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.
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Bombjakova, D.
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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.
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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.
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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 | 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 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.09.005