Research & Communication

Peer-reviewed publications

Milks, A., Lehmann, J., Böhner, U., Leder, D., Koddenberg, T., Sietz, M. Vogel, M., & Terberger, T. 2022. Wood technology: a Glossary and Code for analysis of archaeological wood from stone-tool cultures. OSF Preprints, x8m4j, ver. 7 peer- reviewed and recommended by Peer community in Archaeology. https://doi.org/1 0.31219/osf.io/x8m4j

S Lew-Levy, D Bombjaková, A Milks, F Kiabiya Ntamboudila, MA Kline, 2022. Costly teaching contributes to the acquisition of spear hunting skill among BaYaka forager adolescents. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289 (1974), 20220164. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0164

Milks, A.G. 2021. Yew wood, would you? An exploration of the selection of wood for Pleistocene spears. In Berihuete Azorin, M., Martin Seijo, M. López-Bultó, O., and Piqué, R. (Eds.) The Missing Woodland Resources. Advances in Archaeobotony, 6.

Milks, A., Lew-Levy, S., Lavi, N., Friesem, D. E., & Reckin, R. (2021). Hunter-gatherer children in the past: An archaeological review. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 64, 101369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101369

Lew-Levy, S., Milks, A., Kiyabiya, F., Broesch, T., Kline, M.A. (2021). BaYaka adolescents from the Republic of Congo nominate accessible adults as preferred spear hunting models. Current Anthropology, 62(5), pp.631-640. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/716853

Milks, A. 2020. A Review of Ethnographic Use of Wooden Spears and Implications for Pleistocene Hominin Hunting. Open Quaternary, 6: 12, pp. 1–20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.85

Lew-Levy, S., Milks, A., Lavi, N., Pope, S., Friesem, D. 2020. Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter-gatherer learning contexts. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2:1-23. DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.35

Milks, A. 2020. Book Review: Valentina Borgia and Emanuela Cristiani, eds. Palaeolithic Italy Advanced studies on early human adaptations in the Apennine Peninsula (Leiden: Sidestone Press,2018, 428 pp., pbk, ISBN 978-90-8890-583-4. In Archäologische Informationen.

Milks, A. 2019. Skills Shortage: A Critical Evaluation of the Use of Human Participants in Early Spear Experiments. EXARC, 2019/2.

Milks, A., Parker, D., Pope, M. 2019. External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears: experimental performance data and implications for human evolution. Scientific Reports, 9:820.

Milks, A. 2018. Making an Impact. Nature: Ecology and Evolution, 2, 1057-1058.

Milks, A., 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: Reports, 10, 191-203.

Raw datasets (above paper) available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X16305910?via%3Dihub

Milks, A., Dinnis, R., Pope, M. (2016) Morpho-metric Variability Of Early Gravettian Tanged “Font-Robert” Points, And Functional Implications. In Iovita, R., & Katsuhiro, S. (Eds.) Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry. New York: Springer. Chapter 9, 135-146. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7602-8_9