Robert (Beau) DiNapoli

Happy to share new #openaccess paper with @er_crema @clipo Reith & Hunt in @NatureComms – “Approximate Bayesian Computation of radiocarbon and paleoenvironmental record shows population resilience on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)” nature.com/articles/s4146…

Scientists @BinghamtonU are using drones to find missing WWII servicemen: youtu.be/gsXQZKtGHkY?si… #SUNYresearch #WWII #Guam #memorialday

Studying a population that moves around? No worries, migration is my jam ⤵️ doi.org/10.1002/evan.2…

New review article on demographic inference based on frequency of radiocarbon dates Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. A thread: (1/n) doi.org/10.1007/s10816… @UCamArchaeology

Explore our campus ecosystem and become a citizen scientist during our first EcoBlitz! Hosted by the Center for Integrated Watershed Studies, it begins with a kickoff event from 10-3 April 30 at the Nature Preserve & continues through May 13. Read more: bit.ly/3iVD6IZ

@CatJarman Thanks for having me on!

This week it's the 300th anniversary of the first Europeans reaching Rapa Nui. But was the population there already in decline, OR was this 'discovery' the beginning of the end?? Hear the very latest research from @robertjdinapoli in today's #GoneMedieval podfollow.com/gone-medieval/…

Rapa Nui - or Easter Island - is world-famous for its megalithic statues. But recent research has revealed new insights which change what we have long thought about the collapse of Easter Island’s prehistoric society. @CatJarman talks to @robertjdinapoli: podfollow.com/gone-medieval/…

A aringa ora #moai, made of basalt (same material as Hoa Hakananai'a) and taken away in 1870, has returned home! It arrived yesterday and made a procession from Hanga Roa to the local anthropological museum accompanied by hundreds of #rapanui

Good news from the #RapaNui front. An /aringa ora/ moai is returning to the island. Taken in 1870 by the Chilean Navy, it remained in Santiago de Chile for over 150 years. Three years ago the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural agreed to return it. Now it begins!

21-months Post-Doc on Archaeological Chemistry with the ENCOUNTER project @York_BioArCh to work on organic residue analyses of Final #Jomon to Early #Yayoi pottery across #Japan. Come join us! encounterproject.info/announcements

Our legendary RPS Field Trips will be back in 2022 with a vengeance! We will be prepared for anything, focusing on quality, in-depth, multi-angled visitation: Rapa Nui at its "realest". The hype is real. Message us for inquiries. Private services only. #RapaNui #EasterIsland

'The archaeology of island colonization: global approaches to initial human settlement' by Matthew Napolitano, Jessica Stone & Robert DiNapoli (ed.) does an "an outstanding job in bringing together diverse and impactful papers" 📚 🆕 #BookReview (£) buff.ly/3y4fRDe

Please to share this @SciReports paper co-authored with Habeom Kim and Gyoung-Ah Lee where we use Bayesian statistics to measure the temporal offset between climatic events and the start of the population decline during the Chulmun period in Korea nature.com/articles/s4159…

Beautiful piece by @raminskibba about the value of heritage and the race to save it, including the inspiring @iriveracollazo: Race Against Time oceans.nautil.us/feature/743/ra… via @NautilusMag

Giant rock art issue now published! 200 pages, at least 200 pictures, rock art from the Philippines to Easter Island, visiting PNG, Australia, and New Caledonia on the way. Description, theory, analysis. Our biggest issue ever.

Opening up Statistical Rethinking 2022 to external registration. All the materials will be public, so registration only necessary if you want to join weekly online discussion. Starts in January. Details: github.com/rmcelreath/sta… Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/statistical-…

Are you interested in past #human-#environment interactions? Have a look at the @neotomadb, a great source of #palaeocological data from #Pliocene to Late #Holocene: neotomadb.org/about/category…

Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History is hiring two positions—an archaeologist and a marketing and communications specialist! mnch.uoregon.edu/careers-museum…

Our paper is finally published on Life Worth Mentioning: Complexity in Life-Like Cellular Automata! It was a joy to work on this with @HirokiSayama. (@ARTL_journal — direct.mit.edu/artl/article/2…)

Kudos to our colleagues, Beau DiNapoli, Carl Lipo, and Terry Hunt on their latest research pub: "Triumph of the Commons: Sustainable Community Practices on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)" — Read it on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/35… @clipo @David_S_Wilson @binghamtonu