Marcus J. Hamilton

Santa Fe Institute — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

34h-index4.6kcitations121works0.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(31), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies(27), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(20), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(14), Primate Behavior and Ecology(13)

Publications121 total

A macroecological theory of social complexity
2025Open Access
A New Method for Classifying Dart and Arrow Projectile Points
American Antiquity·2025
Demographic synchrony increases the vulnerability of human societies to collapse
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Renewed Investigations at the Mockingbird Gap Clovis Site: A Progress Report of a Multi-Year Research Program
PaleoAmerica·2025
Bruce Huckell and the Folsom Record of the West Mesa, New Mexico
PaleoAmerica·2025
Technological complexity and combinatorial invention in small-scale societies
Science Advances·2025Open Access
‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Scaling the human niche
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Reconstructing Clovis landscape use at multiple spatial scales from the Mockingbird Gap site, New Mexico
2025Open Access
More is Different in Cultural Evolution
2025Open Access
Synthesis of innovation and obsolescence
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Rapoport’s rule and the biogeography of cultural diversity across North America over 13,000 years
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2025Open Access
The Functional Use of Quartz Crystal Points in Clovis Technology
Lithic Technology·2025· 1 cited
What problem does a fractal social network solve?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2025
Latitudinal-Temporal Gradients in Cultural Diversity Across North America Over 13,000 Years
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Institutional complexity emerges from socioecological complexity in small-scale human societies
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Food storage, mobility, and the density-dependence of hunter-gatherer movement ecology
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2024· 1 cited
Remote sensing evidence for population growth of isolated indigenous societies in Amazonia
Scientific Reports·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Networks and Cultural Transmission in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
Oxford University Press eBooks·2023· 1 cited
Comparing Clovis and Folsom fluting via scaling analysis
Archaeometry·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Briggs Buchanan(17), James H. Brown(15), Robert S. Walker(13), Oskar Bürger(8), Jordan G. Okie(8), Ana D. Davidson(7), Alison G. Boyer(6), Daniel P. Costa(5), Richard M. Sibly(5), Luís M. A. Bettencourt(5), Felisa A. Smith(4), S. K. Morgan Ernest(4), Alistair R. Evans(4), Mikael Fortelius(4), John L. Gittleman(4), Larisa E. Harding(4), Kari Lintulaakso(4), S. Kathleen Lyons(4), Juha Saarinen(4), Patrick R. Stephens(4)