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  1. We estimate population size around Chaco for three periods

    Article • KIVA, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Tim Kohler

  2. Archaeology is developing new techniques to describe and explain the origins of economic inequality

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tim Kohler

  3. Introducing the Special Feature on housing differences and inequality over the very long term

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tim Kohler

  4. How Maize Farmers in the US Southwest Grew and Prospered Under El Niño but Suffered Under La Niña

    Article • KIVA, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Tim Kohler

  5. The Past as a Stochastic Process

    Article • Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, January 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Jürgen Jost, Tim Kohler

  6. Prehistory in the Land of Malthus

    Article • January 2024, SFI Press

    Tim Kohler

  7. The vulnerability of aging states: A survival analysis across premodern societies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tim Kohler

  8. Wealth inequality in the prehispanic northern US Southwest: from Malthus to Tyche

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Tim Kohler

  9. Reply to Ruhl and Craig: Assessing and governing extreme climate risks needs to be legitimate and democratic

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tim Kohler

  10. Reply to Bhowmik et al.: Democratic climate action and studying extreme climate risks are not in tension

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tim Kohler

  11. Reply to Kelman: The foundations for studying catastrophic climate risks

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tim Kohler

  12. Reply to Burgess et al: Catastrophic climate risks are neglected, plausible, and safe to study

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tim Kohler

  13. Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tim Kohler

  14. Social Scale and Collective Computation: Does Information Processing Limit Rate of Growth in Scale?

    Article • Journal of Social Computing, March 2022, Tsinghua University Press

    Tim Kohler

  15. Loss of resilience preceded transformations of pre-Hispanic Pueblo societies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Tim Kohler

  16. A Constrained Stochastic Weather Generator for Daily Mean Air Temperature and Precipitation

    Article • Atmosphere, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Tim Kohler

  17. How Can Evolutionary and Biological Anthropologists Engage Broader Audiences?

    Article • January 2021, Center for Open Science

    Tim Kohler

  18. The IPCC: A Primer for Archaeologists

    Article • American Antiquity, October 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Tim Kohler

  19. Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim Kohler

  20. From Scale to Information and Back: Human Social Evolution in the Holocene

    Article • May 2019, Center for Open Science

    Tim Kohler