"Reitz has worked throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southeastern United States, studying vertebrate remains from coastal archaeological sites dating from the late Pleistocene era into the 20th century."[1] Her work includes collaborations with local residents of areas in which she is working as well as overseeing a large (over 4200 specimen) zooarchaeological collection in the
Georgia Museum of Natural History.[1]
A reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Archaeology praised Reitz and Wing's book, Zooarchaeology as "the best available introductory text on the subject for undergraduate students".[9]
She has been credited for having "done more than any other individual to advance the subfield of historical zooarchaeology".[10]
Lyman notes that she is a "vocal advocate for using bone weight allometry as a measure of taxonomic abundance".[11]
Elizabeth Reitz; C. Margaret Scarry; Sylvia J. Scudder, eds. (2007). Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (2 ed.). Springer.
ISBN978-0387713021.
Reitz, Elizabeth J.; Pavao-Zuckerman, Barnet; Weinand, Daniel; Duncan, Gwyneth A. C. (2010). Mission and Pueblo of Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis. American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers. North American Archaeology Fund, AMNH.
hdl:
2246/6036.
ISBN978-1939302175.
Elizabeth J. Reitz; Irvy R. Quitmyer; David Hurst Thomas, eds. (2012). Seasonality and Human Mobility Along the Georgia Bight. American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers. North American Archaeology Fund, AMNH.
hdl:
2246/6164.
ISBN978-1939302212.
^Orchard, Trevor J. (2009). "Review Reviewed Work: Zooarchaeology (2nd Edition) by Elizabeth J. Reitz, Elizabeth S. Wing". Canadian Journal of Archaeology. 33 (1).
Canadian Archaeological Association: 158–161.
JSTOR41103655.