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Research
Latest papers
The revolution that wasn't (again): reflections on the advent of lithic technology vs. AI.
Journal of anthropological sciences = Rivista di antropologia : JASS · 2025 · first author
The Open Aurignacian Project: 3D scanning and the digital preservation of the Italian Paleolithic record.
Scientific data · 2025 · senior author
The archaeology of climate change: The case for cultural diversity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
Latest funding
- $72,996
Resurrecting Ganj Dareh: Digital curation and reanalysis of a legacy archaeological collection key to understanding the Neolithic revolution in the Central Zagros (Iran)
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $173,416
Documenting forager adaptations to dramatic climate change at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Liguria (Italy)
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $217,094
High-resolution investigation of the middle-upper paleolithic transition at Riparo Bombrini, Italy
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
The revolution that wasn't (again): reflections on the advent of lithic technology vs. AI.
Riel-Salvatore J
The Open Aurignacian Project: 3D scanning and the digital preservation of the Italian Paleolithic record.
Falcucci A, Moroni A, Negrino F, Peresani M, Riel-Salvatore J
The archaeology of climate change: The case for cultural diversity.
Burke A, Peros MC, Wren CD, Pausata FSR, Riel-Salvatore J, Moine O, de Vernal A, Kageyama M, Boisard S
Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic-Old questions, novel perspectives.
Riede F, Araujo AGM, Barton MC, Bergsvik KA, Groucutt HS, Hussain ST, Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo J, Maier A, Marwick B, Pyne L, Ranhorn K, Reynolds N, Riel-Salvatore J, Sauer F, Serwatka K, Zander A
Resurrecting Ganj Dareh: Digital curation and reanalysis of a legacy archaeological collection key to understanding the Neolithic revolution in the Central Zagros (Iran)
Principal investigators: Riel-Salvatore, Julien
Keywords: Neolithic; Pre-pottery Neolithic; Zagros Mountains; Epipaleolithic; Legacy archaeological collection
Documenting forager adaptations to dramatic climate change at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Liguria (Italy)
Principal investigators: Gravel-Miguel, Claudine
Keywords: hunter-gatherers; social networks; pleistocene; holocene; climate change; ornaments; lithics; gis; abm
High-resolution investigation of the middle-upper paleolithic transition at Riparo Bombrini, Italy
Principal investigators: Riel-Salvatore, Julien
Keywords: archaeology; neanderthals; modern humans; Italy; techno-economic analysis; faunal analysis; ZooMS
The impact of climate change and climate variability on human populations during the last Glacial
Principal investigators: Burke, Ariane M.
Keywords: human dispersals; climate change; neanderthal extinction; spatial analysis
Reconstructing prehistoric hunter-gatherer mobility: building new inter-disciplinary frameworks
Principal investigators: Riel-Salvatore, Julien
Keywords: mobility; hunter-gatherers; prehistory; lithic analysis; zooarchaeology; genetics; isotope analysis
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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