William E. Banks
@wbanks33.bsky.social
CNRS Senior Scientist. PACEA (UMR 5199) lab director. Archaeologist specializing in Paleolithic culture-environment relationships via ecological niche modeling. Formerly of the Rockies and Great Plains, now in Bordeaux, France. Born 326 ppm.
🧪By our colleague @wbanks33.bsky.social in @nature.com H. sapiens expanded their ecological niches within Africa, occupied a broade range of habitats before their exit into Eurasia 60 ka. Adaptation as a path to long migration shorturl.at/Mfus8 @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
Homo sapiens adapted to diverse habitats before successfully populating Eurasia | Nature
Ecological modelling reveals that the range of habitats humans occupied in Africa increased before our species established a lasting presence outside the continent. Ecological modelling reveals that the range of habitats humans occupied in Africa increased before our species established a lasting presence outside the continent.
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June 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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!
🚨 Join the PACEA Laboratory! The CNRS @cnrsecologie.bsky.social is recruiting a senior postdoc (3 to 6-year contract) to work on Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments. This is part of a long-term strategy and may lead to a permanent full-time research position emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Paléo-environnements et peuplements pléistocènes et holocènes M/F
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May 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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
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GT2 – Site du réseau CAIRN
site du réseau CAIRN
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February 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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
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🧪 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/...
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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
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January 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🧪 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/...
www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
🧪 Press release (French) of an interesting study by my colleague @clement-zanolli.bsky.social at PACEA @pacea.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social.
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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
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January 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🧪 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/...
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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.
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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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December 13, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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/...
www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
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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
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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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December 12, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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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...
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...
🧪 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.
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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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November 10, 2024 at 6:45 PM
🧪 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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 7, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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!
September 19, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,312,307!
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!
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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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February 23, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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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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
Stone tools in northern Europe made by Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago | Nature
DNA analyses of skeletal fragments from a site in Germany provide evidence that humans, rather than Neanderthals, were responsible for a particular stone-tool industry called the Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician. Homo sapiens associated with a 45,000-year-old type of stone tool.
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February 9, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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
February 9, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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
December 7, 2023 at 7:43 AM
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
Reposted by William E. Banks
Early Homo erectus lived at high altitudes and produced both Oldowan and Acheulean tools 🧪
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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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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
October 13, 2023 at 3:33 PM
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
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
Reposted by William E. Banks
Regional behaviour among late Neanderthal groups in Western Europe:
A comparative assessment of late Middle Palaeolithic bifacial tool variability 🧪
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Indicates a high level of variation among bifacial tools made by Neanderthal groups
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
October 13, 2023 at 4:02 PM
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
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
Clean, head-high waves on offer for this morning’s session ❤️
October 7, 2023 at 10:34 AM
Clean, head-high waves on offer for this morning’s session ❤️
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.
October 6, 2023 at 9:12 AM
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.