M J Hamilton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12566 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M J Hamilton |
| PRENOMES | M J |
| SOBRENOME | Hamilton |
| ASSINATURA | HAMILTON M J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1754-6969 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 421 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
The Functional Use of Quartz Crystal Points in Clovis Technology
Bruce Huckell and the Folsom Record of the West Mesa, New Mexico
The West Mesa is an expansive Eolian plain atop a basalt-capped terrace of the Rio Grande in central New Mexico. Seminal work carried out in the 1960s–1970s led to the identification of an abundant Paleoindian record across the surface; Bruce Huckell initiated a program of renewed investigation in the region in the late 1990s. He, along with students and volunteers, conducted archaeological surveys and excavations at Rio Rancho, Boca Negra Wash, …
Renewed Investigations at the Mockingbird Gap Clovis Site
The Mockingbird Gap site, located in the northern Jornada del Muerto of New Mexico, represents one of the largest known Clovis occupations west of the Mississippi River. Since 2022, the authors have been conducting systematic surveys and documentation, building upon previous investigations. Our multi-year research program has documented numerous artifact concentrations across the ∼0.5 km2 site extent, including hundreds of surface artifacts, and …
Rapoport’s rule and the biogeography of cultural diversity across North America over 13,000 years
A New Method for Classifying Dart and Arrow Projectile Points
A long-standing classification problem in archaeology is determining the type of weapon delivery system used by people in the past. This is usually done by comparing archaeological points to known dart and arrow points from the ethnographic and archaeological record. There are no simple criteria to discriminate between these two states and the challenge is to identify a subset of traits and their interactions to solve this problem. Here we introd…
Food storage, mobility, and the density-dependence of hunter-gatherer movement ecology
Comparing Clovis and Folsom fluting via scaling analysis
This study examines the fluting of two well‐known Late Pleistocene fluted point types in North America: Clovis and Folsom. Using scaling analyses, we assess the changing relationship between flute length and point length in a large sample of each type. Researchers use scaling to investigate the physical constraints of an object and determine how its dimensions change with size. We compare the strength and consistency of the scaling relationships …
Networks and Cultural Transmission in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
In this chapter we examine current research on networks and cultural transmission in modern, historic, and prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies. Understanding networks in hunter-gatherer societies is important because hunting and gathering has been the socioeconomic framework for the vast majority of human evolutionary history. A better understanding of the structure and function of social networks in hunting and gathering societies has the pote…
Geometric Morphometric Analyses of Levallois Points from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic do not Support Functional Specialization
Levallois points are a prominent part of many Levantine Middle Paleolithic assemblages. They are either produced intentionally or incidentally by the Levallois core reduction technique and are of a generally similar shape, although the degree to which they were used as specialized tools has been questioned. Here, we examine Levallois points using geometric morphometric analyses to assess the range of shape variation in this artifact type. We then…
Experimental assessment of lanceolate projectile point and haft robustness
Evidence supports the efficacy of Clovis points for hunting proboscideans
Bayesian Modeling of the Clovis and Folsom Radiocarbon Records Indicates a 200-Year Multigenerational Transition
An enduring problem in North American archaeology concerns the nature of the transition between the Clovis and Folsom Paleoindian complexes in the West. Traditional models indicate a temporal hiatus between the two complexes implying that Folsom was a population replacement for Clovis. Alternatively, if Folsom was an innovation that occurred within Clovis populations and subsequently spread, we would expect to see a temporal overlap. Here, we tes…
Bayesian Revision of the Folsom Age Range Using IntCal20
Briggs Buchanana*, J. David Kilbyb , Marcus J. Hamiltonc, Jason M. LaBelled, Kelton A. Meyerd , Jacob Holland-Lulewicze, Brian Andrewsf , Brooke M. Morgang, Brendon Asherh, Vance T. Hollidayi , Gregory W. L. Hodginsj & Todd A. Surovellk* a Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USAb Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USAc Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Anto…
New investigations at Bonfire shelter, Texas examine controversial bison jumps and bone beds
Bonfire Shelter (41VV218) is a nationally significant site in the Lower Pecos region of the West Texas borderlands that contains a record of episodic use by hunter-gatherers spanning at least twelve millennia. At least two major bison hunting episodes are evident at Bonfire Shelter, one associated with Paleoindian Plainview and Folsom projectile points (Bone Bed 2), and another associated with Late Archaic Castroville and Montell points (Bone Bed…
Urban Science
Scaling Laws of Paleoindian Projectile Point Design
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance
In Late Pleistocene North America colonizing hunter-gatherers knapped and used Clovis fluted projectile points. During their expansion the size and shape of Clovis points changed significantly. Archaeologists know that cultural drift contributed to this variation, but is it possible that this single source could alone generate so much variation so quickly? We present the first of several experimental studies exploring whether Clovis size and shap…
Spatiotemporal diversification of projectile point types in western North America over 13,000 years
The small-world topology of Clovis lithic networks
Investigating the scale of prehistoric social networks using culture, language, and point types in western North America
Scaling the Size, Structure, and Dynamics of Residentially Mobile Hunter-Gatherer Camps
Short-term hunter-gatherer residential camps have been a central feature of human settlement patterns and social structure for most of human evolutionary history. Recent analyses of ethnohistoric hunter-gatherer data show that across different environments, the average size of hunter-gatherer bands is remarkably constant and that bands are commonly formed by a small number of coresident families. Using ethnoarchaeological data, we examine the rel…
The ecological and evolutionary energetics of hunter‐gatherer residential mobility
Residential mobility is a key aspect of hunter-gatherer foraging economies and therefore is an issue of central importance in hunter-gatherer studies. Hunter-gatherers vary widely in annual rates of residential mobility. Understanding the sources of this variation has long been of interest to anthropologists and archeologists. The vast majority of hunter-gatherers who are dependent on terrestrial plants and animals move camp multiple times a year…
Lithic networks reveal early regionalization in late Pleistocene North America
Amazonian societies on the brink of extinction
Objectives: Greater Amazonia harbors as many as 100 locations of isolated indigenous peoples. Few options are available to assess the demographic health of these populations given their limited contact with the outside world. Remote sensing offers one option. Methods: An isolated village in Brazil near the Peruvian border is visible with Google Earth imagery from 2006. The area of the fields and village, as well as the living area of the four lon…
Clovis Paleoecology and Lithic Technology in the Central Rio Grande Rift Region, New Mexico
Clovis sites occur throughout the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, but are poorly documented in the central Rio Grande rift region. Here, we present data from two relatively unknown Clovis projectile point assemblages from this region: the first is from the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site and the second is from a survey of the surrounding region. Our goals are to reconstruct general features of the paleoecological adaptation of Clo…
A Formal Test of the Origin of Variation in North American Early Paleoindian Projectile Points
Recently it has been suggested that variation in the form of Early Paleoindian projectile points across North America was the result of drift rather than regional adaptation (Morrow and Morrow 1999). Here, we test this hypothesis quantitatively with matrix correlation statistics. Using a sample of Early Paleoindian point assemblages from across the continent we attempt to correlate variation in point shape with several measures of late Pleistocen…
Points and prey
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the Clovis–Folsom transition
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance
In Late Pleistocene North America colonizing hunter-gatherers knapped and used Clovis fluted projectile points. During their expansion the size and shape of Clovis points changed significantly. Archaeologists know that cultural drift contributed to this variation, but is it possible that this single source could alone generate so much variation so quickly? We present the first of several experimental studies exploring whether Clovis size and shap…
The prey as patch model
Scaling Laws of Paleoindian Projectile Point Design
Lithic networks reveal early regionalization in late Pleistocene North America
Life-History Consequences of Density Dependence and the Evolution of Human Body Size
Previous attempts to explain variation in human growth and development emphasize the energetic constraints imposed by malnutrition and disease. However, this approach does not address the evolutionary effects of mortality risk on ontogenetic variation, a common theme in life-history studies. The conventional approach can be reconciled with life-history theory by considering the effect of mortality on the rates and timing of maturity in subsistenc…
Scaling the Size, Structure, and Dynamics of Residentially Mobile Hunter-Gatherer Camps
Short-term hunter-gatherer residential camps have been a central feature of human settlement patterns and social structure for most of human evolutionary history. Recent analyses of ethnohistoric hunter-gatherer data show that across different environments, the average size of hunter-gatherer bands is remarkably constant and that bands are commonly formed by a small number of coresident families. Using ethnoarchaeological data, we examine the rel…
Clovis Paleoecology and Lithic Technology in the Central Rio Grande Rift Region, New Mexico
Clovis sites occur throughout the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, but are poorly documented in the central Rio Grande rift region. Here, we present data from two relatively unknown Clovis projectile point assemblages from this region: the first is from the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site and the second is from a survey of the surrounding region. Our goals are to reconstruct general features of the paleoecological adaptation of Clo…
The small-world topology of Clovis lithic networks
A Neolithic Downland Monument in its Environment
Excavations at the Easton Down long barrow were part of a wider programme of research into the Neolithic sequence and context of the Avebury area in north Wiltshire. The short barrow, on high chalk downland to the south-west of Avebury and the upper Kennet valley, and containing only a few inhumations according to Thurnam's 19th-century investigation, dates to the later 4th millennium BC. Test pits around the barrow produced very little struck fl…
Bayesian Modeling of the Clovis and Folsom Radiocarbon Records Indicates a 200-Year Multigenerational Transition
An enduring problem in North American archaeology concerns the nature of the transition between the Clovis and Folsom Paleoindian complexes in the West. Traditional models indicate a temporal hiatus between the two complexes implying that Folsom was a population replacement for Clovis. Alternatively, if Folsom was an innovation that occurred within Clovis populations and subsequently spread, we would expect to see a temporal overlap. Here, we tes…
A comment on Steele’s (2010) “radiocarbon dates as data
Evidence supports the efficacy of Clovis points for hunting proboscideans
Investigating the scale of prehistoric social networks using culture, language, and point types in western North America
Experimental assessment of lanceolate projectile point and haft robustness
Geoarchaeology of the Mockingbird Gap (Clovis) site, Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico
The Mockingbird Gap site is one of the largest Clovis sites in the western United States, yet it remains poorly known after it was tested in 1966–1968. Surface collecting and mapping of the site revealed a dense accumulation of Clovis lithic debris stretching along Chupadera Draw, which drains into the Jornada del Muerto basin. We conducted archaeological testing and geoarchaeological coring to assess the stratigraphic integrity of the site and g…
Comparing Clovis and Folsom fluting via scaling analysis
This study examines the fluting of two well‐known Late Pleistocene fluted point types in North America: Clovis and Folsom. Using scaling analyses, we assess the changing relationship between flute length and point length in a large sample of each type. Researchers use scaling to investigate the physical constraints of an object and determine how its dimensions change with size. We compare the strength and consistency of the scaling relationships …
Geometric Morphometric Analyses of Levallois Points from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic do not Support Functional Specialization
Levallois points are a prominent part of many Levantine Middle Paleolithic assemblages. They are either produced intentionally or incidentally by the Levallois core reduction technique and are of a generally similar shape, although the degree to which they were used as specialized tools has been questioned. Here, we examine Levallois points using geometric morphometric analyses to assess the range of shape variation in this artifact type. We then…
The Functional Use of Quartz Crystal Points in Clovis Technology
New investigations at Bonfire shelter, Texas examine controversial bison jumps and bone beds
Bonfire Shelter (41VV218) is a nationally significant site in the Lower Pecos region of the West Texas borderlands that contains a record of episodic use by hunter-gatherers spanning at least twelve millennia. At least two major bison hunting episodes are evident at Bonfire Shelter, one associated with Paleoindian Plainview and Folsom projectile points (Bone Bed 2), and another associated with Late Archaic Castroville and Montell points (Bone Bed…
Spatiotemporal diversification of projectile point types in western North America over 13,000 years
A Neolithic Downland Monument in its Environment
Excavations at the Easton Down long barrow were part of a wider programme of research into the Neolithic sequence and context of the Avebury area in north Wiltshire. The short barrow, on high chalk downland to the south-west of Avebury and the upper Kennet valley, and containing only a few inhumations according to Thurnam's 19th-century investigation, dates to the later 4th millennium BC. Test pits around the barrow produced very little struck fl…
The prey as patch model
Spatial gradients in Clovis-age radiocarbon dates across North America suggest rapid colonization from the north
A key issue in the debate over the initial colonization of North America is whether there are spatial gradients in the distribution of the Clovis-age occupations across the continent. Such gradients would help indicate the timing, speed, and direction of the colonization process. In their recent reanalysis of Clovis-age radiocarbon dates, Waters and Stafford [Waters MR, Stafford TW, Jr (2007) Science 315:1122–1126] report that they find no spatia…
The accumulation of stochastic copying errors causes drift in culturally transmitted technologies
Life-History Consequences of Density Dependence and the Evolution of Human Body Size
Previous attempts to explain variation in human growth and development emphasize the energetic constraints imposed by malnutrition and disease. However, this approach does not address the evolutionary effects of mortality risk on ontogenetic variation, a common theme in life-history studies. The conventional approach can be reconciled with life-history theory by considering the effect of mortality on the rates and timing of maturity in subsistenc…
Geoarchaeology of the Mockingbird Gap (Clovis) site, Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico
The Mockingbird Gap site is one of the largest Clovis sites in the western United States, yet it remains poorly known after it was tested in 1966–1968. Surface collecting and mapping of the site revealed a dense accumulation of Clovis lithic debris stretching along Chupadera Draw, which drains into the Jornada del Muerto basin. We conducted archaeological testing and geoarchaeological coring to assess the stratigraphic integrity of the site and g…
A Formal Test of the Origin of Variation in North American Early Paleoindian Projectile Points
Recently it has been suggested that variation in the form of Early Paleoindian projectile points across North America was the result of drift rather than regional adaptation (Morrow and Morrow 1999). Here, we test this hypothesis quantitatively with matrix correlation statistics. Using a sample of Early Paleoindian point assemblages from across the continent we attempt to correlate variation in point shape with several measures of late Pleistocen…
Prevalence, correlates, and self-management of HIV-related depressive symptoms
Depressive symptoms are highly prevalent yet undertreated in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs). As part of a larger study of symptom self-management (N=1217), this study examined the prevalence, correlates, and characteristics (intensity, distress, and impact) of depressive symptoms, and the self-care strategies used to manage those symptoms in PLHAs in five countries. The proportion of respondents from each country in the total sample reportin…
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the Clovis–Folsom transition
Points and prey
A comment on Steele’s (2010) “radiocarbon dates as data
Networking Past and Present
A special feature in the Social Evolution Forum with R.I.M. Dunbar as the author of the focus article. Commentaries by Nicolas Baumard, Marcus J. Hamilton, Paul Hooper, Daniel N. Finkel, and Herbert Gintis
Clovis Paleoecology and Lithic Technology in the Central Rio Grande Rift Region, New Mexico
Clovis sites occur throughout the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, but are poorly documented in the central Rio Grande rift region. Here, we present data from two relatively unknown Clovis projectile point assemblages from this region: the first is from the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site and the second is from a survey of the surrounding region. Our goals are to reconstruct general features of the paleoecological adaptation of Clo…
Amazonian societies on the brink of extinction
Objectives: Greater Amazonia harbors as many as 100 locations of isolated indigenous peoples. Few options are available to assess the demographic health of these populations given their limited contact with the outside world. Remote sensing offers one option. Methods: An isolated village in Brazil near the Peruvian border is visible with Google Earth imagery from 2006. The area of the fields and village, as well as the living area of the four lon…
Lithic networks reveal early regionalization in late Pleistocene North America
The ecological and evolutionary energetics of hunter‐gatherer residential mobility
Residential mobility is a key aspect of hunter-gatherer foraging economies and therefore is an issue of central importance in hunter-gatherer studies. Hunter-gatherers vary widely in annual rates of residential mobility. Understanding the sources of this variation has long been of interest to anthropologists and archeologists. The vast majority of hunter-gatherers who are dependent on terrestrial plants and animals move camp multiple times a year…
Scaling the Size, Structure, and Dynamics of Residentially Mobile Hunter-Gatherer Camps
Short-term hunter-gatherer residential camps have been a central feature of human settlement patterns and social structure for most of human evolutionary history. Recent analyses of ethnohistoric hunter-gatherer data show that across different environments, the average size of hunter-gatherer bands is remarkably constant and that bands are commonly formed by a small number of coresident families. Using ethnoarchaeological data, we examine the rel…
Spatiotemporal diversification of projectile point types in western North America over 13,000 years
The small-world topology of Clovis lithic networks
Investigating the scale of prehistoric social networks using culture, language, and point types in western North America
Urban Science
Scaling Laws of Paleoindian Projectile Point Design
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance
In Late Pleistocene North America colonizing hunter-gatherers knapped and used Clovis fluted projectile points. During their expansion the size and shape of Clovis points changed significantly. Archaeologists know that cultural drift contributed to this variation, but is it possible that this single source could alone generate so much variation so quickly? We present the first of several experimental studies exploring whether Clovis size and shap…
Bayesian Revision of the Folsom Age Range Using IntCal20
Briggs Buchanana*, J. David Kilbyb , Marcus J. Hamiltonc, Jason M. LaBelled, Kelton A. Meyerd , Jacob Holland-Lulewicze, Brian Andrewsf , Brooke M. Morgang, Brendon Asherh, Vance T. Hollidayi , Gregory W. L. Hodginsj & Todd A. Surovellk* a Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USAb Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USAc Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Anto…
New investigations at Bonfire shelter, Texas examine controversial bison jumps and bone beds
Bonfire Shelter (41VV218) is a nationally significant site in the Lower Pecos region of the West Texas borderlands that contains a record of episodic use by hunter-gatherers spanning at least twelve millennia. At least two major bison hunting episodes are evident at Bonfire Shelter, one associated with Paleoindian Plainview and Folsom projectile points (Bone Bed 2), and another associated with Late Archaic Castroville and Montell points (Bone Bed…
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