Selected Publications


2024    Chiou, Katherine L., Andrés Lira Noriega,  Emiliano Gallaga, Christine A. Hastorf,  and Araceli Aguilar-Meléndez. Interdisciplinary insights into the cultural and chronological context of chili pepper (Capsicum annuum var. annuum L.) domestication in Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(47): e2413764121. 

2024    Hu, Di, Victor F. Vásquez Sánchez, Teresa Rosales Tham, Katherine L. Chiou, Rob Cuthrell, and Kylie Quave. Food and labour under imperial rule: Unravelling the food landscape of transplanted workers (mitmaqkuna) in the Inka Empire. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1–20. doi:10.1017/S0959774324000258 . 
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2024    Chiou, Katherine L., and Christine A. Hastorf. Los chiles del antiguo Perú: Buscando los fundamentos de los sabores peruanos. In Chiles, Ajíes y Pimentas. Capsicum en el Caribe, Centro y Sudamérica, edited by A. Aguilar-Meléndez, M.A. Vásquez-Dávila, R.M. Hernández Colorado, and E. Katz, pp. 37-46. Veracruz, México and IRD Éditions: Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana and Marseille, France. 

2023    Chiou, Katherine L. Inside the Moche house: Uncovering peasant foodways in the Andean past. In Transforming Foods in the Ancient Andes: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Studies of Food, Diet, and Cuisine, edited by M.P. Alfonso-Durruty and D. Blum, pp. 240-258. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

2022    Gallaga Murrieta, Emiliano, Araceli Aguilar-Meléndez, Christine A. Hastorf, Andrés Lira-Noriega, and Katherine L. Chiou. Rastreando los orígenes de la domesticación del chile (Capsicum spp. L.) en Mesoamérica: Un estudio interdisciplinario para entender procesos bioculturales. In Aportaciones Teórico-Prácticas a la Bioculturalidad: Aproximaciones desde el Sur Mexicano, edited by G.E. Newell and E. Pérez López, pp. 209-226. Chiapas: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas Press.

2019    Szpak, Paul and Katherine L. Chiou. A comparison of nitrogen isotope compositions of charred and desiccated botanical remains from northern Peru. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 29:527-538.

2019    Kennedy, Sarah A., Katherine L. Chiou, and Parker VanValkenburgh. Inside the reducción: Crafting colonial foodways at Carrizales and Mocupe Viejo, Zaña Valley, Peru (1570-1700). International Journal of Historical Archaeology 23:980-1010.

2017    Farahani, Alan, Katherine L. Chiou, Anna Harkey, Christine A. Hastorf, David L. Lentz, and Payson D. Sheets. Identifying ‘plantscapes’ at the Classic Maya village of Joya de Cerén, El Salvador. Antiquity 91:980-997.

2017    Chiou, Katherine L., Christine A. Hastorf, Victor F. Vásquez Sánchez, Teresa Rosales Tham, Duccio Bonavia, and Tom D. Dillehay. Chili pepper distribution and use. In Where the Land Meets the Sea: Fourteen Millennia of Human Prehistory on the North Coast of Peru, edited by Tom D. Dillehay, pp. 645-655. Austin: University of Texas Press.

2017    Dillehay, Tom D., Steve Goodbred, Mario Pino, Victor F. Vásquez Sánchez, Teresa Rosales Tham, James Adovasio, Michael B. Collins, Patricia J. Netherly, Christine A. Hastorf, Katherine L. Chiou, Dolores Piperno, Isabel Rey, and Nancy Velchoff. Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru. Science Advances 3:31602778.

2017    Farahani, Alan, Katherine L. Chiou, Rob Q. Cuthrell, Anna Harkey, Shanti Morell-Hart, Christine A. Hastorf, and Payson D. Sheets. Exploring culinary practices through GIS modeling at Joya de Cerén, El Salvador. In Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data, edited by Matthew P. Sayre and Maria C. Bruno, pp. 101-120.

2014    Chiou, Katherine L. and Christine A. Hastorf. A systematic approach to species-level identification of chile pepper (Capsicum spp. L.) seeds: Establishing the groundwork for tracking the domestication and movement of chile peppers through the Americas. Economic Botany 68:316-336.

2014    Chiou, Katherine L., Christine A. Hastorf, Duccio Bonavia, and Tom D. Dillehay. Documenting cultural selection pressure changes on chile pepper (Capsicum baccatum L.) seed size through time in coastal Peru. Economic Botany 68:190-202.

​2013    Chiou, Katherine L., Anita G. Cook, and Christine A. Hastorf. Flotation versus dry sieving archaeobotanical remains: A case history from the Middle Horizon southern coast of Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology 38:38-53.

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