| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2013 | "Portable Religious Stone Features from a Ceremonial Complex on San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2013 | "Geographic Information Systems as a Tool for Analyzing Intrasite Spatial Variability on San Nicolas Island" in California's Channel Islands : The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2013 | "From the Island of the Blue Dolphins: A Unique Nineteenth-Century Cache Feature From San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2011 | "Changes in Marine Subsistence on San Miguel Island from 8,500 to 2,400 Years Ago: Analysis of Bulk Samples from Cave of the Chimneys (CA-SMI-603)" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2011 | "10,000 years of human predation and size changes in the owl limpet (Lottia gigantea) on San Miguel Island, California" in Journal of Archaeological Science |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2011 | "Where were the northern elephant seals? Holocene archaeology and biogeography of Mirounga angustirostris" in The Holocene |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2010 | "The Use of Replicative Studies in Understanding the Function of Expedient Tools: The Sandstone Saws of San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2010 | "Trauma and pathology of a buried dog from San Nicolas Island, California, U.S.A." in Journal of Archaeological Science |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2010 | "Erratum to 'Trauma and pathology of a buried dog from San Nicolas Island, California, U.S.A.'" in Journal of Archaeological Science |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2009 | "Origins and antiquity of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis) on California's Channel Islands" in Quaternary Research |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2008 | A Canyon Through Time : Archaeology, History, and Ecology of the Tecolote Canyon Area, Santa Barbara County, California |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2008 | Chapter 4 "Historical Ecology and Human Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems of the Santa Barbara Channel Region, California" in Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2008 | "Human impacts on ancient shellfish: a 10,000 year record from San Miguel Island, California" in Journal of Archaeological Science |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2008 | "Dogs, humans and island ecosystems: the distribution, antiquity and ecology of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) on California's Channel Islands, USA" in The Holocene |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2008 | "A double dog burial from San Nicolas Island, California, USA: osteology, context, and significance" in Journal of Archaeological Science |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2006 | "Taphonomy and site formation on California's Channel Islands" in Geoarchaeology |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2006 | "From Pleistocene Mariners to Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Archaeology of the California Channel Islands" in Journal of World Prehistory |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2005 | "Coastal Foraging at Otter Cave: A 6600-Year-Old Shell Midden on San Miguel Island, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2005 | "Radiocarbon dating and the “old shell” problem: direct dating of artifacts and cultural chronologies in coastal and other aquatic regions" in Journal of Archaeological Science |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2004 | "Coastal paleogeography and human land use at Tecolote Canyon, southern California, U.S.A." in Geoarchaeology |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2003 | "Early New World maritime technologies: sea grass cordage, shell beads, and a bone tool from Cave of the Chimneys, San Miguel Island, California, USA" in Journal of Archaeological Science |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2002 | "On the Antiquity of the Single-Piece Shell Fishhook: AMS Radiocarbon Evidence from the Southern California Coast" in Journal of Archaeological Science |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2001 | "Radiocarbon Chronology for Corona Del Mar (CA-SBA-54): A Middle Holocene Site on the Goleta Slough, Santa Barbara County, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2001 | "AMS Radiocarbon Dating and Shell Bead Chronologies: Middle Holocene Trade and Interaction in Western North America" in Journal of Archaeological Science |
| Vellanoweth, René L. | 2001 | "Paleocoastal Marine Fishing on the Pacific Coast of the Americas: Perspectives from Daisy Cave, California" in American Antiquity |
