David N. Matzig

Passionate about using data to generate insights and solve complex problems.

[David N. Matzig @david_matzig]

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
1/6 🏹Using a a state-of-the-art #Bayesian #phylodynamic framework, we explore the evolution of projectile point shapes during the European Final #Palaeolithic and earliest #Mesolithic (approximately 15-11ka BP). https://t.co/Pcuaypc5A1

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Geometriphylogenetics https://t.co/9h9Z65RmSK

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@up_joad @ahb108 @britishmuseum @findsorguk @MicroPasts @chiara_bonacchi @martinontorres @DEJPett @JWexlerBM wow, what a data set! are pictures of each individual axe available, too? if so, it would be the perfect data set to be studied using our GMM and phylodynamic workflow (https://t.co/Pcuaypc5A1)

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@ArmandoFalcucci @ERC_CLIOARCH Thanks so much, @ArmandoFalcucci!

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@ARCHAEOfelix Thank you so much for all your guidance and support along the way, @ARCHAEOfelix!

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@VictorLundstrm3 @UiB_museet @P_Yaworsky Congratulations, Victor!

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@flostro Toll, Florian - Gratulation!

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@VictorLundstrm3 @rachelwarnock @ARCHAEOfelix @benmarwick Thanks a lot, Victor!

[David N. Matzig @david_matzig]

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
1/6 🏹Using a a state-of-the-art #Bayesian #phylodynamic framework, we explore the evolution of projectile point shapes during the European Final #Palaeolithic and earliest #Mesolithic (approximately 15-11ka BP). https://t.co/Pcuaypc5A1

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@t_shumon thank you, Shumon!

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6/6✨A very special thanks to my co-authors and supervisors @rachelwarnock, @ARCHAEOfelix, and @benmarwick for their invaluable help in realizing this paper. ✨

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5/6 🎓Given this innovative approach, we place considerable emphasis on systematically exploring the impact of both data and models on the results. This is achieved by incrementally introducing complexity, thereby laying a robust foundation for #futureresearch in this direction.

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@VictorLundstrm3 thanks, Victor!

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✨New Paper out!✨ https://t.co/1g87UeJzsZ

[Shumon T. Hussain @t_shumon]

New broad-scale database on #lithic #technologies between ca. 15 and 11 ka in Europe @ScientificData, @ERC_CLIOARCH collaborative effort with @ARCHAEOfelix, @david_matzig and many others:
https://t.co/1aPiIcPG7i

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💡Recent methodological innovations allowing to integrate artefact shape data with phylogenetic applications lead us to predict a renaissance in artefact phylogenetics and appropriately #macroscale applications of cultural evolutionary theory in archaeology.

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✨New paper out now!✨ @ARCHAEOfelix, @nevromeCS, and I did a #bibliometric literature review where we trace the development of #evolutionaryarchaeology over the last four decades: https://t.co/T1AZ2OBeEa

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📈Importantly, our review demonstrates the centrality of computational models, but suggests a stagnation in the application of precisely that suite of methods—#phylogenetics—that is central to evolutionary archaeology’s biological counterpart #palaeontology.