Never tell me the odds!

  Never tell me the odds! eoc/jw February 13, 2018 Han Solo, the Bayesian Archaeologist? About a week ago on the QUANTARCH FB page Jesse Wolfhagen and I posted R-code to accompany “Count Bayesie’s” excellent introductory example of Bayesian inference using Han Solo. This is a wonderful tool to introduce Bayesian thinking, in everyday language,…

Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa

Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological, geochronological, geomorphological, and paleoenvironmental data from northern Malawi document a changing relationship between forager presence, ecosystem organization, and alluvial fan formation in the Late Pleistocene. Dense concentrations of Middle Stone Age artifacts and alluvial…