William E Banks
Biographic Data
| ID | 83734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Banks |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Banks |
| SIGNATURE | BANKS W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Bordeaux |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1835-6315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 473 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
A Hierarchical Bayesian Examination of the Chronological Relationship between the Noaillian and Rayssian Phases of the French Middle Gravettian
Issues of chronology are central to inferences pertaining to relationships between both contemporaneous and successive prehistoric typo-technological entities (i.e., archaeological cultures), culture–environment relationships, and ultimately the mechanisms at play behind cultural changes observed through time in the archaeological record. We refine the chronology of Upper Paleolithic archaeological cultures between 35–18 calibrated kiloanni befor…
A Data‐Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle‐to‐Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate
Based on morphologically undiagnostic human remains from the southern Balkans and central Europe, it has been argued that the Bachokirian and Ranisian industries stand for modern humans, have roots in the IUP (Initial Upper Palaeolithic) of the Near East, and emerge ~45,000 years ago. Coevally, Siberia and Central Asia would also have been reached by IUP moderns and, in the process, Western Europe’s Neandertals would have been acculturated, expla…
Investigating relationships between technological variability and ecology in the Middle Gravettian (ca. 32-28 ky cal. BP) in France
The French Middle Gravettian represents an interesting case study for attempting to identify mechanisms behind the typo-technological variability observed in the archaeological record. Associated with the relatively cold and dry environments of GS.5.2 and 5.1, this phase of the Gravettian is characterized by two lithic typo-technical entities (faciès in French): the Noaillian (defined by the presence of Noailles burins) and the Rayssian (identifi…
The Abri Casserole (Dordogne, France): Reassessing the 14 C Chronology of a Key Upper Paleolithic Sequence in Southwestern France
Discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Abri Casserole (Dordogne, France) was the subject of salvage excavations in the early nineties. The fieldwork revealed a sequence of 13 archaeological levels that document human occupations from the Gravettian to the Magdalenian, including very rare and poorly known assemblages (e.g. Early Badegoulian, Protosolutrean) that afford a particular importance to this sequence. Results of a previ…
Le Gravettien du Fourneau du Diable (Bourdeilles, Dordogne): Révision chronoculturelle des ensembles lithiques de la «Terrasse inférieure »
In France, the Middle Gravettian (ca. 32-29 ka cal. BP) is characterized by two “facies” principally defined on the basis of their lithic industries : the Noaillian is recognized by the presence of Noailles burins and the Rayssian, which has become better recognized since the 2000s, is characterized by a particular method of reducing Raysse nuclei (formerly burins) to produce a type of armature termed the “la Picardie” bladelet. The Noaillian str…
New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
New excavations at Border Cave use high-resolution techniques, including FT-IR, for sediment samples and thin sections of micromorphology blocks from stratigraphy. These show that sediments have different moisture regimes, both spatially and chronologically. The site preserves desiccated grass bedding in multiple layers and they, along with seeds, rhizomes, and charcoal, provide a profile of palaeo-vegetation through time. A bushveld vegetation c…
The expansion of Central and Northern European Neolithic populations was associated with a multi-century warm winter and wetter climate
It is still debated whether climate changes had an impact on the emergence, spread, and disappearance of early production-based (Neolithic) adaptations. To date, and despite the incorporation of various paleoclimatic proxies, there exists no spatial reconstruction of the regional impact of the North Atlantic cooling events on Central–Western European climate and environments during the early Holocene. In order to address these two issues, we esti…
The Archaeology of Teaching: A Conceptual Framework
Studying the emergence of teaching in our lineage entails identifying learning strategies among human and non-human groups, understanding the situations in which they occur, evaluating their performance, recognizing their expression in the archaeological record, identifying trends in the way knowledge transmission changed through time, and detecting the key moments in which members of our lineage complemented pre-existing transmission strategies …
Constructing chronologies for the late Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic: Limitations and Means to Overcome Them
International audience
Revisiting the chronology of the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian in Europe: A reply to Higham et al.'s comments on
The Landes de Gascogne (southwest France): Periglacial desert and cultural frontier during the Palaeolithic
Ecological constraints on the first prehistoric farmers in Europe
Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian
Identifying Mechanisms behind Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Cultural Trajectories
International audience
Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian: Unraveling links between cultural adaptation and ecology during the Last Glacial Maximum in France
Toolkit Structure and Site Use: Results of a high-power use-wear analysis of lithic assemblages from Solutré (Saône-et-Loire), France: Results of a high-power use-wear analysis of lithic assemblages f…
Upper Paleolithic groups used the open-air site of Solutré (Saône-et-Loire, south-eastern France) as a location to intercept and hunt horse and reindeer herds. The primary goal of this study is to conduct a high-power use-wear analysis of a sample of lithic artifacts from each of the Upper Paleolithic cultural components in an effort to address a number of topics. A further aim is to test the current inferences of site activities at Solutré and a…
Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum
Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling
Artifacts as Landscapes: A Use-Wear Case Study of Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at the Solutré Kill Site, France
Reassessment of Radiocarbon Age Determinations for the Munkers Creek Phase
The Munkers Creek phase was initially defined using cultural assemblages from the William Young site in the north central Flint Hills of Kansas. Radiocarbon ages from the type site are suspect due to extremely large standard deviations on all but one date and because of stratigraphic inconsistencies. Recently, samples of curated wood charcoal from stratigraphically separate cultural levels at the William Young site were submitted for dating in an…
A Middle Archaic Burial from East Central Kansas
In late 2001, investigators excavated a solitary Middle Archaic burial from the Plains-Prairie border in east-central Kansas. The burial was contained in a dissected colluvial apron at the foot of the valley wall, in a soil horizon that began accumulating around 9000 B.P. Burial goods include deer bone, a drill, and a side-notched projectile point/knife, the morphology of which is consistent with side-notched Middle Archaic points of the North Am…
High-Resolution Casts for Lithic Use-Wear Analysis
This paper describes a method for creating positive epoxy casts of lithic artifacts that can be subjected to use-wear examination. This method overcomes problems associated with examining patinated artifactsfor microscopie traces of use and limitations documented for other casting methodologies. These limitations include having to work with negative casts or surface peels, air bubbles on cast surfaces, and long-term east integrity. To demonstrate…
The Macy Site (14RY38): A Multi-Component Early Ceramic Occupation in Northeastern Kansas
Salvage excavations were conducted at the Macy site (14RY38), a multi-component campsite on a terrace remnant of an unnamed second-order stream that drains into the Kansas River near Manhattan, Kansas. Five Early Ceramic (Plains Woodland) cultural components were defined using a variety of data sets. The lower four components date to A.D. 2-654, based on calibrated radiocarbon age determinations, while the upper component is a mix of Early and Mi…
Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian
Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum
Identifying Mechanisms behind Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Cultural Trajectories
International audience
New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
New excavations at Border Cave use high-resolution techniques, including FT-IR, for sediment samples and thin sections of micromorphology blocks from stratigraphy. These show that sediments have different moisture regimes, both spatially and chronologically. The site preserves desiccated grass bedding in multiple layers and they, along with seeds, rhizomes, and charcoal, provide a profile of palaeo-vegetation through time. A bushveld vegetation c…
Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian: Unraveling links between cultural adaptation and ecology during the Last Glacial Maximum in France
The Landes de Gascogne (southwest France): Periglacial desert and cultural frontier during the Palaeolithic
Ecological constraints on the first prehistoric farmers in Europe
Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling
The Archaeology of Teaching: A Conceptual Framework
Studying the emergence of teaching in our lineage entails identifying learning strategies among human and non-human groups, understanding the situations in which they occur, evaluating their performance, recognizing their expression in the archaeological record, identifying trends in the way knowledge transmission changed through time, and detecting the key moments in which members of our lineage complemented pre-existing transmission strategies …
High-Resolution Casts for Lithic Use-Wear Analysis
This paper describes a method for creating positive epoxy casts of lithic artifacts that can be subjected to use-wear examination. This method overcomes problems associated with examining patinated artifactsfor microscopie traces of use and limitations documented for other casting methodologies. These limitations include having to work with negative casts or surface peels, air bubbles on cast surfaces, and long-term east integrity. To demonstrate…
A Data‐Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle‐to‐Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate
Based on morphologically undiagnostic human remains from the southern Balkans and central Europe, it has been argued that the Bachokirian and Ranisian industries stand for modern humans, have roots in the IUP (Initial Upper Palaeolithic) of the Near East, and emerge ~45,000 years ago. Coevally, Siberia and Central Asia would also have been reached by IUP moderns and, in the process, Western Europe’s Neandertals would have been acculturated, expla…
Constructing chronologies for the late Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic: Limitations and Means to Overcome Them
International audience
The expansion of Central and Northern European Neolithic populations was associated with a multi-century warm winter and wetter climate
It is still debated whether climate changes had an impact on the emergence, spread, and disappearance of early production-based (Neolithic) adaptations. To date, and despite the incorporation of various paleoclimatic proxies, there exists no spatial reconstruction of the regional impact of the North Atlantic cooling events on Central–Western European climate and environments during the early Holocene. In order to address these two issues, we esti…
The Abri Casserole (Dordogne, France): Reassessing the 14 C Chronology of a Key Upper Paleolithic Sequence in Southwestern France
Discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Abri Casserole (Dordogne, France) was the subject of salvage excavations in the early nineties. The fieldwork revealed a sequence of 13 archaeological levels that document human occupations from the Gravettian to the Magdalenian, including very rare and poorly known assemblages (e.g. Early Badegoulian, Protosolutrean) that afford a particular importance to this sequence. Results of a previ…
A Hierarchical Bayesian Examination of the Chronological Relationship between the Noaillian and Rayssian Phases of the French Middle Gravettian
Issues of chronology are central to inferences pertaining to relationships between both contemporaneous and successive prehistoric typo-technological entities (i.e., archaeological cultures), culture–environment relationships, and ultimately the mechanisms at play behind cultural changes observed through time in the archaeological record. We refine the chronology of Upper Paleolithic archaeological cultures between 35–18 calibrated kiloanni befor…
Reassessment of Radiocarbon Age Determinations for the Munkers Creek Phase
The Munkers Creek phase was initially defined using cultural assemblages from the William Young site in the north central Flint Hills of Kansas. Radiocarbon ages from the type site are suspect due to extremely large standard deviations on all but one date and because of stratigraphic inconsistencies. Recently, samples of curated wood charcoal from stratigraphically separate cultural levels at the William Young site were submitted for dating in an…
A Middle Archaic Burial from East Central Kansas
In late 2001, investigators excavated a solitary Middle Archaic burial from the Plains-Prairie border in east-central Kansas. The burial was contained in a dissected colluvial apron at the foot of the valley wall, in a soil horizon that began accumulating around 9000 B.P. Burial goods include deer bone, a drill, and a side-notched projectile point/knife, the morphology of which is consistent with side-notched Middle Archaic points of the North Am…
The Macy Site (14RY38): A Multi-Component Early Ceramic Occupation in Northeastern Kansas
Salvage excavations were conducted at the Macy site (14RY38), a multi-component campsite on a terrace remnant of an unnamed second-order stream that drains into the Kansas River near Manhattan, Kansas. Five Early Ceramic (Plains Woodland) cultural components were defined using a variety of data sets. The lower four components date to A.D. 2-654, based on calibrated radiocarbon age determinations, while the upper component is a mix of Early and Mi…
The Macy Site (14RY38): A Multi-Component Early Ceramic Occupation in Northeastern Kansas
Salvage excavations were conducted at the Macy site (14RY38), a multi-component campsite on a terrace remnant of an unnamed second-order stream that drains into the Kansas River near Manhattan, Kansas. Five Early Ceramic (Plains Woodland) cultural components were defined using a variety of data sets. The lower four components date to A.D. 2-654, based on calibrated radiocarbon age determinations, while the upper component is a mix of Early and Mi…
High-Resolution Casts for Lithic Use-Wear Analysis
This paper describes a method for creating positive epoxy casts of lithic artifacts that can be subjected to use-wear examination. This method overcomes problems associated with examining patinated artifactsfor microscopie traces of use and limitations documented for other casting methodologies. These limitations include having to work with negative casts or surface peels, air bubbles on cast surfaces, and long-term east integrity. To demonstrate…
A Middle Archaic Burial from East Central Kansas
In late 2001, investigators excavated a solitary Middle Archaic burial from the Plains-Prairie border in east-central Kansas. The burial was contained in a dissected colluvial apron at the foot of the valley wall, in a soil horizon that began accumulating around 9000 B.P. Burial goods include deer bone, a drill, and a side-notched projectile point/knife, the morphology of which is consistent with side-notched Middle Archaic points of the North Am…
Reassessment of Radiocarbon Age Determinations for the Munkers Creek Phase
The Munkers Creek phase was initially defined using cultural assemblages from the William Young site in the north central Flint Hills of Kansas. Radiocarbon ages from the type site are suspect due to extremely large standard deviations on all but one date and because of stratigraphic inconsistencies. Recently, samples of curated wood charcoal from stratigraphically separate cultural levels at the William Young site were submitted for dating in an…
Artifacts as Landscapes: A Use-Wear Case Study of Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at the Solutré Kill Site, France
Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling
Toolkit Structure and Site Use: Results of a high-power use-wear analysis of lithic assemblages from Solutré (Saône-et-Loire), France: Results of a high-power use-wear analysis of lithic assemblages f…
Upper Paleolithic groups used the open-air site of Solutré (Saône-et-Loire, south-eastern France) as a location to intercept and hunt horse and reindeer herds. The primary goal of this study is to conduct a high-power use-wear analysis of a sample of lithic artifacts from each of the Upper Paleolithic cultural components in an effort to address a number of topics. A further aim is to test the current inferences of site activities at Solutré and a…
Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum
Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian: Unraveling links between cultural adaptation and ecology during the Last Glacial Maximum in France
Revisiting the chronology of the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian in Europe: A reply to Higham et al.'s comments on
The Landes de Gascogne (southwest France): Periglacial desert and cultural frontier during the Palaeolithic
Ecological constraints on the first prehistoric farmers in Europe
Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian
Identifying Mechanisms behind Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Cultural Trajectories
International audience
The Archaeology of Teaching: A Conceptual Framework
Studying the emergence of teaching in our lineage entails identifying learning strategies among human and non-human groups, understanding the situations in which they occur, evaluating their performance, recognizing their expression in the archaeological record, identifying trends in the way knowledge transmission changed through time, and detecting the key moments in which members of our lineage complemented pre-existing transmission strategies …
Constructing chronologies for the late Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic: Limitations and Means to Overcome Them
International audience
The expansion of Central and Northern European Neolithic populations was associated with a multi-century warm winter and wetter climate
It is still debated whether climate changes had an impact on the emergence, spread, and disappearance of early production-based (Neolithic) adaptations. To date, and despite the incorporation of various paleoclimatic proxies, there exists no spatial reconstruction of the regional impact of the North Atlantic cooling events on Central–Western European climate and environments during the early Holocene. In order to address these two issues, we esti…
New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
New excavations at Border Cave use high-resolution techniques, including FT-IR, for sediment samples and thin sections of micromorphology blocks from stratigraphy. These show that sediments have different moisture regimes, both spatially and chronologically. The site preserves desiccated grass bedding in multiple layers and they, along with seeds, rhizomes, and charcoal, provide a profile of palaeo-vegetation through time. A bushveld vegetation c…
Le Gravettien du Fourneau du Diable (Bourdeilles, Dordogne): Révision chronoculturelle des ensembles lithiques de la «Terrasse inférieure »
In France, the Middle Gravettian (ca. 32-29 ka cal. BP) is characterized by two “facies” principally defined on the basis of their lithic industries : the Noaillian is recognized by the presence of Noailles burins and the Rayssian, which has become better recognized since the 2000s, is characterized by a particular method of reducing Raysse nuclei (formerly burins) to produce a type of armature termed the “la Picardie” bladelet. The Noaillian str…
Investigating relationships between technological variability and ecology in the Middle Gravettian (ca. 32-28 ky cal. BP) in France
The French Middle Gravettian represents an interesting case study for attempting to identify mechanisms behind the typo-technological variability observed in the archaeological record. Associated with the relatively cold and dry environments of GS.5.2 and 5.1, this phase of the Gravettian is characterized by two lithic typo-technical entities (faciès in French): the Noaillian (defined by the presence of Noailles burins) and the Rayssian (identifi…
The Abri Casserole (Dordogne, France): Reassessing the 14 C Chronology of a Key Upper Paleolithic Sequence in Southwestern France
Discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Abri Casserole (Dordogne, France) was the subject of salvage excavations in the early nineties. The fieldwork revealed a sequence of 13 archaeological levels that document human occupations from the Gravettian to the Magdalenian, including very rare and poorly known assemblages (e.g. Early Badegoulian, Protosolutrean) that afford a particular importance to this sequence. Results of a previ…
A Hierarchical Bayesian Examination of the Chronological Relationship between the Noaillian and Rayssian Phases of the French Middle Gravettian
Issues of chronology are central to inferences pertaining to relationships between both contemporaneous and successive prehistoric typo-technological entities (i.e., archaeological cultures), culture–environment relationships, and ultimately the mechanisms at play behind cultural changes observed through time in the archaeological record. We refine the chronology of Upper Paleolithic archaeological cultures between 35–18 calibrated kiloanni befor…
A Data‐Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle‐to‐Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate
Based on morphologically undiagnostic human remains from the southern Balkans and central Europe, it has been argued that the Bachokirian and Ranisian industries stand for modern humans, have roots in the IUP (Initial Upper Palaeolithic) of the Near East, and emerge ~45,000 years ago. Coevally, Siberia and Central Asia would also have been reached by IUP moderns and, in the process, Western Europe’s Neandertals would have been acculturated, expla…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (23 works) · Geography (20 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 works) · Archaeology (18 works) · Geology (13 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 works) · Paleontology (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Radiocarbon dating (7 works)