Mes thèmes de recherche sont regroupés autour de l'étude du Paléolithique moyen et la transition vers le Paléolithique supérieur et le Dernier Maximum Glaciaire, avec un emphase sur les modes de subsistance et les modèles de dispersion des populations humaines. L'impact du changement climatique et les rapports avec le paléoenvironnement m'intéressent particulièrement. L'archéozoologie m'a aussi amené à faire des recherches sur le paléoethologie et la taxonomie des équidés (implication dans des recherches de terrain en Mongolie) et sur le mode de croissance de l'os et des dents ainsi que des recherches ethnoarchéozoologiques. Je dirige actuellement le laboratoire d'ecomorphologie et le groupe de recherche sur les dispersions d'hominides (HDRG).

Projets en cours

• Dispersion des populations humaines et neandertaliennes en Europe au cours de la derniere Ere glaciaire (projet HDRG)
• Ecomorphologie du Renne (projets: Ecomorph et DeerPal)
• Etude de la cognition spatiale: les differences entre hommes et femmes et leurs implications evolutives.
• Comportement et structure sociale des hemiones (Khulan) et leurs implications paleoethologiques.

2020-21           Visiting Researcher, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), U. of Bern, Switzerland

2020 (A)           Beaufort Fellow, St. John's College, U. of Cambridge.

2014-15             Professeur invité, Institut J.A. Forel, Laboratoire de Sciences Préhistoriques, Sciences de la Terre, Université de Genève.

2007-8              Visiting Academic, Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, Archaeology Institute, University College London.

2007-8               Visiting Researcher, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge University.

2003                  Associate Professor, département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

1999                  Associate Professor. Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

1999                  Visiting Professor, Université de Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie (January-May).

1994                  Assistant Professor. Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

1993                  Research Associate. Archaeological Surveys of Canada. Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Hull, P.Q.

1992                  Adjunct Professor. Departments of Sociology and of Classical Studies, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

1992                  Adjunct Professor. Department of Classics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

CONFAS (membre)

Luret, Mathieu. Ph.D. “Paléo-environnement et comportements de subsistance des derniers Néandertaliens et des premiers hommes modernes : étude taphonomique de la faune de la grotte d'El Castillo (Espagne).” Université de Genève, Institut Forel, Faculté des Sciences. Co-directrice. Complete: 2017.

Supervisions en cours:

Pothier-Bouchard, G. PhD candidate. A ZooMS-informed archaeozoological and taphonomic analysis comparing Neanderthal and Homo sapiens subsistence behaviors in Northwest Italy". Co-advisor. Enrolled September 2015.

Paquin, Simon. Ph.D. candidate. Principal advisor. Enrolled September, 2016.

Seuru, Samuel. Ph.D. candidate. Principal advisor. Enrolled September, 2017.

Benjamin Albouy. Ph.D. candidate. Principal Advisor. Enrolled Sept. 2018.

Solène Boisard, Ph.D. candidate. Principal Advisor. Enrolled Sept. 2019

Felix Marois, MSc. candidate. Principal Advisor. Enrolled Sept. 2019.

Catharina da Costa. M.Sc. candidate. Principal Advisor. Enrolled Sept. 2020.

Jury de thèse

Emeline Raguin. Ph.D. Université de Montréal. “Histomorphometric assessment of double-zonal osteons in human cortical bone.” July 2018.

Stéphanie Lavallée. Ph.D. Université de Montréal. Examination committee. Winter 2014

Jury de mémoire

Geneviève Treyvaud. "Le cuivre dans tous ses états: métallurgie de la période Thule." Mémoire de 2ème cycle, Université de Montréal. Avril 2007.

Cadieux, Mathieu.  M.Sc. Anthropologie. Université de Montréal. Spring 2007.

Bossé, Éliane. M.A. Committee member. Université de Montréal. « La ferme du Bas-de-la-Baie : contribution zooarchéologique à l’étude des sites ruraux.» March, 2010.

Emeline Raguin, MSc. Université de Montréal. Automne, 2011.

Marine Puech, M.Sc. Université de Montréal. « Le développement des proportions métaphysaires chez les hominoides : croissance et influence de la locomotion. » Automne 2011.

Girard-Rhéault, M. MSc. Université de Montréal “Zooarchéologie des camélidés. » Examination committee. Automne 2011.

Laurence Dumouchel. M.Sc. Université de Montréal. Autumn 2013.

Sarah Borgel. M.Sc. Université de Montréal. Examination committee. Autumn 2016.

Maude Chapdelaine, M.Sc. « L’exploitation de la faune par les Iroquoiens : l’alimentation carnée des habitants du site McDonald (BgFo-18). » Examination committee. January 2019.

Isabelle Coupal. Ph.D. Université de Montréal. Examination committee. Spring 2019.

Kim de Chantal, M.Sc. “Les pierres à moudre du site d’Ucanal, Guatemala .»  Université de Montréal. Examination committee. May 2019.

Ghalem, Yassmine. M.Sc. Exploration de la diversité crânienne récente et passée en Afrique centrale : analyses via la morphométrie géométrique tridimensionnelle. Automne 2020.

2020-21 Translation editor Thinking Strings © “Eléments de Préhistoire” online courseware.

2021    Session 297. Modelling Complexity: Past Interactions between People, Climate and Environment. 25^th meetings of the European Archaeological Association (EAA).

2019    Session 317 “Celebrating 25 years of collaboration: how archaeology and the Earth sciences are coming together to solve real-world problems,” 25^th meetings of the European Archaeological Association (EAA). Bern, Sept.4-6^th 2019 (co-organisers: Julien Riel-Salvatore (UdeM), Basil Davis (UNIL)).

2018    Session “From North to South, from East to West: regional variability and economic patterns in the Iberian Middle Palaeolithic.” XVIIIe congrès de l’UISPP. Paris, June 4-9^th, 2018. Co-organiser.

Lars Anderson. Ph.D. « Essai de paléosociologie aurignacienne. Gestion des équipements lithiques et transmission des savoir-faire parmi les communautés établies dans le sud de la France. » Université de Toulouse II Jean Jaurès. Rapporteur. Décembre, 2019

Desjardins, Sean. Ph.D. McGill University. “Food security, climate change and the zooarchaeology of Neo-InSSesuit Sea-mammal hunting, northwest Foxe Basin, Nunavut.” External examiner. Winter 2017

Amjad Al Qadi, Ph.D. « Le Yabroudien : un facies paléolithique au Proche-Orient. Etude des variabilités techniques des industries lithiques au Levant » Examination committee. Membre de Jury. Université de Genève. Octobre, 2016.

Hughes, E.M., Ph.D. University of Toronto, Dept. of Anthropology. “Hunting Specialisation and the Broad Spectrum Revolution in the Early Epipalaeolithic: Gazelle Exploitation at Urkan e-Rubb IIa, Jordan Valley.” External examiner. Dec. 1, 2011.

2021   

Burke, A., Peros, M. C., Wren, C. D. Pausata, F. S. R., Riel-Salvatore, J., Moine, O.. de Vernal, A., Kageyama, M., Boisard, S., The archaeology of climate change: The case for cultural diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2108537118 (2021).

Bourgeon, L., Burke, A. Horse exploitation by Beringian hunters during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 269, 107140 (2021). doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107140 

Burke, A., Alcaraz-Castaño, M., Cardineau, C.A., Bisson, M., Cuartero, F., Maillo-Fernández, J.M., Fuertes-Prieto, N. and Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros, J., 2021. Archaeological Survey in Guadalajara: Human Occupation in Central Spain during the Late Pleistocene. Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(1), pp.1-20. 

Burke, A., Drapeau, M.S., The Histology of Skeletal Tissues as a Tool in Paleoanthropological and Archaeological Investigations" in Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology, Vivian de Buffrénil, Armand J. de Ricqlès, Louise Zylberberg, Kevin Padian, Ed.s (CRC Press, 2021),  chap. 39, pp. 781-792.

Burke, A., Moncel, M-H., Cattin, M-I., Chomette, D., Paquin, S. « Prospections archéologiques dans la région de la vallée de l’Eyrieux, Ardèche. » Ardèche Archéologie. 38: 3-13. Editions FARPA. 

Lécuyer, C., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Burke, A., Julien, M.A. and Hélie, J.F., 2021. Temperature and precipitation regime in LGM human refugia of southwestern Europe inferred from δ13C and δ18O of large mammal remains. Quaternary Science Reviews, 255, p.106796.

2020   

Pomeroy, E., Hunt, C.O., Reynolds, T., Abdulmutalb, D., Asouti, E., Bennett, P., Bosch, M., Burke, A., Farr, L. et al. “Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave.” Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 29(5), pp.263-279. 

Luret, M., Burke, A., Bernaldo de Quiros, F., Besse, M. “El Castillo cave (Cantabria, Spain): archeozoological comparison between the final Mousterian occupation level (level 20) and the “transitional” Aurignacian El Castillo 18B type” (level 18).” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31: doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102339

2019    

Wren, Colin D., Burke, A. 'Habitat suitability and the genetic structure of human populations during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Western Europe', PLOS ONE, 14: e0217996.

Haywood, A. M., P. J. Valdes, T. Aze, N. Barlow, A. Burke, A. M. Dolan, A. S. von der Heydt, D. J. Hill, S. S. R. Jamieson, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, U. Salzmann, E. Saupe, and J.  Voss. 2019. 'What can Palaeoclimate Modelling do for you?', J Earth Systems and Environment. DOI 10.1007/s41748-019-00093-1. 

2018   

Burke, A., J. Riel-Salvatore, and C. Michael Barton. 2018. 'Human response to habitat suitability during the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Europe', Journal of Quaternary Science, 33: 335-45. 

Latombe, G., A. Burke, M. Vrac, G. Levavasseur, C. Dumas, M. Kageyama, and G. Ramstein. 2018. 'Comparison of spatial downscaling methods of general circulation model results to study climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum', Geosci. Model Dev., 11: 2563-79.

2017    

Burke, A., Kageyama, M., Latombe, G., Fasel, M., Vrac, M., Ramstein, G., James, P. “Risky business: the impact of climate and climate variability on human population dynamics in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum.” Quaternary Science Reviews 164: 217-229.

Bourgeon, L., Burke, A., Higham, Thomas. (2017). "Earliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada." PLOS ONE 12(1): e0169486.

2016    

Guiducci, D., Burke, A. “Reading the Landscape: legible environments and hominin dispersals.” Evolutionary Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21484

Yravedra J, Julien M-A, Alcaraz-Castaño M, Estaca-Gómez V, Alcolea-González J, de Balbín-Behrmann R, Lécuyer C, Marcel CH, and Burke A. “Not so deserted…paleoecology and human subsistence in Central Iberia (Guadalajara, Spain) around the Last Glacial Maximum.” Quaternary Science Reviews 140:21-38.

2014 

Wren, C. D., Xue, J., Costopoulos, A., Burke, A. "The role of spatial foresight in models of hominin dispersal." Journal of Human Evolution 69(0): 70-78.

Burke, A., Levavasseur, G., James, P., Guiducci, D., Izquierdo, M., Bourgeon, L.,  Kageyama, M., Ramstein, G., Vrac, M. "Exploring the impact of climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum on the pattern of human occupation of Iberia." Journal of Human Evolution 73: 35-46.

2013    

Burke, A., Maillo-Fernández, J.M., Fuertes-Prieto, N., Bisson, M., James, P., Levavasseur, G., Archaeological survey in Guadalajara province, Spain: exploratory research in a little-known region of the Spanish Meseta. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 37, 48-69.

2012    

Burke, A., Kandler, A., Good, D. Women Who Know Their Place. Sex-Based Differences in Spatial Abilities and Their Evolutionary Significance. Human Nature 23(2):133-148. DOI: 10.1007/s12110-012-9140-1

Julien M.A., Bocherens H., Burke A., Drucker D., Patou-Mathis M. and Krotova A. Were European steppe bison migratory? ¹⁸O, ¹³C and Sr intra-tooth isotopic variations applied to a palaeoethological reconstruction. Quaternary International, DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.06.011 

Burke, A. Spatial abilities, cognition and the pattern of Neanderthal and modern human dispersals Quaternary International 247: 230-235. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.029)

Bisson, M., Burke, A., Meignen, L., Burke, Adrian. « Moinhos and Mina do Paço; Middle Palaeolithic lithic chipping stations in the Sado Basin, Alentejo, Portugal.” O Arqueologo Português. Série V, 26.

2021  

Lyon, C., E. Saupe, C.J.Smith, D. Hill, A. Beckerman, L. Stringer, R. Marchand, J. McKay, A. Burke, P. O’Higging, A. Dunhill, B. Allen, J. Riel-Salvatore, T. Aze. “Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100.” (poster) Climate Exp0, COP26 Universities Network, Glasgow, 17-21 May, 2021. 

Burke, A. Keynote speaker. “Integrating ecological models and anthropological theory to study past human populations.” CROSSDEM conference, March, 2021

Burke, A. “The archaeology of climate change: why variability matters.” IWH Symposium - Hengstberger Symposium “Beyond Palaeoclimate Ping Pong: Improving estimates of past climate variability by consistent data-model comparison.” Heidelberg, July 5-7^th.

2019   

Burke, A., Kageyama, M., Riel-Salvatore, J., Wren, C., and members of the HDRG group. “Weathering the storm: identifying key disruptors of human systems.” 25^th Annual Meeting of the European Archaeological Association (EAA). Bern, Switzerland, 4-7 Sept. 

Lyon, C., Hill, D., Allen, B., Beckerman, A. Burke, A., O’Higgins, P., et al. “Refugia of futures past: using the deep past to scope human-environmental futures and the implications for adaptation.” Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Phoenix, AZ, 22-25 Sept.

Paquin, S., Burke, A., Seuru, S., Girard, F., “Archaeological survey and the precision of GNSS receivers.” 52^nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association. Québec, May 15-18^th.

Paquin, S., Burke, A., Seuru, S., Girard, F., “How precise are my survey data? A GNSS receiver test and comparison.” Symposium: QUANTARCH poster session. 84^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, April. 

Galán-López, A. Belén, Burke, A., Costamagno, S. “Reconstructing habitat type and mobility patterns of Rangifer tarandus during the Late Pleistocene in Southwestern France: an ecomorphological study.”  XXIIe colloque du GMPCA, 9-12 mai, 2019, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Discamps, E., W. Rendu (co-PI), A. Royer (co-PI). Bayle, C. Beauval, E. Berlioz, O. Bignon-Lau, K. Britton, A. Burke, J.-C. Castel, N. Catz, et al. « The DeerPal project: humans and deer during the Palaeolithic, integrating the variability of prey ecology and ethology in the investigation of past human-environment interactions.” Prehistoric Adaptations to Cold Environments (PACE) conference. Nice, 8-10 January, 2019. 

2018   

Burke, A., Wren, C., Riel-Salvatore, J. “The impact of habitat suitability on cultural transmission during the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Europe.” XVIIIe congrès de l’UISPP, Paris, June 4-9th. 

Luret, M., Burke, A., Bernaldo de Quiros, F., Besse, M., « Comportements de subsistance lors de transition Paléolithiques moyen/supérieur dans la grotte d'El Castillo (Cantabrie, Espagne). » XVIIIe congrès de l’UISPP, Paris, June 4-9th.

Guiducci, D. Burke, A.. A GIS Approach to Landscape Legibility and Its Role in Late Pleistocene Hominin Dispersals. 83rd meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Washington DC, April 11-15th.

Wren, C, Burke, A.. Landscape Connectivity, Habitat Suitability and Cultural Transmission during the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Europe. 83rd meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Washington DC, April 11-15th.

Paquin, S., Burke, A. Evaluating the Impact of Climatic and Environmental Conditions on AMH Initial Dispersal into Western Europe. 83rd meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Washington DC, April 11-15th.

2017   

Burke, A. “A look forward at the study of the mind in the past.” Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Cardiff (UK) 17-20 Dec.

Burke, A. Wren, C., Riel-Salvatore, J. A shattered mirror: the Iberian Peninsula as a fragmented habitat during the Last Glacial Maximum. The Solutrean: 3rd International Conference. 11-15 October, Faro (Portugal). Invited speaker.

 Burke, A. Wren, C., Riel-Salvatore, J. “The Social Consequences of Climate-Driven Changes in the Spatial Distribution of Human Populations during the Last Glacial Maximum.” 82nd meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 30-April 2nd, Vancouver, Canada.

Bourgeon, L., Burke, A., Higham, T. “Archaeological support for the Beringian standstill hypothesis: human occupation of the Bluefish Caves site (Yukon Territory, Canada) during the Last Glacial Maximum.”  Paleoanthropology Society Meetings, March 29-30, Vancouver, Canada.

 Doyon, L. Burke, A., d’Errico, F., Knecht Katz, H. “Exploring technological organization through geometric morphometrics: the case of Aurignacian projectile points made of antler, bone and ivory.” Paleoanthropology Society Meetings, March 29-30, Vancouver, Canada.

2016   

Burke, A. “Climate variability, ecological risk and the distribution of hunter-gatherers and their prey in prehistory.”  Archaeozoology Global Developments and Chinese Perspectives.” Conference organised by the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics. Zhengzhou (China) October 12-17.

 Guiducci, D., Burke, A. Reading the Landscape: legible environments and hominin dispersals. Paper presented at the 81st annual meeting for the Society for American Archeology (April 6 – 10), Orlando, FL, USA.

 Burke, A. Riel-Salvatore, J., Barton, M. “Modelling human systems and their response to climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum.” ESHE Meeting, Madrid, 14th-17th September.

 Burke, A, Kageyama, M., Latombe, G., Vrac, M., James, P. “Risky business: the impact of climate variability on human populations in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum.” 81^st meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 5-10 April, Orlando, Florida.

 Burke Adrian L, Gauthier, G. & Ariane Burke. “Geoarchaeology, geochemistry and petrography of jasper sources in the Alentejo region of Portugal.” Poster presented at the “Raw Materials” Conference. Faro, Portugal, March 2016

 2015   

Burke, A. “Teeth, tools and retouchers”. Retouching the Palaeolithic: International workshop on Palaeolithic bone tools. 21-23 October. Hanover, Germany.

2014   

Burke, A., James, P., Kaplan, J. «Modelling the predicted distribution of prey species during the Last Glacial Maximum in Iberia: Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus).” Meetings of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ). San Rafael Argentina, Sept.21-28.

Burke, A., James, P., Latombe, G., Kageyama, M., Vrac, M. Ramstein, G., HDRG team. “Human response to environmental risk during the Last Glacial Maximum.” XVII World Meetings of the Union International des Sciences de la Pré et Proto-histoires (UISPP). 1-7 September, Burgos (Spain).

Burke, A., Guiducci, D., Steele, J. “Seeing our way: perception of the landscape and patterns of hominin dispersal.” Meetings of the Society of American Archaeology, Austin, TX., April 23-27.

Wren, C., Burke, A. “Climate variability and risk: human settlement of Iberia during the LGM.” Meetings of the Society of American Archaeology, Austin, TX., April 23-27.

Guiducci, D., Burke, A., Steele, J. Navigating Prehistoric Landscapes: building a wayfinding agent-based model in Netlogo for studying patterns of hominid dispersal. Paper presented at the Meeting for Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (April 22–25), Paris, France. 

2013   

Julien, M.-A., Meunier, L-M., Hélie, J-F., Burke, A., Hillaire-Marcel, C. « Testing the effect of chemical pretreatments of enamel bioapatite on isotopic signals. » Bone Diagenesis conference, Lyon, October, 2013.

Burke, A., James, P., Kageyama, M., Levavasseur, G. Guiducci, D., « The impact of climate variability on the spatial distribution of human populations during the Last Glacial Maximum.” Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawai, April 3-8 2013. 

Valdes, P., Kageyama, M., Burke, A. “Modelling Climate Variability and the Impact on the Iberian Penisula.” Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawai, April 3-8 2013.

 Wren, C.D., Costopoulos, A., Burke, A. “Putting (hominin) thought into hominin dispersal.” Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawai, April 3-8, 2013.