David N. Matzig

🚨 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.2…

Geometriphylogenetics xkcd.com/3010

@up_joad @ahb108 @britishmuseum @findsorguk @MicroPasts @chiara_bonacchi @martinontorres @DEJPett @JWexlerBM wow, what a data set! are pictures of each individual axe available, too? if so, it would be the perfect data set to be studied using our GMM and phylodynamic workflow (doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…)

🆕📢New paper alert! "A Catalogue of British #BronzeAge Axes, Including Basic Typology, Compositional Analyses and Associated #Radiocarbon Dates" by @ahb108 and colleagues:tinyurl.com/jwntvzay It gathers data from @britishmuseum, @findsorguk and @MicroPasts #Archaeology

@ArmandoFalcucci @ERC_CLIOARCH Thanks so much, @ArmandoFalcucci!

@ARCHAEOfelix Thank you so much for all your guidance and support along the way, @ARCHAEOfelix!

@VictorLundstrm3 @UiB_museet @P_Yaworsky Congratulations, Victor!

@flostro Toll, Florian - Gratulation!

Go Public! ist draußen, mit einem kleinen Beitrag von mir zur Public Archaeology. Großes Danke auch an die Herausgeber:innen Marion Großmann, Thomas Hellmuth, Martin Tschiggerl und Thomas Walach für die Möglichkeit hier mitzuarbeiten. 👍 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

@VictorLundstrm3 @rachelwarnock @ARCHAEOfelix @benmarwick Thanks a lot, Victor!

🚨 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.2…

@t_shumon thank you, Shumon!

@david_matzig Well done and congrats, David!

6/6✨A very special thanks to my co-authors and supervisors @rachelwarnock, @ARCHAEOfelix, and @benmarwick for their invaluable help in realizing this paper. ✨

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.

@VictorLundstrm3 thanks, Victor!

✨New Paper out!✨ journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

New broad-scale database on #lithic #technologies between ca. 15 and 11 ka in Europe @ScientificData, @ERC_CLIOARCH collaborative effort with @ARCHAEOfelix, @david_matzig and many others: nature.com/articles/s4159…

💡Recent methodological innovations allowing to integrate artefact shape data with phylogenetic applications lead us to predict a renaissance in artefact phylogenetics and appropriately #macroscale applications of cultural evolutionary theory in archaeology.

📈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.

✨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/s4159…