PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: ( see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Wigand/publications)
1. Wigand, P. E. 2013. Southwestern North America. In: Elias S.A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, vol. 4, pp. 142-155. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
2. Wigand, P. E. 2009. Identification of Artifact Wood from Gypsum Cave, Nevada. Appendix C. Pp. C1 – C37. In Gilreath, A. (ed.), Volume II: Appendices. Gypsum Cave Revisited. Nevada Cultural Resources Report # CR5-2462-4(p).
3. Wigand, P. E. 2007. Pp. 37-48. Chapter 4: Pleistocene and Pre-European Grassland Ecosystems - Late Quaternary Paleoecology of Grasslands and other Grassy Habitats. In Stromberg, M, J. Corbin, and C D'Antonio (eds.). Ecology and Management of California Grasslands. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 390 pp.
4. Nicholas E. Graham, Malcolm K. Hughes, Caspar M. Ammann, Kim M. Cobb, Martin P. Hoerling, Douglas J. Kennett, James P. Kennett, Bert Rein, Lowell Stott, Peter E. Wigand, and Taiyi Xu. 2007. Tropical Pacific-Mid-latitude Teleconnections in Medieval Times. Climatic Change 83(1-2):241-285.Wigand, P. E. 2007. Postglacial pollen Records of Southwestern North American Pp. 2773- 2783. In Elias, S. A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, volumes 1-4. Elsevier, London, UK.
5. Negrini, R.M., P.E. Wigand, S. Draucker, K. Gobalet, J.K. Gardner, M.Q. Sutton, R.M. Yohe, II. 2006. The Rambla highstand shoreline and the Holocene lake-level history of Tulare Lake, California, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews 25:1599-1618.
6. Banks, W. E. and P. E. Wigand. 2005. Reassessment of Radiocarbon Age Determinations for the Munkers Creek Phase. Plains Anthropologist 50(194):173-183.
7. Wigand, P. E. and D. Rhode. 2002. Great Basin Vegetation History and Aquatic Systems: The Last 150,000 years. Pp. 309-367. In Hershler, R., D. B. Madsen and D. R. Currey (eds.), Great Basin Aquatic Systems History. Smithsonian Contributions to Earth Sciences 33. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
8. Mladen Zic, Robert M. Negrini, Peter E. Wigand. 2002. Evidence of synchronous climate change across the northern hemisphere between the north Atlantic and the northwestern Great Basin, USA. Geology30(7):635-638.
9. Jahren, A. H., R. Amundson, C. Kendall and P. E. Wigand. 2001. Paleoclimatic reconstruction using the Correlation in d 18 O of hackberry carbonate and environmental water, North America. Quaternary Research 56(2):252-263.
10. Hallett, J. C. and P. E. Wigand. 2001. The role of dietary fiber in dung size of bushy-tailed woodrat, Neotoma cinerea: its potential application to paleoclimatic interpretation. Western North American Naturalist 61(1):57-63.
11. Cohen, A. S., M. Palacios, R. M. Negrini, P. E. Wigand, and D. B. Erbes. 2000. A paleoclimate record for the past 250,000 years from Summer Lake, Oregon, U.S.A.: II. Sedimentology, paleontology, and geochemistry. Journal of Paleolimnology 24 (2):151-182.
12. Negrini, R. M., D.l B. Erbes, K. Faber, A. M. Herrera, A. P. Roberts, A. S. Cohen, P. E. Wigand, and Franklin F. Foit, Jr. 2000. A paleoclimate record for the past 250,000 years from Summer Lake, Oregon, U.S.A.: I. Chronology and magnetic proxies for lake level. Journal of Paleolimnology 24 (2):125-149.
13. Wigand, P. E. 1999. Stable isotopes in biotic materials and regional climatic reconstruction. Pp. 119-138. In Rose, M. R. and P. E. Wigand (eds.) Proceedings of the Southern California Climate Symposium, 25 October 1991: Trends and Extremes of the Past 2000 Years. Technical Reports #11. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 269 pp.
14. Harvey, A. M., P. E. Wigand and S. G. Wells. 1999: Response of alluvial fan systems to the late Pleistocene to Holocene climatic transition: contrasts between the margins of pluvial Lakes Lahontan and Mojave, Nevada and California, U.S.A. Catena 36:255-281.
15. Wigand, P. E. and A. Simmons. 1999:. Chapter 8: The Dating of Arkotiri Aetokremenos. In Simmons, A. (ed.), Faunal Extinction in an Island Society: Pygmy Hippopotamus Hunters of Cyprus. KluwerAcademic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
16. Wigand, P. E. 1997: Native American diet and environmental contexts of the Holocene revealed in the pollen of human fecal material. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 40(1):105-116.
17. Plummer, M. A., F. M. Phillips, J. Fabryka-Martin, H. J. Turin, P. E. Wigand, P. Sharma. 1997: Chlorine-36 in fossil rat urine: an archive of cosmogenic nuclide deposition over the past 40,000 years. Science 277(5325):538-541.
18. Wigand, P. E. 1997. A late-Holocene pollen record from Lower Pahranagat Lake, southern Nevada, USA: High resolution paleoclimatic records and analysis of environmental responses to climate change. Pp. 63-77. In Isaacs, C. M. and V. L. Tharp (eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop, April 15-18, 1996. Interagency Ecological Program. Technical Report 53. California Department of Water Resources.
19. Wigand, P. E. and Hemphill, M. L., 1995: Great Basin woodland dynamics during the Holocene. In Waugh, W. J., Petersen, K.L., Wigand, P.E. and Louthan, B.D., (eds.). Proceedings of the Workshop-Climate Change in the Four Corners and Adjacent Regions: Implications for Environmental Restoration and Land-Use Planning. CONF-9409325, U.S. Department of Energy, Grand Junction, Colorado.
20. Miller, R. F. and Wigand, P.E., 1994: Holocene Changes in Semiarid Woodlands: Response to climate, fire and human activities in the Great Basin. Bioscience 44(7):465-474.
21. Wigand, P. E., Hemphill, M.L. and (Manna) Patra, S., 1994: Late Holocene climate derived from vegetation history and plant cellulose stable isotope records from the Great Basin of western North America. Pp. 2574 -2583. Proceedings of the fifth Annual International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference and Exposition, May 22-26, 1994.
22. Simmons, A. and Wigand, P.E., 1994: Assessing the Radiocarbon Determinations from Akrotiri Aetokremnos, Cyprus. Pp. 247-264. In Bar-Yosef, O. and R. S. Kraa, (eds.), Late Quaternary Chronology and Paleoclimates of the Eastern Mediterranean. Radiocarbon, Tucson , AZ.
23. Nowak, C. L., Nowak, R.S., Tausch, R.J. and Wigand, P.E., 1994: A 30,000 year record of vegetation dynamics at a semi-arid locale in the Great Basin. Journal of Vegetation Science 5:579-590.
Other Publications:
Ciolek-Torello, R., R. M. Wegener, and P. E. Wigand. 2011. Introduction. Pp. 1-26. Volume 1: Florence Junction Area. The U.S 60 Archaeological Project: Early Agricultural, Formative, and Historical Period Use of the Upper Queen Creek Region. Ciolek-Torello, R. and R. M. Wegener (eds.). Technical Series 92. Statistical Research Inc., Tucson, Arizona. 376 pp.
Adams, K. R., P. E. Wigand, and R. Ciolek-Torello. 2011. Archaeobotanical Remains. Pp. 255-273. Volume 1: Florence Junction Area. The U.S 60 Archaeological Project: Early Agricultural, Formative, and Historical Period Use of the Upper Queen Creek Region. Ciolek-Torello, R. and R. M. Wegener (eds.). Technical Series 92. Statistical Research Inc., Tucson, Arizona. 376 pp.
Wegener, R. M., P. E. Wigand, and A. H. Keller. 2004. 2: Natural and Archaeological Setting. Pp. 7-46. In Wegener, R. M., J. H. Altschul, A. H. Keller and A. Q. Stoll (eds.). Distant Shores: Cultural resources survey at Honey Lake, Lassen County, California. Prepared for the Army Corps of Engineers. DACW09-03-D-0005 CQ01.
Palacios-Fest, M. R. and P. E. Wigand. 2004. 6: Honey Lake Paleoenvironmental Feasibility Study. Pp. 113-150. In Wegener, R. M., J. H. Altschul, A. H. Keller and A. Q. Stoll (eds.). Distant Shores: Cultural resources survey at Honey Lake, Lassen County, California. Prepared for the Army Corps of Engineers. DACW09-03-D-0005 CQ01.
Wigand, P. E. and B. A. Hicks. 2004. Chapter 3: Environmental Overview. Pp 43-64. In Hicks, B. A. (ed.). Marmes Rockshelter: A Final Report on 11,000 Years of Cultural Use. Washington State University Press.
Wigand, P. E. 2003. Middle to late Holocene climate and vegetation dynamics. Pp. 231-250. In Rosenthal, J. S. and J. Eerkens (eds.), Chapter 11: Research Issues Revisted. The Archaeology of Coso Basin: Test Excavations at 28 Sites Located in the North Ranges Complex, NAWS, China Lake.
Wigand, P. E. 2003. Chapter 7: Pollen and macrobotanical studies. Pp 69-75. In Becker, K. M. (ed.) Extended Phase I and Phase II Excavations at the Wilson Site (CA-MER-383, P-24-001686). Technical Report 03-36, Statistical Research, Inc., Redlands, California.
Negrini, R. M. and P. E. Wigand. 2003. Appendix I: Geologic Investigations of Ancient Shorelines Along the Western Margin of Tulare Lake. Pp. I-1 - I-33. In Gardner, J. K. (ed.) Archaeological Assessment of the Arroyo Pasajero Westside Detention Basin with Tulare Lakebed Flood Storage Project, Kings County, California. Center for Archaeological Research, California State University, Bakersfield, California.
Wigand, P. E. 2002. Appendix I: Packrat Midden Analysis. In Eerkens, J. W. and J. H. King (eds.) Phase II Archaeological Investigations for the Sherwin Summit Rehabilitation Project, U.S. Highway 395, Inyo and Mono Counties, California, Vol. II: Appendicies. Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc., Davis, California
Wigand, P. E. 2001. Chapter 9: Faunal and Botanical Remains: The Pollen. Pp. 252-254. In Kelly, R. L. Prehistory of the Carson Desert and Stillwater Mountains: Environment, Mobility, and Subsistence in a Great Basin Wetland. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 123.
Gough, S., P. E. Wigand and D. F. Stradling. 2001. The environmental setting of the Sequim Site: 45CA426. Archeology in Washington (Association for Washington Archaeology) VIII:44-68.
Lindström, Susan G., Merideth Rucks and Peter Wigand. 2000. Chapter 2: A Contextual Overview of Human Land Use and Environmental Conditions. Pp. 23-127. In Lake Tahoe Watershed Assessment: Volume 1. Dennis D. Murphy and Christopher M. Knopp (eds). USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-175.2000. Volume 1 735 pp, Volume 2 Appendices. Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service in collaboration with the Pacific Southwest Region of the USDA Forest Service, the Tahoe Regional, Albany.
Planning Agency, the University of California at Davis, the University of Nevada at Reno, and the Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada.
Wigand, P. E. 1999. Appendix F. Pollen Analysis. Pp. F.1-F.25. In Morgan, V. E. (ed.), Volume 2, Appendices, The SR-101 Sequim Bypass Archaeological Project: Mid- to Late-Holocene Occupations on the Northern Olympic Peninsula, Clallam County, Washington.
Wigand, P. E. 1997. Woodrat middens and pollen analysis. Pp. 72-80. In Buck, P. E. (ed.), Prehistory and paleoenvironment at Pintwater Cave, Nevada: Results of field work during the 1996 season. Project number OS-005071. Prepared for the Department of the Air Force, Headquarters USAF Air Warfare Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
Wigand, P. E. 1995. Stable isotopic analyses in paleoclimatic reconstruction. Pp. 27-38. In Waugh, W. J. (ed.). Proceedings of the Workshop-Climate Change in the Four Corners and Adjacent Regions: Implications for Environmental Restoration and Land-Use Planning. CONF-9409325, U.S. Department of Energy, Grand Junction, Colorado.
Hemphill, M. L. and P. E. Wigand. 1995. A detailed 2,000-year Late Holocene pollen record from Lower Pahranagat Lake, southern Nevada, USA. Pp. 41-49. In Waugh, W. J. (ed.). Proceedings of the Workshop-Climate Change in the Four Corners and Adjacent Regions: Implications for Environmental Restoration and Land-Use Planning. CONF-9409325, U.S. Department of Energy, Grand Junction, Colorado.
Wigand, P. E., M. L. Hemphill, S. E. Sharpe, and S. Patra. 1995. Great Basin woodland dynamics during the Holocene. Pp. 51-69. In Waugh, W. J. (ed.). Proceedings of the Workshop-Climate Change in the Four Corners and Adjacent Regions: Implications for Environmental Restoration and Land-Use Planning. CONF-9409325, U.S. Department of Energy, Grand Junction, Colorado.
Wigand, P. E., M. L. Hemphill and S. (Manna) Patra. 1994. Late Holocene climate derived from vegetation history and plant cellulose stable isotope records from the Great Basin of western North America. Pp 2574-2583. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference and Exposition, May 22-26, 1994. Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and American Nuclear Society. American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, Illinois.
Tausch, R. J., W. Burkhardt, C. L. Nowak and P. E. Wigand, 1993. Viewpoint: Lessons from the past for managing tomorrow's range ecosustems. Rangelands 15(5):196-199.
Wigand, P. E. 1990. Task IV: The Study of Links between Climate and Human Activities in the Lahontan Basin. Pp. 64-94. In Studies of Climatic Variations and their Impact on the Great Basin, Final report on contract #NA878A-D-CP114, delivered to the National Climatic Program Office, NOAA, Rockville, Maryland.
Wigand, P.E. and M.R. Rose. 1990. Calibration of High Frequency Pollen Sequences and Tree-Ring Records. Pp. . Proceedings of the First International Highlevel Radioactive Waste Management Conference & Exposition, April 8-12, 1990. Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and American Nuclear Society. American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, Illinois.
Reid, K.C., J.A. Draper, and P.E. Wigand. 1989. Prehistory and Paleoenvironments of the Silvies Plateau, Harney Basin, Southeastern Oregon.. Center for Northwest Anthropology, Project Report Number 8.
Mehringer, P.J., Jr. and P.E.Wigand. 1987. Western juniper in the Holocene. In proceedings of the Pinyon-Juniper Conference, Reno, Nevada, Jan. 13-16, 1986. General Technical Report INT-215, pp. 109-119.
Wigand, P. E. 1986. Appendix A: Pollen analysis of archaeological sediments along the route of the Chevron CO2/PO4 pipeline. Pp 323-342. In Tucker, G. C. (Project Director), Volume 2: Results of Archaeological Investigations Along the Chevron CO2/PO4 Pipelines In Notheastern Utah and Northwestern Colorado.
Mehringer, P.J., Jr. and P.E. Wigand. 1985. Prehistoric distribution of western juniper. In Proceedings of the Western Juniper Management Short Course, Bend, Oregon, Oct. 15-16, 1984. Oregon State University Extension Service and the Department of Rangeland Resources, Oregon State University, Corvallis, pp. 1-9.
SELECTED PROJECT REPORTS:
Wigand, P. E. 2006. (April). Appendix X. Paleoenvironmental Overview. In Stoner, E. J., M. C. Ringhoff, R. R. Peterson, and J. Sigler (preparers). The Archaeology of "The Biggest Little City in the World" The Retrac Project, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada: Prehistoric Resources. Volume 1 Report. WCRM Report No. 04-R-034.
Wigand, P. E. and E. J. Stoner. 2006. (April). Chapter 15: Paleoenvironment of site 26Wa7522. In Stoner, E. J., M. C. Ringhoff, R. R. Peterson, and J. Sigler (preparers). The Archaeology of "The Biggest Little City in the World" The Retrac Project, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada: Prehistoric Resources. Volume 1 Report. WCRM Report No. 04-R-034.
Wigand, P. E. 2005 (February). Sites CAL-LAN-63, CAL-LAN-64, CAL-LAN-206 (Del Rey Bluffs, Southern California): Pollen and Macrobotanical Analysis. Report submitted to Statistical Research, Inc. 39 pp. 15 figs. 12 tables.
Wigand, P. E. 2004 (October). Modern Ecology and Paleoecology of the Sierra Valley of Northeastern California. Final report submitted to Far Western Anthropological Group, Inc. 63 pp. 32 figs. 5 tables.
Wigand, P. E. 2004 (November). Estuarine Evolution, Chaparral History, and Changing Plant Resource Availablility. Report on the paleoecology of the Los Angeles Basin submitted to Statistical Research, Inc. 57 pages. 34 figs. 8 tables.
Wigand, P. E. 2004 (July). Local Marsh and Regional Vegetation and Fire History and Its Environmental Context as Reconstructed from Sediment Cores at Summit Lake, Nevada. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, Winnemmucca Office. 42 pp. 16 figs. 7 Tables.
Wigand, P. E. 2004 (July). Site #SBR - 8091H. (Prado Basin, Southern California). Report submitted to Statistical Research, Inc. 23 pp. 10 figs. 5 tables.
M. R. Palacios-Fest and P. E. Wigand. 2003 (September). Honey Lake, California: Assessment of Sediment Samples for Pollen Analysis Potential. Report submitted to Statistical Research, Inc. 33 pp. 11 figs. 11 tables. Appendix 6 pp.
Wigand, P. E. 2003 (November). Southeastern Idaho: Sensitive Climatic Transition Region in the Northern Rockies. Report on Grays Lake pollen analysis submitted to Richard Holmer, Department of Anthropology, Idaho State University. 81 pp. 68 figs. 10 tables.
Wigand, P. E. 2002 (September). Middle to late Holocene Climate and Vegetation Dynamics in the Northwestern Mohave Desert as Revealed in Pollen and Macrofossils from Ancient Woodrat Middens 58 pp. 29 figs. 5 tables.
Wigand, P. E. 2002 (February). Prehistoric Dynamics of Piñon Woodland in the Northern Owens Valley Region and Beyond as Revealed in Macrofossils from Ancient Woodrat Middens. Report to Far Western Anthropological Group, Inc. 43 pp. 14 figs. 5 tables.
Wigand, P. E. 2001 (October). Late Quaternary Climates and Environments of the Plateau of Eastern Washington. Report to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. 57 pp. 13 figs. 1 table.
Wigand, P. E. 1999 (April). The Horse Creek Drainage Basin, Churchill County, Nevada: Middle to late Holocene vegetation history, extrapolated climate record, and geomorphic responses for the northern Great Basin. Final report U.S. Navy Contract N62474-97-M2227. 45 pp. 21 figs. 1 table.