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Beth Koontz Scaffidi

Observed names: Beth K. Scaffidi, Beth Scaffidi, Cassandra (Beth) Scaffidi, Cassandra Scaffidi, Scaffidi, Cassandra
ORCID: 0000-0002-0852-2829
Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-0852-2829
OpenAlex ID: A5043621189
Mapping Histoplasma capsulatum Exposure, United States
2018 · Amelia W. Maiga, Stephen Deppen, et al. · Emerging infectious diseases · 93
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An archaeological strontium isoscape for the prehistoric Andes: Understanding population mobility through a geostatistical meta-analysis of archaeological 87Sr/86Sr values from humans, animals, and artifacts
2020 · Beth K. Scaffidi, Kelly J. Knudson · Journal of Archaeological Science · 74
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To understand how migrations affect human securities, look to the past
2020 · Jeffrey H. Altschul, Keith W. Kintigh, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 30
Drinking Locally: A Water 87Sr/86Sr Isoscape for Geolocation of Archeological Samples in the Peruvian Andes
2020 · Beth K. Scaffidi, Tiffiny A. Tung, et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · 24
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Endemic violence in a pre‐Hispanic Andean community: A bioarchaeological study of cranial trauma from the Majes Valley, Peru
2020 · Beth K. Scaffidi, Tiffiny A. Tung · American Journal of Physical Anthropology · 24
Spatial paleopathology: A geographic approach to the etiology of cribrotic lesions in the prehistoric Andes
2019 · Beth Koontz Scaffidi · International Journal of Paleopathology · 21
Non-Local Enemies or Local Subjects of Violence?: Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and Lead (206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) Isobiographies to Reconstruct Geographic Origins and Early Childhood Mobility of Decapitated Male Heads from the Majes Valley, Peru
2021 · Beth K. Scaffidi, George D. Kamenov, et al. · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · 17
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Flexible agropastoral strategies during the 1st millennium CE in southern Peru: Examining yunga Arequipa camelid husbandry practices during Wari expansion through stable isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N) in the Majes and Sihuas Valleys
2022 · Aleksa K. Alaica, Beth K. Scaffidi, et al. · Quaternary International · 9
Late Intermediate Period Funerary Traditions, Population Aggregation, and the Ayllu in the Sihuas Valley, Peru
2021 · Justin Jennings, Willy Yépez Álvarez, et al. · Latin American Antiquity · 8
Power, Mediation, and Transformation: Dismembered Heads from Uraca (Majes Valley, Peru) and the Andean Feline-Hunter Myth
2020 · Beth Koontz Scaffidi · University Press of Colorado eBooks · 6
Biogeochemical evidence for targeted landscape use in ancient foragers of Malawi
2025 · Alex Bertacchi, Andrew Zipkin, et al. · Communications Earth & Environment · 4
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Seasonality or short-term mobility among trophy head victims and villagers?: Understanding late-life dietary change in the pre-Hispanic Andes through stable isotope analysis (δ13C/δ15N) of archaeological hair keratin and bone collagen
2021 · Beth K. Scaffidi, Tiffiny A. Tung, et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science Reports · 4
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Andean isoscapes
2020 · James Zimmer‐Dauphinee, Beth K. Scaffidi, et al. · 4
Seabirds shaped the expansion of pre-Inca society in Peru
2026 · Jacob L. Bongers, Emily B. P. Milton, et al. · PLoS ONE · 3
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Animals, Ancestors, and the Others: Weaving Geographic Distance into Pre-Hispanic Andean Mortuary Landscapes in Early Intermediate Period to Middle Horizon ( c. 100 bce –750 ce ) Southern Peru
2025 · Beth K. Scaffidi, Gwyneth Gordon, et al. · Cambridge Archaeological Journal · 1
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Maize as a Marker:
2023 · Beth K. Scaffidi, Natasha P. Vang, et al. · University of Arizona Press eBooks · 1
Bioarchaeological Approaches to Understanding Conflict and Collaboration: The Circulation of Violence as a Heterarchical Structure
2020 · Beth K. Scaffidi · American Anthropologist · 1
School for Advanced Research Book Chapter on Kinship: Andean Human Individuals with 87Sr/86Sr from Multiple Life Course Phases
2026 · Cassandra Scaffidi · Figshare
Landscapes of Pre-Hispanic Andean Kinship: Ancestors, Ayllus and Relationality
2026 · Beth K. Scaffidi · Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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Life Force Embodied: Trophy Heads as Organizers and Agents in Pre-Hispanic Andean Warfare
2025 · Beth K. Scaffidi · BRILL eBooks
Celebrating Cleft Lip? Osteological and Artistic Evidence of Lip Deformity in a Trophy Head Individual from Southern Peru
2025 · Beth K. Scaffidi · Ñawpa Pacha
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Geographic insularity and intra-lifetime mobility in Late Intermediate Period (ca. 1000 – 1450 CE) Arequipa, Peru determined from 87Sr/86Sr isobiographies
2025 · Beth K. Scaffidi, Justin Jennings, et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
Application requesting funding to support completion of a book about pre-Hispanic Andean polities (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship)
2023 · Cassandra (Beth) Scaffidi · The Digital Archeological Record (tDAR)
Foodweb_Central_Andes_9_10_2021.xlsx
2021 · Scaffidi, Cassandra · Figshare
Parental Investment in a High-Stress Environment: Weaning Age and Early Childhood Diet at Uraca, Lower Majes Valley, Peru
2019 · Alexandra M. Greenwald, Beth K. Scaffidi, et al. · The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology
Works count: 32
Citation count: 324
H-index: 8
I10-index: 7
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