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53. ​Hamilton, M.J., B. Buchanan, and R.S. Walker (In press). Scaling the size, structure, and dynamics of residentially mobile hunter-gatherer camps. American Antiquity.​

52. Hamilton, M.J., and R.S. Walker (2018). A stochastic density-dependent model of the long-term dynamics of hunter-gatherer populations. Evolutionary Ecology Research 19(1): 85-102. (Front cover, and see commentary by Mitteldorf)

51. Buchanan, B., M.J. Hamilton, J. Hartley, and S.L. Kuhn (2017). Investigating the scale of prehistoric social networks using culture, language, and point types in western North America. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences DOI 10.1007/s12520-017-0537-y.

50. Hamilton, M.J., J. Lobo, E. Rupley, H. Youn, and G.B. West (2016). The ecological and evolutionary energetics of hunter-gatherer residential mobility. Evolutionary Anthropology 25:124-132.

49. Buchanan, B., M.J. Hamilton, J.D. Kilby, and J. Gingerich (2016). Network analysis of stone raw material use reveals early regionalization in late Pleistocene North America. Journal of Archaeological Science 65: 114-121.

48. Andris, C., D. Lee, C.E. Gunning, J.A. Selden, and M.J. Hamilton (2015). The rise of partisanship and super-cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0123507. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123507. (See press coverage in Politico and the Washington Post)

47. Daepp, M., M.J. Hamilton, L.M.A. Bettencourt, and G.B. West (2015). The mortality of companies. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12:
20150120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0120. (See press coverage in The Atlantic, Time, Fortune, Wallstreet online, Science Daily, CNBC, and Yahoo! Finance)

46. Walker, R.S, M.J. Hamilton, and A.A.P. Groth (2014). Remote sensing and conservation of isolated indigenous villages in Amazonia. Royal Society Open Science 1: 140246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140246. (See press coverage on Phys.org and livescience.com)

45. Walker, R.S. and M.J. Hamilton (2014). Amazonian societies on the brink of extinction. American Journal of Human Biology 26: 570-572. (See press coverage at Sci-News.com)

44. Brown, J.H., J.R. Burger, W.R. Burnside, M. Changa, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoea, M.J. Hamilton, S.T. Hammond, A. Kodric-Brown, N. Mercado-Silva, J.C. Nekola, J.G. Okie (2014). Macroecology meets macroeconomics: Resource scarcity and global sustainability. Ecological Engineering 65: 24-32.

43. Saarinen, J. A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, J.G. Okie,11, F.A. Smith, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, M.D. Uhen, R.M. Sibly (2014). Macroevolution of body size in Cenozoic land mammals: intrinsic biological processes and extrinsic forcing. Proceedings: Biological Sciences 281: 20132049.

42. Hamilton, M.J., R.S. Walker, and D. Kesler (2014). The crash and rebound of indigenous populations in lowland South America. Scientific Reports 4:4541 doi:10.1038/srep04541. (See press coverage on Mongabay.com)

41. Hamilton, M.J., B. Buchanan, B. Huckell, V.T. Holliday, M. Steven Shackley, and M.E. Hill (2013). Clovis paleoecology and lithic technology in the central Rio Grande Rift Valley of New Mexico. American Antiquity 78(2): 248-265.

40. DeLong, J.P., O. Burger, and M.J. Hamilton (2013). The UN medium population projection is an unstable equilibrium. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11(2): 66-67.

39. Nekola, J., Brown, J.H., J.R. Burger, A.D. Davidson, T. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado Silva, and J. Okie (2013). The Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic and human society. Trends in Evolution and Ecology 28(3): 127-130.

38. Okie, J.G., J.H. Brown, A. Boyer, T. Dyan, M. Fortaleus, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, C. McCain, J.J. Saarinen, R.M. Sibly, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, and M.D. Uhen (2013). Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280: 20131007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1007. 

37. Hamilton, M.J. Commentary on “Networking Past and Present”, by R.I.M. Dunbar (2012). Cliodynamics 3(2): 352-353.

36. Bailey, D.H., M.J. Hamilton, and R.S. Walker (2012). Latitude, population size, and the language-farming dispersal hypothesis. Evolutionary Ecology Research 14: 1057-1067.

35. Burger, J.R., C.R. Allen, J.H. Brown, W. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, T. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado Silva, J. Nekola, J. Okie, and W. Zuo (2012). The macroecology of sustainability. PLoS Biology 10(6) e1001345.

34. Hamilton, M.J., O. Burger, and R.S. Walker (2012). Human Ecology. In: Sibly, R.M., A. Kodric-Brown, and J.H. Brown (eds.) Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp 248-257.

33. Evans, A.R., D.O. Jones, A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, T. Dayan, S.K.M. Ernest, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, J.G. Okie, J.J. Saarinen, R.M. Sibly, F.A. Smith, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, and M.D. Uhen (2012). The maximum rate of mammal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 109(11): 4187-4190. (Commentary in Nature and PNAS, and PNAS front cover).

32. Davidson, A.D., A.G. Boyer, H. Kim, S. Pompa-Mansilla, M.J. Hamilton, D.P. Costa, G. Ceballos, and J.H. Brown (2012). Determinants of global extinction risk in marine mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 109(9): 3395-3400.

31. Burnside, W., L.M.A. Bettencourt, O. Burger, M.J. Hamilton, M.E. Moses, and J.H. Brown (2012). Human macroecology: linking pattern to process in big-picture human ecology. Biological Reviews 87(1): 194-208.

30. Burger, O., J.P. DeLong, and M.J. Hamilton (2011). Industrial energy use and the human life history. Scientific Reports 1(56): DOI:10.1038/srep00056.

29. Buchanan, B., M.J. Hamilton, K. Edinborough, and M. Collard (2011). Response to Steele (2010), “Radiocarbon dates as data: quantitative strategies for estimating colonization front speeds and event densities”. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 2116-2122.

28. Walker, R.S. and M.J. Hamilton (2011). Social complexity and linguistic diversity in the Bantu and Austronesian population expansions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B:  Biological Sciences 278: 1399-1404.

27. Buchanan, B., M. Collard, M.J. Hamilton, and M.J. O'Brien (2011). Points and prey: a quantitative test of the hypothesis that prey size influences early Paleoindian projectile point form. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 852-864.

26. Hamilton, M.J., A.D. Davidson, R.M. Sibly, and J.H. Brown (2011). Universal scaling of production rates across mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278: 560-566.

25. Brown, J.H., W. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, J.P. DeLong, W. Dunn, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado Silva, J. Okie, W. Woodruff, and W. Zuo (2011). Ecological limits to economic growth. BioScience 61(1): 19-26. (Faculty of 1000)

24. Smith, F.A., A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, T. Dayan, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, C. McCain, J.G. Okie, J.J. Saarinen, R.M. Sibly, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor and M.D. Uhen (2010). The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals. Science 330: 1216-1219.

23. DeLong, J.P., O. Burger, and M.J. Hamilton (2010). Current demographics suggest that future energy supplies will be inadequate to slow human population growth. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13206. (Faculty of 1000)

22. Hamilton, M.J. and B. Buchanan (2010). Archaeological support for the three-stage expansion of modern humans across northeastern Eurasia and into the Americas. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12472. (Editor's Choice in Science) 

21. Collard, M., B. Buchanan, M.J. Hamilton, and M.J. O'Brien (2010). Spatiotemporal dynamics of the Clovis/Folsom transition. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 2513-2519.

20. Smith, F.A ., M.J. Hamilton, and J.H. Brown (2010). On the size-selectivity of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions (invited commentary). Evolutionary Ecology Research 12: 405-407.

19. Burger, O., R.S. Walker, and M.J. Hamilton (2009). Lifetime reproductive effort in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277(1682): 773-777. 

18. Hamilton, M.J., B. Huckell, and M.S. Shackley (2009). Clovis obsidian sources in the central Rio Grande Rift region, New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 26: 62-65.

17. Hamilton, M.J. and B. Buchanan (2009). Deus ex machina: Archaeological and paleobiological problems with the case for the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact event (invited commentary). Journal of Cosmology 2: 415-417.

16. Hamilton, M.J., O. Burger, J.P. DeLong, R.S. Walker, M.E. Moses, and J.H. Brown (2009). Population stability, cooperation and the invasibility of the human species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 106(30): 12255-12260.

15. Davidson, A.D., M.J. Hamilton, A. Boyer, J.H. Brown, and G. Ceballos (2009). Multiple pathways to extinction in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106(26): 1702-1705.

14. Buchanan, B. and M.J. Hamilton (2009). A formal test of the origin of variation in North American Early Paleoindian points. American Antiquity 74(2): 279-299.

13. Holliday, V.T., B.B. Huckell, M.J. Hamilton, W.R. Reitze, and J.H. Mayer (2009). Geoarchaeology of the Mockingbird Gap (Clovis) Site, Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico. Geoarchaeology 24(3): 348-370.

12. Hamilton, M.J. and B. Buchanan (2009). The accumulation of stochastic copying errors causes drift in culturally transmitted technologies. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28: 55-69.

11. Hamilton, M.J. (2008). Quantifying Clovis Dynamics: Confronting Theory with Models and Data Across Scales. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.

10. Huckell, B.B., V.T. Holliday, M.J. Hamilton, C. Sinkovec, C. Merriman, M. S. Shackley, and R.H. Weber (2008). The Mockingbird Gap Clovis Site: 2007 Investigations. Current Research in the Pleistocene 25: 95-97.

9. Walker, R.S. and M.J. Hamilton (2008). Life history consequences of density-dependence and the evolution of human body sizes. Current Anthropology 49(1): 115-122.

8. Walker, R.S., M. Gurven, O. Burger, and M.J. Hamilton (2008). The trade-off between number and size of offspring in humans and other primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275(1636): 827-833.

7. Hamilton, M.J. and B. Buchanan (2007). Spatial gradients in Clovis-age radiocarbon dates across North America suggest rapid colonization from the north. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104(40): 15629-15634.

6. Hamilton, M.J., B.T. Milne, R.S. Walker, O. Burger, and J.H. Brown (2007). The complex structure of hunter-gatherer social networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274(1622): 2195-2202. (Commentary on Scientific American blog [link])

5. Hamilton, M.J., B.T. Milne, R.S. Walker and J.H. Brown (2007). Nonlinear scaling of space use in human hunter-gatherers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104(11): 4765-4769.

4. Burger, O., M.J. Hamilton, and R.S. Walker (2005). The prey as patch model: Optimal handling of resources with diminishing returns. Journal of Archaeological Science 32(8): 1147-1158.

3. Huckell, B.B., J.D. Kilby, and M.J. Hamilton (2003). 2002 excavations at Boca Negra Folsom site, north-central New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 20: 33-34.

2. Huckell, B.B., J.D. Kilby, B. Buchanan, M.J. Hamilton and S. Ruth (2002). 2001 excavations at Boca Negra Folsom site, north-central New Mexico.Current Research in the Pleistocene 19: 39-40.

1. Hamilton, M.J. (1998). Broken Bison Bones: A Faunal Analysis of 41LUI Area 10, Lubbock Lake Landmark, Texas, USA. B.Sc. dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK.