Affiliation: Bournemouth University, UK
Keywords: palaeontology, archaeology, palaeoenvironmental modeling, historical ecology
Full profile: Philip Riris is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeological & Palaeoenvironmental Modelling at the Institute for the Modelling of Socio-Environmental Transitions, following several postdoctoral fellowships at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
He earned his PhD in 2015 from the University of Southampton, focusing on long-term patterns of hunter-gatherer land use in northern Argentina. He specializes in the archaeology and historical ecology of tropical South America, with a focus on quantitative analyses and computational modelling. He has conducted fieldwork in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, and Oman.
His two principal areas of research focus on: 1) coupled human-environmental systems, and 2) computational approaches to rock art and sacred landscapes. He maintains an especial interest in spatial analysis and agent-based modelling, drawing especially on physical geography, quantitative ecology, and complex adaptive systems to understand past human societies. Recently, he has focused on the interface between climate change, ancient demography, and population resilience.