Dr Annemieke Milks
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Researcher on a British Academy funded project: Reverse Engineering Pleistocene Spears: interdisciplinary perspectives on raw materials and performance.
Areas of interest
- Pleistocene weaponry
- Wood Technologies in human evolution
- Neanderthal behaviours and technologies
- Experimental Archaeology
- The Archaeology of Children
- Teaching and Learning Complex Skills
- Decolonising Palaeolithic Archaeology
Research centres and groups
Research projects
Hand-thrown spears: Ballistics, accuracy and learning to hunt among BaYaka Congo Basin foragers.
Background
Annemieke is a member of:
- European Association of Archaeologists (co-chair of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Community)
- European Society for the study of Human Evolution
- Forager Child Studies Research Network
Websites/blogs
Publications
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Lew-Levy, S.
,
Bombjakova, D.
,
Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
,
Ntamboudila, F.
,
Kline, M.
,
Broesch, T.
(2022)
Costly teaching contributes to the acquisition of spear hunting skill among BaYaka forager adolescents.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
, 289
(1974).
ISSN:
1471-2954
|
doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0164
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Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
,
Lew-Levy, S.
,
Lavi, N.
,
Friesem, D.
,
Reckin, R.
(2021)
Hunter-gatherer children in the past: an archaeological review.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
, 64
pp.
1-24.
ISSN:
0278-4165
|
doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101369
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Lew-Levy, S.
,
Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
,
Ntamboudila, F.
,
Broesch, T.
,
Kline, M.
(2021)
BaYaka adolescent boys nominate accessible adult men as preferred spear hunting models.
Current Anthropology
, 62
(5).
pp.
631-640.
ISSN:
1537-5382
|
doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/716853
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Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
(2020)
Yew wood, would you? An exploration of the selection of wood
for Pleistocene spears.
In:
Berihuete-Azorin, M.
,
Martin Seijo, M.
,
Lopez-Bulto, O.
,
Pique, R.
, (eds.)
The Missing Woodland Resources: Archaeobotanical studies of the use of plant raw materials.
Advances in Archaeobotany
, 6.
Barkhuis Publishing
(6).
, Groningen.
pp.
5-22.
ISBN:
9789493194359
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Lew-Levy, S.
,
Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
,
Lavi, N.
,
Pope, S.
,
Friesem, D.
(2020)
Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter–gatherer learning contexts.
Evolutionary Human Sciences
, 2
ISSN:
2513-843X
|
doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.35
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Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
(2020)
A review of ethnographic use of wooden spears and implications for Pleistocene hominin hunting.
Open Quaternary
, 6
(12).
pp.
1-20.
ISSN:
2055-298X
|
doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.5334/oq.85
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Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
(2019)
Skills shortage: a critical evaluation of the use of human participants in early spear experiments.
EXARC Journal
, 2019
(2).
pp.
1-11.
ISSN:
2212-8956
|
doi:
https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10426
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Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
,
Parker, D.
,
Pope, M.
(2019)
External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears: experimental performance data and implications for human evolution.
Scientific Reports
, 9
(1).
ISSN:
2045-2322
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37904-w
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Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
,
Dinnis, R.
,
Pope, M.
(2016)
Morpho-Metric Variability of Early Gravettian Tanged “Font-Robert” Points, and Functional Implications.
In:
Iovita, R.
and
Sano, K.
, (eds.)
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry.
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
pp.
135-146.
ISSN:
1877-9085
ISBN:
9789401776028
|
doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7602-8_9
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Milks, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-6200
,
Champion, S.
,
Cowper, E.
,
Pope, M.
,
Carr, D.
(2016)
Early spears as thrusting weapons: isolating force and impact velocities in human performance trials.
Journal of Archaeological Science
, 10
pp.
191-203.
ISSN:
0305-4403
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.09.005