The Concept of Waste:

Dunnell, Robert C.
  1999  The Concept of Waste in an Evolutionary Archaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18: 243-250.

Madsen, Mark, Carl Lipo, and Michael Cannon
  1999  Fitness and Reproductive Trade-Offs in Uncertain Environments: Explaining the Evolution of Cultural Elaboration. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18: 251-281.

Neiman, Fraser D.
  1997  Conspicuous Consumption as Wasteful Advertising: a Darwinian Perspective on Spatial Patterns in Classic Maya Terminal Monument Dates. In Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory and Archeological Explanation, edited by C.M. Barton and G.A. Clark, pp. 75-94. Archeological Papers, No. 7, American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.