Edited Books and Journals (Peer-reviewed)

Beck, J., and C.P. Quinn. (2020) Living and Dying in Mountain Landscapes. Special Issue of Bioarchaeology International, Volume 4, Number 2.

Kuijt, I., C.P. Quinn, and G. Cooney. (2014). Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context. Amerind Series at the University of Arizona Press: Tucson.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters (Peer-reviewed)

Quinn, C.P. (2025). Inequality in Life and Death: Bridging Divides Between Domestic and Funerary Archaeology in Middle Bronze Age Transylvania. World Archaeology. doi:10.1080/00438243.2025.2586204.

Quinn, C.P. and M.-M. Ciută. (2025). Chronological modeling demonstrates short use of a Middle Bronze Age cemetery in Transylvania. Radiocarbon 67(5): 1034-1044.

Quinn, C.P. and H. Ciugudean. (2025). New Bronze Age Wagon Models from the Wietenberg Culture. Apulum 62: 45-61.

Arnold, E.L. and C.P. Quinn. (2025). Enregisterment and Identity in Transylvanian Bronze Age Ceramics. In Exploring Identities in Archaeology: Tools, Methodologies and Case Studies, edited by S. Adroit, K. Parachaud, P. Perdiguero, and T. Poigt. pp. 31-45. BAR Publishing, Oxford.

Ciugudean, H., A. Waterman, J. Beck, C.P. Quinn, and D. Peate. (2025). The Highlanders of Western Transylvania and their Neighbors: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Early Bronze Age Tumulus at Meteș, Romania. In The Bronze Age at the Edge of the Carpathian Basin: Archaeological Studies Dedicated to Carol Kacso on his 80th Birthday, edited by H. Ciugudean and B. Rezi. pp, 39-101. Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca.

Quinn, C.P. (2024). Settlement Ecology of Bronze Age Transylvania. Frontiers in Human Dynamics 6: 1360479.

Johnson, K., C.P. Quinn, N. Goodale, and R. Conrey. (2024). Best Practices for Publishing pXRF Analyses. Advances in Archaeological Practice 12(2): 156-162.

Beck, J. and C.P. Quinn. (2023). Balancing the Scales: Archaeological Approaches to Social Inequality. World Archaeology 15(4): 572-583.

Ciugudean, H., C.P. Quinn, C. Uhnér, and J. Beck. (2023). From East to West and West to East: Yamnaya Migration and Interaction with Copper Age Carpathian Communities in Transylvania. In Steppe Transmissions: The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe. B. Preda Bălănică, M. Ahola, and P. Włodarczak. pp. 204-245. Archaeolingua, Budapest.

Ciugudean, H., C.P. Quinn, and C. Uhnér. (2022). Considerații Privind Evoluția Culturii Coțofeni ȋn Lumina Noilor Date Radiocarbon. Apulum 59: 23-53.

Quinn, C.P., E. Walker, and A. Wright. (2022). Late Woodland Settlement Ecology of the Appalachian Summit. Southeastern Archaeology 41(1): 32-52.

Goodale, N., C.P. Quinn, and A. Nauman. (2022). Monumentality of Houses: Collective Action, Inequality, and Kinship in Pithouse Construction. In Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change. L.B. Carpenter and A.M. Prentiss (eds). pp. 177-203. Routledge Press, New York.

Quinn, C.P., D. Glowacki, C. Wendt, and N. Goodale. (2022). Situating Households within Broader Socioeconomic Contexts. In Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change. L.B. Carpenter and A.M. Prentiss (eds). pp. 111-120. Routledge Press, New York.

Thompson, A.E., C.P. Quinn, E.E. Jones, C. Watson, E. Hull, M. Gonzales, and E. Macias. (2021). Presenting Effective and Award-Winning Student Posters at SAA Meetings. The SAA Archaeological Record 21(4): 11-17.

Ciută, M-M., C.P. Quinn, and R.V. Totoianu. (2021). Radiocarbon data of Funerary Discoveries from Middle Bronze Age in the Mureș Valley: The Wietenberg Cemetery from Limba-Oarda de Jos (Alba County, Romania). Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 8(2): 75-83.

Quinn, C.P. (2021). Shell Beads. In Killarney Bay: The Archaeology of an Early Middle Woodland Aggregation Site in the Northern Great Lakes. D. Brose, P. Julig, and J. O’Shea (eds.). pp. 290-300. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Press: Ann Arbor.

Beck, J., and C.P. Quinn. (2020). Living and Dying in Mountain Landscapes: An Introduction. Bioarchaeology International 4(2): 75-88.

Beck, J., H. Ciugudean, and C.P. Quinn. (2020). Bioarchaeology and Mountain Landscapes in Transylvania’s Golden Quadrangle. Bioarchaeology International 4(2): 89-110.

Quinn, C.P., H. Ciugudean, and J. Beck. (2020). The Politics of Placing the Dead in Bronze Age Transylvania. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 34A: 102574.

Quinn, C.P., H. Ciugudean, G. Bălan, G. Hodgins. (2020). Rethinking Time, Culture, and Socioeconomic Organisation in Bronze Age Transylvania. Antiquity 94(373): 44-61.

Quinn, C.P. and D. Fivenson. (2020). Transforming Legacy Spatial Data into Testable Hypotheses about Socioeconomic Organization. Advances in Archaeological Practice 8(1): 65-77.

Quinn, C.P., N. Goodale, W. Andrefsky, Jr., I. Kuijt, and B. Finlayson. (2019). Lithic Technological Organization and Hafting in Early Villages. American Antiquity 84(4): 708-727.

Quinn, C.P. (2019). Costly Signaling Theory in Archaeology. In Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology, edited by A.M. Prentiss, pp. 275-294. Springer Press: New York.

Quinn, C.P., I. Kuijt, N. Goodale, and J. Ó Néill. (2019). Along the Margins? The Later Bronze Age Seascapes of Western Ireland. European Journal of Archaeology  22(1): 44-66.

Ciugudean, H., C. Uhnér, C.P. Quinn, G. Bălan, O. Oargă, A. Bolog, G. Balteș. (2019). După 25 de ani: Grupul Cugir-Band în lumina noilor cercetări. Apulum 56: 89-130.

Quinn, C.P. and H. Ciugudean. (2018). Settlement placement and socio-economic priorities: Dynamic landscapes in Bronze Age Transylvania. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19: 936-948.

Quinn, C.P. (2018). The Potential of Network Approaches to Understand Connectivity and Complexity in Bronze Age Transylvania and Carpathian Basin. In Bronze Age Connectivity in the Carpathian Basin. R. Németh, B. Rezi, and S. Berecki (eds). pp. 9-18. Bibliotheca Mvsei Marisiensis: Tîrgu Mureș.

Quinn, C.P. and C.R. Barrier. (2018). Early Regional Centers: Evolution and Organization. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2^nd edition. C. Smith (ed.). pp. 1-13. Springer Press: New York.

Bălan, G., C.P. Quinn, and G. Hodgins. (2018). The Cultural and Chronological Context of the Bronze Age Cemetery from Sebeș-Între Răstoace. In Bronze Age Connectivity in the Carpathian Basin. R. Németh, B. Rezi, and S. Berecki (eds). pp. 183-252. Bibliotheca Mvsei Marisiensis: Tîrgu Mureș.

Bălan, G., C.P. Quinn, and G. Hodgins. (2017). Contextul cultural și cronologic al necropolei de la Sebeș – Între răstoace. In Necropola din epoca bronzului de la Sebeș. C. Fântâneanu, G. Bălan, S. Popa, and D. Tentiș (eds). pp. 167-190. Editura Istros a Muzeului Brăilei “Carol I”: Brăila.

Quinn, C.P. and J. Beck. (2016). Essential Tensions: A Framework for Exploring Inequality through Mortuary Archaeology and Bioarchaeology. Open Archaeology 2(1): 18-41.

Bălan, G., C.P. Quinn, and G. Hodgins. (2016). The Wietenberg Culture: Periodization and Chronology. Dacia N.S. 60: 69-80.

Ciugudean, H. and C.P. Quinn. (2015). The End of the Wietenberg Culture in the Light of New 14C dates and its Chronological Relation Towards the Noua Culture. In Bronze Age Chronology in the Carpathian Basin. R. Németh, B. Rezi, and S. Berecki (eds). pp. 147-178. Bibliotheca Mvsei Marisiensis: Tîrgu Mureș.

Quinn, C.P. (2015). Returning and Reuse: Diachronic Perspectives on Multi-Component Cemeteries and Mortuary Politics at Middle Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Tara, Ireland. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 37: 1-18.

Quinn, C.P. (2015). Signals in Stone: Exploring the Role of Social Information Exchange, Conspicuous Consumption, and Costly Signaling Theory in Lithic Analysis. In Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory. N. Goodale and W. Andrefsky (eds.). pp. 198-222. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Balăn, G. and C.P. Quinn. (2014). Radiocarbon Dates of the Middle Bronze Age Settlement at Micești-Cigaș (Alba County, Romania). Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica 18(II): 119-126.

Quinn, C.P., I. Kuijt, and G. Cooney. (2014). Introduction: Contextualizing Cremation. In Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context. I. Kuijt, C.P. Quinn, and G. Cooney (eds.). pp.3-21. Amerind series at the University of Arizona Press: Tucson.

Quinn, C.P., L. Goldstein, G. Cooney, and I. Kuijt. (2014). Perspectives: Complexities of Terminologies and Intellectual Frameworks in Cremation Studies. In Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context. I. Kuijt, C.P. Quinn, and G. Cooney (eds.). pp. 25-32. Amerind Series at the University of Arizona Press: Tucson.

Quinn, C.P. and C.R. Barrier. (2014). Early Regional Centers: Evolution and Organization. In C. Smith (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. pp. 2248-2260. Springer Press: New York.

Quinn, C.P. and I. Kuijt. (2013). The Tempo of Life and Death During the Early Bronze Age at the Mound of the Hostages, Tara. In: Tara: From the Past to the Future. M. O’Sullivan (ed.). pp. 154-164. Wordwell and UCD School of Archaeology: Bray, Co. Wicklow.

Kuijt, I. and C.P. Quinn. (2013). Biography of the Neolithic Body: Tracing Pathways to Cist II, Mound of the Hostages, Tara. In: Tara: From the Past to the Future. M. O’Sullivan (ed.). pp. 130-143. Wordwell and UCD School of Archaeology: Bray, Co. Wicklow.

Prentiss, A.M., R.R. Skelton, N. Eldredge, and C.P. Quinn. (2011). Get Rad! The Evolution of the Skateboard Deck. Evolution: Education and Outreach 4: 379-389.

Quinn, C.P. (2010). Use-Wear Under Fire: An Experimental Use-Wear and Functional Analysis of Gunflints. The Michigan Archaeologist 50-52 (2004-2006): 249-264.

Quinn, C.P., W. Andrefsky, I. Kuijt, and B. Finlayson. (2008). Stone Tool Perforating and Retouch Intensity: A Neolithic Case Study. In: Lithic Technology: Measures of Production Use and Curation. W. Andrefsky (ed.). pp. 150-174. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Quinn, C.P. (2006). Exotics, Exchange, and Elites: Exploring Mechanisms of Movement of Prestige Goods in the Interior Northwest. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 41: 207-224.

Book Reviews

Quinn, C.P. (2025). Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe: From Inhumation to Cremation. Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury. 2023. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. xiii + 229 pp. $106.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-009-24742-9. $106.00 (e-book). American Antiquity. doi:10.1017/aaq.2025.10140.

Technical Reports and Theses

Quinn, C.P. (2017). The Crucible of Complexity: Community Organization and Social Change in Bronze Age Transylvania (2700-1320 BC). PhD Dissertation on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. 652 pages.

Quinn, C.P. (2012). Returning and Reuse: The Dynamic Role of Mortuary Rituals at Middle Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Tara, Ireland. Predoctoral paper on file with the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. 25 pages.

Quinn, C.P. (2010). Excavations at Dooneennapisha: A Promontory Fort on the East End of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 7 pages.

Kuijt, I., A. Nauman, N. Goodale, and C.P. Quinn. (2008). Preliminary heritage assessment of the stone cachel on the property of J. Killian-Gallagher, near Formoyle, Co. Longford, Ireland. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 10 pages.

Kuijt, I., C.P. Quinn, E. Carlson, E. Elliott, N. Goodale, and L. Plis. (2008). The Cultural Landscape of the Irish Coast: 2007 Vernacular Architecture Heritage Survey. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 145 pages.

Kuijt, I., A. Nauman, J. O’Neill, C.P. Quinn, M. Schurr and N. Goodale. (2007). The Cultural Landscape of the Irish Coast: 2007 Omey Island Heritage Research. Report on file with the Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. 181 pages.

Quinn C.P. (2006). Vital Signs: Costly Signaling and Personal Adornment in the Near Eastern Early Neolithic. Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Pullman, WA: Washington State University. 183 pages.