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Broughton, J.M. 2004. Declines in mammalian foraging efficiency during the late Holocene, San Francisco Bay. IN: Prehistoric California: Archaeology and the Myth of Paradise , ed. by L. M. Raab and T. Jones, pp. 34-52. University of Utah Press.

Broughton, J.M. 2004. A late Pleistocene record of Humboldt cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki subsp.) from Mineral Hill Cave, Northeastern Nevada. IN: Paleontological Investigations at Mineral Hill Cave , ed. B. Hockett and E. Dillingham. Contribution to the Study of Cultural Resources Technical Report No. 18 (BLM Nevada).

Broughton, J.M. 2004. Pristine benchmarks and indigenous conservation? Implications from California zooarchaeology. IN: The Future from the Past: Archaeozoology in Wildlife Conservation and Heritage Management , pp. 6-18. ed. R. Lauwerrier and I. Plug, Oxbow Books, Oxford.

Byers, D.A. , C. Smith, and J.M. Broughton. 2004. Holocene artiodactyl population histories and large game hunting in the Wyoming Basin, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:125-142.

Byers, D.A. and J.M. Broughton. 2004. Holocene environmental change, artiodactyl abundances, and human hunting strategies in the Great Basin. American Antiquity 69:235-256.

Broughton, J.M. and Bayham, F.E. 2003. Showing off, foraging models, and the ascendance of hunting in the California Middle Archaic. American Antiquity 68:783-789.

Broughton, J.M. 2002. Prey spatial structure and behavior affect archaeological tests of optimal foraging models: examples from the Emeryville Shellmound vertebrate fauna. World Archaeology 34: 60-83.

Broughton, J.M., Rampton, D., and Holanda, K. 2002.A test of an osteologically-based age determination method in the Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus). Ibis 144: 143-146.

Broughton, J.M. 2002. Human optimal foraging strategies: an overview, pp. 521-523. IN: Encyclopedia of Evolution , ed. M. Pagel, Oxford Univ. Press.

Broughton, J.M. 2002. Why Didn't Native Californians Farm?, pp.522. IN: Encyclopedia of Evolution , ed. M. Pagel, Oxford Univ. Press.

Broughton, J.M. 2002. Pre-Columbian human impact on California vertebrates: evidence from old bones and implications for wilderness policy. IN: Wilderness and Political Ecology: Aboriginal Influences and the Original State of Nature , edited by C.E. Kay, and R. T. Simmons. University of Utah Press.

Broughton, J.M. 2001. Resource Intensification and Late Holocene Human Impacts on Pacific Coast Bird Populations: Evidence from the Emeryville Shellmound Avifauna IN: Posing Questions for a Scientific Archaeology , edited by T. Hunt, C. Lipo, and S. Sterling. Bergin and Garvey. London.

Rogers, A.R. and Broughton, J.M. 2001. Selective transport of animal parts by ancient hunters: a new statistical method and an application to the Emeryville Shellmound fauna. Journal of Archaeological Science 28:763-773.

Madsen, D. B., Rhode, D., Grayson, D.K., Broughton, J. M., Livingston, S. D., Hunt, J., Quade, J., Schmitt, D. N., and Shaver, M.W. 2001. Late Quaternary environmental change in the Bonneville Basin, Western USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 167: 243-271.

Huckleberry, G., Beck, C., Jones, G., Holmes, A., Cannon, M., Livingston, S., and Broughton, J.M. 2001. Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene environmental change at the Sunshine Locality, north-central Nevada, U.S.A. Quaternary Research 55:303-312.

Broughton, J.M. 2000. The Homestead Cave Ichthyofauna, pp. 103-121. IN: Late Quaternary Paleoecology in the Bonneville Basin , ed. D. Madsen. Utah Geological Survey Bulletin 130.

Broughton, J.M. 2000. Cathedral Cave Fishes, pp. 134-135. IN: Late Quaternary Paleoecology in the Bonneville Basin , ed. D. Madsen. Utah Geological Survey Bulletin 130.

Broughton, J.M. 2000.Terminal Pleistocene fish remains from Homestead Cave, Utah, and implications for fish biogeography in the Bonneville basin. Copeia 2000:645-656.

Broughton, J.M., Madsen, D.B., and Quade, J. 2000.Fish remains from Homestead Cave and lake levels of the past 13,000 years in the Bonneville Basin. Quaternary Research 53: 392-401.

Broughton, J.M. 1999. Resource Depression and Intensification During the Late Holocene, San Francisco Bay: Evidence from the Emeryville Shellmound Vertebrate Fauna. University of California Anthropological Records 32. 11.

Broughton, J.M., and O'Connell, J.F. 1999. On evolutionary ecology, selectionist archaeology, and behavioral archaeology. American Antiquity 62:153-165.

Broughton, J.M. 1997. Widening diet breadth, declining foraging efficiency, and prehistoric harvest pressure: ichthyofaunal evidence from the Emeryville Shellmound. Antiquity 71: 845-862.

Broughton, J.M. ed.1996. Excavation of the Emeryville Shellmound, 1906: Nels C. Nelson's Final Report . Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility 54.

Broughton, J.M. 1994. Declines in mammalian foraging efficiency during the late Holocene, San Francisco Bay, California. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 13: 371-401.

Broughton, J.M. 1994. Late Holocene resource intensification in the Sacramento Valley, California: the vertebrate evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science 21:501-514.

Broughton, J.M. 1993. Size of the Bursa of Fabricius in relation to gonad size and age in Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses. The Condor 96:203-207.

Broughton, J.M. and Grayson, D.K.1993. Diet breadth, adaptive change, and the White Mountains faunas. Journal of Archaeological Science 20:331-336.

Broughton, J.M. and Buckskin, F.1992. Racing Simloki's shadow: the Ajumawi interconnection of power, shadow, equinox, and solstice. IN: Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore , edited by C. Farrer and R. Williamson. University of New Mexico Press. Pp. 184-191.