El Nino Research Publications Updated: February 2003


  • Rollins, H. B., Sandweiss, D. H., and J. B. Richardson III. 1981. A thermally anomalous molluscan assemblage (TAMA) from archaeological sites along coastal Peru: Paleoecological implications and biostratigraphical utility. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, p. 540.

  • Sandweiss, D. H., Rollins, H. B., and T. H. Anderson, 1981. A single large magnitude uplift in the Holocene record of the Peruvian north coast. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, p. 545.

  • Sandweiss, D. H., Rollins, H. B. and J. B. Richardson III. 1983. Landscape alteration and prehistoric human occupation on the north coast of Peru. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 52: 277-298.

  • Rollins, H. B., 1984. Molluscs and the origin of El Nino. Abstract, American Malacological Bulletin 3(1): 96-97.

  • Sandweiss, D. H., Rollins, H. B.., and J. B. Richardson III. 1985. Prehistoric people and rapid landscape alteration in the Holocene record of the Peruvian coast. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, p. 706.

  • Rollins, H. B., Richardson III, J. B., and D. H. Sandweiss. 1986. The birth of El Nino: Geoarchaeological evidence and implications. Geoarchaeology 1: 3-15.

  • Rollins, H. B., Sandweiss, D. H., and J. C. Rollins, 1986. Effect of the 1982-1983 El Nino on bivalve mollusks. National Geographic Research 2: 106-112.

  • Rollins, H. B., Sandweiss, D. H., and J. C. Rollins, 1986. Documentation of large-magnitude El Nino events using mollusks from coastal archaeological sites: American Geophysical Union, Chapman Conference on El Nino, Oct. 27-31, published abstract, p. 29.

  • Rollins, H. B., Sandweiss, D. H., Brand, U., and J. C. Rollins. 1987. Growth increment and stable isotope analysis of marine bivalves: Implications for the geoarchaeological record of El Nino. Geoarchaeology 2(3): 181-197.

  • Rollins, H. B., Sandweiss, D. H., Rollins, J. C., and U. Brand. 1987. Recognition of large magnitude El Nino events using Andean coastal shell middens. Abst., Symposium on Geoarchaeology of the Andean coast: Recent advances. Society of American Archaeology Mtg., May 6-10, Toronto, p. 115.

  • Sandweiss, D. H., Rollins, H. B., and J. B. Richardson III. 1987. Geoarchaeology of the Santa-Chao region, northern Peru: Alterations in landscape, climate, and human occupation. Contrib. Abst, Symposium on Geoarchaeology of the Andean coast. Recent Advances. Society American Archaeology Mtg., May 6-10, Toronto, p. 116.

  • Rollins, H. B., Sandweiss, D. H., and J. C. Rollins. 1990. Mollusks and coastal archaeology: A review. In Lasca, N. P. and Donahue, J. (eds.), Archaeological geology of North America. Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America, Centennial Special Volume 4, pp. 467-478.

  • Rollins, H. B. and U. Brand. 1992. Ancient ENSO events inferred by bivalve shell geochemistry: A critique. Society of American Archaeology, Abstracts, 57th Ann. Mtg., Pittsburgh, PA, p. 108-9.

  • Rollins, H. B., Ayres, G., and D. H. Sandweiss. 1995. Are inhabitants of cross-latitudinal coasts more frequently impacted by short-term climatic and resource perturbations? A model for decade- to millennia-scale fluctuations of climate, sea-level, and fishery resources. Society of American Archaeology, Abstracts, p. 162.

  • Sandweiss, D. H., Richardson III, J. B., Reitz, E. J., Rollins, H. B., and K. A. Maasch. 1996. Geoarchaeological evidence from Peru for a 5000 years B.P. onset of El Nino. Science 273: 1531-1533.

  • Sandweiss, D.H., Richardson III, J. B., Reitz, E. J., Rollins, H. B. and K. A. Maasch. 1997. Determining the early history of El Nino. Comment by DeVries et al., and response. Science 276: 965-967.

  • Sandweiss, D. H., Maasch, K. A., Belnap, D. F., Richardson III, J. B., and H. B. Rollins. 1998. Discussion of: Lisa E. Wells, 1996. The Santa beach ridge complex, Jour. of Coastal Research 12(1): 1-17: Jour. of Coastal Research 14: 367-373.

  • Rollins, H. B., 1998. Mid-Holocene climate in western South America: A malacological perspective. FERCO International Conference on Climate and Culture at 3,000 B.C., University of Maine.

  • Sandweiss, D. H., Maasch, K. A., Burger, R. L., Richardson III, J. B., Rollins, H. B., and A. Clement. 2001. Variation in Holocene El Nino frequencies: Climate records and cultural consequences in ancient Peru. Geology 29(7): 603-606.