Colin D. Wren

When it comes to convincing people to act in the best interest of society, can influential figures make a difference? A new paper by @StefaniCrabtree, Simon Levin, @CDWren and Avinash Dixit published in @PNASNexus, shows that influencers can play a valuable role in convincing others to act in the best interest of society. santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

🚨Another new paper! Delighted to have worked on this @Nature paper 'Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations' It explores how populations absorb and recover from disturbances using #archaeology data doi.org/10.1038/s41586… #openaccess

My dept is holding a crowdfunding campaign to support our summer archaeology 🏺 field school. Our uni serves the relatively low-income southern Colorado and all money will be used to offset student costs of equipment and tuition. Any amount is welcome! crowdfunding.uccs.edu/?cfpage=/o/uni…

Flint Dibble and Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan: Key Takeaways archeothoughts.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/fli…

Hi all, I appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience yesterday for an in-depth chat with Graham Hancock (link in next tweet) You can read my essay about my motivations for doing this in @SAPIENS_org magazine sapiens.org/archaeology/gr…

Are there available 3d models of Homo longi or the Harbin skull? I'm attempting to print Xiahe right now and I was hoping to further expand my teaching collection

@ethafidi @kabweordie Where is this pile anyway?! I have to clean up my classroom after each napping session which is a real drag 😂

@kabweordie Awesome! Showed your debitage pile to my wife and she said “absolutely not” 😂😂😂

Some Georgetown today!

Sign up for our short free online workshop: agent-based modelling for archaeologists forms.gle/knvBYnLnFPi23x… Learn the basics of theory and practice in archaeological agent-based modelling. Open to all! 2 different timeslots. No prior coding skills required. 🥳🤠 1/4

In need of formal training for your past network research? We all are! That's why today we are launching a new long-term institution: the annual Barcelona Past Networks Summer School. By #connectedpast and @HNR_org and many more pastnetworks.net 1/6

An excellent report in @ConversationUK by @fynbospollen on our ongoing work to build high-resolution coupled terrestrial climate-vegetation records for the African MSA-LSA transition. theconversation.com/pollen-in-pee-… @NSF @TheLeakeyFndtn

Here is our new paper out in @BiolJLinnSoc investigating modelling approaches (particularly #ABM) in reconstructing large mammal populations in extinct landscapes. @JanBuffel @CDWren track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=WC…

Great news! An @ERC_Research #ERCStG to #AIASFellow @Iza_Romanowska for her project 'THE MODEL CITY' to investigate long-term urban evolution and the resilience of cities by combining cutting-edge computer technologies with large archaeological datasets🎉 aias.au.dk/events/show/ar…

My new paper "Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Wow, simply … mindblowing. 🤯 An unmade bed. So what? - An unmade bed left 1,944 years ago in #Pompeii! This is how #archaeology is about people, not things. (Thanks a lot for sharing these fantastic on site impressions, Sophie! 👏)

Still time to apply! Fully-funded PhD position on the genetics & proteomics of prehistoric SE Asian and Oceanian individuals.

Open-science practices don't (all) require big investments of time and effort. This great post by @daxkellie and @westgatecology introduces small and achievable steps to improve R code reproducibility that can have a big impact ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/improvin…

Pretty sick heat-treated silcrete point from PP5-6

Today’s work underground in the Dragon’s Back chamber was amazing, so impressed with what @Keneiloe and team have done. And then, a surprise from another site!

@PattMeeples Great! The plots and characters shift a lot through the series but I really enjoyed the overall package

Hey, #Neanderthal fans, afficionados, scholars - tell me your One Site/Find To Rule Them All! [This is for a thing that may/may not happen...]