Cliodynamic archaeology: Computational approaches to Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic archaeology and climate change

Project Information

CLIOARCH

Grant agreement ID: 817564

DOI

10.3030/817564

Project closed

EC signature date 14 January 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 907 638,00

EU contribution

€ 1 907 638,00

Coordinated by

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (34)

Paleolithic occupations in the Lahn Valley of Central Germany: New dating and ZooMS results from Wildscheuer, Wildweiberlei, and Wildhaus

Author(s): Keiko Kitagawa, Daniel Burger-Völlmecke, Sam Brown, Jesper Olsen, Felix Riede
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 61, 2025, Page(s) 104951, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104951

Early Ahmarian Lithic Techno Economy and Mobility at Al Ansab 1, Wadi Sabra, Southern Jordan

Author(s): Hannah Parow-Souchon; Shumon T. Hussain; Jürgen Richter
Published in: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society (Mitekufat Heaven), Issue 51, 2021, Page(s) 6-64, ISSN 0334-3839
Publisher: Israel Prehistoric Society
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6424080

Changes in limiting factors for forager population dynamics in Europe across the last glacial-interglacial transition

Author(s): Ordonez, A.G.; Riede, F.
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 20411723, 2022, Page(s) 5140, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32750-x

Coupled insights from the palaeoenvironmental, historical and archaeological archives to support social-ecological resilience and the sustainable development goals

Author(s): K.J. Allen, F. Riede, C. Gouramanis, B. Keenan, M. Stoffel, A. Hu, M. Ionita
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) 055011, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac6967

Robert C. Dunnell's Systematics in Prehistory at 50

Author(s): Felix Riede, Astolfo Araujo, Ben Marwick
Published in: Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022, ISSN 2513-843X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2022.18

Demographic estimates from the Palaeolithic–Mesolithic boundary in Scandinavia: comparative benchmarks and novel insights

Author(s): Victor Lundström, Robin Peters, Felix Riede
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 376/1816, 2021, Page(s) 20200037, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0037

The Occurrence of Lithic Raw Materials in the Western Part of Central Germany

Author(s): Hess, Thomas, Riede, Felix
Published in: Open Quaternary, Issue 8, 2022, Page(s) 1, ISSN 2055-298X
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/oq.108

Reconciling material cultures in archaeology with genetic data requires robust cultural evolutionary taxonomies

Author(s): Felix Riede, Christian Hoggard, Stephen Shennan
Published in: Palgrave Communications, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 55, ISSN 2055-1045
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-019-0260-7

Jels 3, a New Late Palaeolithic Open-Air Site in Denmark, Sheds Light on the Pioneer Colonization of Northern Europe

Author(s): Pedersen, Jesper B., Martin E. Poulsen, and Felix Riede
Published in: Journal of Field Archaeology, Issue 00934690, 2022, Page(s) 360-378, ISSN 0093-4690
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2022.2086346

A macroevolutionary analysis of European Late Upper Palaeolithic stone tool shape using a Bayesian phylodynamic framework

Author(s): David N. Matzig, Ben Marwick, Felix Riede, Rachel Warnock
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 240321, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/2a3xv

Understanding hunter–gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking

Author(s): Javier Fernández-López de Pablo; Valéria Romano; Maxime Derex; Erik Gjesfjeld; Claudine Gravel-Miguel; Marcus J. Hamilton; Andrea Bamberg Migliano; Felix Riede; Sergi Lozano
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Issue 01695347, 2022, Page(s) 632-636, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2022.04.007

Materiality, Agency and Evolution of Lithic Technology: an Integrated Perspective for Palaeolithic Archaeology

Author(s): Shumon T. Hussain, Manuel Will
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2020, ISSN 1072-5369
Publisher: Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-020-09483-6

Earliest evidence for hunter-gatherer impacts on raven diet and ecology in the Gravettian of Southern Moravia

Author(s): Chris Baumann; Shumon Hussain; Martina Roblíčková; Felix Riede; Marcello Mannino; Hervé Bocherens
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 7, 2023, Page(s) 1302-1314, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02107-8

An Annotated Compilation of Chronometric Dates for the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition (45-30 ka BP) in Northern Iberia (Spain)

Author(s): Mikel Díaz-Rodríguez, Trine Kellberg Nielsen, Andreas Maier, Felix Riede
Published in: Journal of Open Archaeology Data, Issue 11, 2023, Page(s) 10, ISSN 2049-1565
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
DOI: 10.5334/joad.113

Evaluating the suitability of lithic illustrations in morphometric analyses

Author(s): Hoggard, Christian Steven; Birch, Thomas; Stade, Cory M.; Janin, Katrin G.; Riede, Felix
Published in: Lithics, Issue 41, 2023, Page(s) 29–48, ISSN 0262-7817
Publisher: Lithic Studies Society

Climate-driven habitat shifts of high-ranked prey species structure Late Upper Paleolithic hunting

Author(s): Yaworsky, Peter M.; Hussain, Shumon T.; Riede, Felix
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, Page(s) 4238, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31085-x

Mapping the field of cultural evolutionary theory and methods in archaeology using bibliometric methods

Author(s): David N. Matzig, Clemens Schmid, Felix Riede
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 271, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01767-y

Hunting with poisoned arrows during the Terminal Pleistocene in Northern Europe? A tip cross-sectional area assessment and list of potential arrow poison ingredients

Author(s): Felix Riede, Marlize Lombard
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 59, 2024, Page(s) 104757, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104757

A meta-analysis of Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic cultural taxonomy and evolution in Europe

Author(s): Riede, Felix; Matzig, David N.; Biard, Miguel; Crombé, Philippe; Fernández-Lopéz de Pablo, Javier; Fontana, Frederica; Groß, Daniel; Hess, Thomas; Langlais, Mathieu; Mevel, Ludovic; Mills, William; Moník, Martin; Naudinot, Nicolas; Posch, Caroline; Rimkus, Tomas; Stefański, Damian; Vandendriessche, Hans; Hussain, Shumon T.
Published in: PLoS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) 1-40, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299512

Design Space Constraints and the Cultural Taxonomy of European Final Palaeolithic Large Tanged Points: A Comparison of Typological, Landmark-Based and Whole-Outline Geometric Morphometric Approaches

Author(s): David N. Matzig; Shumon T. Hussain; Felix Riede
Published in: Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, Issue 4, 2020, Page(s) 27, ISSN 2520-8217
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s41982-021-00097-2

Towards a collaborative meta-analysis of the Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic in Europe. Report on the 2nd CLIOARCH Workshop, 26th-27th November 2020

Author(s): Naudinot, Nicolas; Hussain, Shumon,; Matzig, David,; Fontana, Federica; Groß, Daniel; Hess, Thomas; Langlais, Mathieu; Fernández-Lopéz De Pablo, Javier; Mills, William; Posch, Caroline; Rimkus, Tomas; Shnayder, Svetlana; Stefański, Damian; Riede, Felix
Published in: Archäologische Informationen, Issue 43, 2021, Page(s) 415-420, ISSN 2197-7429
Publisher: Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte e.V.
DOI: 10.11588/ai.2020.1.81428

The Technological Condition of Human Evolution: Lithic Studies as Basic Science

Author(s): Shumon T. Hussain; Marie Soressi
Published in: Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 25, ISSN 2520-8217
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s41982-021-00098-1

Changes in Northern Hemisphere extra-tropicalcyclone frequency following volcanic eruptions

Author(s): Laurits Støvring Andreasen; Joona Cornér; Peter Abbott; Victoria A Sinclair; Felix Riede; Claudia Timmreck
Published in: Environmental research: Climate, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 025002, ISSN 2752-5295
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2752-5295/ad2c0e

Benchmarking methods and data for the whole‐outline geometric morphometric analysis of lithic tools

Author(s): Renata P. Araujo; Felix Riede; Mercedes Okumura; Astolfo G. M. Araujo; Alice Leplongeon; Colin Wren; José R. Rabuñal; Marcelo Cardillo; María B. Cruz; David N. Matzig
Published in: Evolutionary Anthropology, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 124-127, ISSN 1520-6505
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21981

House of cards: cultural taxonomy and the study of the European Upper Palaeolithic

Author(s): Natasha Reynolds, Felix Riede
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 93/371, 2019, Page(s) 1350-1358, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.49

All these Fantastic Cultures? Research History and Regionalization in the Late Palaeolithic Tanged Point Cultures of Eastern Europe

Author(s): Livija Ivanovaitė, Kamil Serwatka, Christian Steven Hoggard, Florian Sauer, Felix Riede
Published in: European Journal of Archaeology, 2019, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 1461-9571
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1017/eaa.2019.59

CLIOdynamic ARCHaeology: computational approaches to Final Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic archaeology and climate change

Author(s): Felix Riede, Shumon T. Hussain, Claudia Timmreck, Jens-Christian Svenning
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 94/375, 2020, Page(s) e13(1-4), ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2020.85

Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic

Author(s): Isabell Schmidt, Birgit Gehlen, Katja Winkler, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Nico Arts, Nuno Bicho, Philippe Crombé, Berit Valentin Eriksen, Sonja B. Grimm, Katarina Kapustka, Mathieu Langlais, Ludovic Mevel, Nicolas Naudinot, Zdeňka Nerudová, Marcel Niekus, Marco Peresani, Felix Riede, Florian Sauer, Werner Schön, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Hans Vandendriessche, Mara-Julia Weber, Annabell Zander, Andreas
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0310942, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310942

Volcanic climate forcing preceding the inception of the Younger Dryas: Implications for tracing the Laacher See eruption

Author(s): P.M. Abbott; Ulrike Niemeier; Claudia Timmreck; Felix Riede; Joseph R. McConnell; Mirko Severi; Hubertus Fischer; Anders Svensson; Matthew Toohey; Frederick Reinig; Michael Sigl
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 274, 2021, Page(s) 107260, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107260

Simulation of ash clouds after a Laacher See-type eruption

Author(s): Ulrike Niemeier, Felix Riede, Claudia Timmreck
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 17/2, 2021, Page(s) 633-652, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-633-2021

The use of lithic raw materials at the Early Mesolithic open‐air site Feuersteinacker (Vogelsbergkreis, Germany)

Author(s): Thomas Hess, Felix Riede
Published in: Geoarchaeology, Issue 36/2, 2021, Page(s) 252-265, ISSN 0883-6353
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21828

A pan-European dataset revealing variability in lithic technology, toolkits, and artefact shapes ~15-11 kya

Author(s): Shumon T. Hussain; Felix Riede; David N. Matzig; Miguel Biard; Philippe Crombé; Javier Fernández-Lopéz de Pablo; Federica Fontana; Daniel Groß; Thomas Hess; Mathieu Langlais; Ludovic Mevel; William Mills; Martin Moník; Nicolas Naudinot; Caroline Posch; Tomas Rimkus; Damian Stefański; Hans Vandendriessche
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 593, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02500-9

Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories

Author(s): S.T. Hussain, F. Riede
Published in: WIREs Climate Change, Issue 11/5, 2020, ISSN 1757-7780
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.667

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

Author(s): Degroot, Dagomar, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Jessica E. Tierney, Felix Riede, Andrea Manica, Emma Moesswilde, and Nicolas Gauthier. “The History of Climate and Society: A Review of the Influence of Climate Change on the Human Past.” 17, no. 10 (September 2022): 103001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8faa.
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 17489326, 2022, Page(s) 103001, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac8faa

Non-peer reviewed articles (4)

Editorial: Extreme events in human evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene

Author(s): Groucutt, Huw S., Amy L. Prendergast, and Felix Riede
Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science, Issue 22966463, 2022, ISSN 2296-6463
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.1026989

Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic—Old questions, novel perspectives

Author(s): Felix Riede, Astolfo G.M. Araujo, Michael C. Barton, Knut Andreas Bergsvik, Huw S. Groucutt, Shumon T. Hussain, Javier Fernandez‐Lopez de Pablo, Andreas Maier, Ben Marwick, Lydia Pyne, Kathryn Ranhorn, Natasha Reynolds, Julien Riel‐Salvatore, Florian Sauer, Kamil Serwatka, Annabell Zander
Published in: Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2020, ISSN 1060-1538
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21819

Zur gegenwärtigen taxonomischen Krise in der Archäologie der frühesten Menschheitsgeschichte – Bericht zum 1. CLIOARCH Workshop auf Schloss Sandbjerg, Dänemark, 27.-29. November 2019

Author(s): Felix Riede, Shumon T. Hussain
Published in: Archäologische Informationen, 2019, ISSN 2197-7429
Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
DOI: 10.11588/ai.2019.0.69427

Reject or revive? The crisis of cultural taxonomy in the European Upper Palaeolithic and beyond

Author(s): Natasha Reynolds, Felix Riede
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 93/371, 2019, Page(s) 1368-1370, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.156