Douglas Bird
Associate Professor of Anthropology
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323B Carpenter Building
University Park, PA 16802 - dwb5537@psu.edu
- 814-863-1096
Research Summary
Livelihood decisions and habitats, exploring the dynamics of human subsistence practices, their role in ecosystem function, and their archaeological implications in Australia and Western North America.
Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Hunting Society Ecosystem Desert Climate Western Australia Effect Food Foraging History Archaeology Interaction Climate Change Group Size Cognition Group Lizards Population Human Behavior Deserts Conservation Hunters Coevolution Ranking Hunter GathererMost Recent Publications
A collaborative agenda for archaeology and fire science
Grant Snitker, Christopher Roos, Alan Sullivan, S. Maezumi, Douglas W. Bird, Michael Coughlan, Kelly Derr, Linn Gassaway, Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, Rachel Loehman, 2022, Nature Ecology and Evolution on p. 835-839
Foraging Theory
Jeremy Koster, Douglas Bird, 2022,
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?
Eugène Morin, Douglas Bird, Bruce Winterhalder, Rebecca Bliege Bird, 2021, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory on p. 1-63
Mass procurement and prey rankings: insights from the European rabbit
Eugène Morin, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas Bird, 2020, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Erratum: Opinion: To understand how migrations affect human securities, look to the past (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2020) 117 (20342–20345) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2015146117)
Jeffrey H. Altschul, Keith W. Kintigh, Mark Aldenderfer, Elise Alonzi, Ian Armit, Juan Antonio Barceló, Christopher S. Beekman, Penny Bickle, Douglas W. Bird, Scott E. Ingram, Elena Isayev, Andrew W. Kandel, Rachael Kiddey, Hélène Timpoko Kienon-Kaboré, Franco Niccolucci, Corey S. Ragsdale, Beth K. Scaffidi, Scott G. Ortman, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 27059
To understand how migrations affect human securities, look to the past
Jeffrey H. Altschul, Keith W. Kintigh, Mark Aldenderfer, Elise Alonzi, Ian Armit, Juan Antonio Barceló, Christopher S. Beekman, Penny Bickle, Douglas W. Bird, Scott E. Ingram, Elena Isayev, Andrew W. Kandel, Rachael Kiddey, Hélène Timpoko Kienon-Kaboré, Franco Niccolucci, Corey S. Ragsdale, Beth K. Scaffidi, Scott G. Ortman, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 20342-20345
Climate, landscape diversity, and food sovereignty in arid Australia: The firestick farming hypothesis
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas W. Bird, 2020, American Journal of Human Biology on p. e23527
The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation
Jeremy Koster, Richard McElreath, Kim Hill, Douglas Yu, Glenn Shepard, Shepard, Glenn, Jr., Van Vliet, Nathalie, Nathalie Van Vliet, Michael Gurven, Benjamin Trumble, Rebecca Bliege Bird, R Bliege Bird, Douglas Bird, Brian Codding, Lauren Coad, Luis Pacheco-Cobos, Bruce Winterhalder, Karen Lupo, Dave Schmitt, Paul Sillitoe, Margaret Franzen, Michael Alvard, Vivek Venkataraman, Thomas Kraft, Kirk Endicott, S Beckerman, Stuart Marks, Thomas Headland, Margaretha Pangau-Adam, Anders Siren, Karen Kramer, Russell Greaves, Victoria Reyes-García, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Maximilien Gueze, Maximilien Guèze, Romain Duda, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Alvaro Fernandez-Llamazares, Sandrine Gallois, Lucentezza Napitupulu, Roy Ellen, John Ziker, Martin Nielsen, Elspeth Ready, Christopher Healey, Cody Ross, 2020, Science advances
Fire mosaics and habitat choice in nomadic foragers
R Bliege Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Chloe McGuire, Douglas W. Bird, Michael Price, David Zeanah, Dale Nimmo, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 12904-12914
Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies
Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian F. Codding, David W. Zeanah, 2019, Journal of Human Evolution on p. 96-108
Most-Cited Papers
Behavioral ecology and the future of archaeological science
Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird, 2015, Journal of Archaeological Science on p. 9-20
Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution
Alexis P. Sullivan, Douglas W. Bird, George H. Perry, 2017, Nature Ecology and Evolution
Niche construction and Dreaming logic: Aboriginal patch mosaic burning and varanid lizards (Varanus gouldii) in Australia
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nyalangka Tayor, Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird, 2013, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies
Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian F. Codding, David W. Zeanah, 2019, Journal of Human Evolution on p. 96-108
A landscape architecture of fire: Cultural emergence and ecological pyrodiversity in Australia’s Western Desert
Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian F. Codding, Nyalangka Taylor, 2016, Current Anthropology on p. S65-S79
Conservation or co-evolution? Intermediate levels of aboriginal burning and hunting have positive effects on kangaroo populations in Western Australia
Brian F. Codding, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Peter G. Kauhanen, Douglas W. Bird, 2014, Human Ecology on p. 659-669
Aboriginal burning promotes fine-scale pyrodiversity and native predators in Australia's Western Desert
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas W. Bird, Luis E. Fernandez, Nyalanka Taylor, Wakka Taylor, Dale Nimmo, 2018, Biological Conservation on p. 110-118
Shellfishing and human evolution
Richard G. Klein, Douglas W. Bird, 2016, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology on p. 198-205
Megafauna in a continent of small game: Archaeological implications of Martu Camel hunting in Australia's Western Desert
Douglas W. Bird, Brian F. Codding, Rebecca Bliege Bird, David W. Zeanah, Curtis J. Taylor, 2013, Quaternary International on p. 155-166
Fire mosaics and habitat choice in nomadic foragers
R Bliege Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Chloe McGuire, Douglas W. Bird, Michael Price, David Zeanah, Dale Nimmo, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 12904-12914
News Articles Featuring Douglas Bird
Dec 18, 2019
Playing with tools—and weapons—was a ‘normal’ part of prehistoric childhood
Prehistoric children may have been cherished by their parents—but until recently, they’ve been neglected by many archaeologists, who assumed that childhood is simply about toys and games. Now, a new study adds to the growing literature that prehistoric children were hard workers, who learned from an early age to use the weapons and tools that would help them with the rigors of adulthood.
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Feb 08, 2019
Aboriginal Hunters’ Fires Help Restore an Australian Desert
A study of how the Martu shaped their land presents an example where humans seem to benefit an environment perceived as wilderness.
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