Publications and pdfs

​In review
​90. Hamilton, M.J. An endogenous theory of mobility and sedentism in hunter-gatherer societies. 
89. Walker, R.S., M.J. Hamilton, J. Elghammer, B. Buchanan, J.R. Ferguson, and A. Olmeda (In prep.). Machine learning the geographic distribution of ancient Amazonian archaeological sites.
88. Blasi, D.E., M.J. Hamilton, R.D. Gray and C.L. Bowern. Linguistic diversity through the Holocene reveals the deep roots of language loss.
87. Hamilton, M.J., J. Lobo, B. Buchanan, M. Collard, and H. Youn. Combinatorial knowledge and the deep prehistory of human invention.
86. Hamilton, M.J., C.P. Kempes, J. Lobo, and G.B. West. Motivating a scaling theory of urban biodiversity.
85. Buchanan, B., M.J. Hamilton, D. Macdonald, J. Blinkhorn, H. Groucutt, M.I. Eren, and S.L. Kuhn (2022). Assessing shape variation and symmetry in Levantine Levallois points using geometric morphometrics.
84. Hamilton, M.J., R.S. Walker, B. Buchanan, D.E. Blasi, and C.E. Bowern. A predictive model for the demography and biogeography of a hunter-gatherer world.
​83. Ziang, J., C.P. Kempes, M.J. Hamilton, and G.B. West. Scaling laws and a general theory for the growth of companies.
82. Kim, H., M.J. Hamilton, W.S. Jung, Y. Berezkin, and H. Youn. The deeply nested structure of mythological traditions worldwide.
In press
81. Buchanan, B. and M.J. Hamilton (In press). Networks and cultural transmission in hunter-gatherer societies. In Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research, edited by J. Munson, B. Mills, T. Brughmans, and M. Peeples, Oxford University Press.
80. Kilby, J.D., T. Surovell, B.B. Huckell, C. Ringstaff, and M.J. Hamilton (In press). Evidence supports the efficacy of Clovis points for hunting proboscideans. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
79. Hamilton, M.J. and B. Buchanan (In press). Reconstructing Clovis landscape use at multiple spatial scales from the Mockingbird Gap site, New Mexico. In The Paleoindian Southwest, edited by J.D. Kilby and B.B. Huckell. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
78. Fernández-López de Pablo, J., V. Romano1, M. Derex, E. Gjesfjeld, C. Gravel-Miguel, M.J. Hamilton, A. Migliano, F. Riede, and S. Lozano (In press). To understand cultural evolution in hunter-gatherers, we need to adopt 'Network Thinking'. ​Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
2022
77. Buchanan, B. and M.J. Hamilton (2022). Spatial scaling of Folsom Paleoindian hunter-gatherer camps in western North America. In Intrasite Spatial Analysis of Mobile and Semisedentary Peoples: Analytical Approaches to Reconstructing Occupation History, edited by A.E. Clark and J.A.M. Gingerich. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp. 36-43.
76. Hamilton, M.J. (2022). Invited commentary of "Scaling of hunter-gatherer camp size and human sociality" by J. Lobo, T. Whitelaw, L.M.A. Bettencourt, P. Weissner, M.E. Smith, and S. Ortman. Current Anthropology 63(1): 82-83.
75. Buchanan, B., R.S. Walker, M.J. Hamilton, B. Story, M. Bebber, D. Wilcox, and M.I. Eren (2022). Experimental assessment of lanceolate projectile point and haft robustness. Journal of Anthropological Science: Reports 42: 103399.
74. Buchanan, B., J.D. Kilby, J. LaBelle, T. A. Surovell, J, Holland-Lulewicz, and M. J. Hamilton (2022). Bayesian modeling of the Clovis and Folsom radiocarbon records indicates a 170-year multi-generational transition. American Antiquity 87(3): 567-580.
73. Hamilton, M.J. (2022). ​Collective computation, information flow, and the emergence of hunter-gatherer small-worlds. Journal of Social Computing 3(1): 18-37.
72. Hamilton, M.J. and M. Tallavaara (2022). Statistical inference, scale, and noise in comparative anthropology. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6:122.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01637-3
2021​
​71. Hamilton, M.J., R.S. Walker, B. Buchanan, D.E. Blasi, and C.E. Bowern. Reconstructing hunter-gatherer planet Earth using machine-learning. BIORXIV/2021/457222.
70. Buchanan, B., J.D. Kilby, M.J. Hamilton, J.M. LaBelle, K.A. Meyer, J. Holland-Lulewicz, B.  Andrews, B.M. Morgan, B. Asher, V.T. Holliday, G.W.L. Hodgins, and T.A. Surovell (2021). Bayesian revision of the Folsom age range using Intcal 2020. PaleoAmerica 7 (2): 1 33-144.
2020
​69. Kilby, J.D., S.P. Farrell, and M.J. Hamilton (2020). New investigations at Bonfire Shelter examine controversial bison jumps and their implications for Paleoindian social organization. ​Plains Anthropologist  DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2020.1812795.
68. Buchanan, B. and M.J. Hamilton (2020). Scaling laws of Paleoindian projectile point design. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 28: 580–602  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09481-8.
67. Eren, M.I., B. Story, A. Perrone, M. Bebber, M.J. Hamilton, R.S. Walker, and B. Buchanan (2020). North American Clovis point form and function: an experimental assessment of penetration depth. Lithic Technology DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2020.1794358.
66. Lobo, J., Alberti, M., Allen-Dumas, M., Arcaute, E., Barthelemy, M., Bojorquez Tapia, L.A., Brail, S., Bettencourt, L., Beukes, A., Chen, W.-Q., Florida, R., Gonzalez, M., Grimm, N., Hamilton, M.J., et al. (2020). Urban science: Integrated theory from the first cities to sustainable metropolises.  Social Science Research Network 5526992.
65. Hamilton, M.J., R.S. Walker, B. Buchanan, and D.S. Sandeford (2020). Scaling human sociopolitical complexity. PLOS ONE 15(7): e0234615. 
64. Hamilton, M.J., R.S. Walker, and C. Kempes (2020). Diversity begets diversity in human cultures and mammal species. ​Scientific Reports 10: 19654.
63. Hamilton, M.J. (2020). Book review of “The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms" by R. Alexander Bentley and Michael J. O’Brien. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017, 176 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-03695-5, Journal of Anthropological Research 76(1): 95-96.
62. Bettencourt, L.M, J. Lobo, D. Rybski, V. Chang, C. Kempes, and M.J. Hamilton (2020). The Interpretation of urban scaling analysis in time. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17: 20190846.
2019
61. Hamilton, M.J. (2019). Invited commentary of "Forager mobility in constructed environments" by R. Haas and S.L. Kuhn. Current Anthropology 60(4):499-535.
60. Dunne, J. and M.J. Hamilton (2019). Are humans really unique? How do we know? In: Krakauer, D.C. (Ed.) Hidden In Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984-2019. Santa Fe Institute Press, pp. 249-256.
59. Hamilton, M.J. and R.S. Walker (2019). Unique allometry of group size and collective brain mass in humans and primates relative to other mammals. BioRxiv/2019/829366.
58. Hamilton, M.J. (2019). Book review of  "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States", by James C. Scott, ​2018. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-24021-4. Environment and Society: Advances in Research.10 (2019): 178–189 doi:10.3167/ares.2019.100111.
57. Hamilton, M.J. and R.S. Walker (2019). Nonlinear diversification rates of linguistic phylogenies over the Holocene. PLOS ONE 14(7): e0213126.
56. Hamilton, M.J., B. Buchanan, and R.S. Walker (2019). Spatiotemporal diversification of projectile point types in western North America over 13,000 years. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24:486-495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.01.029.
55. Walker, R.S., and M.J. Hamilton (2019). Machine learning with remote sensing data to locate uncontacted indigenous villages in Amazonia. PeerJ Computer Science 5:e170 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.170.
54. Buchanan, B., M.J. Hamilton, and J.D. Kilby (2019). The small world topology of Clovis lithic networks. Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0767-7.
2018
53. ​Hamilton, M.J., B. Buchanan, and R.S. Walker (2018). Scaling the size, structure, and dynamics of residentially mobile hunter-gatherer camps. American Antiquity 83(4):701-720.​
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)
2017
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.
2016
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.
2015
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)
2014
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)
2013
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. 
2012
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, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119968535.ch20.
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.
2011
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.
2010
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.
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.
2009
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.
2008
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.
2007
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.
2005 and before
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.