Invited Presentations/Workshops

2016

Altenberg Workshop in Convergent Evolution and Stone-Tool Technology (co-organizer with B. Buchanan and M. I. Eren). Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg, Austria, June.
Paradigmatic classification: an integral approach to identifying (and understanding) variation in the archaeological record. Classification Society annual meeting, Columbia, Mo., May.
Humans: the ultimate niche constructors. University of Houston, April.
Cultural phylogenetics: a new way of looking at the anthropological record. University of Tulsa, September.

Paleoindian cultural transmission in eastern North America (with M. T. Boulanger). Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, Columbia, Mo., May.
Phylogenetic analysis in archaeology. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, Columbia, Mo., May.

American Colonization Workshop (co-organizer with B. Buchanan and M. I. Eren). University of Missouri, March.
Mapping cultural trends: how stuff spreads. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Seoul, September.
A few comments on evolutionary archaeology. Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Austin, Texas, April.

Amerind Workshop on Stone-Tool Analysis (co-organizer with M. Collard and B. Buchanan). Amerind Museum, Dragoon, Arizona, September.
I’ll have what she’s having: mapping collective behavior in the big-data era. Merrill Center, University of Kansas, June.
The University of Arizona: processual archaeology's testing ground. University of Arizona, February.
Mapping cultural lineages through phylogenetics. University of Arizona, February.

Cultural phylogeny: trees, thickets, or something in between? University of Minnesota, March.
Cultural niche construction: what is it? University of Minnesota, March.
What is cultural phylogeny, and how do we model it? Washington State University, March.
Applying cladistics to cultural traits: some basic issues. Bristol University, Bristol, U.K., March.
Cultural exaptations: what are they, and how can we recognize them? Durham University, Durham, U.K., March.
From Chaco to Paquimé: the bow, arrow, and political complexity (with T. L. VanPool). Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Memphis, Tenn., April.
Cultural transmission among eastern fluted-point cultures (with M. Boulanger). Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Memphis, Tenn., April.
Niche construction theory: a key concept in evolutionary studies. Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Memphis, Tenn., April.

Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology on Cultural Niche Construction (organizer with K. N. Laland). Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg, Austria, September.
Human niche construction: a powerful tool for understanding cultural dynamics. Evolutionary Biology Meeting�Marseilles, Marseilles, France, September.
Cultural phylogenetics: a new way of looking at the anthropological record. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., April.
Variation and innovation in the American Paleolithic: morphometric analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile points. Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Sacramento, Calif., March/April.

Conference on Cultural Cascades (discussant). Durham University, Durham, U.K., September.
Cultural Sciences Conference (discussant). Durham University, Durham, U.K., September.
Mike Schiffer and the evolution of technology: stimulated variation, the cascade effect, and cultural transmission. Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, St. Louis, April.
Mapping cultural trends. Royal Society for the Arts, London, March. www.researchtalk.co.uk/rt/2010/09/27/how-stuff-spreads
What marketing research can learn from evolution (with Mark Earls and Alex Bentley). Research 2010 annual conference, London, March.

Niche construction theory and archaeology. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, September.
Niche construction theory and archaeology: the case of agricultural origins. European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association Conference, St Andrews, U.K., April.

Material culture and units of transmission. Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour Conference on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Great Missenden, U.K., December.
Cultural phylogenetics: issues and prospects. Cultural Dynamics Conference, Seville, Spain, October.
Chronological versus heritable continuity in archaeology. University of Seville, Seville, Spain, October.
Cultural phylogenetic classification: some fundamental issues. Classification Society annual meeting, St. Louis, June.
What is cultural phylogeny, and how do we recognize it? Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., April.

Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology on Cultural Innovation (organizer with S. J. Shennan). Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg, Austria, September.

What is cultural phylogeny, and how do we recognize it? International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP), Lisbon, September.
Constructing and using cultural phylogenies. Altenberg Seminars in Theoretical Biology, Konrad Lorenz Institute/University of Vienna, January.

Cultural transmission is not a unidimensional, monolithic entity. Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour Conference on Cultural Transmission, London, September.