Lisa A. Nagaoka

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Wolverton, S.J., Nagaoka, L.A., Rick, T. (2016). Applied Zooarchaeology: Four Case Studies.
• Ann Wolverton, Lisa Nagaoka, Mimi Wolverton. (2015). Breaking In: Women’s Accounts of How Choices Shape STEM Careers.. Stylus Press.

Book Chapter

• Neme, G., Abbona, C., Gil, A., Otaola, C., Johnson, J., Nagaoka, L.A., Wolverton, S.J. (2023). Late Holocene Environmental Rebound in Northwest Patagonia: Zooarchaeological, Stable Isotope, Radiocarbon, and Ancient DNA Evidence. Questioning Rebound: People and Environmental Change in the Protohistoric and Early Historic Americas, edited by E. L. Jones and J. L. Fisher. 43-53. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press.
• Nagaoka, L., Neme, G. (2023). Late Holocene Environmental Rebound in Northwest Patagonia: Zooarchaeological, Stable Isotope, Radiocarbon, and Ancient DNA Evidence. Questioning Rebound: People and Environmental Change in the Protohistoric and Early Historic Americas. University of Utah.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2021). Using the management of urban species to teach conservation biogeography. Effective Approaches to Human Ecology Education. Society of Ethnobiology.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2019). Human behavioral ecology and zooarchaeology. Springer-Verlag.
• Wolverton, S.J., Nagaoka, L.A. (2018). Zooarchaeology: Investigating Past Interactions Between Humans and Other Animals. Ethnozoology: Animals in Our Lives. 25-43. London, Academic Press.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2012). The Overkill Hypothesis and conservation biology. In, Zooarchaeological Perspectives on Issues in Conservation Biology , edited by S. Wolverton and R. L. Lyman..
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2010). Declining Foraging Efficiency and Moa Carcass Exploitation in Southern New Zealand. In, Evolutionary Ecology and Archaeology: Applications to Problems in Human Evolution and Prehistory, edited by J. Broughton and M. Cannon.
• Nagaoka, L., S. Wolverton, and B. Fullerton. (2008). Taphonomy of Twilight Beach seals Related Links: http://www.geog.unt.edu/~lnagaoka/TBtaphonomy2008.pdf.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (1993). Faunal assemblages from the To'aga site. In, The To'aga Site: Three Millennia of Polynesian Occupation in the Manu'a Islands, American Samoa, edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt, pp. 189-216. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 51..
• Nagaoka, L.A. (1988). Lapita subsistence: The evidence of non-fish archaeofaunal remains. In, Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: A Critical Review, edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt, pp. 117-133. Thomas Burke Washington State Memorial Museum Research Report No. 5.,.

Book Review

• Nagaoka, L.A. (2002). Review of The Archaeologist's Laboratory: The Analysis of Archaeological Data.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2001). Review of Waihou Journeys: The Archaeology of 400 Years of Maori Settlement by Caroline Phillips.

Conference presentation

• Wolverton, S.J., Nagaoka, L.A., Rice, M.D. (2022). Career thinking among geography majors in a sophomore class at UNT. Applied Geography Conference.

Instructor's Manual

• Ponette, A.G., Nagaoka, L.A., Williams, H.F., McGregor, K.M., Maxey, G. (2018). Earth Science Laboratory Manual. Stipes Publishing, L.L.C..

Journal Article

• Pan, F., Nagaoka, L., Wolverton, S.J., Atkinson, S.F., Kohler, T.A., O'Neill II, M. (2021). A Constrained Stochastic Weather Generator for Daily Mean Air Temperature and Precipitation. Atmosphere. 12 (2) 22 pgs..
• Andrew, G., Nagaoka, L.A., Wolverton, S.J. (2019). A geospatial method for estimating soil moisture variability in prehistoric agricultural landscapes. PloS ONE. 14 (8) e0220457.
• Laura, E., Nagaoka, L.A., Wolverton, S.J. (2019). Animal resource use among Mesa Verde farmers related to socio-environmental change. Journal of Anthropological Research. 73 (3) 361-392.
• Traci, P., Charles, R., Wolverton, S.J., Nagaoka, L.A. (2018). Conservation Implications of Late Holocene Freshwater Mussel Remains of the Leon River in Central Texas. Hydrobiologia: The Journal of Aquatic Sciences. 810 477-487.
• Nagaoka, L.A., Rick, T., Wolverton, S.J. (2018). The overkill model and its impact on environmental research. 8 9863-9696.
• Popejoy, T., Wolverton, S.J., Randklev, C., Nagaoka, L.A. (2017). An interpretive framework for assessing freshwater mussel taxonomic abundances in zooarchaeological faunas. Quaternary International. 427 34-46.
• Dombrosky, J., Wolverton, S.J., Nagaoka, L.A. (2016). Archaeological data suggest broader earlier historic distribution of Blue sucker (Cycleptus longatus, Actinopterygii, Catostomidae) in New Mexico. Hydrobiologia: The Journal of Aquatic Sciences. 77 (1) 255-263. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-015-2639-9
• Wolverton, S.J., Nagaoka, L.A. (2016). Introduction. Journal of Ethnobiology. Archaeology as Ethnobiology. 46 (3) 473-475.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2015). Differential carnivore damage as a potential indicator of resource availability and foraging efficiency.. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 22 822-856.
• Wolverton, S., P. Dong, and J. Kennedy. (2012). On behavioral depression in white-tailed deer..
• Nagaoka, L. and M. S. Allen. (2009). Antipodean perspectives on zooarchaeology: Behavioral ecology, taphonomy, and applied research ..
• Wolverton, S., L. Nagaoka, B. Fullerton, and J. Densmore. (2008). White-tailed deer harvest pressure & within-bone nutrient exploitation during the mid- to late Holocene in southeast Texas. Before Farming. 2008 (2)
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2006). Declining foraging efficiency and seal carcass exploitation in southern New Zealand.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2006). Ranking the top archaeological journals.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2005). Declining foraging efficiency and moa carcass exploitation in southern New Zealand.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2005). Screening experiments and differential recovery of Pacific Island fish.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2002). Explaining subsistence change in southern New Zealand using foraging theory models.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2002). Explaining subsistence change in southern New Zealand using foraging theory models.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2002). The effects of resource depression on foraging efficiency, diet breadth, and patch use in southern New Zealand.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (2001). Using diversity measures to understand changes in prey exploitation in southern New Zealand.
• Nagaoka, L.A. (1994). Differential recovery of Pacific Island fish remains: Evidence from the Moturakau Rockshelter, Aitutaki, Cook Islands.
• Kirch, P.V., T.L. Hunt, J. Tyler. (1990). An Ancestral Polynesian occupation at To'aga, Ofu Island, American Samoa.

Journal Special Issue

• Nagaoka, L.A., Wolverton, S.J. (2016). Archaeology as Ethnobiology. Journal of Ethnobiology. 46 (3)

Monograph

• Allen, M. S.. (2004). "In the footsteps of von Haast…the discoveries something grand": The emergence of zooarchaeology in New Zealand. In, Change Through Time, 50 Years of New Zealand Archaeology, edited by L. Furey and S. Holdaway, pp. 193-214..

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Nagaoka, L.A. (Principal), Wolverton, S.J., Pan, F., Atkinson, S.F., "Modeling Crop Failure Potential in Late Pueblo Mesa Verde Villages," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $116206 Funded. (2015 - 2020).
• Wolverton, S.J., Johnson, J., Nagaoka, L.A., "The Use of “Ancient” DNA for Interpreting Predation and Mammalian Population Dynamics.," sponsored by NSF Archaeology, Federal, $55069 Funded. (2016 - 2019).
• Nagaoka, L. (Principal), "GiS and Archaeological Research in Western Argentina," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $7500 Funded. (2012 - 2012).
• Pan, F. (Co-Principal), Nagaoka, L.A. (Principal), Atkinson, S.F. (Co-Principal), Wolverton, S.J. (Co-Principal), "Collaborative Research: Modeling Crop Failure Potential in Late Pueblo III Mesa Verde Villages," sponsored by National Science Foundation, FED, Funded. (2015 - 2020).
• Johnson, J.A. (Co-Principal), Nagaoka, L.A. (Co-Principal), Wolverton, S.J. (Principal), "The Use of "Ancient" DNA for Interpreting Predation and Mammalian Population Dynamics," sponsored by National Science Foundation, FED, Funded. (2016 - 2019).

Grant - Service

• Nagaoka, L., "Updating Data Analytics Capacity in Geography Curriculum," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).