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Community diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons (2009)
Journal Article
Bentley, R., Cox, K., Tayles, N., Higham, C., Macpherson, C., Nowell, G., …Hayes, T. (2009). Community diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons. Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, 48(1), 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.0.0017

Isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen were analyzed in human tooth enamel from the Bronze Age site of Ban Lum Khao (c. 1400 B.C.–500 B.C.) in Thailand. The strontium and oxygen isotopes, which generally reflect place of origin, delimit discrete g... Read More about Community diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons.

Random drift versus selection in academic vocabulary: an evolutionary analysis of published keywords (2008)
Journal Article
Bentley, R. (2008). Random drift versus selection in academic vocabulary: an evolutionary analysis of published keywords. PLoS ONE, 3(8), Article e3057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003057

The evolution of vocabulary in academic publishing is characterized via keyword frequencies recorded in the ISI Web of Science citations database. In four distinct case-studies, evolutionary analysis of keyword frequency change through time is compar... Read More about Random drift versus selection in academic vocabulary: an evolutionary analysis of published keywords.

Increasing the relevance of mathematical approaches to demographic history (2008)
Journal Article
Riede, F., & Bentley, R. (2008). Increasing the relevance of mathematical approaches to demographic history. Quality and Quantity, 42(2), 275-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-007-9144-9

In this short paper we comment on recent efforts at formally modelling the interplay between demography and cultural evolution. We draw attention to the fact that, although these efforts are to be applauded, much work has already been done in this ar... Read More about Increasing the relevance of mathematical approaches to demographic history.

Darwinian Archaeologies (2007)
Book Chapter
Bentley, R., Lipo, C., Maschner, H., & Marler, B. (2007). Darwinian Archaeologies. In R. Bentley, H. Maschner, & C. Chippendale (Eds.), Handbook of archaeological theories (109-132). AltaMira Press

Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying (2007)
Journal Article
Bentley, A., Lipo, C., Herzog, H., & Hahn, M. (2007). Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28(3), 151-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2006.10.002

Almost by definition, “popular culture” reflects the effects of most people imitating those around them. At the same time, trends and fashions are constantly changing, with future outcomes potentially irrational and nearly impossible to predict. A si... Read More about Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying.

Shifting gender relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons (2007)
Journal Article
Bentley, R., Tayles, N., Higham, C., Macpherson, C., & Atkinson, T. (2007). Shifting gender relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons. Current Anthropology, 48(2), 301-314. https://doi.org/10.1086/512987

The values for isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen in human tooth enamel from the prehistoric site of Khok Phanom Di (ca. 2100–1500 BC) in Thailand shed light on human mobility and marital residence during a crucial period of subsistence change... Read More about Shifting gender relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons.

Matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand? (2005)
Journal Article
Bentley, R., Pietrusewsky, M., Douglas, M., & Atkinson, T. (2005). Matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand?. Antiquity, 79(306), 865-881. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00115005

Stable isotopes in teeth are providing important correlations between ancient people and the geographical location of their childhood homes. In an exciting new application, the authors measured the varying signatures of strontium, oxygen and carbon i... Read More about Matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand?.

Random drift and culture change (2004)
Journal Article
Bentley, A., Hahn, M., & Shennan, S. (2004). Random drift and culture change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271(1547), 1443-1450. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2746

We show that the frequency distributions of cultural variants, in three different real-world examples--first names, archaeological pottery and applications for technology patents--follow power laws that can be explained by a simple model of random dr... Read More about Random drift and culture change.

Complexity Theory
Book Chapter
Bentley, R., & Maschner, H. Complexity Theory. In R. Bentley, H. Maschner, & C. Chippendale (Eds.), Handbook of Archaeological Theories (245-272). AltaMira Press