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.

Work Package I

Work Package IV

Work Package II

Work Package V

Work Package III

People at CLIOARCH

PI

Felix Riede

Professor

M f.riede@cas.au.dk
H 4216, 147
P +4587151383
P +4560187382

Core staff

Laurits Støvring Andreasen

Ph.d.-studerende

M laurits.andreasen@cas.au.dk

P +4587151395

David Nicolas Matzig

Informationsspecialist

M dnma@kb.dk

P +4591356488

Peter Michael Yaworsky

Adjunkt

M p.yaworsky@cas.au.dk
H 4216, 146
P +4587151406

CLIOARCH post-doctoral affiliates

Andreu Arinyo i Prats

Postdoc Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Afdeling for Arkæologi og Kulturarvsstudier

M arinyo-i-prats@cas.au.dk
H 4216, 148
P +4587151407

Francesco Ravasini

Postdoc Institut for Molekylærbiologi og Genetik - Center for Bioinformatik (BiRC)

M fravasini@birc.au.dk
H 1872

Maciej Tomasz Sykut

Postdoc Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Afdeling for Arkæologi og Kulturarvsstudier

M msykut@cas.au.dk
H 4216, 149
P +4587151412

Isobel Wisher

Postdoc Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Kognitionsvidenskab

M izzywisher@cas.au.dk
H 1485, 635

CLIOARCH post-doctoral affiliates (external)

Dr. Sheina Lew-Levy

_{Post-doc (Canadian Social Sciene and Humanities Research Council), 2019-2021}

Now Associate Professor at Durham University.

Dr. Thomas Hess

_{Post-doc (Swiss National Science Foundation), 2019-2020}

Email: thomas.hess@uni-tuebingen.de

CLIOARCH PhD affiliates

Sofie Folsach Hellerøe

Lønnet ph.d-stipendiat

M sofie.helleroe@cas.au.dk
H 4216, 152
P +4587151376

Lasse Lukas Platz Herskind

Lønnet ph.d-stipendiat

M ll.herskind@cas.au.dk
H 4216, 152
P +4587151403

Emil Schou Nielsen

Ph.d.-studerende

M emsn@cas.au.dk
H 4215, 034
P +4587151396

CLIOARCH visitors

Inga Fauth

_{ERASMUS intern (Hildesheim University, Germany), Oct 2021-Dec 2021}

Email: hansman@uni-hildesheim.de

Kalliroi 'Iro' Tsirintoulaki

_{ERASMUS intern (Leiden University, Netherlands), Sept 2020-March 2021}

Email: k.tsirintoulaki@umail.leidenuniv.nl

Brea McCauley

_{Visiting PhD student (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Feb-April 2020}

Email: bmccaule@sfu.ca

Website: https://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/graduate/grad_students/mcCauley.html

Colin D. Wren

_{Visiting Professor (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), Sept-Nov 2022}

Email: cwren@uccs.edu

Website: https://anthropology.uccs.edu/colin-wren

Maria Barrera Cruz

_{Visiting Ph.D. student (University of Valencia, Spain), Sept-Dec 2022}

Email: maria.barrera@uv.es

Website: https://www.uv.es/uvweb/universidad/es/ficha-persona-1285950309813.html?p2=bacruzma&idA=true

Renata Pedroso de Araújo

_{Visiting Ph.D. student (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sept-Dec 2022}

Email: rennyaraujo@yahoo.com

Website: https://bv.fapesp.br/en/pesquisador/96545/renata-pedroso-de-araujo

Mikel Díaz Rodriguez

_{'Margaria Salas' visiting post-doc (University of Santiago, Spain), March 2022-Feb 2023, now Interim Lecturer of Prehistory at the Faculty of History of the University of Vigo, and fellow at CISPAC (Interuniversity Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes)}

Email: mikel.diaz.rodriguez@gmail.com

Website: https://cispac.gal/en/scientific-staff/mikel-diaz-rodriguez/

José Ramón Rabuñal Gayo

_{'Margaria Salas' visiting post-doc (University of Alicante, Spain), March 2022-Feb 2023, now postdoctoral fellow at CISPAC (Interuniversity Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes)}

Email: jr.rabunal@gmail.com

Website: https://cispac.gal/en/scientific-staff/jose-ramon-rabunal-gayo/

CLIOARCH publications

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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), Artikel 4238. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31085-x

Yaworsky, P. M., Hussain, S. T. & Riede, F. (2024). The effects of climate and population on human land use patterns in Europe from 22ka to 9ka ago. Quaternary Science Reviews, 344, Artikel 108956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108956

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), Artikel 20220276. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0276

Schmidt, I., Gehlen, B., Winkler, K., Arrizabalaga, A., Arts, N., Bicho, N., Crombé, P., Eriksen, B. V., Grimm, S. B., Kapustka, K., Langlais, M., Mevel, L., Naudinot, N., Nerudová, Z., Niekus, M., Peresani, M., Riede, F., Sauer, F., Schön, W. ... Maier, A. (2025). Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic. PLOS ONE, 20, Artikel e0310942. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310942

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

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(1), Artikel 55. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0260-7

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., 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), Artikel e13. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.85

Riede, F. (2020). Felix Riede. I L. Timbrell (red.), Conversations in Human Evolution (Bind 1, s. 9-14). Archaeopress. https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={9EC3227C-1A17-48FB-A713-98E8CDB7BCE1}

Riede, F., Araujo, A. & Marwick, B. (2022). Robert C. Dunnell's Systematics in Prehistory at 50. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4(e16), Artikel e16. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.18

Riede, F. & Lombard, M. (2024). Hunting with poisoned arrows during the Terminal Pleistocene in Northern Europe? A tip cross-sectional area assessment and list of potential arrow poison ingredients. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 59, Artikel 104757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104757

Riede, F., Pedersen, J. B., Birndorfer, T. & Steffens, P. (2024). Geoarchäologisch motivierte Grabung am spätpaläolithischen Fundplatz Mühlheim-Dietesheim: How far do adult Trichoptera travel in the landscape? I Hessen Archäologie 2023: Jahrbuch für Archäologie und Paläontologie in Hessen (Bind 2023, s. 65-69)

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

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

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

Pedersen, J. B., Assmann, J. J., Normand, S., Karger, D. N. & Riede, F. (2023). Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe. Current Anthropology, 64(5), 599-608. https://doi.org/10.1086/726700

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), Artikel 5140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32750-x

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

Matzig, D. N., Schmid, C. & Riede, F. (2023). Mapping the field of cultural evolutionary theory and methods in archaeology using bibliometric methods. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), Artikel 271. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01767-y

Matzig, D. N., Marwick, B., Riede, F. & Warnock, R. C. M. (2024). A macroevolutionary analysis of European Late Upper Palaeolithic stone tool shape using a Bayesian phylodynamic framework. Royal Society Open Science, 11(8), Artikel 240321. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240321

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), Artikel 20200037. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0037

Kitagawa, K., Burger-Völlmecke, D., Brown, S., Olsen, J. & Riede, F. (2025). Paleolithic occupations in the Lahn Valley of Central Germany: New dating and ZooMS results from Wildscheuer, Wildweiberlei, and Wildhaus. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 61, Artikel 104951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104951

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

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

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

Hussain, S. T. & Riede, F. (2020). Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 11(5), Artikel 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

Hussain, S. T., Plutniak, S. & Riede, F. (2023). Automation and Novelty - Archaeocomputational Typo-Praxis in the Wake of the Third Science Revolution. PCI Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100307 . https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100307

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

Hess, T. & Riede, F. (2022). The Occurrence of Lithic Raw Materials in the Western Part of Central Germany. Open Quaternary, 8(1), p.1. Artikel 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.108

Hess, T., Matzig, D. & Riede, F. (2025). Morphometric Analyses of Late Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic Projectile Points from Central Germany. Lithic Technology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2025.2491158

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, Artikel 1026989. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1026989

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

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.

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), Artikel 103001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8faa

Andreasen, L. S., Cornér, J., Abbott, P. M., Sinclair, V. A., Riede, F. & Timmreck, C. (2024). Changes in Northern Hemisphere extra-tropicalcyclone frequency following volcanic eruptions. Environmental Research: Climate, 3(2), 025002. Artikel 025002. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad2c0e, https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad2c0e

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), Artikel 055011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6967

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. Artikel 107260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107260

Revideret 27.06.2025

Radomir Gluhovic