Publications
2024
Wright, D. K., S. J. Ivory, J. J. Birk, J.-H. Choi, B. Davies, S. Fiedler, J. Davis, P. Kaliba, and J. C. Thompson. Palaeoenvironmental data indicate Late Quaternary anthropogenic impacts on vegetation and landscapes in Mzimba, Northern Malawi. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 2. [Journal] [Author Copy] [Data and Code]
Riris, P., F. Silva, E. Crema, A. Palmisano, E. Robinson, P. Siegel, J. French, E. Kirkeng Jørgenson, S. Yoshi Maezumi, S. Solheim, J. Bates, B. Davies, Y. Oh, X. Ren. Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past populations. Nature Published online ahead of print. [Journal] [Author copy] [Data and Code]
2023
Davies, K., B. Davies, P. Blackett, P. Holland, N. Craddock-Henry. Adaptive and interactive futures: developing ‘serious games’ for coastal community engagement and decision making. In Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean, R. Craig and J. McCarthy (eds). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. [Full-Text Link] [Link to Game]
2022
Davies, B., M. Power, M. Douglass, D. Braun, S. Mosher, L. Quick, I. Esteban, J. Sealy, J. Parkington, and J. T. Faith. Fire and the management of late Holocene landscapes in southern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 289(107600):1-10. [Journal] [Author Copy] [Supplementary Information] [Data and Code]
Davies, B., M. Douglass, D. Braun, J. Parkington, M. Power, and J. T. Faith. From quartz curvature to late Holocene mobility at Spring Cave, Western Cape, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14(59): 1-12. [Journal] [Author Copy] [Supplementary Information] [Data and Code]
2021
Davies, B., M. Douglass, P. Fanning, and S. Holdaway. Resilience and reversibility: engaging with archaeological record formation to inform on past resilience. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 36(1):51-74. [Open Access Journal]
Faith, J.T., A. Du, A. K. Behrensmeyer, B. Davies, D. B. Patterson, J. Rowan, and B. Wood. Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36(9):797-807. [Journal] [Author Copy]
Douglass, M., B. Davies, D. Braun, J. T. Faith, M. Power, and J. Reeves. Deriving original nodule size of lithic reduction sets from cortical curvature: an application to monitor stone artifact transport from bipolar reduction. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 35. [Journal] [Author Copy]
Braun, D., J. T. Faith, M. Douglass, M. Power, B. Davies, V. Aldeias, N. Conard, R Cutts, L. Dupont, I. Esteban, A. Kandel, N. Levin, J. Luyt, J. Parkington, R. Pickering, L. Quick, J. Sealy, and D. Stynder. Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the west coast of South Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology Published online. [Open Access Journal]
2020
Faith, J. T., D. Braun, B. Davies, L. DeSantis, M. Douglass, I. Esteban, V. Hare, N. Levin, J. Luyt, R. Pickering, M. Power, J. Sealy, and D. Stynder. Ecometrics and the paleoecological implications of Pleistocene faunas from the western coastal plains of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Journal of Quaternary Science DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3247 [Journal]
Carney, M. and B. Davies, 2020. Agent-based modeling, scientific reproducibility, and taphonomy: a successful model implementation case study. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 3(1): 182-196. DOI: 10.5334/jcaa.52 [Open Access Journal] [Preprint]
Emmitt, J., K. Allely, B. Davies, E. Hoffman, and S. Holdaway, 2020. Preliminary archaeological survey of shell mounds at Kwokkunum, Albatross Bay, Cape York, Australia. Queensland Archaeological Research 23: 9-24. DOI: 10.25120/qar.23.2020.3718 [Open Access Journal]
Davies, B., 2020. Review: Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania - E. Cochrane and T. Hunt (eds). Journal of the Polynesian Society 129(1): 113-115. [Download]
2019
Holdaway, S. and B. Davies, 2019. Surface Stone Artifact Scatters, Settlement Patterns, and New Methods for Stone Artifact Analysis. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology Published online. DOI: 10.1007/s41982-019-00030-8 [Open Access Journal]
Romanowska, I., S. Crabtree, K. Harris, and B. Davies, 2019. Agent-based modeling for archaeologists: Part 1 of 3. Advances in Archaeological Practice 7(2): 178-184. DOI: 10.1017/aap.2019.6 [Journal] [Journal Share Link][Data and Supplementary Files]
Davies, B., Romanowska, I., Harris, K., and S. Crabtree, 2019. Combining Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Models in Archaeology: Part 2 of 3. Advances in Archaeological Practice 7(2): 185-193. DOI: 10.1017/aap.2019.5 [Journal] [Journal Share Link][Data and Supplementary Files]
Crabtree, S., K. Harris, B. Davies, and I. Romanowska, 2019. Outreach in archaeology with agent-based modeling: Part 3 of 3. Advances in Archaeological Practice 7(2): 194-202. DOI: 10.1017/aap.2019.4 [Journal] [Journal Share Link][Data and Supplementary Files]
2018
Davies, B., 2018. Weaving the common threads of simulation and formation studies in archaeology. In Oceans of Data: Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, M. Matsumoto and E. Uleberg (eds). Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 481-494. [Open Access Proceedings] [Preprint]
Davies, B., Holdaway, S. J., and P. C. Fanning, 2018. Exploring relationships between space, movement, and lithic geometric attributes in the formation of archaeological landscapes. American Antiquity 83(3): 444-461. [Journal] [Preprint] [Data and Supplementary Files]
Davies, B. and I. Romanowska, 2018. An Emergent Community? Agent-Based Modelers in Archaeology. SAA Archaeological Record 18: 27–32. [Open Access Journal]
Davies, B., 2018. Review: Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia - . B. Griffiths. Archaeology in Oceania 53(3): 220-221. [Journal]
Davies, B. and S. Holdaway, 2018. Deflation archaeology. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, C. Smith (ed.). Amsterdam: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_911-2 [Book]
2017
Davies, B. and S. J. Holdaway, 2017. Windows on the Past? Perspectives on Accumulation, Formation, and Significance from an Australian Holocene Lithic Landscape. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 26:125-156. [Open Access Journal]
Holdaway, S. J., Davies, B., and P. C. Fanning, 2017. Aboriginal use of fire in a landscape context: investigating presence and absence of heat retainer hearths in western New South Wales, Australia. Current Anthropology 58(S16):230-242. DOI: 10.1086/691436 [Open Access Journal]
Marwick, B., Guedes, J. d’Alpoim, Barton, C. M., Bates, L. A., Baxter, M., Bevan, A., Bollwerk, E. A., Bocinsky, R. K., Brughmans, T., Carter, A. K., Conrad, C., Contreras, D. A., Costa, S., Crema, E. R., Daggett, A., Davies, B., Drake, B. L., Dye, T. S., France, P., Fullager, R., Giusti, D., Graham, S., Harris, M. D., Hawks, J., Heath, S., Huffer, D., Kansa, E. C., Kansa, S. W., Madsen, M. E., Melcher, J., Negre, J., Neiman, F. D., Opitz, R., Orton, D. C., Przystupa, P., Raviele, M., Riel-Salvatore, J., Riris, P., Romanowska, I., Smith, J., Strupler, N., Ullah, I. I., Vlack, H. G. V., VanValkenberg, N., Watrall, E. C., Webster, C., Wells, J., Winters, J. and C. D. Wren, 2017. Open Science in Archaeology. SAA Archaeological Record 17: 8–14. [Open Access Journal] [Preprint]
2016
Davies, B., Holdaway, S. J., and P. C. Fanning, 2016. Modelling the palimpsest: an exploratory agent-based model of surface archaeological deposit formation in a fluvial arid Australian landscape. The Holocene 26(3): 450-463. DOI: 10.1177/0959683615609754 [Journal] [Preprint] [Data and Supplementary Files]
2015
Davies, B., 2015. Review: Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces-A. Bevan and M. Lake (eds). Journal of Pacific Archaeology 6(2):65. [Journal]
Davies, B. and S. Bickler, 2015. Sailing the simulated seas: a new simulation for evaluating prehistoric seafaring. In Across Space and Time: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology CAA. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference, Perth, WA, Australia, March 25 – 28, 2013. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Open Access Proceedings] [Preprint]
2014
Davies, B., 2011. Review: Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance - S. Low. Rapa Nui Journal 28(2): 89-90. [Open Access Journal] [Download]
2011
Davies, B., 2011. Review: Terra Australis 28: New Directions in Archaeological Science-A. Fairbairn, S. O’Connor, and B. Marwick (eds). Journal of the Polynesian Society 120(1): 89-91. [Open Access Journal]
Other publications
Davies, B. Agent-based modeling prehistoric landscape use with R and NetLogo. In How To Do Archaeological Science Using R, B. Marwick (ed). Book in open review at https://benmarwick.github.io/How-To-Do-Archaeological-Science-Using-R/index.html.