Phil Riris
@thearchaeologist.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Archaeological & Palaeoenvironmental Modelling. Tropical Americas, Indigenous history, computational modelling & rock art. 🇳🇴
Wonderful gesture from my Arch&Anth colleagues after recent successes
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Wonderful gesture from my Arch&Anth colleagues after recent successes
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
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.
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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
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
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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
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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
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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
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
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October 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
🚨 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
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
We demonstrate that SDMs in this critically endangered biome are measurably improved by using archaeological data
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
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
🚨 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
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
We demonstrate that SDMs in this critically endangered biome are measurably improved by using archaeological data
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
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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
Amazonian hyperdominance exceeds expectations of neutral theory 🧪🌐🌾 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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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
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...
please share!
please share!
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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"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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
October 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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
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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
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...
‘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
‘Those paintings belong to us’: how an Indigenous-led project is harnessing technology to protect Kakadu’s rock art share.google/jkmRzNwPIppb...
Time to indoctrinate the kids
August 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Time to indoctrinate the kids
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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
link.springer.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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!!
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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
Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene | Nature share.google/5jo9wleO1bKJ...
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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
June 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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
NEW 📜 from Bournemouth: A 75,000-y-old Scandinavian Arctic cave deposit reveals past faunal diversity and paleoenvironment - doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
PNAS
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
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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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...
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...
August 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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...
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...
Pining for the Adriatic
July 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Pining for the Adriatic
Off to my kid's nursery today to read Cave Baby and make some rock art!
July 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Off to my kid's nursery today to read Cave Baby and make some rock art!
