Daniel Pereira
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Network Analysis Applied to the Spread of Innovations during the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition
UMR PACEA 5199
University of Bordeaux
Bât B2
Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire CS 50023
33615 PESSAC Cedex
GPR Human Past - WP 3 Action 5
daniel.da-silva-pereira%40u-bordeaux.fr
Research Interests
My interests lie in human evolutionary history, and for the possibility to infer demographic processes from patterns of biological and cultural variation, that is, the study of the contact between different populations and, how/when these interactions occurred, and how they helped shaped their common grounds, and gene-culture co-evolution. My current research, under the supervision of Solange Rigaud, is focused on the reconstruction of networks of similarity drawn from archaeological assemblages, such as pottery traits and personal ornaments, at the dawn of the Neolithic period in Europe. Through these reconstructed networks, I aim at studying how the populations not only interacted with each other, and their shared similarities, but how different transmission mechanisms affected their interaction, and to infer possible routes of transmission and therefore, cultural movement. In a next phase I plan to implement the same methodology to cross-compare the results obtained from the analysis of the networks drawn from the archaeological datasets (cultural datasets) vs those drawn from the genetic side of history (aDNA dataset, gathered in collaboration with Dr Patricia Santos and Dr Marie-France Deguilloux), in order to have a wider view of the events that took place, and tackle the question of the demic vs cultural diffusion. During my current postdoc position I will also aim to study the effect that changes in climate and the eco-cultural niches of each culture/population might have affected the networks of contact of between past populations, by implementing, in collaboration with William Banks and Anaïs Vignoles, the Eco-Cultural Niche Modelling technique.
Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
July 2022
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Network Analysis Applied to the Spread of Innovations during the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition, PACEA – GPR Human Past
Education
2016-2020
PhD in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
Master’s degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution
Professional Work Experience
Field Laboratory
2021-2022
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Symboling and Neighboring at the Dawn of Agriculture in Europe 8000 years ago
Technical Skills
Data Analysis, Social Network Analysis, R-coding