All Stories

  1. A Hierarchical Bayesian Examination of the Chronological Relationship between the Noaillian and Rayssian Phases of the French Middle Gravettian

    Article • Quaternary, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr William E. Banks

  2. Stone tools in northern Europe made by Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago

    Article • Nature, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr William E. Banks

  3. Luminescence dating at Border Cave: attempts, questions, and new results

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr William E. Banks

  4. Lithic technological and spatial analysis of the final Pleistocene at Border Cave, South Africa

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr William E. Banks

  5. Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr William E. Banks

  6. Border Cave: A 227,000-year-old archive from the southern African interior

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr William E. Banks

  7. Climate-inferred distribution estimates of mid-to-late Pliocene hominins

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr William E. Banks

  8. An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr William E. Banks

  9. Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2020, PLOS

    Dr William E. Banks

  10. THE ABRI CASSEROLE (DORDOGNE, FRANCE): REASSESSING THE14C CHRONOLOGY OF A KEY UPPER PALEOLITHIC SEQUENCE IN SOUTHWESTERN FRANCE

    Article • Radiocarbon, July 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr William E. Banks

  11. Puzzling out the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr William E. Banks

  12. Investigating relationships between technological variability and ecology in the Middle Gravettian (ca. 32-28 ky cal. BP) in France.

    Article • March 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr William E. Banks

  13. An application of hierarchical Bayesian modeling to better constrain the chronologies of Upper Paleolithic archaeological cultures in France between ca. 32,000–21,000 calibrated years before present

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr William E. Banks

  14. New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Marine Wojcieszak, Dr William E. Banks

  15. Reply to Read: Middle Stone Age cultural variability and the risk hypothesis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr William E. Banks

  16. Identifying early modern human ecological niche expansions and associated cultural dynamics in the South African Middle Stone Age

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr William E. Banks

  17. The expansion of Central and Northern European Neolithic populations was associated with a multi-century warm winter and wetter climate

    Article • The Holocene, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr William E. Banks, Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi

  18. The Archaeology of Teaching: A Conceptual Framework

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, October 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr William E. Banks

  19. Analysis of Site Formation and Assemblage Integrity Does Not Support Attribution of the Uluzzian to Modern Humans at Grotta del Cavallo

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2015, PLOS

    Dr William E. Banks

  20. Constructing chronologies for the late Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic: limitations and means to overcome them

    Article • World Archaeology, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr William E. Banks

  21. Tephra studies and the reconstruction of Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic cultural trajectories

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  22. Revisiting the chronology of the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian in Europe: A reply to Higham et al.'s comments on

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  23. Identifying Mechanisms behind Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Cultural Trajectories

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  24. Ecological constraints on the first prehistoric farmers in Europe

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, June 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  25. The Landes de Gascogne (southwest France): periglacial desert and cultural frontier during the Palaeolithic

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr William E. Banks

  26. Corrigendum to “Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Palaeolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian” [J. H. Evol. 54 (2013) 39–55]

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  27. Human–climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  28. Human expansion: research tools, evidence, mechanisms

    Article • September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  29. Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian: Unraveling links between cultural adaptation and ecology during the Last Glacial Maximum in France

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks, Dr Andres Lira-Noriega

  30. Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  31. Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2008, PLOS

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  32. Reconstructing ecological niches and geographic distributions of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  33. Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  34. Reassessment of Radiocarbon Age Determinations for the Munkers Creek Phase

    Article • Plains Anthropologist, May 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr William E. Banks

  35. A Middle Archaic Burial from East Central Kansas

    Article • American Antiquity, October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Dr William E. Banks

  36. Artifacts as Landscapes: A Use-Wear Case Study of Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at the Solutré Kill Site, France

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr William E. Banks