Latest Writing

History Shows Privatized Space Colonization Will Be Disastrous | Dissident Voice

Are Pandemics Good for the Environment? | Sapiens Magazine

Recent Media Attention

Interview | Working Over Time Podcast

Interview | Sapiens Podcast

Research Feature | Popular Archaeology Magazine

Interview | NBC Connecticut

Elic Weitzel

Human Ecologist and Archaeologist

I'm a human ecologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist interested in understanding humans in their environmental and social contexts. I make use of quantitative methods as well as evolutionary and ecological theory to better understand human behavior and demography in both the past and the present.

Latest Academic Publications

The Ideal Distribution Model and Archaeological Settlement Patterning | Environmental Archaeology

Food Production and Domestication Produced both Cooperative and Competitive Dynamics in Eastern North America | Environmental Archaeology

Investigating Overhunting of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the Late Holocene Middle Tennessee River Valley | Southeastern Archaeology

Elic Weitzel

Department of Anthropology
University of Connecticut

354 Mansfield Road

Storrs, CT 06269
elic.weitzel@uconn.edu