Charles
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Charles
@cbsimmons99.bsky.social
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Happy 100 years to Australopithecus africanus: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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"Durkheim theorized like a pig for most of his career, bluntly snuffling through philosophy and anthropology to emerge covered in dirt but with a few truffle-like ideas that he relentlessly pushed because they were so empirically productive."
That's one good sentence.
February 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Hi

We contributed towards the South African Journal of Science Taung Centennial!

some links;

the special issue: issuu.com/sajs/docs/so...

our paper: sajs.co.za/article/view...

and I got featured on where I work from Nature Africa if you are interested in that: www.nature.com/articles/d44...
February 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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To commemorate the #Taung centenary, a special issue of the SAJS came out today!

We present a collection of articles looking at aspects of the #history, #anatomy, #geology, #community and -#museum curation of the #Taung child in this post colonial era 🙌🏽

Link here 👇🏽👇🏽

sajs.co.za/index
sajs.co.za
February 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Hot off the press! 📢
Honoured to have contributed to this special issue with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social and team celebrating the iconic #Taung child for this centenary event. Stay tuned for more! #Palaeoanthropology #FossilFriday
To commemorate the #Taung centenary, a special issue of the SAJS came out today!

We present a collection of articles looking at aspects of the #history, #anatomy, #geology, #community and -#museum curation of the #Taung child in this post colonial era 🙌🏽

Link here 👇🏽👇🏽

sajs.co.za/index
sajs.co.za
February 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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New paper out in JAS on beta regression models of compositional variability in craft production studies!

Huge thanks to co-authors @ercrema.bsky.social, María Alicia Uribe Villegas, Juanita Sáenz Samper and @martinontorres.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Key takeaways: 👇
Beyond baselines of performance: Beta regression models of compositional variability in craft production studies
Chemical analyses of archaeological artefacts are often used for provenance studies and for assessing whether specific performance characteristics wer…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:56 PM