Julien Riel-Salvatore
@julienrs.bsky.social
Archaeologist, full professor & chair / Archéologue, professeur titulaire & directeur / Université de Montréal. Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, human-environment interactions, disinformation in archaeology. ⚜️ 🇨🇦 🇮🇹
Love, love, love this drawing by Giovanni Bruzzo of paleolithic children in front of the Balzi Rossi caves! (courtesy of Fabio Negrino)
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Love, love, love this drawing by Giovanni Bruzzo of paleolithic children in front of the Balzi Rossi caves! (courtesy of Fabio Negrino)
In Ferrara (Italy) this week for the Meso2025 conference to talk and learn about all things Mesolithic. Presented Monday about my team's work on identifying the Mesolithic in W Liguria, which was unknown until 2021. 🏺🦣
meso2025.sciencesconf.org
meso2025.sciencesconf.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
In Ferrara (Italy) this week for the Meso2025 conference to talk and learn about all things Mesolithic. Presented Monday about my team's work on identifying the Mesolithic in W Liguria, which was unknown until 2021. 🏺🦣
meso2025.sciencesconf.org
meso2025.sciencesconf.org
A beautiful illustration by Tom Björklund accompanying this great write-up by @killgrove.bsky.social of the Arene Candide 12 artificial cranial deformation study:
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
August 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A beautiful illustration by Tom Björklund accompanying this great write-up by @killgrove.bsky.social of the Arene Candide 12 artificial cranial deformation study:
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Here's a figure from the article showing the extent of the artificial cranial deformation, which in the past had been suggested to represent a pathological condition.
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Here's a figure from the article showing the extent of the artificial cranial deformation, which in the past had been suggested to represent a pathological condition.
August 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Here's a figure from the article showing the extent of the artificial cranial deformation, which in the past had been suggested to represent a pathological condition.
Wait, wait, wait...
I've seen this pose before!
I've seen this pose before!
July 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Wait, wait, wait...
I've seen this pose before!
I've seen this pose before!
And it's wrap for Arma delle Manie 2025! Thanks to all the help from volunteers, colleagues, students and people from the area (especially Marina and her family/staff at Trattoria La Grotta!) for making this field season possible! Stay tuned for news about what we found in the coming months... 😉
June 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
And it's wrap for Arma delle Manie 2025! Thanks to all the help from volunteers, colleagues, students and people from the area (especially Marina and her family/staff at Trattoria La Grotta!) for making this field season possible! Stay tuned for news about what we found in the coming months... 😉
About last week at Arma delle Manie... 🏺🦣
June 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
About last week at Arma delle Manie... 🏺🦣
Silvia and the mystery of layer I/3 -- Lithics and bones, bones and lithics. Another day at Arma delle Manie. 🏺🦣
June 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Silvia and the mystery of layer I/3 -- Lithics and bones, bones and lithics. Another day at Arma delle Manie. 🏺🦣
These are sourced from distances exceeding 150 km, with some up to 450 km, spanning the Rhône Valley to the Central Apennines. Variability in the procurement distance of discarded lithics and their changing reduction intensities highlight distinct patterns of logistical and residential mobility. 3/4
June 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
These are sourced from distances exceeding 150 km, with some up to 450 km, spanning the Rhône Valley to the Central Apennines. Variability in the procurement distance of discarded lithics and their changing reduction intensities highlight distinct patterns of logistical and residential mobility. 3/4
An analysis of assemblage integrity, lithic technology, and raw material procurement reveals distinct mobility and land-use strategies, despite technological uniformity. Remarkably, lithic production and use in both all layers frequently involved exogenous materials. 2/4
June 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
An analysis of assemblage integrity, lithic technology, and raw material procurement reveals distinct mobility and land-use strategies, despite technological uniformity. Remarkably, lithic production and use in both all layers frequently involved exogenous materials. 2/4
🚨New paper alert!🧪 Led by @armandofalcucci.bsky.social, this paper explores the internal variability of the Protoaurignacian at Riparo Bombrini by analyzing lithic assemblages from layers A2 and A1, and a previously undescribed Early Aurignacian assemblage from layer A0. 1/4 🏺🦣
June 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🚨New paper alert!🧪 Led by @armandofalcucci.bsky.social, this paper explores the internal variability of the Protoaurignacian at Riparo Bombrini by analyzing lithic assemblages from layers A2 and A1, and a previously undescribed Early Aurignacian assemblage from layer A0. 1/4 🏺🦣
Snapshots from fieldwork at Arma delle Manie. General view from the back of the cave, digging back a reference section and collecting sediment for DNA. Photos 1 and 2 by Amélie Vallerand🏺🦣
June 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Snapshots from fieldwork at Arma delle Manie. General view from the back of the cave, digging back a reference section and collecting sediment for DNA. Photos 1 and 2 by Amélie Vallerand🏺🦣
The dig is now fully on at Arma delle Manie, over 40 years since the last excavations took place at the site. The late Mousterian is what we're focusing on in this project, which is a collaboration by the Universities of Montréal, Genoa and Bologna. #Neanderthals #Mousterian 🦣🏺
June 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The dig is now fully on at Arma delle Manie, over 40 years since the last excavations took place at the site. The late Mousterian is what we're focusing on in this project, which is a collaboration by the Universities of Montréal, Genoa and Bologna. #Neanderthals #Mousterian 🦣🏺
How it started / how it's going, édition Drainville.
Article de Tommy Chouinard dans @lapresse.ca qui souligne bien l'hypocrisie de la CAQ et son mépris tant des travailleurs que de la démocratie
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...
Article de Tommy Chouinard dans @lapresse.ca qui souligne bien l'hypocrisie de la CAQ et son mépris tant des travailleurs que de la démocratie
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...
June 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How it started / how it's going, édition Drainville.
Article de Tommy Chouinard dans @lapresse.ca qui souligne bien l'hypocrisie de la CAQ et son mépris tant des travailleurs que de la démocratie
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...
Article de Tommy Chouinard dans @lapresse.ca qui souligne bien l'hypocrisie de la CAQ et son mépris tant des travailleurs que de la démocratie
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...
Shot of the inside of Arma delle Manie. Visible in the back are dry stone wall structures and presses for olive oil and wine production, showing the cave's use historically as well. Below all this, however, lie sweet, sweet Neolithic and especially Paleolithic deposits (38-130,000 yrs BP).
June 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Shot of the inside of Arma delle Manie. Visible in the back are dry stone wall structures and presses for olive oil and wine production, showing the cave's use historically as well. Below all this, however, lie sweet, sweet Neolithic and especially Paleolithic deposits (38-130,000 yrs BP).
Tomorrow, my team starts a new project at this great cave site, Arma delle Manie (Liguria, Italy). We're focusing this season on contextualizing the final Mousterian (Neanderthal) levels first excavated in the 60s. Watch this space for updates over the next few weeks! 🦣🏺
June 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Tomorrow, my team starts a new project at this great cave site, Arma delle Manie (Liguria, Italy). We're focusing this season on contextualizing the final Mousterian (Neanderthal) levels first excavated in the 60s. Watch this space for updates over the next few weeks! 🦣🏺
CSI: Neanderthal?
"More than a fingerprint on a pebble: A pigment-marked object from San Lázaro rock-shelter in the context of Neanderthal symbolic behavior" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"More than a fingerprint on a pebble: A pigment-marked object from San Lázaro rock-shelter in the context of Neanderthal symbolic behavior" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
CSI: Neanderthal?
"More than a fingerprint on a pebble: A pigment-marked object from San Lázaro rock-shelter in the context of Neanderthal symbolic behavior" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"More than a fingerprint on a pebble: A pigment-marked object from San Lázaro rock-shelter in the context of Neanderthal symbolic behavior" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
As an example, here are the two 'pisciform' incisions from Caverna delle Arene Candide in Liguria, where my team undertook new excavations last summer. Mussi et al. (2008) argue on stylistic grounds (see lines on painted pebbles) that they date to the Late Epigravettian (ca. 15-11ky BP) 🏺🦣
May 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
As an example, here are the two 'pisciform' incisions from Caverna delle Arene Candide in Liguria, where my team undertook new excavations last summer. Mussi et al. (2008) argue on stylistic grounds (see lines on painted pebbles) that they date to the Late Epigravettian (ca. 15-11ky BP) 🏺🦣
Map of Italian Upper Paleolithic sites having yielded parietal art (red) like paintings and incisions, and mobiliary/portable art (yellow) like figurines or paintes pebbles. From a feature by Dario Sigari in the latest issue of focus.it. 🦣🏺
May 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Map of Italian Upper Paleolithic sites having yielded parietal art (red) like paintings and incisions, and mobiliary/portable art (yellow) like figurines or paintes pebbles. From a feature by Dario Sigari in the latest issue of focus.it. 🦣🏺
For #AnthroDay @anthropologieudem.bsky.social had @knomascus.bsky.social presenting on ecological and anthropogenic determinants of lemur genomic diversity and @agadarancia.bsky.social presenting her new social movements lab to a packed house in Café Anthropo. A-1 day with some A-1 colleagues!
February 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
For #AnthroDay @anthropologieudem.bsky.social had @knomascus.bsky.social presenting on ecological and anthropogenic determinants of lemur genomic diversity and @agadarancia.bsky.social presenting her new social movements lab to a packed house in Café Anthropo. A-1 day with some A-1 colleagues!
Kicking off Superbowl Sunday with this Superb Owl dating to the Paleolithic 🦣🏺
February 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Kicking off Superbowl Sunday with this Superb Owl dating to the Paleolithic 🦣🏺
Huge, huge congratulations to my PhD student Benjamin Albouy (co-advised with A. Burke) for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Paléogéographie et dynamiques de peuplement des derniers Néandertaliens
d'Europe (Stade isotopique marin 3; 60000 à 40000 ans avant le présent)." Bravo Dr. Albouy!!
d'Europe (Stade isotopique marin 3; 60000 à 40000 ans avant le présent)." Bravo Dr. Albouy!!
February 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Huge, huge congratulations to my PhD student Benjamin Albouy (co-advised with A. Burke) for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Paléogéographie et dynamiques de peuplement des derniers Néandertaliens
d'Europe (Stade isotopique marin 3; 60000 à 40000 ans avant le présent)." Bravo Dr. Albouy!!
d'Europe (Stade isotopique marin 3; 60000 à 40000 ans avant le présent)." Bravo Dr. Albouy!!
🏺🚨 New paper alert! 🚨🧪 Early Upper Palaeolithic marine mollusc exploitation at Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy): shellfish consumption and ornament production.
Interested in early Homo sapiens ornamentation and subsistence?... 1/n
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Interested in early Homo sapiens ornamentation and subsistence?... 1/n
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🏺🚨 New paper alert! 🚨🧪 Early Upper Palaeolithic marine mollusc exploitation at Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy): shellfish consumption and ornament production.
Interested in early Homo sapiens ornamentation and subsistence?... 1/n
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Interested in early Homo sapiens ornamentation and subsistence?... 1/n
link.springer.com/article/10.1...