Kurt Rademaker
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Bio
Dr. Kurt Rademaker is a Faculty Associate of the Center and Director of the interdisciplinary Paleo Andes Working Group (https://www.paleoandes.com/). He is an expert in the early archaeology of the South American Andes. Dr. Rademaker has conducted archaeological investigations in Peru, the United States, and Mexico and glacial geologic work in Peru and Scotland. His current research in Peru includes the investigation of Terminal Pleistocene archaeological sites Cuncaicha in the high Andes and Quebrada Jaguay at the Pacific coast to examine diverse early adaptations in extreme landscapes. He is the Principal Investigator of a new National Science Foundation-funded project “Early Human Ecology and Settlement Dynamics of the Central Andean Highlands”. He has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Rademaker received the 2014 Research Prize in Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology from the University of Tübingen (Germany) and was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. He was an Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University and Michigan State University before joining the Texas A&M University Department of Anthropology in January 2024.
Currently seeking highly motivated graduate students to join the Paleo Andes team and the Center for the Study of the First Americans. Contact Dr. Rademaker at rademaker@tamu.edu ahead of applying to the TAMU grad program.
Selected Publications
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Pitblado, B. and K. Rademaker, 2024, in press. The earliest peopling of the Rocky and Andes Mountains. In The Oxford Handbook of Mountain Archaeology, edited by F. Carrer, M. Callanan, P. della Casa, F. Fontana, S. Reinholds and H. Saul. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197608005.001.0001
Rademaker, K., 2024, in press. Updated Peru archaeological radiocarbon database, 20,000-7000 14C BP Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.01.012
Meinekat, S., +E.B.P. Milton, B. Furlotte, S. Zarrillo, and K. Rademaker, 2023. Fire as high-elevation cold adaptation: An evaluation of fuels and Terminal Pleistocene combustion in the central Andes. Quaternary Science Reviews 316: 108244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108244
Milton, E.B.P., N. Stansell, H. Bocherens, A. Brownlee, D. Chala-Aldana, and K. Rademaker, 2022. Examining surface water δ18O and δ2H values in the western central Andes: A watershed moment for anthropological mobility studies. Journal of Archaeological Science 146: 10565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105655
Rademaker, K., M.D. Glascock, D.A. Reid, E. Zuñiga, and G.R.M. Bromley, 2022. Comprehensive mapping and compositional analysis of the Alca obsidian source, Peru. Quaternary International 619: 56-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.029
Meinekat, S., C. Miller, and K. Rademaker, 2021. A site formation model for Cuncaicha rock shelter: Depositional and post-depositional processes at the high-altitude keysite in the Peruvian Andes. Geoarchaeology 37: 304–331. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21889
Kocher, A. et al., 2021. Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution. Science 374: 182–188. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi5658
Posth, C. et al. 2018. Reconstructing the deep population history of Central and South America. Cell 175: 1185-1197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.027
Rademaker, K., G. Hodgins, K. Moore, S. Zarrillo, C. Miller, G.R.M. Bromley, P. Leach, D.A. Reid, W. Yépez Álvarez, and D.H. Sandweiss, 2014. Paleoindian settlement of the high-altitude Peruvian Andes. Science 346: 466-469. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1258260
Bromley, G.R.M., A.E. Putnam, K.M. Rademaker, T.V. Lowell, J.M. Schaefer, B.L. Hall, G. Winckler, S. Birkel, and H. Borns, 2014. Younger Dryas deglaciation of Scotland driven by warming summers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(17): 6215-6219. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321122111