Weitzel, Elic M., Kurt M. Wilson, Laure Spake, Susan B. Schaffnit, Robert Lynch, Rebecca Sear, John H. Shaver, Mary K. Shenk, and Richard Sosis (2024) Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations. Evolution and Human Behavior 45:106613. [link]
Rothenberg, Miriam, Thomas P. Leppard, Elic M. Weitzel, and Elizabeth A. Murphy (2024) Settlement organization and distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia: Utilizing cumulative viewshed analysis and spatial statistics in the Sulcis Plain. Journal of Field Archaeology. [link]
Weitzel, Elic M., Erina Baci, and Daniel Plekhov (2023) Geographic predictors of early 20th century northern Albanian tribal demography. Kosova Anthropologica 1(1):1-21. [link]
Weitzel, Elic M., Erina Baci, and Daniel Plekhov (2023) Parashikuesit gjeografikë të demografisë fisnore të Shqipërisë veriore në fillim të shekullit 20. Kosova Anthropologica 1(1):1-21. [link] (Albanian translation)
O’Keefe, F. Robin., Regan E. Dunn, Elic M. Weitzel, Michael R. Waters, Lisa N. Martinez, Wendy J. Binder, John R. Southon, Joshua E. Cohen, Julie A. Meachen, Larisa R.G. DeSantis, Matthew E. Kirby, Elena Ghezzo, Joan B. Coltrain, Benjamin T. Fuller, Aisling B. Farrell, Gary T. Takeuchi, Glen MacDonald, Edward B. Davis, and Emily L. Lindsey (2023) Pre-Younger Dryas megafaunal extirpation at Rancho La Brea linked to fire-driven state shift. Science 381(6659). [link]
Weitzel, Elic M. (2023) Resilience of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to human hunting in precolonial New England: The faunal remains from the Morgan Site (6HT120), Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 48:103913. [link]
Weitzel, Elic M. (2023) Environmental rebound and disruption of Indigenous land management following European colonization of southern New England. In Questioning Rebound: People and Environmental Change in the Protohistoric and Early Historic Americas, edited by Emily Lena Jones and Jacob L. Fisher. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp. 97-115.
Weitzel, Elic M. (2022) Faunal resource use in Late Woodland Connecticut: A view from the Morgan Site (6HT120), Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut 84:9-38.
Weitzel, Elic M. and Brian F. Codding (2022) The ideal distribution model in archaeological settlement patterning. Environmental Archaeology 27(4):349-356. [link]
Weitzel, Elic M., Brian F. Codding, Stephen B. Carmody, and David W. Zeanah (2022) Food production and domestication produced both cooperative and competitive interpersonal dynamics in eastern North America. Environmental Archaeology 27(4):388-401. [link]
Reeder-Myers, L.A., T.J. Braje, C.A. Hofman, E.A. Elliot Smith, C. Garland, M. Grone, C.S. Hadden, M. Hatch, T. Hunt, A. Kelley, M.J. LeFebvre, M. Lockman, I. McKechnie, I.J. McNiven, B. Newsom, T. Pluckhahn, G. Sanchez, M. Schwadron, K. Smith, T. Smith, A. Spiess, G. Tayac, V.D. Thompson, T. Vollman, E.M. Weitzel, and T.C. Rick (2022) Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management. Nature Communications 13:2383. [link]
Weitzel, Elic M. (2021) Investigating overhunting of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the Late Holocene Middle Tennessee River Valley. Southeastern Archaeology 40(1):1-19. [link]
Weitzel, Elic M. (2019) Declining foraging efficiency prior to initial domestication in the Middle Tennessee River Valley. American Antiquity 84(2):191-214. [link]
Broughton, Jack M. and Elic M. Weitzel (2018) Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions. Nature Communications 9(1):5441. [link]
Carmody, Stephen B., Kandace D. Hollenbach, and Elic M. Weitzel (2018) More than just nuts: Prehistoric foodways from the Dust Cave site. In Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast, edited by Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa., pp. 102-118.
Weitzel, Elic M. and Brian F. Codding (2016) Population growth as a driver of initial domestication in Eastern North America. Royal Society Open Science 3(8):160319. [link]