruber, R., Wilke, P., and Quintero, L. 2008. Natural and Cultural Stratigraphy of ‘Ayn as-Sawda, Azraq Wetland Reserve: 2007 Excavation Report and Discussion of Finds. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 52: 417-425.
2007
Cordova, C.E.,2007. Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. LINK TO PUBLISHER
Cordova, C.E., Nowell, A., Bisson, M. Kalchgruber, R., and Al-Nahar, M. 2007. Geomorphological assessment of Middle Paleolithic Sites in the Madaba Plateau. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 51, 329-337.
Cordova, C.E., and W. Johnson. 2007. Paleobiomes and Paleopastures: A reconstruction of interactions of vegetation, climate, grazing and fire in South-Central North America since the Last Glacial Maximum. Current Research in the Pleistocene 24: 196-198.
Bisson, M., A. Nowell, C.E. Cordova, R. Kalchgruber, and Maysoon Nahar. 2007. Human evolution at the crossroads: An archaeological survey in Northwest Jordan. Near Eastern Archaeology 69 (2): 73-85.
Cordova, C.E. 2007. The evolving landscape of Jordan: The contributions of Geoarchaeology and Paleoecology. In Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, ed. T. E. Levy, P.M. Michèe Daviau, R.W. Younker, and M. Shaer, 69-78. London: Equinox Publishing.
Bisson, M., A. Nowell, C.E. Cordova, and R. Kalchgruber. 2007. Neanderthals at the Crossroads: Middle Paleolithic Sites on the Madaba Plateau Jordan. In Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, ed. T. E. Levy, P.M. Michèe Daviau, R.W. Younker, and M. Shaer, 171-178. London: Equinox Publishing.
Cordova, C.E. 2007. Holocene Mediterranization of the Southern Crimean vegetation: paleoecological records, regional climate change, and possible non-climatic influences. In The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement, ed. V. Yanko-Hombach, A.S. Gilbert, N. Panin, and P.M. Dolukhanov., 319-344. Berlin: New York: Springer. LINK TO PUBLISHER
2006
Cordova, C.E., and P.H. Lehman 2006. Mediterranean agriculture in southwestern Crimea: paleoenvironments and early adaptations. Beyond the Steppe and the Sown. Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, Colloquia Pontica 13, ed., D.L. Peterson, L.M. Popova and A.T. Smith, 425-447. Leiden:Brill.
2005
Cordova, C.E. 2005. The degradation of the Ancient Near Eastern environment. In D. Snell, A Companion to the Ancient Near East. Malden, MA, 209-225. London UK: Blackwell . LINK TO PUBLISHER
Cordova, C.E. and P.H. Lehman. 2005. Holocene environmental change in Southwestern Crimea (Ukraine) in pollen and soil records. The Holocene 15, 263-277.
Cordova C.E., J.C. Porter, K. Lepper, R. Kalchgruber, and G. Scott, 2005. Sand dune morphology and stability along a bioclimatic gradient in north-central and northwestern Oklahoma. Great Plains Research 15 (2), 227-250.
Cordova, C.E., C. Foley, A. Nowell, and M. Bisson. 2005. Landforms, sediments, soil development and prehistoric site settings in the Madaba-Dhiban Plateau, Jordan. Geoarchaeology 20, 29-56.
2003
Cordova, C.E. and P. Lehman. 2003. Archaeopalynology of synanthropic vegetation in the chora of Chersonesos, Crimea, Ukraine. Journal of Archaeological Science 30, 1483-1501.
Henry, D.O., C. Cordova, J. J. White, R. M. Dean, J. E. Beaver, H. Ekstrom, S. Kadowaki, J. McCorriston, A. Nowell, and L. Scott-Cummins. 2003. The Early Neolithic Site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla, Southern Jordan. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 330, 1-30. PDF
Cordova, C.E. 2003. Reconstructing environmental history. In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology, 352-354. New York: McGraw-Hill
2001
Cordova, C.E , A. Rybak and P. Lehman. 2001. Vegetation Patterns and Conservation Issues in Southern Crimea, Post-Soviet Geography and Economics 42(5) 49-72.
2000
Cordova, C.E. 2000. “Geomorphological evidence of Intense preshistoric soil erosion in the Highlands of central Jordan”, Physical Geography 21(6) 538-567.
1999
Cordova, C.E. 1999. “Geoarchaeology of alluvial deposits and soils in the wadi systems of Northern Moab,” in P.M. and V. Egan, “Archaeology in Jordan.” American Journal of Archaeology 103 (3) 488-489.
Cordova, C.E. 1999. “Landscape Transformation in the Mediterranean-Steppe Transition zone of Jordan: A Geoarchaeological Approach.” The Arab World Geographer 2 (3): 182-201.
1997
Cordova, C.E. and J. Parsons. 1997. Geoarchaeology of an Aztec dispersed village.” In Geoarchaeology. 12 (3): 177-210.
Martin Del Pozzo, A.L. , C.E. Cordova, and J. López. 1997. “Volcanic Impact on the Southern basin of Mexico during the Holocene,” Quaternary International 43-44(1):181-190.
1994
Cordova, C.E. , Martin del Pozo, A.L. and López-Camacho, J. 1994. “Paleolandforms and volcanicimpact on the environment of prehistoric Cuicuilco, Southern Mexico City.” Journal of Archaeological Science 21: 586 – 596.
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