Nicole Waguespack is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2003. Her research interests include behavioral ecology, zooarchaeology, Pleistocene extinctions, and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies. Her focus has mainly been on Paleoindian archaeology in the Western Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. With Todd Surovell, she has published extensively on the hunting of megafauna by Paleoindians and how hunter-gatherer prey choice correlates with Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions. She has also explored the division of labor within hunter-gatherer societies and demographics of New World colonizers, two essential aspects to consider when applying behavioral ecology to the archaeological record.
Selected Works
2009 Surovell, Todd A. and Nicole M. Waguespack. Human prey choice in the late Pleistocene and its relation to megafaunal extinctions. In American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene, edited by G. Haynes, 77-105. Springer.
2003 Waguespack, Nicole M. and Todd A. Surovell. Clovis Hunting Strategies, or How to Make out on Plentiful Resources. American Antiquity 68(2): 333-352.
The Application of Behavioral Ecology to the Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers
