William Daniel Snyder
Function: Coordinator and Scientific Assistant
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
Room 519, Hauptgebäude 2. OG
D-72070 Tübingen
About
William D. Snyder is a coordinator and researcher associated with the Paleoanthropology and Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology groups. He is interested in different interrelated facets of human origins, including biological and cultural evolution in hominins, technological behaviors in hominins and non-human primates, and the underpinnings of human cognition and culture.
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Academic and Professional Trajectory
2023 - Present
Coordinator and Scientific Assistant
Paleoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Department of Geosciences
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2023
Doctorate in Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology
Department of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
2018
M.Sc. in Archaeological Sciences/Paleoanthropology
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
2015
B.Sc. in Anthropology and Human Biology
Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Publications
2023
Snyder, W.D. & Tennie, C. (2023). “What kind of culture did early hominin toolmakers have?”. Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 43: 57-64. Doi: 10.30819/mbgaeu.43.6
2022
Acerbi, A., Snyder, W.D., & Tennie, C. (2022). “The method of exclusion (still) cannot identify mechanisms of cultural inheritance”. Scientific Reports 12: 21680. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-25646-9
Snyder, W.D., Reeves, J.S., & Tennie, C. (2022). “Early knapping techniques do not necessitate cultural transmission”. Science Advances 8.27: eabo2894. Doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abo2894
Snyder, W.D. (2022). “Have video games evolved enough to teach human origins? A review of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey”. Advances in Archaeological Practice 10.1: 122-127. Doi: 10.1017/aap.2021.40