Nick Winder
Biographic Data
| ID | 242574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Winder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Winder |
| SIGNATURE | WINDER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An agnostic approach to ancient landscapes: Conversations About the Cultural Anthropology of Archaeological Research
We argue that the phenomenological or ‘agnostic’ approach to evolutionary systems advocated by Thomas Henry Huxley is applicable in anthropological archaeology and show how agnosticism helps defuse the tension between humanists, natural philosophers and natural historians in integrative research. We deploy problem-framing methods from policy-relevant research in a palaeoanthropological context, developing a model of complex (scale-dependent, irre…
Hominin Paleoecology and Environmental Archaeology
Innovation, pathways and barriers in Spain and beyond: An integrative research approach to the clean energy transition in Europe
Complexity, Compassion and Self-Organisation: Human Evolution and the Vulnerable Ape Hypothesis
Humans are agents capable of helping others, learning new behaviours and forgetting old ones. The evolutionary approach to archaeological systems has therefore been hampered by the 'modern synthesis' - a gene-centred model of evolution as a process that eliminates those that cannot handle stress. The result has been a form of environmental determinism that explains human evolution in terms of heroic struggles and selective winnowing. Biologists c…
Reticulate evolution and the human past: An anthropological perspective
CONTEXT: The evidence is mounting that reticulate (web-like) evolution has shaped the biological histories of many macroscopic plants and animals, including non-human primates closely related to Homo sapiens, but the implications of this non-hierarchical evolution for anthropological enquiry are not yet fully understood. When they are understood, the result may be a paradigm shift in evolutionary anthropology. OBJECTIVE/METHODS: This paper review…
Making Sure you Solve the Right Problem
Macleod et al. have given us an admirable case study and argued that "... there is an urgent need to create stronger and more transparent, integrated, and adaptive linkages between opening-up and closing down mechanisms at the science-policy interface." Two questions must be addressed: what sorts of managerial reform would be required to achieve this? and Is this likely to happen? A natural subsidiarity makes large institutions more inclined to "…
Innovation and Metastability: A Systems Model
The culture trap is the tendency to put cultural markers and habits above the demands of reason or compassion. It can reduce receptivity to new ideas and trigger Phoenix Cycles of catastrophe and renaissance. System research is then complicated by the historiographic problem of continuity and change, because there are no objective criteria for deciding whether "the system" survived or was destroyed by the catastrophe. This paper explores the diff…
Modernism, evolution and vaporous visions of future unity: Clarification in response to Norgaard
The origin, diagnostic attributes and practical application of co-evolutionary theory
Maritime Archaeology: A Reader of Substantive and Theoretical Contributions
Maritime Archaeology:. Reader of Substantive and Theoretical Contributions. Lawrence E. Babits and Hans Van Tilburg. eds. New York: Plenum Press, 1998. 590 pp
The removal estimator: A ‘probable numbers’ statistic that requires no matching
The probable number of individuals (PNI) estimators all require that we be able to match left‐right paired bones reliably. The problems of matching are outlined and ways of addressing them are reviewed. It is shown that archaeozoological studies in which reliable matching is difficult raise analytical problems similar to those faced by population biologists unable to use classical release‐recapture methods. The removal estimator has been used to …
How many bones make five? The art and science of guesstimation in archaeozoology
Six faunal statistics are described and assessed by means of simulation. Of these, the 'probable number of individuals' (PNI) methods, which include the Lincoln and Krantz indices, are shown to perform remarkably well. The assumptions of these PNI procedures are given and circumstances under which PNI methods can be employed are described. Palaeoeconomic methods occupy a middle ground between classical statistical theory and experimental archaeol…
Innovation and Metastability: A Systems Model
The culture trap is the tendency to put cultural markers and habits above the demands of reason or compassion. It can reduce receptivity to new ideas and trigger Phoenix Cycles of catastrophe and renaissance. System research is then complicated by the historiographic problem of continuity and change, because there are no objective criteria for deciding whether "the system" survived or was destroyed by the catastrophe. This paper explores the diff…
How many bones make five? The art and science of guesstimation in archaeozoology
Six faunal statistics are described and assessed by means of simulation. Of these, the 'probable number of individuals' (PNI) methods, which include the Lincoln and Krantz indices, are shown to perform remarkably well. The assumptions of these PNI procedures are given and circumstances under which PNI methods can be employed are described. Palaeoeconomic methods occupy a middle ground between classical statistical theory and experimental archaeol…
Innovation, pathways and barriers in Spain and beyond: An integrative research approach to the clean energy transition in Europe
Making Sure you Solve the Right Problem
Macleod et al. have given us an admirable case study and argued that "... there is an urgent need to create stronger and more transparent, integrated, and adaptive linkages between opening-up and closing down mechanisms at the science-policy interface." Two questions must be addressed: what sorts of managerial reform would be required to achieve this? and Is this likely to happen? A natural subsidiarity makes large institutions more inclined to "…
Maritime Archaeology: A Reader of Substantive and Theoretical Contributions
Maritime Archaeology:. Reader of Substantive and Theoretical Contributions. Lawrence E. Babits and Hans Van Tilburg. eds. New York: Plenum Press, 1998. 590 pp
How many bones make five? The art and science of guesstimation in archaeozoology
Six faunal statistics are described and assessed by means of simulation. Of these, the 'probable number of individuals' (PNI) methods, which include the Lincoln and Krantz indices, are shown to perform remarkably well. The assumptions of these PNI procedures are given and circumstances under which PNI methods can be employed are described. Palaeoeconomic methods occupy a middle ground between classical statistical theory and experimental archaeol…
The removal estimator: A ‘probable numbers’ statistic that requires no matching
The probable number of individuals (PNI) estimators all require that we be able to match left‐right paired bones reliably. The problems of matching are outlined and ways of addressing them are reviewed. It is shown that archaeozoological studies in which reliable matching is difficult raise analytical problems similar to those faced by population biologists unable to use classical release‐recapture methods. The removal estimator has been used to …
Maritime Archaeology: A Reader of Substantive and Theoretical Contributions
Maritime Archaeology:. Reader of Substantive and Theoretical Contributions. Lawrence E. Babits and Hans Van Tilburg. eds. New York: Plenum Press, 1998. 590 pp
Modernism, evolution and vaporous visions of future unity: Clarification in response to Norgaard
The origin, diagnostic attributes and practical application of co-evolutionary theory
Innovation and Metastability: A Systems Model
The culture trap is the tendency to put cultural markers and habits above the demands of reason or compassion. It can reduce receptivity to new ideas and trigger Phoenix Cycles of catastrophe and renaissance. System research is then complicated by the historiographic problem of continuity and change, because there are no objective criteria for deciding whether "the system" survived or was destroyed by the catastrophe. This paper explores the diff…
Making Sure you Solve the Right Problem
Macleod et al. have given us an admirable case study and argued that "... there is an urgent need to create stronger and more transparent, integrated, and adaptive linkages between opening-up and closing down mechanisms at the science-policy interface." Two questions must be addressed: what sorts of managerial reform would be required to achieve this? and Is this likely to happen? A natural subsidiarity makes large institutions more inclined to "…
Reticulate evolution and the human past: An anthropological perspective
CONTEXT: The evidence is mounting that reticulate (web-like) evolution has shaped the biological histories of many macroscopic plants and animals, including non-human primates closely related to Homo sapiens, but the implications of this non-hierarchical evolution for anthropological enquiry are not yet fully understood. When they are understood, the result may be a paradigm shift in evolutionary anthropology. OBJECTIVE/METHODS: This paper review…
Complexity, Compassion and Self-Organisation: Human Evolution and the Vulnerable Ape Hypothesis
Humans are agents capable of helping others, learning new behaviours and forgetting old ones. The evolutionary approach to archaeological systems has therefore been hampered by the 'modern synthesis' - a gene-centred model of evolution as a process that eliminates those that cannot handle stress. The result has been a form of environmental determinism that explains human evolution in terms of heroic struggles and selective winnowing. Biologists c…
Innovation, pathways and barriers in Spain and beyond: An integrative research approach to the clean energy transition in Europe
Hominin Paleoecology and Environmental Archaeology
An agnostic approach to ancient landscapes: Conversations About the Cultural Anthropology of Archaeological Research
We argue that the phenomenological or ‘agnostic’ approach to evolutionary systems advocated by Thomas Henry Huxley is applicable in anthropological archaeology and show how agnosticism helps defuse the tension between humanists, natural philosophers and natural historians in integrative research. We deploy problem-framing methods from policy-relevant research in a palaeoanthropological context, developing a model of complex (scale-dependent, irre…
Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)