Blar i Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR på forfatter "Banks, William E."
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An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago
Banks, William E.; Moncel, Marie-Helene; Raynal, J.P.; Cobos, MC; Romero-Alvarez, D; woillez, M-N; Faivre, Jean-Philippe; Gravina, Brad; d'Errico, Francesco; Locht, Jean-Luc; Santos, Frédéric (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000 years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a considerable body of archaeological research has focused on Neanderthal ... -
Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea
Antunes, Nicolas; Schiefenhövel, W; d'Errico, Francesco; Banks, William E.; Vanhaeren, Marian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior. Decreasing linguistic diversity from the equator towards the ... -
Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
d'Errico, Francesco; Backwell, Lucinda R.; Wadley, Lyn; Geis, Lila; Queffelec, Alain; Banks, William E.; Doyon, Luc (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Fully shaped, morphologically standardized bone tools are generally considered reliable indicators of the emergence of modern behavior. We report the discovery of 23 double-beveled bone tools from ~ 80,000–60,000-year-old ...