R. Kyle Bocinsky, PhD, RPA

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**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**
 2017 “Constraint and Freedom” in the Era of Big Data. In Frison Institute Symposium, *The Future of “Big Data” in Archaeology*. Society for American Archaeology, 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Lipe, William, Laura Ellyson, **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Robin Lyle and R.G. Matson
 2017 Costly Gobbling: Raising Turkeys in the Central Mesa Verde Area. In general session, *The Archaeology of Foodways*. Society for American Archaeology, 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

d’Alpoim Guedes and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**
 2017 Modeling the Spread of Crops across Eurasia. In Fryxell Award Symposium, *Papers in Honor of Naomi F. Miller*. Society for American Archaeology, 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
 
Varien, Mark. D and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**
 2016 The Pueblo Farming Project: Investigating the Agrarian Ecology of the Mesa Verde Region. In symposium, *First Farmers, First Farms: Landscape Ecology of the Early Neolithic*. Society of Ethnobiology, 39th Annual Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

**Bocinsky, R. Kyle** and Adam Brin
 2016 SKOPE: Bringing Continent-scale, Local Paleoenvironmental Data to Researchers and the Public. In symposium, *What Do We Mean by "Digital Curation?"* Society for American Archaeology, 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

d'Alpoim Guedes, Jade, Sturt Manning, and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**
 2016 5500 Years of Changing Crop Niches on the Tibetan Plateau. In symposium, *Guava Cat Archaeology: Papers in Memory of Prof. Pochan Chen.* Society for American Archaeology, 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

Ellyson, Laura, Timothy Kohler, and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**
 2016 Evaluation of the Village Ecodynamics Hunting and Domestication Models. In general session, *Southwestern Archaeology.* Society for American Archaeology, 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

Van Dyke, Ruth M., **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Tucker Robinson, and Thomas C. Windes
 2016 Great houses, shrines, and high places: Intervisibility across the Chacoan World. 2016 Navajo Nation Archaeology Meeting, Shiprock, New Mexico. 4 March 2016. 
 
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Karen Adams, Rob Quinlan, Mark Caudell, and Timothy A. Kohler
 2016 Can Pueblo Corn Save Ethiopian Farms? Deploying 1,400 Years of Agricultural Knowledge in Service of the Future. In symposium, *Engaged Archaeology through Transnational, Interdisciplinary, and Indigenous Collaborations*. 15th Biennial Southwest Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.

Schwindt, Dylan M., **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Scott G. Ortman, Donna M. Glowacki, Mark D. Varien, and Timothy A. Kohler
 2016 Interactions among society, climate, production, and population: A case study from the central Mesa Verde region with contemporary implications. In symposium, *Engaged Archaeology through Transnational, Interdisciplinary, and Indigenous Collaborations*. 15th Biennial Southwest Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.

**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**
 2015 What is the Pecos System, Anyway? 2015 Pecos Conference, Mancos, Colorado. Winner of the 2015 Cordell Prize.

**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**
 2015 Can Pueblo Corn Save Ethiopian Farms? Deploying 1,400 Years of Agricultural Knowledge in Service of the Future. Public lecture, Four Corners Lecture Series, Cortez, Colorado. Invited by the Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society. 4 August 2015.
 
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**, Keith Kintigh, Timothy Kohler, Bertram Ludäscher, Ann Kinzig, Carla Van West, Margaret Nelson, Adam Brin, Sarah Oas, Johnathan Rush, Timothy McPhillips, and Yang Cao 
2015 Toward Effective Cyber-Infrastructure Support of Socio-Environmental Research. In symposium, *The Robustness and Vulnerability of Food Production and Social Change: An Evaluation of Interdisciplinary Concepts Using Archaeological Data, Models, and Ethnographic Observations*. Society for American Archaeology, 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.

Van Dyke, Ruth, **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, and Tucker Robinson   
2015 Friends in High Places: Windes, Shrines, and Lines of Sight. In symposium, *It's About Time: Contributions in Honor of Thomas C. Windes*. Society for American Archaeology, 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.
    
Kohler, Timothy A., Stefani A. Crabtree, and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**  
2015 The Effects of Temporal Coarse-Graining on Inferred Networks of Human Movement. In symposium, *The Short and Long of It: Combining Timescales*. Society for American Archaeology, 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.
    
Crabtree, Stefani A., **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, and Timothy A. Kohler  
2015 Alliances, Coalitions, Hierarchies and Conflict in the Ancestral Pueblo World. In symposium, *Simulating Social Complexity to Understand the Archaeological Past*. Society for American Archaeology, 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.
    
McPhillips, Timothy, Tianhong Song, Tyler Kolisnik, Steve Aulenbach, Khalid Belhajjame, **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Yang Cao, Fernando Chiriga, Saumen Dey, Juliana Freire, Deborah Huntzinger, Christopher Jones, David Koop, Paolo Missier, Mark Schildhauer, Christopher Schwalm, Yaxing Wei, James Cheney, Mark Bieda, and Bertram Ludäscher  
2015 YesWorkflow: A User-Oriented, Language-Independent Tool for Recovering Workflow Information from Scripts. 10th International Digital Curation Conference, London.
    
Crabtree, Stefani A., **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, and Timothy A. Kohler  
2014 Modeling Emergence of Complex Groups on Realistic Landscapes. In symposium, *Principles of Complexity: Life, Scale, and Civilization III*. Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico. August.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**, Kurt F. Anscheutz, Jesse Clark, and Timothy A. Kohler  
2014 A General Spatial Reconstruction of Potential Maize Paleoproductivity, AD 600–2000. In symposium, *Coupled Regions, Coupled Systems: Dynamics of Prehispanic Farming Societies in the Northern San Juan and the Northern Rio Grande*. Society for American Archaeology, 79th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
    
Kohler, Timothy A., Kelsey M. Reese, Stefani A. Crabtree, **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, and Brian M. Kemp  
2014 Prolegomenon: VEP II, Almost in Retrospect. In symposium, *Coupled Regions, Coupled Systems: Dynamics of Prehispanic Farming Societies in the Northern San Juan and the Northern Rio Grande*. Society for American Archaeology, 79th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
    
Crabtree, Stefani A., Timothy A. Kohler and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**  
2014 The Development of Social Groups, Leadership and Inequality in the Central Mesa Verde. In symposium, *Coupled Regions, Coupled Systems: Dynamics of Prehispanic Farming Societies in the Northern San Juan and the Northern Rio Grande*. Society for American Archaeology, 79th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
    
Conway, Meagan and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**  
2014 Household and Community Scales of Post-Famine Demographic Change in Western Ireland. In symposium, *The Archaeology of the Irish Famine: Exploring Lasting Effects on Local, Regional, and Transatlantic Scales*. Society for American Archaeology, 79th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.

**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**  
2013 Pueblo II and the Turkey Taboo: Changing Attitudes Towards Domesticated Turkeys in the Puebloan Southwest. In symposium, *Food: It’s What’s for Dinner*. American Anthropological Association, 2013 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
    
Kohler, Timothy A., **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Stefani A. Crabtree, Andrew Hlynka, Lokesh Patil, Paul Lovell Hooper and Ziad Kobti  
2013 Leadership, Territoriality and Conflict in an Agentized Pueblo World. In symposium, *Complex systems Approaches to Long-term Change*. American Anthropological Association, 2013 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**  
2013 "Free nights and weekends" in the AD 1000s? Prehistoric visual communication systems and the influence of infrastructure on modern social network formation. In lecture series, *Reckless Ideas*. Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico. August 23, 2013.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**  
2013 The Data Are the Context: A Student’s Perspective on the Colorado Contexts, Old and New. In symposium, *Updating the 1999 Colorado Prehistoric Contexts: How a Digital Research Context for Southwestern Colorado Could Be Organized and Assembled*. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, 35th Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**  
2013 The Defensive Coast. In general session, *Landscapes and Spatial Analysis: Global Case Studies*. Society for American Archaeology, 78th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii. Winner of the 2013 R.E. Taylor Student Poster Award from the Society for Archaeological Sciences. [pdf]
    
Reese, Kelsey M., **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Donna M. Glowacki, Scott G. Ortman and Timothy A. Kohler  
2013 What Are Communities, Really? In symposium, *New Directions in Modeling Dynamics for Coupled Social-Natural Systems*. Society for American Archaeology, 78th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**  
2013 Why Landscapes Matter: Inferring Defensiveness around the Salish Sea. In symposium, *Why Salish Sea Archaeology Matters: Current Perspectives from Washington State University*. 66th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, Oregon.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**  
2012 Simulating Archaeological Landscapes using the RePAST Agent Based Modeling Framework. In invited colloquium, Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle** and Timothy A. Kohler  
2012 Suboptimal Foraging Theory (It’s the Best). In symposium, *Socionatural Systems in the Northern U.S. Southwest: A Village Ecodynamics Project II Progress Report*. Society for American Archaeology, 77th Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.
    
Kohler, Timothy A. and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**  
2012 Highly Variable Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the Last Two Millennia: Reconstructions and Possible Effects on Native American Agricultural Systems. In symposium, *What Role did Changing Temperatures Play in the Success of North American Farming Societies in the Last Prehispanic Millennium?* Society for American Archaeology, 77th Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.
    
Newbold, Bradley, **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, William D. Lipe, Phil R. Geib and Brian M. Kemp  
2012 Revising Early Turkey Domestication in the Southwest. In general session, *Archaeology of the Ancestral Puebloans and Paquime*. Society for American Archaeology, 77th Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.
    
Reese, Kelsey M., **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Kay E. Barnett, Stefani A. Crabtree and Elise Alonzi  
2012 Large, Aggregated Villages in Little Soda Canyon. In general session, *Southwest*. Society for American Archaeology, 77th Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.

**Bocinsky, R. Kyle** and Timothy A. Kohler  
2011 Toward [Re]Constructing An Archaeological Legacy of Hunting On the Colorado Plateau. In Evolutionary Anthropology Society invited symposium, *Lasting Legacies and Changing Tides in Human Behavioral Ecology*. American Anthropological Association, 2011 Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**, Brian Chisholm and Brian M. Kemp  
2011 Basketmaker III Turkey Use: Multiple Lines of Evidence. In symposium, *The Cedar Mesa Project Turns 40: New Results from a Long-Lived Study in SE Utah*. Society for American Archaeology, 76th Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California.
    
Newbold, Bradley, **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Brian M. Kemp and Phil R. Geib  
2011 Ancient Domestic Turkeys at Atlatl Rock Cave. In general session, *Animal Domesticates in the Americas*. Society for American Archaeology, 76th Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California.
    
Crabtree, Stefani A., Ziad Kobti, Timothy A. Kohler and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**  
2011 Archaeology Time Machine: Witnessing Social Interactions on the Pueblo Landscape through Agent-based Simulation. In symposium, *Mapping and Technological Experiments in Archaeology*. Society for American Archaeology, 76th Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California.
    
Kohler, Timothy A., **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Stefani A. Crabtree and Denton Cockburn  
2011 The Village Ecodynamics Project: Modeling the Deep Pueblo Past. In symposium, *Modeling Across Millennia: Interdisciplinary Paths to Ancient Socionatural Systems*. 177th AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
    
Barron, Doug, **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Dan Grunspan, Bradley Newbold, Darryl Trumbo and Bryan Roosien  
2011 Mapping the Memetics Meme: Toward a better understanding of the transmission and evolution of scientific concepts. In IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling seminar, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
    
Barron, Doug, **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Dan Grunspan, Bradley Newbold, Darryl Trumbo and Bryan Roosien  
2010 GroupAge: An agent-based framework for exploring the interaction of social learning, mate choice, and group dynamics. In IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling seminar, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**, Breanne M. Nott and Brian M. Kemp  
2010 Plop! Jump-starting the brown revolution in archaeology. In symposium, *The Village Ecodynamics Project II*. Society for American Archaeology, 75th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
    
Glowacki, Donna M., Charles A. Reed, **R. Kyle Bocinsky**, Shanna Diederichs and Julie Bell  
2010 Making sense of the actual: Settlement trends in the southwestern Colorado VEP study areas. In symposium, *The Village Ecodynamics Project II*. Society for American Archaeology, 75th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
    
Reed, Charles A., Ryan Lash and **R. Kyle Bocinsky**  
2010 An Ancestral Puebloan Community in Morefield Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park. In general session, *What's New in Southwestern Archaeology?* Society for American Archaeology, 75th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri. [pdf]
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**  
2009 In the land of plenty: Agent-based approaches to modeling subsistence in the Puebloan Southwest. In South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology seminar, *From Field to Table: Historical Ecology of Regional Subsistence Strategies*. University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**  
2009 Village Evolving: New directions in VEP research. In NSF Office of Polar Programs: Arctic Social Sciences sponsored conference, *Global Long Term Human Ecodynamics*. Eagle Hill, Maine.
    
**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**  
2009 Understanding and modeling turkey use in the American Southwest: A preliminary simulation module for RePAST. In general session, *General New World and Methods*. Society for American Archaeology, 74th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. [pdf]

**Bocinsky, R. Kyle**, Terrence Martin and Mark A. Schurr  
2008 Rodent Stable Carbon-isotope Ratios as a Measure of Maize Production. In general session, *Methods and Advances in Zooarchaeology*. Society for American Archaeology, 73rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [pdf]