Randy Haas

Department of Anthropology

Associate Professor Archaeology

Contact Information

whaas@uwyo.edu

Anthropology Bldg 206

Randy Haas sits in a University of Wyoming vehicle

Ph.D. The University of Arizona, 2014
M.A. Northern Arizona University, 2003
B.A. Northern Arizona University, 2001

 

Randy Haas is archaeologist who investigates forager societies (aka, hunter-gatherers) of the past in order to better understand human behavior in the present. Particular topics of interest include forager diets, mobility, technology, and cooperation. Haas leads archaeological excavations and survey projects in the Andes Mountains of Peru and mountain regions of western North America. He also specializes in quantitative comparative approaches that integrate large datasets across North and South America.
 
Dr. Haas is accepting MA and PhD applications from students with interests in any aspect of forager archaeology.

 

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Selected Publications:
Flores-Blanco, Luis, Morgan Hall, Luisa Hinostroza, Jelmer Eerkens, Mark Aldenderfer and Randall Haas

2025 . PLOS One 20(6):e0325626. doi:

 

Noe, Sarah J., Randall Haas and Mark Aldenderfer
2025 Hunting to herding on the Andean Altiplano: Zooarchaeological insights into Archaic Period subsistence in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru (9.0鈥�3.5 ka). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 77:101658. doi:

 

Brantingham, P. Jeffrey, Randall Haas and Steven L. Kuhn
2025 . Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 61:104895. doi:

 

Haas, Randall
2024 . PaleoAmerica 10(4):287-299. doi:

 

Zhang, Peiqi, Randall Haas, Clea Paine, Xiaoling Zhang, and Nicolas Zwyns
2024 . Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 7(11).

 

Joseph, Sophie K., Elizabeth Wagman, Nabeel Diab, Nicholas Ryu, Minwoo Lee, Randall Haas, James K. Rilling, Mark S. Aldenderfer, John Lindo
2024 . Genes, Brain and Behavior 23(1):e12877. doi: .

 

Snyder, Thomas J and Randall Haas
2024 . PLoS ONE 19(2): e0292272.

 

Chen JC, Aldenderfer MS, Eerkens JW, Langlie BS, Viviano Llave C, Watson JT, Haas R
2024 . PLoS ONE 19(1): e0296420. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall
2023 . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. doi:.

 

Flores-Blanco, Luis, Lucero Cuellar, Mark S. Aldenderfer, Charles Stanish, and Randall Haas
2023 . Quaternary International in press. doi:.

 

Smallwood, Ashley, Randall Haas, and Thomas Jennings
2023 . Scientific Reports 13:19044. doi:.

 

Snyder, Thomas J. and Randall Haas 2023 Climate change intensified violence in the south-central Andean highlands from 1.5 to 0.5 ka. Quaternary Research. doi:

 

Terlep, Michael L., Francis E. Smiley, and Randall Haas 2023 Iridescent beetle adornments suggest incipient status competition among the earliest horticulturalists in Bears Ears National Monument. American Antiquity 82(1):2鈥�19.&苍产蝉辫;诲辞颈:&苍产蝉辫;

 

Chen, Caleb, Luis Flores-Blanco, and Randall Haas 2021 Why Did Projectile-Point Size Increase in the Andean Altiplano Archaic? Latin American Antiquity. doi: .

 

Kitchel, Nathaniel, Mark S. Aldenderfer, and Randall Haas 2021 Diet, mobility, technology, and lithics: Neolithization on the Andean Altiplano, 7.0-3.5 ka. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. doi: .

 

Mackie, Madeline E. and Randall Haas 2021 Estimating the frequency of coincidental spatial associations between Clovis artifacts and proboscidean remains in North America. Quaternary Research 1-11. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall, James Watson, Tammy Buonasera, John Southon, Jennifer C. Chen, Sarah Noe, Kevin Smith, Carlos Viviano Llave, Jelmer Eerkens and Glendon Parker 2020 Female hunters of the early Americas. Science Advances 6(45):eabd0310. doi:.

 

Haas, Randall and Steven L. Kuhn 2019 Forager mobility in constructed environments. Current Anthropology 16(4):499-535. doi: .

 

Lindo, John, Randall Haas, Courtney Hofman, Mario Apata, Mauricio Moraga, Ricardo Verdugo, James T Watson, Carlos Llave, David Witonsky, Enrique Pacheco, Mercedes Villena, Rudy Soria, Cynthia Beall, Christina Warinner, John Novembre, Mark Aldenderfer, Anna Di Rienzo 2018 The genetic prehistory of the Andean highlands 7,000 Years BP though European contact. Science Advances11(4): eaau4921. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall, Ioana C. Stefanescu, Alexander Garcia-Putnam, Mark S. Aldenderfer, Mark T. Clementz, Melissa S. Murphy, Carlos Viviano Llave, and James T. Watson 2017 Humans permanently occupied the Andean highlands by at least 7 ka. Royal Society Open Science 4(6): 170331. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall, and Carlos Viviano Llave 2015 Hunter-gatherers on the eve of agriculture:insights from Soro Mik'aya Patjxa, Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru, 8000-6700 B.P. Antiquity 89(348):1297-1312.doi: .

 

Haas, Randall
2023 . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. doi:.

 

Flores-Blanco, Luis, Lucero Cuellar, Mark S. Aldenderfer, Charles Stanish, and Randall Haas
2023 . Quaternary International in press. doi:.

 

Smallwood, Ashley, Randall Haas, and Thomas Jennings
2023 . Scientific Reports 13:19044. doi:.

 

Snyder, Thomas J. and Randall Haas
2023 . Quaternary Research. doi:

 

Terlep, Michael L., Francis E. Smiley and Randall Haas
2023 . American Antiquity 88(1):2-19. doi:.

 

Surovell Todd A., Matthew J. O鈥橞rien and Randall Haas
2022 . In Intra-Site Spatial Analysis of Mobile and Semi-Sedentary Peoples: Analytical Approaches to Reconstructing Occupation History, edited by A. E. Clark and J. A. M. Gingerich, pp. 95-108. , Salt Lake City.

 

Sheina Lew-Levy, Rachel Reckin, Stephen M. Kissler, Ilaria Pretelli, Adam H. Boyette, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Ren茅e V. Hagen, Randall Haas, Karen L. Kramer, Jeremy Koster, Matthew J. O鈥橞rien, Koji Sonoda, Todd A. Surovell, Jonathan Stieglitz, Bram Tucker, Noa Lavi, Kate Ellis-Davies & Helen E. Davis
2022 . Scientific Reports 12, 8054. doi: .

 

O鈥橞rien, Matthew J., Todd A. Surovell, Randall Haas and Spencer Pelton
2022 . In More than shelter from the storm: hunter-gatherer houses and the built environment, edited by Brian N. Andrews and Danielle A. Macdonald, pp. 243鈥�263. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. doi:.

 

Flores-Blanco, Luis, Alfredo J. Altamirano, Marco Villacorta, Jos茅 M. Capriles, Flavio Estrada, Katia Herrera, Melchor Llosa, Eduardo Ch谩vez and Carmela Alarc贸n
2022 . Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41:103247. doi:.

 

Haas, Randall
2021 . In South American Contributions to World Archaeology, edited by M. Bonomo and S. Archila, pp. 63-80. Springer International Publishing, Cham. doi:.

 

Chen, Caleb, Luis Flores-Blanco and Randall Haas
2021 . Latin American Antiquity. doi:.

 

Parker, Glendon J., Tammy Buonasera, Julia M. Yip, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Michelle Salemi, Blythe Durbin-Johnson, Randall Haas, Jane E. Buikstra, Haagen Klaus, David M. Rocke and Brett Phinney
2021 . Journal of Archaeological Science 130:105354. doi:.

 

Kitchel, Nathaniel, Mark S. Aldenderfer and Randall Haas
2021 . Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. doi: .

 

Mackie, Madeline E. and Randall Haas
2021 . Quaternary Research 1-11. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall, James Watson, Tammy Buonasera, John Southon, Jennifer C. Chen, Sarah Noe, Kevin Smith, Carlos Viviano Llave, Jelmer Eerkens and Glendon Parker
2020 . Science Advances 6(45):eabd0310. doi:.

 

Buonasera, Tammy, Jelmer Eerkens, Alida de Flamingh, Laurel Engbring, Julia Yip, Hongjie Li, Randall Haas, Diane DiGiuseppe, Dave Grant, Michelle Salemi, Charlene Nijmeh, Monica Monica, Alan Leventhal, Brett Phinney, Brian F. Byrd, Ripan S. Malhi, and Glendon Parker
2020 . Scientific Reports 10(1). doi:.

 

Crane, Adam, James T. Watson, and Randall Haas
2020 . In: C Schmidt, JT Watson (eds.), Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts, pp. 99-121. Elsevier Press, London. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall and Steven L. Kuhn
2019 . Current Anthropology 60(4):499--535. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall, Todd A. Surovell, and Matthew J. O鈥橞rien
2019 . American Antiquity 84(2):215-233. doi: .

 

Glendon J. Parker, Julia M. Yip, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Michelle Salemi, Blythe Durbin-Johnson, Caleb Kiesow, Randall Haas, Jane E. Buikstra, Haagen Klaus, Laura A. Regan, David M. Rocke, and Brett S. Phinney
2019 . Journal of Archaeological Science 101:169--180. doi: .

 

Robinson, Erick, H. Jabran Zahid, Brian F. Codding, Randall Haas, Randall and Robert L. Kelly
2019 . Journal of Archaeological Science 101: 63-71. doi:.

 

Flores, Lu铆s (ed.)
2018 . Editorial Avqui, Lima.

John Lindo, Randall Haas, Courtney Hofman, Mario Apata, Mauricio Moraga, Ricardo Verdugo, James T Watson, Carlos Llave, David Witonsky, Enrique Pacheco, Mercedes Villena, Rudy Soria, Cynthia Beall, Christina Warinner, John Novembre, Mark Aldenderfer, Anna Di Rienzo
2018 . Science Advances 11(4): eaau4921. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall, Todd Surovell, and Matthew O鈥橞rien
2018 Occupancy and the use of household space among the Dukha. Ethnoarchaeology 10 (1): 1鈥�15. doi: .

 

Flores, Lu铆s
2017 . Antiquity 91 (357): 1-6. doi: 

 

Watson, James T., and Randall Haas
2017 . American Journal of Physical Anthropology164(1): 117鈥�130. doi: 

 

Haas, Randall, Mark S. Aldenderfer, and Michael C. Meyer
2017 .鈥� Science 357(6351): eaam9444. doi: 

 

Meyer, Michael C., D. L. Hoffmann, Mark S. Aldenderfer, Randall Haas, J. A. Dahl, Z. Wang, D. Degering, and Frank Schl眉tz
2017 .鈥� Science 357(6351): eaan8575. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall, Ioana C. Stefanescu, Alexander Garcia-Putnam, Mark S. Aldenderfer, Mark T. Clementz, Melissa S. Murphy, Carlos Viviano Llave, and James T. Watson
2017 . Royal Society Open Science .

 

Meyer, Michael C., Mark S. Aldenderfer, Z. Wang, D.L. Hoffmann, D. Degering, J.A. Dahl, Randall Haas, Frank Schl眉tz
2017. Science355 (6320): 64鈥�67. doi:.

 

Downey, Sean S., Randall Haas, and Stephen J. Shennan
2016.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 201602504. doi: .

 

Haas, Randall, Cynthia J. Klink, Greg J. Maggard, and Mark S. Aldenderfer
2015. PLoS ONE 10(11):e0140127. doi:.

 

Haas, Randall, and Carlos Viviano Llave
2015 . Antiquity 89(348):1297-1312. doi: .

 

Mills, Barbara J., Matthew A. Peeples, Randall Haas, Lewis Borck, Jeffery J. Clark, and John M. Roberts Jr.
2015 . American Antiquity 80(1): 3鈥�24. doi: .

 

Mills, Barbara J., Jeffery J. Clark, Matthew A. Peeples, Randall Haas, John M. Roberts Jr., J. Brett Hill, Deborah L. Huntley, Lewis S. Borck, Ronald L. Breiger, Aaron A. Clauset, and M. Steven Shackley
2013 . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pursue110(15): 5785鈥�5790. doi: .

 

Peeples, Matthew, and Randall Haas
2013 . American Anthropologist 115(2):232-247. doi: .

 

Flores, Lu铆s y Henry Tantale谩n (eds.)
2012 . IFEA and Cotsen - UCLA.

 

Haas, Randall, and Jacopo Tagliabue
2012 . In , edited by Luis Flores Blanco and Henry Tantale谩n, 243鈥�260. Instituto Franc茅s de Estudios Andinos; Cotsen Istitute of Archaeology at UCLA, Lima.

 

Roberts, John M. Jr., Barbara J. Mills, Jeffery J. Clark, Randall Haas, Deborah H. Huntley, and Meaghan A. Trowbridge
2012 A Method for chronological apportioning of ceramic assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(5):1513-1520. doi: .

 

Raichlen, David, Adam D Gordon, William E.H. Harcourt-Smith, Adam Foster, Randall Haas
2010. PLoS ONE 5(3): e9769. doi: .

 

Bourke, Mary C., Randall Haas, James A. Brearly, and Heather A. Viles
2007  , edited by M.C. Bourke and H.A. Viles, pp. 23-47. Planetary Sciences Institute, Tucson.

Haas, Randall 2006 . Kiva 71(3): 275-298.

 

Haas, Randall
2002   Basketmaker II fiber industry of Boomerang Shelter, Utah: A Synthesis of Archaeological Data Analysis and Experimentation.   Kiva  67:167-185.