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Joy McCorriston

Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1991
Archaeology and ancient environmental studiesArchaeology and Historical StudiesPleistocene-Era Hominins and ArchaeologyGeology and Paleoclimatology ResearchEurasian Exchange Networks

Publications

78

Citations

1,650

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

35

Publishing since 1991

Research summary
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Joy McCorriston studies the long-term relationship between human societies and their environments in arid and semi-arid regions, especially in Oman and southern Arabia. Her work combines archaeological survey and excavation with paleoenvironmental evidence—such as rock hyrax middens (accumulated debris used to reconstruct past vegetation and climate)—to understand how ancient pastoralist and forager communities shaped and responded to landscape change. This research contributes to broader questions about human land-use history, biodiversity, and climate variability in dryland ecosystems.

Archaeology of Arabia and OmanHuman-environment interactions in drylandsPaleoclimate and vegetation historyPastoralism and Neolithic settlement studiesLandscape survey and excavation methods

Publication output was low and steady through the late 2010s, spiked sharply in 2020 with a large cluster of related works, and has since settled back to a modest, steady rate of about 2 publications per year.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 2 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 19 publications19202021: 5 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 2 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)×3
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America×3
  • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany×2
  • PLoS ONE×2
  • Journal of African American Studies×2
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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