University Scholarship
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Nicole Mathwich

nmathwich@sdsu.eduorcid.org/0000-0002-0037-9941

Appointments

  • San Diego State University
    Anthropology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, US

Profile updated October 8, 2026.

Scholarship

Academic Publications

Embodying colonialism and early capitalism: Comparing cattle body uses in the Spanish colonies
Nicolas Delsol; Nicole Mathwich
Journal of Social Archaeology, 2025, journal article
Animal remains (Archaeology)--Research Arizona Capitalism Cattle Livestock Mexico--Sonora (State) Postcolonialism Slaughtering and slaughter-houses Spanish colonies
An Army Marches on Its Stomach: Comparing Military Provisioning across North American Sixteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Forts
Nicole Mathwich; Martin Welker
American Antiquity, 2023, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 5
Animal remains (Archaeology) Animal remains (Archaeology)--Statistical methods Food supply Fortification--Maps Fur trade Military history North America Operational rations (Military supplies)
Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology: Methods, Applications, and Advances: edited by Ashley E. Sharpe and John Krigbaum, Gainesville, FL, University Press of Florida, 2022, 296 pp., $60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780813069418.
Nicole Mathwich
California Archaeology, 2023, journal article
Archaeology Learning and scholarship--Book reviews Stable isotopes in ecological research University Press of Florida
Order on the Edge of Empire: Social Network Analysis of Colonial Mission Landscapes in Nuevo México and the Pimería Alta
Nicole Mathwich; Evan Giomi
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 3
Church history Indigenous peoples Landscape archaeology Mexico--Sonora (State) New Mexico Postcolonialism Social sciences--Network analysis World politics
Range Limits: Semiferal Animal Husbandry in Spanish Colonial Arizona
Nicole Mathwich
American Antiquity, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 6
Animal remains (Archaeology) Arizona Carbon--Isotopes Colonies--Administration Livestock Missions, Spanish--Economic aspects Pastoral systems--Research Ranches--Management Rangelands

Applying indigenous knowledge to colonial livestock: Isotopic patterns in water and range resources in the desert landscapes of the Pimería Alta
Nicole Mathwich; Pavão-Zuckerman, B.; Ruff, A.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2019, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 3
Animal remains (Archaeology) Carbon--Isotopes Livestock Missions, Spanish Oxygen--Isotopes Postcolonialism Rangelands
Bureaucratic reforms on the frontier: Zooarchaeological and historical perspectives on the 1767 Jesuit Expulsion in the Pimería Alta
Nicole Mathwich; Pavao-Zuckerman, B.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2018, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 6
Animal remains (Archaeology) Bureaucracy Jesuits Mexico--Sonora (State) Missions, Spanish--Economic aspects Pimería Alta Historical Society (Nogales, Ariz.) Rangelands
Assessing the Diversity of Mission Populations through the Comparison of Native American Residences at Mission Santa Clara de Asís
Panich, L.M.; Afaghani, H.; Nicole Mathwich
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2014, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 19
California Missions Santa Clara Mission