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New article in collaboration with @chrisbuckley.bsky.social , @thomaspellard.bsky.social @robinryder.bsky.social on the phylogeny of Kra-Dai languages and of the looms used by their speakers:

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Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies - Volume 7
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November 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The second edition of the Japhug grammar is now available :

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A grammar of Japhug : Second edition | Language Science Press
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October 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Guillaume Jacques and I have collaborated to survey spindle whorls and the origins of weaving in East Asia ... lots of new stuff in this preprint ... a novel method for processing spindle whorl archaeological data, comparison with farming, and new linguistic information ... osf.io/preprints/so...
October 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New preprint, cowritten with @chrisbuckley.bsky.social

Spindle whorls and the emergence of weaving in the East Asia region: a new database
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October 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Forgive me for nominating a paper on which I was a co-author, but ... it's observational, it's cross-cultural, and it's based on large datasets painstakingly assembled in the field and then coded, it's fresh, and there are insights www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies
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July 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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I love this kind of paper.

A seemingly niche topic—which the authors are genuine experts in—that regardless reveals some more fundamental ideas about how humakind operates. (1/2)

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Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies
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July 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Why do some things evolve smoothly, and others in bursts? Read on for answers…
July 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM