🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 1/6 🏹Using a a state-of-the-art #Bayesian #phylodynamic framework, we explore the evolution of projectile point shapes during the European Final #Palaeolithic and earliest #Mesolithic (approximately 15-11ka BP). doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240321

5/6 🎓Given this innovative approach, we place considerable emphasis on systematically exploring the impact of both data and models on the results. This is achieved by incrementally introducing complexity, thereby laying a robust foundation for #futureresearch in this direction.

✨New paper out now!✨ @ARCHAEOfelix, @nevromeCS, and I did a #bibliometric literature review where we trace the development of #evolutionaryarchaeology over the last four decades: nature.com/articles/s41599-0…

📈Importantly, our review demonstrates the centrality of computational models, but suggests a stagnation in the application of precisely that suite of methods—#phylogenetics—that is central to evolutionary archaeology’s biological counterpart #palaeontology.