Welcome to the CLIOARCH collaboratory!
CLIOARCH stands for CLIOdynamic ARCHaeology: Computational approaches to Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic archaeology and climate change. This project seeks to quantify and hence qualify human responses to rapidly changing climates, extreme environmental events, migration and adaptation in the so-called Final Palaeolithic and the earliest Mesolithic, the period between 15,000 and 11,000 years, in Europe. The project begins with a soul-searching investigation of relevant epistemologies and then deploys state-of-the-art computational techniques - all set within a cultural evolutionary framework - to understand the patterns and processes of human adaptation in this period. Finally and as a test of CLIOARCH's methods, we will also prospect for new stratified archaeological sites with evidence from this period.
You can always reach us at clioarch@cas.au.dk and follow us on Twitter @ERC_CLIOARCH.
CLIOARCH publications
Tsirintoulaki, K., Matzig, D. N. & Riede, F. (2023). A 2D Geometric Morphometric Assessment of Chrono-Cultural Trends in Osseous Barbed Points of the European Final Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic. Open Archaeology, 9(1), [20220276]. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0276
Yaworsky, P. M., Hussain, S. T. & Riede, F. (2023). Climate-driven habitat shifts of high-ranked prey species structure Late Upper Paleolithic hunting. Scientific Reports, 13(1), [4238]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31085-x
Ordonez, A. & Riede, F. (2022). Changes in limiting factors for forager population dynamics in Europe across the last glacial-interglacial transition. Nature Communications, 13(1), [5140]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32750-x
Allen, K. J., Riede, F., Gouramanis, C., Keenan, B., Stoffel, M., Hu, A. & Ionita, M. (2022). Coupled insights from the palaeoenvironmental, historical and archaeological archives to support social-ecological resilience and the sustainable development goals. Environmental Research Letters, 17(5), [055011]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6967
Groucutt, H. S., Prendergast, A. L. & Riede, F. (2022). Editorial: Extreme events in human evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, [1026989]. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1026989
Pedersen, J. B., Poulsen, M. E. & Riede, F. (2022). Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe. Journal of Field Archaeology, 47(6), 360-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2086346
Riede, F., Araujo, A. & Marwick, B. (2022). Robert C. Dunnell's Systematics in Prehistory at 50. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4(e16), [e16]. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.18
Hess, T. & Riede, F. (2022). The Occurrence of Lithic Raw Materials in the Western Part of Central Germany. Open Quaternary, 8(1), p.1. [8]. https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.108
Degroot, D., Anchukaitis, K. J., Tierney, J. E., Riede, F., Manica, A., Moesswilde, E. & Gauthier, N. (2022). The history of climate and society: A review of the influence of climate change on the human past. Environmental Research Letters, 17(10), [103001]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8faa
Lundström, V., Peters, R. & Riede, F. (2021). Demographic estimates from the Palaeolithic–Mesolithic boundary in Scandinavia: comparative benchmarks and novel insights. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1816), [20200037]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0037
Hussain, S. T., Matzig, D. N. & Riede, F. (2021). Gillings, M., Hacıgüzeller, P. & Lock, G. (eds) (2019). Re-Mapping Archaeology. Critical Perspectives, Alternative Mappings. Archaeologische Informationen, 43(2020), 541-546. https://doi.org/10.11588/ai.2020.1.82210
Niemeier, U., Riede, F. & Timmreck, C. (2021). Simulation of ash clouds after a Laacher See-type eruption. Climate of the Past, 17(2), 633-652. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-633-2021
Hess, T. & Riede, F. (2021). The use of lithic raw materials at the Early Mesolithic open-air site Feuersteinacker (Vogelsbergkreis, Germany). Geoarchaeology, 36(2), 252-265. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21828
Abbott, P. M., Niemeier, U., Timmreck, C., Riede, F., McConnell, J. R., Severi, M., Fischer, H., Svensson, A., Toohey, M., Reinig, F. & Sigl, M. (2021). Volcanic climate forcing preceding the inception of the Younger Dryas: Implications for tracing the Laacher See eruption. Quaternary Science Reviews, 274, 107260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107260
Ivanovaitė, L., Serwatka, K., Hoggard, C. S., Sauer, F. & Riede, F. (2020). All these Fantastic Cultures? Research History and Regionalization in the Late Palaeolithic Tanged Point Cultures of Eastern Europe. European Journal of Archaeology, 23(2), 162-185. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2019.59
Riede, F., Hussain, S. T., Timmreck, C. & Svenning, J-C. (2020). CLIOdynamic ARCHaeology: computational approaches to Final Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic archaeology and climate change. Antiquity, 94(375), [e13]. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.85
Riede, F., Araujo, A. G. M., Barton, M. C., Bergsvik, K. A., Groucutt, H. S., Hussain, S. T., Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo, J., Maier, A., Marwick, B., Pyne, L., Ranhorn, K., Reynolds, N., Riel-Salvatore, J., Sauer, F., Serwatka, K. & Zander, A. (2020). Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic—Old questions, novel perspectives. Evolutionary Anthropology, 29(2), 49-52. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21819
Riede, F. (2020). Felix Riede. In L. Timbrell (Ed.), Conversations in Human Evolution (Vol. 1, pp. 9-14). Archaeopress. Access Archaeology https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={9EC3227C-1A17-48FB-A713-98E8CDB7BCE1}
Eggers-Kaas, T., Hoggard, C. S. & Riede, F. (2020). Flygtige Federmesser: Betragninger om at skelne mellem senpalæolitiske Federmesser og tidlig mesolitiske lancetspidser. Tings Tale, 2, 29-39.
Hussain, S. T. & Riede, F. (2020). Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 11(5), [e667]. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.667
Hussain, S. T., Matzig, D. N., Fontana, F., Groß, D., Hess, T., Langlais, M., Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo, J., Mills, W., Naudinot, N., Posch, C., Rimkus, T., Shnayder, S., Stefanski, D. & Riede, F. (2020). Towards a collaborative meta-analysis of the Final Palaeolithic / earliest Mesolithic in Europe. Report on the 2nd CLIOARCH Workshop, 26th-27th November 2020. Archaeologische Informationen, 43, 415-420. https://doi.org/10.11588/ai.2020.1.81428
Eggers-Kaas, T., Pedersen, J. B., Hoggard, C. S., Sauer, F., Hilgart, J. & Riede, F. (2019). A Technological and Typological Analysis of Lithic Material from Skovmosen I, Denmark. Danish Journal of Archaeology, 8, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.7146/dja.v8i0.112232
Sauer, F. R. & Riede, F. (2019). A critical reassessment of cultural taxonomies in the Central European Late Palaeolithic. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 26(1), 155-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9368-0
Reynolds, N. & Riede, F. (2019). House of cards: cultural taxonomy and the study of the European Upper Palaeolithic. Antiquity, 93(371), 1350-1358. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.49
Riede, F., Hoggard, C. & Shennan, S. (2019). Reconciling material cultures in archaeology with genetic data requires robust cultural evolutionary taxonomies. Humanities and social sciences communications, 5, [55]. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0260-7
Reynolds, N. & Riede, F. (2019). Reject or revive? The crisis of cultural taxonomy in the European Upper Palaeolithic and beyond. Antiquity, 93(371), 1368-1370. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.156
Hussain, S. T. & Riede, F. (2019). Zur gegenwärtigen taxonomischen Krise in der Archäologie der frühesten Menschheitsgeschichte: Bericht zum 1. CLIOARCH Workshop auf Schloss Sandbjerg, Dänemark, 27-29. November 2019. Archaeologische Informationen, 42, 315-318. https://doi.org/10.11588/ai.2019.0.69427
CLIOARCH is an ERC Consolidator Grant project and has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 817564).
