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Julien Riel-Salvatore

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Directeur de département

Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'anthropologie

Pavillon Lionel-Groulx office C-3012

Professeur titulaire

Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'anthropologie

Pavillon Lionel-Groulx office C-3068

julien.riel-salvatore@umontreal.ca

514 343-7334

Education Programs

  • Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences

Courses

  • ANT2290 Monstres, ovnis et pseudo-archéologie
  • ANT6213 Les sociétés complexes préétatiques
  • ANT7806 Séminaire de doctorat

Areas of Expertise

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Coévolution des niches écologiques d’Homo sapiens et de la guilde des carnivores au Paléolithique supérieur Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2023 - 2023
Graduate : Bouchard, Catherine
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
A ZooMS-informed archaeozoological and taphonomic analysis comparing Neanderthal and Homo sapiens subsistence behaviours in Northwest Italy Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2022 - 2022
Graduate : Pothier Bouchard, Geneviève
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
L’émergence du concept de l’esprit dans la lignée humaine Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2022 - 2022
Graduate : Bigras, Caroline
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
L’organisation spatiale : un comportement clé de Néandertal et d’Homo sapiens : analyse spatiale des couches moustériennes (MS1-MS2) et protoaurignaciennes (A1-A2) de Riparo Bombrini (Imperia, Italie) Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2021 - 2021
Graduate : Vallerand, Amélie
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Le Nouvel Âge de la bière : l’alcool au Néolithique moyen de la Caverna delle Arene Candide Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2019 - 2019
Graduate : Bélanger, Marie-Soleil
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc. A.

Research projects Expand all Collapse all

Documenting forager adaptations to dramatic climate change at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Liguria (Italy) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2027

Lead researcher : Claudine Gravel-Miguel
Co-researchers : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir

Développement d'une archéologie de l'Anthropocène Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2027

Lead researcher : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: Université de Montréal
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-FEI sans restriction

Subventions Échanges de connaissances_2023 à 2026_liées à la subv mère_CF00150473 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2026

Lead researcher : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subventions d'échange de connaissances

Subventions Échanges de connaissances_2023 à 2026_liées à la subv mère_CF00150473 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2026

Lead researcher : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subventions d'échange de connaissances

(Dés)information et plateformes numériques au Québec. Comprendre les usages informationnels du jeune public au secondaire et collégial. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2026

Lead researcher : Samuel Tanner
Co-researchers : Julien Riel-Salvatore , Julie Talbot , Normand Roy , Nina Admo
Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Programme de recherche sur la désinformation

Resurrecting Ganj Dareh: Digital curation and reanalysis of a legacy archaeological collection key to understanding the Neolithic revolution in the Central Zagros (Iran) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2025

Lead researcher : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PV153480-Subventions de développement Savoir

The impact of climate change and climate variability on human populations during the last Glacial. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2016 - 2025

Lead researcher : Ariane Burke
Co-researchers : Julien Riel-Salvatore , Patrick James
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir

Impact de la variabilité environnementale sur la dynamique des populations et l’évolution biologique et culturelle de la lignée humaine. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2024

Lead researcher : Ariane Burke
Co-researchers : Michelle Drapeau , Liliana Perez , Julien Riel-Salvatore , James King , Michael Bisson , Anne Devernal , Matthew Peros , Francesco Pausata
Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(SE) Programme Soutien aux équipes de recherche - Stade de développement : Renouvellement

High-resolution investigation of the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition at Riparo Bombrini, Italy Projet de recherche au Canada / 2017 - 2024

Lead researcher : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir

Développement d'une archéologie de l'Anthropocène Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019 - 2022

Lead researcher : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: FCI/Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Fonds des leaders

Contextualizing the Upper Paleolithic burial from Arma Veirana Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2022

Lead researcher : Claudine Gravel-Miguel
Co-researchers : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PV153480-Subventions de développement Savoir

Innovation comportementale chez les derniers Néandertaliens : Nouvelles recherches archéologiques au Riparo Bombrini, Italie Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2019

Lead researcher : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs: PV113813-(NP) Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale

CNH : The Emergence of coupled natural and human landscapes in the western mediterranean Projet de recherche au Canada / 2014 - 2019

Co-researchers : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: National Science Foundation
Grant programs:

Reconstructing prehistoric hunter--gatherer mobility: building new inter--disciplinary frameworks Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2017

Lead researcher : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Co-researchers : Suzanne Birch
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PV152160-Subvention Connexion

FGR - Sub voyage 2015-2016 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2016

Lead researcher : Julien Riel-Salvatore
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subventions d'échange de connaissances

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Riel-Salvatore, J., and F. Negrino. 2018. Human adaptations to climatic change in Liguria across the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition. Journal of Quaternary Science 33: 313-322 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.3005/full

Burke, A., J. Riel-Salvatore, and C.M. Barton. 2018. Human behavioral responses to variability in habitat suitability during the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Quaternary Science 33: 335-345 doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3004

Riel-Salvatore, J., C. Gravel-Miguel, G. Martino, R. Maggi, S. Rossi, and V.S. Sparacello. 2018. New insights into the Paloelithic chronology and funerary ritual of caverna delle Arene Candide. In Palaeolithic Italy: Advanced Studies on early human adaptation in the Apennine peninsula (V. Borgia and E. Cristiani, eds.). pp. 335-355. Sidestone Press, Leiden, Netherlands.

Negrino, F., and J. Riel-Salvatore. 2018. From Neandertals to Anatomically Modern Humans in Liguria: the current state of knowledge. In Palaeolithic Italy: Advanced Studies on early human adaptation in the Apennine peninsula (V. Borgia and E. Cristiani, eds.). pp. 159-180. Sidestone Press, Leiden, Netherlands.

Riel-Salvatore, J., and F. Negrino. 2018. Lithic technology, mobility and human niche construction in Early Upper Paleolithic Italy. In Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change (E. Robinson and F. Sellet, eds.), pp. 163-187. Springer, NY. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-64407-3_8

Sparacello VS, Rossi S, Pettitt P, Roberts CA, Riel-Salvatore J, Formicola V. 2018. New insights on Final Epigravettian funerary behaviour at Arene Candide Cave (Western Liguria, Italy) from osteological and spatial analysis of secondary bone deposits. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 96: www.isita-org.com/jass/Contents/2018vol96/Sparacello/30036182.pdf

Marwick, B.,J. d’Alpoim Guedes, C.M. Barton, L. A. Bates, M. Baxter, A. Bevan, E.A. Bollwerk, R.K. Bocinsky, T. Brughmans, A.K. Carter, C. Conrad, D.A. Contreras, S. Costa, E.R. Crema, A. Daggett, B. Davies, B.L. Drake, T. S. Dye, P. France, R. Fullagar, D. Giusti, S. Graham, M.D. Harris, J. Hawks, S. Heath, D. Huffer, E.C. Kansa, S.W. Kansa, M.E. Madsen, J. Melcher, J. Negre, F.D. Neiman, R. Opitz, D.C. Orton, P. Przystupa, M. Raviele, J. Riel-Salvatore, P. Riris, I. Romanowska, J. Smith, N. Strupler, I.I. Ullah, H.G. Van Vlack, N. VanValkenburgh, E.C. Watrall, C. Webster, J. Wells, J. Winters, and C.D. Wren. 2017. Open Science in Archaeology. The SAA Archaeological Record 17(4): 8-14. bit.ly/2Eg72cR

Barton, C.M., J.E. Aura Tortosa, O. Garcia-Puchol, J. Riel-Salvatore, N. Gauthier, M. Vadillo Conesa, and G. Pothier Bouchard. 2017. Risk and resilience in the late glacial: A case study from the western Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews: doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.015.

Gravel-Miguel, C., J. Riel-Salvatore, R. Maggi, G. Martino and C.M. Barton. 2017. A study of flat and elongated pebbles found in recent excavations of the Final Epigravettian levels of the Arene Candide (Liguria, Italy). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27: 331-350 doi.org/10.1017/S0959774316000640.

Bradtmöller, M., S. Grimm, and J. Riel-Salvatore. 2017. Potentials and pitfalls in the application of resilience research and adaptive cycles in prehistoric archaeology. Quaternary International 446: 3-16. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.10.002 

Barton, C.M., and J. Riel-Salvatore. 2016. A Lithic Perspective on Ecological Dynamics in the Upper Pleistocene of Western Eurasia. In Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective (A.P. Sullivan & D.I. Olszewski, eds.), pp. 25-51. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.

Simms, C.R., and J. Riel-Salvatore. 2016. Occupy Archaeology! Towards an Activist Ethnoarchaeology of Occupy Denver. SAA Archaeological Record 16(3):33-39.

Barton, C. M. Ullah, I. I. T. Bergin, S. M. Sarjoughian, H. S. Meyer, G. R. Bernabeu Auban, J. Heimsath, A. M. Acevedo, M. F. Riel-Salvatore, J. G., Arrowsmith, J. R. 2016. Experimental socioecology: integrative science for Anthropocene landscape dynamics. Anthropocene dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2015.12.004.

Barton, C. Michael, and Julien Riel-Salvatore. 2014. The formation of lithic assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 46: 334-352. (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.03.031)

Higham, T., et al. (43 co-authors including J. Riel-Salvatore, B.M. Holt and F. Negrino). 2014 The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal extinction. Nature (doi:10.1038/nature13621)

Maggi, R., G. Martino and J. Riel-Salvatore. 2014. Caverna delle Arene Candide, gli scavi 1941-1942: la scoperta del Paleolitico. In 150 Anni di Preistoria e Protostoria in Italia (A. Guidi, A. de Pascale, and M. Tarantini, eds.), pp. 433-438. Atti della XLVI Riunione Scientifica, Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Florence.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien, and Claudine Gravel-Miguel. 2013.Upper Paleolithic Mortuary Practices in Eurasia: A Critical Look at the Burial Record. In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial (S. Tarlow and L. Nilsson Stutz, eds.), pp. 303-346. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rellini, Ivano, Marco Firpo, Gabriele Martino, Julien Riel-Salvatore, and Roberto Maggi. 2013. Climate and environmental changes recognized by micromorphology in Paleolithic deposits at Arene Candide (Liguria, Italy). Quaternary International dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.050.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien, Ingrid C. Ludeke, Fabio Negrino, and Brigitte M. Holt. 2013. A spatial analysis of the Late Mousterian levels of Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy). Canadian Journal of Archaeology 37(1): 70-92.

Ames, Christopher J.H., Julien Riel-Salvatore, and B. Collins. 2013. What’s so modern about modern behaviour? A new conceptual approach for the study of human behavioural origins. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 37 (1): 21-47.

Barton, C. Michael, and Julien Riel-Salvatore. 2012 Perception, interaction, and extinction: A reply to Premo. Human Ecology 40: 797-801. doi: 10.1007/s10475-012-9530-3.

Barton, C.Michael, and Julien Riel-Salvatore.2012 Agents of Change: Modeling Biocultural Evolution in Late Pleistocene Western Eurasia. Advances in Complex Systems 15 (2): 1150003 (24 pages); doi: 10.1142/S0219525911003359.

Barton, C. Michael, Julien Riel-Salvatore, Marty Anderies, and Gabriel Popescu. 2011 Modeling Human Ecodynamics and Biocultural Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of Western Eurasia. Human Ecology 39(6): 705-725.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien. 2010. A niche construction theory perspective on the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition in Italy. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 17(4): 323-355.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien. 2009. What Is A ‘Transitional’ Industry? The Uluzzian of Southern Italy as a Case Study. In Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions: Methods, Theories, and Interpretations (M. Camps and P. Chauhan, Eds.), pp. 377-396. New York, Springer.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien, and Fabio Negrino. 2009. Early Upper Paleolithic Population Dynamics and Raw Material Procurement Patterns in Italy. In The Mediterranean from 50.000 to 25.000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions (M. Camps and C. Szmidt, Eds.), pp. 211-230. Oxford, Oxbow Books.

Clark, Geoffrey A., and Julien Riel-Salvatore. 2009. What’s in a Name? Observations on the Compositional Integrity of the Aurignacian. In The Mediterranean from 50.000 to 25.000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions (M. Camps and C. Szmidt, Eds.), pp. 323-338. Oxford, Oxbow Books.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien, Alexandra E. Miller, and Geoffrey A. Clark. 2008. An Empirical Evaluation of the Case for a Châtelperronian-Aurignacian Interstratification at Grotte des Fées de Châtelperron. World Archaeology 40 (4): 480-492.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien, Gabriel Popescu, and C. Michael Barton. 2008. Standing at the gates of Europe: Human behavior and biogeography in the southern Carpathians during the Late Pleistocene. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27(4): 399-417.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien. 2008. Mad Neanderthal disease? Some comments on “A potential role for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies in Neanderthal extinction.” Medical Hypotheses 71: 473-474.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien, and C. Michael Barton. 2007. New quantitative perspectives on the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition: The view from the northern Mediterranean. In “Transitional” Upper Paleolithic industries: New questions, new methods (J. Riel-Salvatore and G.A. Clark, Eds.), pp. 61-74. Archaeopress/British Archaeological Reports 1620: Oxford, England.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien, and Geoffrey A. Clark. 2007. Asking new questions and using new methods to understand early Upper Paleolithic “transitional” industries. In “Transitional” Upper Paleolithic industries: New questions, new methods (J. Riel-Salvatore and G.A. Clark, Eds.), pp. 1-10. Archaeopress/British Archaeological Reports 1620: Oxford, England.

Clark, Geoffrey A., and Julien Riel-Salvatore. 2005-06. The compositional integrity of the Aurignacian. Munibe 57 (2): 107-118.

Clark, Geoffrey A., and Julien Riel-Salvatore. 2005. Observations on systematics in Paleolithic archaeology. In Transitions before the Transition: Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age (E. Hovers and S.L. Kuhn, Eds.), pp.29-56. New York: Springer.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien. 2005. Limitations of shamanistic interpretative models: Implications for southern African and upper paleolithic rock art. In Making Marks: Graduate Studies in Rock Art Research at the New Millenium (J. K. K. Huang and E. V. Culley, Eds.), 93-100. Tucson, AZ: American Rock Art Research Association.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien, and C. Michael Barton. 2004. Late Pleistocene technology, economic behavior, and land use dynamics in Southern Italy. American Antiquity 69 (2):257-274.

Riel-Salvatore, Julien, and Geoffrey A. Clark. 2001. Grave markers: Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic burials and the use of chronotypology in contemporary Paleolithic research. Current Anthropology 42 (4): 449-479.

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