Cohen, A. S., Du, A., Rowan, J., Yost, C. L., Billingsley, A. L., Campisano, C. J., Brown, E., Deino, A. L., Feibel, C. S., Grant, K., Kingston, J. D., Lupien, R., Muiruri, V., Owen, R. B., Reed, K. E., Russell, J., and Stockhecke, M., 2022. No support for Plio-Pleistocene environmental variability driving mammalian macroevolution in eastern Africa. PNAS, v. 119 (16). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107393119
Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Beck, C., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A., Deocampo, D., Feibel, C., Foerster, V., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein, T., Lupien, R., Muiruri, V., Olago, D., Owen, R. B., Potts, R., Russell, J., Schaebitz, F., Stone, J., Trauth, M., and Yost, C., 2022. Reconstructing the environmental context of human origins in eastern Africa through scientific drilling. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 50, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-031920-081947.
Fischer, M. L., Bachofer, F., Yost, C. L., Bludau, I. J. E., Schepers, C., Foerster, V., Lamb, H., Schäbitz, F., Asrat, A., Trauth, M. H., and Junginger, A., 2021. A phytolith supported biosphere-hydrosphere predictive model for southern Ethiopia: insights into paleoenvironmental changes and human landscape preferences since the Last Glacial Maximum. Geosciences, v. 11, https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11100418.
Yost, C. L., Lupien, R. L., Beck, C. C., Feibel, C. S., Archer, S. R., and Cohen, A. S., 2021a. Orbital influence on precipitation, fire, and grass community composition From 1.87 to 1.38 Ma in the Turkana Basin, Kenya. Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.568646.
Mead, J. I., Schroeder, B., and Yost, C. L., 2021. Late Pleistocene shasta ground sloth (Xenarthra) dung, diet, and environment from the Sierra Viejo, Presidio County, Texas. Texas Journal of Science, v. 73, https://doi.org/10.32011/txjsci_73_1_Article3.
Yost, C. L., Ivory, S. J., Deino, A., Rabideaux, N., Kingston, J.D., and Cohen, A.S., 2021b. Phytoliths and microcharcoal from the Baringo Basin, Kenya reveal savanna dynamics during the Plio-Pleistocene transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 570, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109779.
Yost, C. L., Michas, M., Adams, K. R., Swarts, K., Puseman, K., and Ball, T., 2021c. An in situ and morphometric study of maize (Zea mays L.) cob rondel phytoliths from Southwestern North American landraces. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 35, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102732.
Stone, J. R., and Yost, C. L., 2020. Diatom microfossils in archeological settings, in: Henry, A., ed., Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-particles in Archaeology, Springer. p. 23-64.
Lupien, R. L., Russell, J. M., Yost, C. L., Kingston, J. D., Deino, A. L., Logan, J., Schuh, A., and Cohen, A. S., 2019. Vegetation change in the Baringo Basin, East Africa across the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation 3.3–2.6 Ma. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109426.
Westover, K. S., Stone, J. R., Yost, C. L., Scott, J. J., Cohen, A. S., Rabideaux, N. M., Stockhecke, M., and Kingston, J. D., 2019. Diatom paleolimnology of Late Pliocene Baringo Basin (Kenya) paleolakes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109382.
Boggess, D.H.M., Yost, C.L., Hill, D.V., Scott Cummings, L., and Malainey, M., 2018. What’s for supper? The contents of a complete vessel found in southeast New Mexico, in: Rocek, T.R., Kenmotsu, N.A. (Eds.), Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon. University Press of Colorado, Louisville, p. 137-157.
Yost, C. L., Jackson, L. J., Stone, J. R., and Cohen, A. S., 2018. Subdecadal phytolith and charcoal records from Lake Malawi, East Africa imply minimal effects on human evolution from the ∼74 ka Toba supereruption. Journal of Human Evolution, v. 116, p. 75-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.11.005.
Nurse, A. M., Reavie, E. D., Ladwig, J. L., and Yost, C. L., 2017. Pollen and phytolith paleoecology in the St. Louis River Estuary, Minnesota, USA, with special consideration of Zizania palustris L. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 246, p. 216-231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.07.003.
King, D. J., Searcy, M. T., Yost, C. L., and Waller, K., 2017. Corn, beer, and marine resources at Casas Grandes, Mexico: an analysis of prehistoric diets using microfossils recovered from dental calculus. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 16, p. 365-379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.013.
Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Hill, A., Johnson, R., Kingston, J., … Yost, C., Zinaye, B., 2016. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits. Scientific Drilling, v. 21, p. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-21-1-2016.
Cummings, L. S., Yost, C., and Sołtysiak, A., 2016. Plant microfossils in human dental calculus from Nemrik 9, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Northern Iraq: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 10 (4), p. 883-891. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0411-3.
Yost, C.L., 2015. Phytolith analysis of Early Agricultural Period field sediments at Las Capas, AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), in: Vint, J.M., Nials, F.L. (Eds.), The Anthropogenic Landscape of Las Capas, an Early Agricultural Irrigation Community in Southern Arizona. Anthropological Papers No. 50. Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, p. 169-199. https://doi.org/10.6067/XCV88K78P8.
Jackson, L. J., Stone, J. R., Cohen, A. S., and Yost, C. L., 2015. High-resolution paleoecological records from Lake Malawi show no significant cooling associated with the Mount Toba supereruption at ca. 75 ka. Geology, v. 43 (9), p. 823-826. https://doi.org/10.1130/G36917.1.
Cummings, L. S., Voss, B. L., Yu, C. Y., Kováčik, P., Puseman, K., Yost, C., Kennedy, R., and Kane, M. S., 2014. Fan and Tsai: Intracommunity variation in plant-based food consumption at the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California. Historical Archaeology, v. 48 (2), p. 143-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03376931.
Yost, C. L., Blinnikov, M. S., and Julius, M. L., 2013. Detecting ancient wild rice (Zizania spp. L.) using phytoliths: a taphonomic study of modern wild rice in Minnesota (USA) lake sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 49 (2), p. 221-236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-012-9670-x....
Jenkins, D.L., Davis, L.G., Stafford, T.W., Jr., Campos, P.F., Hockett, B., Jones, G.T., Cummings, L.S., Yost, C., Connolly, T.J., Yohe, R.M., 2nd, Gibbons, S.C., Raghavan, M., Rasmussen, M., Paijmans, J.L., Hofreiter, M., Kemp, B.M., Barta, J.L., Monroe, C., Gilbert, M.T., Willerslev, E., 2012. Clovis age Western Stemmed projectile points and human coprolites at the Paisley Caves. Science v. 337 (6091), p. 223-228. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1218443.
Yost, C. L., and Blinnikov, M. S., 2011. Locally diagnostic phytoliths of wild rice (Zizania palustris L.) from Minnesota, USA: comparison to other wetland grasses and usefulness for archaeobotany and paleoecological reconstructions. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 38 (8), p. 1977-1991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.04.016.
Abramiuk, M. A., Dunham, P. S., Scott Cummings, L., Yost, C. L., and Pesek, T. J., 2011. Linking past and present: a preliminary paleoethnobotanical study of Maya nutritional and medicinal plant use and sustainable cultivation in the Southern Maya Mountains, Belize. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, v. 9, p. 257-273. https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/406.
Högberg, A., Puseman, K., and Yost, C., 2009. Integration of use-wear with protein residue analysis – a study of tool use and function in the south Scandinavian Early Neolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 36 (8), p. 1725-1737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.03.030.
Dunham, P. S., Abramiuk, M. A., Cummings, L. S., Yost, C., and Pesek, T. J., 2009. Ancient Maya cultivation in the southern Maya Mountains of Belize: complex and sustainable strategies uncovered. Antiquity, v. 83 (319), https://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/pesek319..
Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Beck, C., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A., Deocampo, D., Feibel, C., Foerster, V., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein, T., Lupien, R., Muiruri, V., Olago, D., Owen, R. B., Potts, R., Russell, J., Schaebitz, F., Stone, J., Trauth, M., and Yost, C., 2022. Reconstructing the environmental context of human origins in eastern Africa through scientific drilling. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 50, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-031920-081947.
Fischer, M. L., Bachofer, F., Yost, C. L., Bludau, I. J. E., Schepers, C., Foerster, V., Lamb, H., Schäbitz, F., Asrat, A., Trauth, M. H., and Junginger, A., 2021. A phytolith supported biosphere-hydrosphere predictive model for southern Ethiopia: insights into paleoenvironmental changes and human landscape preferences since the Last Glacial Maximum. Geosciences, v. 11, https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11100418.
Yost, C. L., Lupien, R. L., Beck, C. C., Feibel, C. S., Archer, S. R., and Cohen, A. S., 2021a. Orbital influence on precipitation, fire, and grass community composition From 1.87 to 1.38 Ma in the Turkana Basin, Kenya. Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.568646.
Mead, J. I., Schroeder, B., and Yost, C. L., 2021. Late Pleistocene shasta ground sloth (Xenarthra) dung, diet, and environment from the Sierra Viejo, Presidio County, Texas. Texas Journal of Science, v. 73, https://doi.org/10.32011/txjsci_73_1_Article3.
Yost, C. L., Ivory, S. J., Deino, A., Rabideaux, N., Kingston, J.D., and Cohen, A.S., 2021b. Phytoliths and microcharcoal from the Baringo Basin, Kenya reveal savanna dynamics during the Plio-Pleistocene transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 570, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109779.
Yost, C. L., Michas, M., Adams, K. R., Swarts, K., Puseman, K., and Ball, T., 2021c. An in situ and morphometric study of maize (Zea mays L.) cob rondel phytoliths from Southwestern North American landraces. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 35, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102732.
Stone, J. R., and Yost, C. L., 2020. Diatom microfossils in archeological settings, in: Henry, A., ed., Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-particles in Archaeology, Springer. p. 23-64.
Lupien, R. L., Russell, J. M., Yost, C. L., Kingston, J. D., Deino, A. L., Logan, J., Schuh, A., and Cohen, A. S., 2019. Vegetation change in the Baringo Basin, East Africa across the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation 3.3–2.6 Ma. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109426.
Westover, K. S., Stone, J. R., Yost, C. L., Scott, J. J., Cohen, A. S., Rabideaux, N. M., Stockhecke, M., and Kingston, J. D., 2019. Diatom paleolimnology of Late Pliocene Baringo Basin (Kenya) paleolakes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109382.
Boggess, D.H.M., Yost, C.L., Hill, D.V., Scott Cummings, L., and Malainey, M., 2018. What’s for supper? The contents of a complete vessel found in southeast New Mexico, in: Rocek, T.R., Kenmotsu, N.A. (Eds.), Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon. University Press of Colorado, Louisville, p. 137-157.
Yost, C. L., Jackson, L. J., Stone, J. R., and Cohen, A. S., 2018. Subdecadal phytolith and charcoal records from Lake Malawi, East Africa imply minimal effects on human evolution from the ∼74 ka Toba supereruption. Journal of Human Evolution, v. 116, p. 75-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.11.005.
Nurse, A. M., Reavie, E. D., Ladwig, J. L., and Yost, C. L., 2017. Pollen and phytolith paleoecology in the St. Louis River Estuary, Minnesota, USA, with special consideration of Zizania palustris L. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 246, p. 216-231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.07.003.
King, D. J., Searcy, M. T., Yost, C. L., and Waller, K., 2017. Corn, beer, and marine resources at Casas Grandes, Mexico: an analysis of prehistoric diets using microfossils recovered from dental calculus. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 16, p. 365-379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.013.
Cohen, A., Campisano, C., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A., Feibel, C., Hill, A., Johnson, R., Kingston, J., … Yost, C., Zinaye, B., 2016. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits. Scientific Drilling, v. 21, p. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-21-1-2016.
Cummings, L. S., Yost, C., and Sołtysiak, A., 2016. Plant microfossils in human dental calculus from Nemrik 9, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Northern Iraq: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 10 (4), p. 883-891. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0411-3.
Yost, C.L., 2015. Phytolith analysis of Early Agricultural Period field sediments at Las Capas, AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), in: Vint, J.M., Nials, F.L. (Eds.), The Anthropogenic Landscape of Las Capas, an Early Agricultural Irrigation Community in Southern Arizona. Anthropological Papers No. 50. Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, p. 169-199. https://doi.org/10.6067/XCV88K78P8.
Jackson, L. J., Stone, J. R., Cohen, A. S., and Yost, C. L., 2015. High-resolution paleoecological records from Lake Malawi show no significant cooling associated with the Mount Toba supereruption at ca. 75 ka. Geology, v. 43 (9), p. 823-826. https://doi.org/10.1130/G36917.1.
Cummings, L. S., Voss, B. L., Yu, C. Y., Kováčik, P., Puseman, K., Yost, C., Kennedy, R., and Kane, M. S., 2014. Fan and Tsai: Intracommunity variation in plant-based food consumption at the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California. Historical Archaeology, v. 48 (2), p. 143-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03376931.
Yost, C. L., Blinnikov, M. S., and Julius, M. L., 2013. Detecting ancient wild rice (Zizania spp. L.) using phytoliths: a taphonomic study of modern wild rice in Minnesota (USA) lake sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 49 (2), p. 221-236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-012-9670-x....
Jenkins, D.L., Davis, L.G., Stafford, T.W., Jr., Campos, P.F., Hockett, B., Jones, G.T., Cummings, L.S., Yost, C., Connolly, T.J., Yohe, R.M., 2nd, Gibbons, S.C., Raghavan, M., Rasmussen, M., Paijmans, J.L., Hofreiter, M., Kemp, B.M., Barta, J.L., Monroe, C., Gilbert, M.T., Willerslev, E., 2012. Clovis age Western Stemmed projectile points and human coprolites at the Paisley Caves. Science v. 337 (6091), p. 223-228. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1218443.
Yost, C. L., and Blinnikov, M. S., 2011. Locally diagnostic phytoliths of wild rice (Zizania palustris L.) from Minnesota, USA: comparison to other wetland grasses and usefulness for archaeobotany and paleoecological reconstructions. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 38 (8), p. 1977-1991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.04.016.
Abramiuk, M. A., Dunham, P. S., Scott Cummings, L., Yost, C. L., and Pesek, T. J., 2011. Linking past and present: a preliminary paleoethnobotanical study of Maya nutritional and medicinal plant use and sustainable cultivation in the Southern Maya Mountains, Belize. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, v. 9, p. 257-273. https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/406.
Högberg, A., Puseman, K., and Yost, C., 2009. Integration of use-wear with protein residue analysis – a study of tool use and function in the south Scandinavian Early Neolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 36 (8), p. 1725-1737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.03.030.
Dunham, P. S., Abramiuk, M. A., Cummings, L. S., Yost, C., and Pesek, T. J., 2009. Ancient Maya cultivation in the southern Maya Mountains of Belize: complex and sustainable strategies uncovered. Antiquity, v. 83 (319), https://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/pesek319..