(R. Alexander Bentley)Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology
Bristol University
43 Woodlad Road, Bristol BS8 1UU
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Call for commentary: "Mapping collective behavior in the big-data era" - Behavioral & Brain Sciences target article.
On NPR's "All Things Considered", April 2013
As a guest on "The Forum", BBC World Service, January 2013.
"The buzzwords of the crowd" - New York Times, 1 Dec 2012.
"Occupy the Neolithic" - Science Now 28 May 2012.
Latest book:
Alex Bentley, Mark Earls and Michael O’Brien (2011). I’ll Have What She’s Having: Mapping Social Behavior. MIT Press.
Recent publications:
Bentley, R.A., M.J. O'Brien & W.A. Brock (2013). Mapping collective behavior in the big-data era. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, in press.
Acerbi, A., V. Lampos, P. Garnett & R.A. Bentley (2013) The expression of emotions in 20th century books. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59030.
Bentley, R.A. & M.J. O’Brien (2013). Cultural evolutionary tipping points in the storage and transmission of information. Frontiers in Psychology 3: article 569.
King, C.L. R.A. Bentley, N.G. Tayles, G.M. Nowell, C.G Macpherson, U. Strand Viðarsdóttir, R.L. Layton (2013) Mixed economies after the agricultural revolution in Southeast Asia? In review
Bentley, R.A. (2013). Mobility and the diversity of Early Neolithic lives: isotopic evidence from skeletons. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32, in press.
Bentley, R.A., P. Garnett, M.J. O’Brien & W.A Brock (2012). Word diffusion and climate science. PLoS ONE 7(11): e47966. [NY Times column].
Bentley, R.A., P. Bickle, et al. (2012). Community differentiation and kinship among Europe's first farmers. PNAS 109: 9326-9330. [ScienceNow story]
Bentley, R.A., M. Earls and M.J. O'Brien (2012). Mapping human behavior for business. European Business Review, May-June 2012: 23-26.
Bentley, R.A. & P. Ormerod (2012). Accelerated innovation and increased spatial diversity in U.S. popular culture. Advances in Complex Systems 15: 1150011.
Holtby, I., C. Scarre, R.A. Bentley and P. Rowley-Conwy (2012). Disease, CCR5-∆32 and the European spread of agriculture? Antiquity 86: 207-210.
Bentley, R.A. and M.J. O'Brien (2012). Tipping points, animal culture and social learning. Current Zoology 58: 298-306.
Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology
Bristol University
43 Woodlad Road, Bristol BS8 1UU
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