William E. Banks

Pleasure. Nice modeling work!

Thanks for the kind words Becky!

Here’s a CNRS offer to come to PACEA. It’s a multi-year contract that at the end will turn into a permanent Senior Researcher position if objectives are met. So if you’re a several years post PhD and a specialist in paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, and human adaptation give it a look!

Happy to have participated with my CAI-RN working group colleagues in today’s conference dedicated to our soon to be released archaeological statistics manual. @cnrs.fr

archeometrie.cnrs.fr/category/gro...

L’étude des groupes sanguins des premiers Homo sapiens éclaire leur arrivée en Eurasie Une étude du laboratoire Anthropologie bio-culturelle, droit, éthique et santé (ADES - CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université/EFS) pub

🧪 Interesting new study out by my colleague @stephmazieres.bsky.social concerning biological aspects of Homo sapiens' movement out of Africa. Here's a press release (in French) by our CNRS institute @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Paranthropus capensis, une espèce redécouverte Découvert en 1949 en Afrique du Sud, la mandibule SK 15 a d’abord été attribuée à Telanthropus capensis, et est désor

🧪 Press release (French) of an interesting study by my colleague @clement-zanolli.bsky.social at PACEA @pacea.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social.

www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

🧪

Repenser la transition du Paléolithique moyen au Paléolithique supérieur : Une révision critique des données propose une redéfinition du rôle des néandertaliens dans l’émergence de l'homme moderne Une nouvelle analyse remet en question des points de vue établis sur la coexistence et les écha

For our French colleagues and followers, here is a press release published today by our CNRS Institute (CNRS Écologie & Environnement) concerning our recently published paper on the cultural and biological dynamics of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition.

www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

The link you included doesn’t appear to work, Nicolas. Here’s the one I included in my post.

doi.org/10.1016/j.qe...

🧪🧪

The final version of our paper arguing for a paradigm shift concerning research on the transition from the Middle to Upper Paleolithic is out. With my colleagues Zilhao, d’Errico and @teyssand31.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.qe...

Agreed! Nice to just be able to see Science again !!

Book - « Inherent Vice » by Thomas Pynchon;

Movie - « Moneyball »;

Album - « Movement » by New Order or « The Downward Spiral » by Nine Inch Nails. Can’t pick;

TV Show - « Mr. Inbetween »

Thanks, Dan!

Not sure if I meet the threshold or not, but if so would be thrilled to be added.

A Data-Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate Based on morphologically undiagnostic human remains from the southern Balkans and central Europe, it has been argued that the Bachokirian and Ranisian…

🧪 Have you always thought that Paleolithic archaeology needed a paradigm shift with respect to the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition? Always thought that the Assimilation model should be given more weight? Well, then this article is for you.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks a bunch!

Apologies for forgetting the link to my ORCID page (this is all kinda new to me 😉). So here it is:

orcid.org/0000-0003-18...

Would love to be added. Thanks in advance.

Hi Will Banks here, Paleolithic archaeologist. Here’s my ORCID number : 0000-0003-1835-6315

Would love to be added to the feed. Thanks.

A Data-Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate Based on morphologically undiagnostic human remains from the southern Balkans and central Europe, it has been argued that the Bachokirian and Ranisian…

Have you always thought that Paleolithic archaeology needed a paradigm shift with respect to the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition? Always thought that the Assimilation model should be given more weight? Well, then this article is for you. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,312,307!

PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory (@pacea.bsky.social) CNRS, University of Bordeaux https://www.pacea.u-bordeaux.fr/ ; https://sciences-archeologiques.u-bordeaux.fr/

Interested in combining archaeology and mathematics to examine past circulation networks? PhD with a strong research record ? @pacea.bsky.social would be happy to welcome you if you’re offered the job!

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...

I’d be interested in being added. Thanks in advance!

I’d be interested in being added. Thanks in advance!

It was a pleasure to have had the opportunity to write this News & Views for Nature (out last week) about the recently published articles describing the site of Ilsenhöhle (Ranis). rdcu.be/dxstE

This is a neat idea; done with scholargoggler.com.

A word cloud of my published research subjects.

Had my nose stuck in e-mails early this morning and was happy that a colleague called my attention to the beautiful sunrise here in Bordeaux

J’espère qu’elle peut arriver à une politique. Je ferai tout pour. Il s’agit d’une de ces fameuses collines 😉

Early Homo erectus lived at high altitudes and produced both Oldowan and Acheulean tools

Early Homo erectus lived at high altitudes and produced both Oldowan and Acheulean tools 🧪
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

New palaeomagnetic ages to show the mandible in level E is ca. 2 million-years-old, and represents one of the earliest Homo erectus fossils

Map of western Europe showing Neanderthal tool regions

Regional behaviour among late Neanderthal groups in Western Europe:
A comparative assessment of late Middle Palaeolithic bifacial tool variability 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Indicates a high level of variation among bifacial tools made by Neanderthal groups