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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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!

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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...

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GT2 – Site du réseau CAIRN

site du réseau CAIRN

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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/...

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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

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🧪🧪 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...

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

🧪 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...

sciencedirect.com

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…

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

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...

sciencedirect.com

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…

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

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

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

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...

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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory (@pacea.bsky.social)

CNRS, University of Bordeaux https://www.pacea.u-bordeaux.fr/ ; https://sciences-archeologiques.u-bordeaux.fr/

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

This is a neat idea; done with scholargoggler.com. A word cloud of my published research subjects.

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

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

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

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

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

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

Map of western Europe showing Neanderthal tool regions

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Clean, head-high waves on offer for this morning’s session ❤️

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William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Hi All. I’m making the move over to here from the billionaire’s platform, so I thought I’d introduce myself. I’m an archaeologist interested in Palaeolithic culture-environment relationships. I explore these via niche modeling methods and culture transmission theory.

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