Courses Taught
- ANTH 202- Introduction to Archaeology
- ANTH 461- Environmental Archaeology
- ANTH 489- Special Topics in Anthropology: South American Archaeology
Current Research Projects:
- Early Human Ecology and Settlement Dynamics of the Central Andean Highlands (National Science Foundation)
- Did Prehistoric Hunters of the High Andes Target Ice Age Megafauna 13,000 Years Ago? (Elfrieda Frank Foundation)
Research Interests
- settlement of the Americas
- environmental archaeology
- hunter-gatherers
- historical ecology
- lithic technology and provenance
- geographic information systems
Educational Background
- PhD in Quaternary Archaeology, University of Maine, 2012
Selected Publications
(+ indicates graduate student co-author)
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