Mes intérêts en archéologie préhistorique portent sur l'interface humain-environnement des  principales transitions de l'histoire de notre espèce, notamment la transition du Paléolithique moyen au Paléolithique supérieur et le passage vers l'agriculture (la révolution néolithique). Je me penche particulièrement sur l'impact des humains sur leurs environnements au cours de ces moments clés de l'histoire de notre espèce de même que l'influence des facteurs climatiques sur l'évolution des stratégies comportementales humaines. Ces phénomènes sont étudiés tant par le moyen de travaux de terrain dans le nord de l'Italie (Ligurie) que par différentes modélisations expérimentales. Sur le plan théorique, j'aborde ces questions d'une perspective ancrée dans la théorie de construction de niche et de l'écologie comportementale humaine.

Projets en cours

• Riparo Bombrini (Ventimiglia, IM, Italie)
• Arma Veirana (Erli, SV, Italie)
• Centa River Valley Survey (Albenga, SV, Italie)
• Révision du site néolithique acéramique de Ganj Dareh (Iran)

PhD (2007) - Anthropologie (archéologie), School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University.

MA (2001) - Anthropologie (archéologie), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University.

BA Hons. (1999) - Anthropologie, Department of Anthropology, McGill University

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.