Dr. Randy Haas is an archaeologist and assistant professor of anthropology. He earned his Ph.D. from The University of Arizona in 2014. Prior to joining the UC Davis faculty in 2017, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Universities of Maryland and Wyoming.
Dr. Haas studies the evolution of complex human behaviors among ancient forager societies. For some 200 thousand years prior to the advent of market and agricultural economies, forager economies were the only human economies on the planet. Dr. Haas uses the archaeological record and quantitative methods to understand how our biology, cultures, and social organization evolved in those forager contexts. His recent work is advancing our understanding of how early hunter-gatherers of the Andes Mountains adapted to physically challenging alpine environments above 3800 meters in altitude and how cooperative social structures, potato and quinoa agriculture, and alpaca husbandry evolved between 12,000 and 3500 years ago.
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:10.1126/sciadv.abd0310
Haas, Randall and Steven L. Kuhn
2019 Forager mobility in constructed environments. Current Anthropology 60(4):499-535. doi: 10.1086/704710
Haas, Randall, Todd A. Surovell, and Matthew J. O’Brien
2019 Dukha Mobility in a Constructed Environment: Past Camp Use Predicts Future Use in the Mongolian Taiga. American Antiquity 84(2):215-233. doi: 10.1017/aaq.2018.88.
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 The genetic prehistory of the Andean highlands 7,000 Years BP though European contact. Science Advances 11(4): eaau4921. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau4921.
Watson, James T., and Randall Haas
2017 Dental evidence for wild tuber processing among Titicaca Basin foragers 7000 ybp. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 164(1): 117–130. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23261
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: 10.1098/rsos.170331.
Meyer, Michael C., Mark S. Aldenderfer, Z. Wang, D.L. Hoffmann, D. Degering, J.A. Dahl, Randall Haas, Frank Schlütz
2017 Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the Early Holocene. Science 355 (6320): 64–67. doi:10.1126/science.aag0357.
Downey, Sean S., Randall Haas, and Stephen J. Shennan
2016 European Neolithic societies showed early warning signals of population collapse.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 201602504. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1602504113.
Haas, Randall, Cynthia J. Klink, Greg J. Maggard, and Mark S. Aldenderfer
2015 Settlement-size scaling among prehistoric hunter-gatherer settlement systems in the New World. PLoS ONE 10(11):e0140127. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140127.
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: 10.15184/aqy.2015.100.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology Evolutionary Wing
