Abigail Buffington
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
20
Citations
50
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
11
Publishing since 2015
Abigail Buffington studies how ancient human societies interacted with their environments, focusing on regions like southeast Arabia (Oman, Yemen) and Eastern Polynesia (Society and Gambier Islands). Her work combines archaeology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction (such as sediment and charcoal analysis), and archaeobotany (including phytolith analysis of plant remains) to understand ancient economies like copper smelting and pastoralism, as well as human resilience to climate change and ecological change over centuries.
Publication output has been fairly steady at 1-3 papers per year over the past decade, with a notable increase to 5 publications in 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Methodological Advances in Understanding Environmental Constraints on Sustainability and Industrial Periodicity of Ancient Copper Smelting in Southeast Arabia
Open Quaternary · 2025
- South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change
PLoS ONE · 2025
- The Rakhat al Madrh sedimentary archive in the periphery of the Bat oasis, Oman: paleoenvironmental evolution and human occupation
2025
- Do Ecological or Social Factors Generate Internal Variation Amongst Eastern Polynesian Chiefdoms? A Comparison of Human Interactions with Other Species in the Society Islands and Gambier Islands (Mangareva)
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
- Do Ecological or Social Factors Generate Internal Variation Amongst Eastern Polynesian Chiefdoms? A Comparison of Human Interactions with Other Species in the Society Islands and Gambier Islands (Mangareva)
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
- Cultural and Human Ecological Resilience at Early Bronze Age Bat
Open Quaternary · 2024
- Iron Age Copper Metallurgy in Southeast Arabia: A Comparative Perspective
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology/Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology · 2023
- Defining the Scope of the Anthropogenic Niche: Woodland Communities Over a 1000-Year Sequence in the Society Islands (French Polynesia)
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023
- From the Paleolithic to the Islamic Era in Wilayat Yanqul: The Archaeological Water Histories of Oman (ArWHO) Project Survey 2011-2018
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2022
- Social and Ecological Factors Affect Long-Term Resilience of Voyaging Canoes in Pre-contact Eastern Polynesia: A Multiproxy Approach From the ArchaeoEcology Project
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · 2022
- Mitigating the potential contamination risk incurred in sampling herbarium specimens for phytolith reference collection
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports · 2021
- Ancient Pastoral Settlement in The Dhofar Mountains: Archaeological Excavations at Shakil and Halqoot
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2020
- Grasses Are Always Greener: The Technology of Herding and Mobility among Neolithic Pastoralists in South Arabia
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology · 2019
- Wood exploitation patterns and pastoralist–environment relationships: charcoal remains from Iron Age Ṡhakal, Dhufar, Sultanate of Oman
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany · 2018
- What is Your “Phytolith Load”? An Examination of the Potential for Cross-Contamination During Phytolith Extraction
Ethnobiology Letters · 2018
- SSRN Electronic Journal×3
- Human Ecology×2
- Open Quaternary×2
- HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)×2
- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany×1
- Joy McCorriston
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Melanie M. Beasley
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Richard W. Yerkes
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Edward W. Herrmann
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Indiana University
- Brian D. Padgett
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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