Ph.D. Candidate Richie Rosencrance, alongside anthropology faculty coauthors Geoffrey Smith, Ph.D., and Christopher S. Jazwa, Ph.D., published a paper in the journal "Science Advances" on Feb. 4, 2026, titled: "Complex Perishable Technologies from the North American Great Basin Reveal Specialized Late Pleistocene Adaptations."
Science Advances is one of the top peer-reviewed scientific journals in the world. This paper was part of Rosencrance's dissertation research and was partially funded through the Artemisia Archaeological Research Fund (AARF) endowment, of which Smith is the executive director. Analyses included in this article were also conducted in the University of Nevada, Reno Human Paleoecology and Archaeometry Lab, of which Jazwa is the co-director.
This paper was a collaboration between the University of Nevada, Reno, the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Pennsylvania State University, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and others. The paper is open-access and can be read by anyone.
