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Julien Riel-Salvatore, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer
Department of Anthropology
McGill University
I am a paleoanthropologist whose work focuses on the evolutionary history of Neanderthals in Eurasia, especially along the Mediterranean coast. In the last few years, my work has concentrated on the Uluzzian 'transitional' Early Upper Paleolithic industry of southern Italy, which I have approached from a techno-economic perspective. I am currently running a long-term, multidisciplinary field project at the Grotta delle Arene Candide, in the region of Liguria, Italy. Most of my recent work has taken place in Italy although I have also conducted research in Spain, Ethiopia, South Africa, Mexico and the United States (Arizona).

This project is part of a postdoctoral fellowship of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which I am completing in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. You can read some of the papers I have published since getting here below (click on the titles to get pdfs), and find out more about my research and the classes I teach by browsing the headers above.

Recent Publications (2008):

  • An Empirical Evaluation of the Case for a Châtelperronian-Aurignacian Interstratification at Grotte des Fées de Châtelperron. World Archaeology 40 (4): 480-492. (with A. Miller & G. Clark)

  • Standing at the gates of Europe: Human behavior and biogeography in the southern Carpathians during the Late Pleistocene. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27(4): in press. (with G. Popescu & M. Barton)

  • 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 & C. Szmidt, Eds.), 205-224. Oxford, Oxbow Books. (with F. Negrino)

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

  • *CA Comment on “The Regeneration of Life: Structures of Symbolic Remembering and Forgetting”, by I. Kuijt. Current Anthropology 49 (2): 191.

  • Review of "When Neanderthals and Modern Humans Met," edited by N. J. Conard. PaleoAnthropology 2008:87-89.


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