Duncan Stibbard Hawkes
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social
Anthropologist interested in hunter-gatherer egalitarianism | Asst Prof @BaylorAnthro.bsky.social | Editor-in-Chief, Hunter-Gatherer Research | Spelling errors my own
My wife is at Austin airport and they have just asked Mark Darcy to make his way to the gate!
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My wife is at Austin airport and they have just asked Mark Darcy to make his way to the gate!
Coates' household food insecurity index (9 questions, answers ranging from 0-3) is an effective and well-tested measure; but when they convert it into a categorical var, they strip out much information.
Can anyone think of a better way to handle this variable that preserves the logical weightings?
Can anyone think of a better way to handle this variable that preserves the logical weightings?
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Coates' household food insecurity index (9 questions, answers ranging from 0-3) is an effective and well-tested measure; but when they convert it into a categorical var, they strip out much information.
Can anyone think of a better way to handle this variable that preserves the logical weightings?
Can anyone think of a better way to handle this variable that preserves the logical weightings?
Catching strays in the new Rosalia album...
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Catching strays in the new Rosalia album...
I will never understand why BBC Royal Correspondents write like this.
October 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I will never understand why BBC Royal Correspondents write like this.
The worst of it is that in his 1993 BBS article he sets out a subset of the numerous reasons it is wrong, and then decides "hey this thing has legs" and just runs with it for the rest of his career anyway.
October 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The worst of it is that in his 1993 BBS article he sets out a subset of the numerous reasons it is wrong, and then decides "hey this thing has legs" and just runs with it for the rest of his career anyway.
No matter what you think of the thesis, Doug Fry dedicating his 2015 book "To Bonoboess" is good fun.
September 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
No matter what you think of the thesis, Doug Fry dedicating his 2015 book "To Bonoboess" is good fun.
Yes indeed! My other books are still in England so it is the very first!
August 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Yes indeed! My other books are still in England so it is the very first!
A pleasure to arrive in my office this morning and find Stone and Fiber by @chrisbuckley.bsky.social sitting at my desk.
As well as being an meticulous material/ethnographic resource, the photographs - many from the 80s - are simply wonderful. This could be a coffee table art-book.
As well as being an meticulous material/ethnographic resource, the photographs - many from the 80s - are simply wonderful. This could be a coffee table art-book.
August 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A pleasure to arrive in my office this morning and find Stone and Fiber by @chrisbuckley.bsky.social sitting at my desk.
As well as being an meticulous material/ethnographic resource, the photographs - many from the 80s - are simply wonderful. This could be a coffee table art-book.
As well as being an meticulous material/ethnographic resource, the photographs - many from the 80s - are simply wonderful. This could be a coffee table art-book.
This is incoherent but as a cultural object it's simply fascinating. The perspectivists were right: there is no one reality.
August 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is incoherent but as a cultural object it's simply fascinating. The perspectivists were right: there is no one reality.
Guess the mistake
August 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Guess the mistake
Don't know what's wrong with me but I think my son might have it...
August 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Don't know what's wrong with me but I think my son might have it...
Very fitting that that wikipedia page should be a stub
August 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Very fitting that that wikipedia page should be a stub
Duolingo dabbling in speculative fiction
August 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Duolingo dabbling in speculative fiction
Don't want to brag but I'm only Goethe, Pushkin, Lermontov, Cellini, Stendhall, Cellini, Rimbaud and Holderlin short of a conversation.
August 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Don't want to brag but I'm only Goethe, Pushkin, Lermontov, Cellini, Stendhall, Cellini, Rimbaud and Holderlin short of a conversation.
Outcome of a genuine and real attempt to access the @financialtimes.com:
August 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Outcome of a genuine and real attempt to access the @financialtimes.com:
(in a particular rigorous sense)
August 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
(in a particular rigorous sense)
Example 1: The rabbits evolved into gracile psuedo-ungulates after "man" killed all the deer. It's fantastic stuff.
August 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Example 1: The rabbits evolved into gracile psuedo-ungulates after "man" killed all the deer. It's fantastic stuff.
"After Man, A Zoology of the Future". Picked this up in a bookship in Soho. Some of the theory is very 80s, but the illustrations are just wonderful.
August 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"After Man, A Zoology of the Future". Picked this up in a bookship in Soho. Some of the theory is very 80s, but the illustrations are just wonderful.
It's very good.
August 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's very good.
So good to see social preference research in the geopolitical spotlight!
August 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
So good to see social preference research in the geopolitical spotlight!
Poor crocodilians - ever the least favoured of the extant archosaur twins.
July 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Poor crocodilians - ever the least favoured of the extant archosaur twins.
You've probably seen all manner of hunting bows, but have you seen one of these? This is a millstone, used for pounding baobab pulp and seeds into flour. Almost every Hadza household has one.
July 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
You've probably seen all manner of hunting bows, but have you seen one of these? This is a millstone, used for pounding baobab pulp and seeds into flour. Almost every Hadza household has one.
Ah dear me no that looks decidedly hocus pocus.
Oh well. One day someone will get it right!
Oh well. One day someone will get it right!
July 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Ah dear me no that looks decidedly hocus pocus.
Oh well. One day someone will get it right!
Oh well. One day someone will get it right!
Oh là là! Of course this isn't universal but I'm glad to see it said.
July 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Oh là là! Of course this isn't universal but I'm glad to see it said.
My goodness, I hope they have collateral.
July 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My goodness, I hope they have collateral.