Elic M Weitzel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4054090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elic M Weitzel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elic M |
| FAMILY NAME | Weitzel |
| SIGNATURE | WEITZEL E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5214-8451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Commodification of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century southern New England
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia
Nuraghi are ubiquitous in the Bronze Age Sardinian landscape, but the reasons for their distribution and wider function remain poorly understood. Here, we evaluate the argument that these megalithic fortified towers were situated for visual control and thus represent nodes of political or coercive power. Using a dataset of 102 nuraghi, we perform a normalized cumulative viewshed to quantify nuraghe visibility in southwestern Sardinia. We analyze …
Resilience of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to human hunting in precolonial New England
Investigating overhunting of white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) in the late Holocene Middle Tennessee River Valley
Resource depression – a decline in encounter rates with prey due to the actions of a predator – has been documented for numerous species in North America. Yet it is not fully understood whether white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the most common prey species for Native peoples in eastern North America, were depressed prior to European colonization. To investigate whether white-tailed deer were depressed in precolonial eastern North Americ…
Food Production and Domestication Produced Both Cooperative and Competitive Social Dynamics in Eastern North America
Recent research emphasises the importance of both within-group cooperation and between-group competition for human sociality, past and present. We hypothesise that the shift from foraging to food production in eastern North America provided novel socioecological conditions that impacted interpersonal and intergroup interactions in the region, inspiring both greater cooperation as well as competition. We predict that (1) successful exploitation of…
The Ideal Distribution Model and Archaeological Settlement Patterning
Human populations distribute themselves across landscapes in clearly patterned ways, but accurate and theoretically informed predictions and explanations of that patterning in the archaeological record can prove difficult. Recently, archaeologists have begun applying a unifying theoretical framework derived from population and behavioural ecology to understand human population distribution and movement: the ideal distribution model (IDM). The thr…
Declining Foraging Efficiency in the Middle Tennessee River Valley Prior to Initial Domestication - Erratum
Declining Foraging Efficiency in the Middle Tennessee River Valley Prior to Initial Domestication
Recently, researchers investigating the origins of domestication have debated the significance of resource intensification in the shift from foraging to food production. In eastern North America, one of several independent centers of domestication, this question remains open. To determine whether initial domestication may have been preceded by intensification in eastern North America at approximately 5000 cal BP, I evaluated the archaeofaunal ass…
The Ideal Distribution Model and Archaeological Settlement Patterning
Human populations distribute themselves across landscapes in clearly patterned ways, but accurate and theoretically informed predictions and explanations of that patterning in the archaeological record can prove difficult. Recently, archaeologists have begun applying a unifying theoretical framework derived from population and behavioural ecology to understand human population distribution and movement: the ideal distribution model (IDM). The thr…
Declining Foraging Efficiency in the Middle Tennessee River Valley Prior to Initial Domestication
Recently, researchers investigating the origins of domestication have debated the significance of resource intensification in the shift from foraging to food production. In eastern North America, one of several independent centers of domestication, this question remains open. To determine whether initial domestication may have been preceded by intensification in eastern North America at approximately 5000 cal BP, I evaluated the archaeofaunal ass…
Investigating overhunting of white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) in the late Holocene Middle Tennessee River Valley
Resource depression – a decline in encounter rates with prey due to the actions of a predator – has been documented for numerous species in North America. Yet it is not fully understood whether white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the most common prey species for Native peoples in eastern North America, were depressed prior to European colonization. To investigate whether white-tailed deer were depressed in precolonial eastern North Americ…
Resilience of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to human hunting in precolonial New England
Commodification of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century southern New England
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia
Nuraghi are ubiquitous in the Bronze Age Sardinian landscape, but the reasons for their distribution and wider function remain poorly understood. Here, we evaluate the argument that these megalithic fortified towers were situated for visual control and thus represent nodes of political or coercive power. Using a dataset of 102 nuraghi, we perform a normalized cumulative viewshed to quantify nuraghe visibility in southwestern Sardinia. We analyze …
Declining Foraging Efficiency in the Middle Tennessee River Valley Prior to Initial Domestication - Erratum
Declining Foraging Efficiency in the Middle Tennessee River Valley Prior to Initial Domestication
Recently, researchers investigating the origins of domestication have debated the significance of resource intensification in the shift from foraging to food production. In eastern North America, one of several independent centers of domestication, this question remains open. To determine whether initial domestication may have been preceded by intensification in eastern North America at approximately 5000 cal BP, I evaluated the archaeofaunal ass…
Food Production and Domestication Produced Both Cooperative and Competitive Social Dynamics in Eastern North America
Recent research emphasises the importance of both within-group cooperation and between-group competition for human sociality, past and present. We hypothesise that the shift from foraging to food production in eastern North America provided novel socioecological conditions that impacted interpersonal and intergroup interactions in the region, inspiring both greater cooperation as well as competition. We predict that (1) successful exploitation of…
The Ideal Distribution Model and Archaeological Settlement Patterning
Human populations distribute themselves across landscapes in clearly patterned ways, but accurate and theoretically informed predictions and explanations of that patterning in the archaeological record can prove difficult. Recently, archaeologists have begun applying a unifying theoretical framework derived from population and behavioural ecology to understand human population distribution and movement: the ideal distribution model (IDM). The thr…
Investigating overhunting of white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) in the late Holocene Middle Tennessee River Valley
Resource depression – a decline in encounter rates with prey due to the actions of a predator – has been documented for numerous species in North America. Yet it is not fully understood whether white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the most common prey species for Native peoples in eastern North America, were depressed prior to European colonization. To investigate whether white-tailed deer were depressed in precolonial eastern North Americ…
Resilience of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to human hunting in precolonial New England
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia
Nuraghi are ubiquitous in the Bronze Age Sardinian landscape, but the reasons for their distribution and wider function remain poorly understood. Here, we evaluate the argument that these megalithic fortified towers were situated for visual control and thus represent nodes of political or coercive power. Using a dataset of 102 nuraghi, we perform a normalized cumulative viewshed to quantify nuraghe visibility in southwestern Sardinia. We analyze …
Commodification of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 17th century southern New England
Biology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Foraging (3 works)