Director, Environmental & Sustainability
Professor, Anthropology Department

brian.codding@anthro.utah.edu

Publications

• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Magargal, Kate, Kurt Wilson, Shaniah Chee, Michael J. Campbell, Vanessa Bailey, Philip E. Dennison, William RL Anderegg, Adrienne Cachelin, Simon Brewer, and Brian F. Codding (2023) The impacts of climate change, energy policy and traditional ecological practices on future firewood availability for Diné (Navajo) People. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378, no. 1889 (2023): 20220394. [link], 09/18/2023
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Codding, Brian F., Heidi Roberts, William Eckerle, Simon C. Brewer, Ishmael Medina, Kenneth Blake Vernon, and Jerry S. Spangler (2023) Can we reliably detect adaptive responses of hunter-gatherers to past climate change? Examining the impact of Mid-Holocene drought on Archaic settlement in the Basin-Plateau Region of North America. Quaternary International. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.06.014. [link], 07/2023
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wilson, Kurt M., Kasey E. Cole and Brian F. Codding (2023) Identifying key socioecological factors influencing the expression of egalitarianism and inequality among foragers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 378(1883):20220311. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0311. [link] [pdf], 06/26/2023
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Magargal, Kate E., Jonah Yellowman, Shaniah Chee, Molly Wabel, Shane Macfarlan and Brian F. Codding (2023) Firewood and Energy Sovereignty on Navajo Nation. Human Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00411-2. [link], 06/24/2023
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: McCool, Weston C., Amy S. Anderson, Alexis Ja'net Baide, Toni Gonzalez and Brian F. Codding (2023) Evaluating the relationships between climate change, population pressure, economic intensification, and childhood stress in the Prehispanic Nasca region of Peru. Quaternary International. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.06.003. [link], 06/11/2023 PERU
• CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Broughton, Jack M., Brian F. Codding, J. Tyler Faith, Kathryn A. Mohlenhoff, Ruth Gruhn, Joan Brenner-Coltrain, and Isaac A. Hart. (2022). El Niño frequency threshold controls coastal biotic communities. Science 377(6611): 1202-1205. [link] [press] [news], 08/2022 MEXICO
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Vernon, Kenneth Blake, Peter M. Yaworsky, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon C. Brewer and Brian F. Codding (2022) Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition. Environmental Archaeology 27: 420-433. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2020.1746880. [link], 06/2022
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Bliege Bird, Rebecca and Brian F. Codding (2022) Promise and peril of ecological and evolutionary modelling using cross-cultural datasets. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6:6-8. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01579-w. [link], 06/2022 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Codding, Brian F., Joan Brenner Coltrain, Lisbeth Louderback, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Erick Robinson, Kate E. Magargal, Simon C. Brewer, and Jerry D. Spangler (2022) Socioecological dynamics structuring the spread of farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region. Environmental Archaeology 27: 434-446. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1927480. [link] [pdf] [sup], 06/2022
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: McCool, Weston C., Brian F. Codding, Kenneth B. Vernon, Kurt M. Wilson, Peter M. Yaworsky, Norbert Marwan, and Douglas J. Kennett (2022) Climate change–induced population pressure drives high rates of lethal violence in the Prehispanic central Andes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (17) e2117556119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2117556119. [link] [press], 04/21/2022 PERU
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Wilson, Kurt M, Weston C McCool, Simon C Brewer, Nicole Zamora-Wilson, Percy J Schryver, Roxanne Lois F Lamson, Ashlyn M Huggard, Joan Brenner Coltrain, Daniel A Contreras, and Brian F Codding (2022) Climate and demography drive 7000 years of dietary change in the Central Andes. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05774-y. [link] [press], 02/07/2022 SOUTH AMERICA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | FOOD SYSTEMS: Pavlik, Bruce M., Lisbeth A. Louderback, Kenneth B. Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Cynthia Wilson, Arnold Clifford, and Brian F. Codding (2021) Plant species richness at archaeological sites suggests ecological legacy of Indigenous subsistence on the Colorado Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (21) e2025047118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2025047118. [link], 05/17/2021
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Jones, Terry L., Joan Brenner Coltrain, David K. Jacobs, Judith Porcasi, Simon C. Brewer, Janet C. Buckner, John D. Perrine, and Brian F. Codding (2021) Causes and consequences of the late Holocene extinction of the marine flightless duck (Chendytes lawi) in the northeastern Pacific. Quaternary Science Reviews 260:106914. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106914. [link], 05/15/2021
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Carter, Vachel A., Andrea Brunelle, Mitchell J. Power, R. Justin DeRose, Matthew F. Bekker, Isaac Hart, Simon Brewer, Jerry Spangler, Erick Robinson, Mark Abbott, S. Yoshi Maezumi, and Brian F. Codding (2021) Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA. Communications Earth & Environment 2, 72. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00137-3. [link], 04/14/2021
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Yaworsky, Peter M., Kenneth B. Vernon, Jerry D. Spangler, Simon C. Brewer, and Brian F. Codding (2020) Advancing predictive modeling in archaeology: An evaluation of regression and machine learning methods on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239424. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239424. [link], 10/01/2020
• CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Campbell, Michael, Philip E. Dennison, Jesse W. Tune, Steven A Kannenberg, Kelly L. Kerr, Brian F. Codding, and William R. Anderegg (2020). A multi-sensor, multi-scale approach to mapping tree mortality in woodland ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment 245: 111853. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111853. [link], 04/2020
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding (2019) The Native California Commons: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Land Control, Resource Use, and Management. In Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management, edited by Lozny, Ludomir R., and McGovern, Thomas, pp. 255--280. Springer. [link], 06/22/2019
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Jones, Terry L. and Brian F. Codding (2019) Foragers on America's Western Edge: The Archaeology of California's Pecho Coast. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah. ISBN-10: 1607816431. [link], 01/2019
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Power, Mitchell J., Brian F. Codding, Alan H. Taylor, Thomas W. Swetnam, Kate E. Magargal, Douglas W. Bird and James F. O'Connell (2018). Human Legacies on Ecological Landscapes. Frontiers in Earth Science, 6, 151. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2018.00151. [link], 10/15/2018
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | FOOD SYSTEMS: Yaworsky, Peter M. and Brian F. Codding (2018) The Ideal Distribution of Farmers: Explaining the Euro-American Settlement of Utah. American Antiquity 83: 75-90. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2017.46 [link]., 01/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Mohlenhoff, Kathryn A. and Brian F. Codding (2017) When does it pay to invest in a patch? The evolution of intentional niche construction. Evolutionary Anthropology 26:218–227. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21534. [link], 10/13/2017
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Perry, George H. and Brian F. Codding (2017) Stone Tool Use: Monkeys overharvest shellfish eLIfe 6:e30865. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.30865. [link], 09/13/2017
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Zeanah, David W., Brian F. Codding, Rebecca Bliege Bird and Douglas W. Bird (2017) Mosaics of fire and water: the co-emergence of anthropogenic landscapes and intensive seed exploitation in the Australian arid zone. Australian Archaeology 83:2-19 . DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2017.1359876. [link], 08/09/2017 AUSTRALIA
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Magargal, Kate E., Ashley K. Parker, Will Rath, Kenneth Blake Vernon and Brian F. Codding (2017) The ecology of population dispersal: Modeling alternative Basin-Plateau foraging strategies to explain the Numic Expansion. American Journal of Human Biology 29(4)e23000 1:14. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23000. [link], 04/04/2017
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Darimont, Chris T., Brian F. Codding and Kristen Hawkes (2017) Why men trophy hunt. Biology Letters 20160909. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0909 [link], 03/2017