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Phil Riris
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Senior Lecturer in Archaeological & Palaeoenvironmental Modelling. Tropical Americas, Indigenous history, computational modelling & rock art. 🇳🇴
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forestplots.bsky.social
Todos tenemos raíces profundas.

Este fascinante artículo repasa el trabajo de RAINFOR en Venezuela y conecta 200 años de historia de exploradores del río Negro y el Amazonas, entre ellos von Humboldt, Bonpland, Spruce, Wallace, Medina y Rafael Herrera Fernández.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A view from my train window, which I thought it looked like a Bronze Age Scandinavian ship motif! #rockart
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Keegan-Michael Key reads a letter from the Smithsonian to a man donating 'artefacts' from his garden
YouTube video by Letters Live
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November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Wonderful gesture from my Arch&Anth colleagues after recent successes
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Very saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Morkot, my singular and unique introduction to the world of Ancient Egypt as an undergraduate. My enduring memory of him is his clever German translation of 'The Jabberwocky' displayed in his office as a subtle test for students. RIP to a real one.
October 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Massive congratulations to Philip Riris who been awarded a prestigious 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize for his work on human-environmental interaction, South American prehistory, computational modelling, resilience, historical ecology, and rock art. Well done Phil! Read more here; ow.ly/I3B050XfyLN
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
Bournemouth lecturer receives prestigious archaeology prize
The award from the Leverhulme Trust is in recognition of his research projects exploring the history and culture of human populations in South America; these projects take place in some of the most ecologically important regions in the world.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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The Trust is thrilled to announce the 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners. Congratulations to this year’s cohort. Thirty extraordinary researchers from across a range of disciplines: leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
Black background with gold swirls. 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners announced. Celebrating the achievements of thirty outstanding scholars. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP.
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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@gmandreou.bsky.social @archaeotext.bsky.social @elisabethniklasson.bsky.social @thearchaeologist.bsky.social @jjrowan.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
Black background with gold swirls. Archaeology Dr Georgia Andreou, University of Southampton Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, University of Liverpool Dr Elisabeth Niklasson, University of Aberdeen Dr Philip Riris, Bournemouth University Dr John Rowan, University of Cambridge Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP.
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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I am humbled and delighted to have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk. I will use the money to continue supporting ECRs and leading fieldwork in South America and Amazonia.

www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
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October 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 "Investigating pre-Columbian floristic legacy effects using machine learning in the southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil"

We demonstrate that SDMs in this critically endangered biome are measurably improved by using archaeological data

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Frontiers | Investigating pre-Columbian floristic legacy effects using machine learning in the southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil
The scope and scale of past human impacts on both historic and current vegetation is of widespread interest in the historical sciences. In the Atlantic Fores...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Amazonian hyperdominance exceeds expectations of neutral theory 🧪🌐🌾 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Amazonian hyperdominance exceeds expectations of neutral theory
Our work demonstrates Amazon-wide hyperdominance necessitating deterministic explanation by first comparing data to the global dispersal neutral model, then establishing this to be a conservative tes....
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October 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

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Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25
Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…
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October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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New OA Article: "Increasing tree size across Amazonia" rdcu.be/eJOz7

With a highlight @nature.com : "Trees of the Amazon are becoming even mightier - Forest giants are becoming bigger and more common than they once were"
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October 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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1/4 New recommendation: @ehmalatesta.bsky.social et al. (2025) Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice. ver.3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social osf.io/4ge5j
Figure 2 from the recommended article: Topics generated in the OST session on 14th November 2023 and their assignment to six umbrella topics for further discussion by the workshop participants (Figure by Kathrin Nägele).
October 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Some nice news coverage by @science.org of our recent discoveries of 12,000-year-old life-sized camel engravings in rock art of #SaudiArabia. @mariaguagnin.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
Prehistoric camel art pointed to precious water sources in the Arabian Desert
Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago
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September 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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‘Those paintings belong to us’: how an Indigenous-led project is harnessing technology to protect Kakadu’s rock art share.google/jkmRzNwPIppb...
‘Those paintings belong to us’: how an Indigenous-led project is harnessing technology to protect Kakadu’s rock art
This new project has strong potential to be scaled up and delivered in other land and cultural heritage management contexts.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Time to indoctrinate the kids
August 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Fresh off the press - latest from the LAST project: "Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now" (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to all contributors, and to my great co-editors: Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm and Noa Lavi!!
Under Pressure?
This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards
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August 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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that's right
The Wall Street Journal tweets: "Evidence suggests early humans used primitive sunscreen and wore tailored clothing—possibly contributing to their survival as Neanderthals went extinct." There is then a link to a story.
August 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene | Nature share.google/5jo9wleO1bKJ...
Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene - Nature
Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggest that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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1/5 New recommendation: Dekker et al. & @zandraselina.bsky.social‬ (2025) Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. V4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #Archaeology #opendata #openscience @paastacommunity.bsky.social‬ #Palaeoproteomics
Figure 2 of the manuscript. Data availability in palaeoproteomics. A) Percentage of ZooMS and shotgun palaeoproteomics studies with available datasets. Preprints and papers that did not produce any data were excluded from this calculation. B) Number of palaeoproteomics datasets in online repositories (since 2010). ´Other´ repositories include Dryad, Figshare, Github, Mendeley Data, and the OSF Framework. The dataset was compiled by manually going through the list of publications compiled for Figure 1 and checking raw data availability. This figure was made in R v.4.4.2. with R Studio v.2024.12.0+ (R Core Team, 2023) using ggplot2 (Wickham, 2016).
June 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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NEW 📜 from Bournemouth: A 75,000-y-old Scandinavian Arctic cave deposit reveals past faunal diversity and paleoenvironment - doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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August 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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We're looking for an Associate Professor/Professor who can
contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September.

Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...
Two University of Cambridge students are walking on the streets of central Cambridge. Copyright: University of Cambridge (June 2024)
August 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Pining for the Adriatic
July 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM