F Riede
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 31806 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | F Riede |
| NOMBRES | F |
| APELLIDO | Riede |
| FIRMA | RIEDE F |
| AFILIACIONES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4879-7157 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 117 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 601 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
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The evolution of symbolic artefacts
Cognitive affordances of South Scandinavian Mesolithic portable art as inferred from complexity and entropy measures
Unravelling the complex dynamics of past symbolic behaviour is challenging using traditional archaeological approaches alone. Drawing on the cognitive sciences, we here present novel computational measures of the portable art of Mesolithic South Scandinavia. The anthropogenic ornamentation on archaeological artefacts is quantified by calculating Shannon information entropy and perimetric complexity. These two methods in combination – measuring ea…
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by Piraye Hacgzeller (2025) is a contribution to a forthcoming volume on the role of typology and type-thinking in current archaeological theory and praxis.This volume is edited by the recommenders, and Hacgzeller's contribution is recommended based on two independent expert evaluations.A GIS specialist in archaeology, Hacgzeller offers a range of critical reflections on categorization and representation of archaeological space.She illustrates ho…
From open landscapes to forest refugia
The red deer ( Cervus elaphus ) is one of the few remnant species of the European Pleistocene megafauna. It occupies a wide range of habitats across the Holarctic, yet the factors shaping the species’ realized ecological niche over time remain poorly understood. To investigate these dynamics, we analysed published stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from 623 bone collagen samples spanning 21,000 years in Europe. The δ 13 C values, considered …
Exploring the environmental and cultural consequences of the 8.2 ka cooling event in Kyushu, Southwestern Japan
Japan’s rich archaeological record, supported by well-established chronological and typological frameworks, offers valuable opportunities to investigate prehistoric socio-cultural responses to climate change, although comprehensive studies remain limited. This exploratory paper examines the impact of climatic disruptions—particularly the 8.2 ka event—on Jomon foragers in Kyushu, aiming to develop an analytical framework and identify future resear…
Skills, scaling, and the role of youngsters in adaptation during the Northern European Final Palaeolithic
At any one time in the Palaeolithic, children constituted the largest group of individuals in a given community. While not many objects ascribed to children are known from these remote periods, it is beyond doubt that children participated in many aspects of daily life, including knapping. These youngsters played a vital role in generating technological variation and in societal adaptation. We here focus on the role of children in Northern Europe…
Morphometric Analyses of Late Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic Projectile Points from Central Germany
Due to its history and geography, the current Federal State of Hesse was a transit zone during prehistoric times, linking various spheres of cultural influence. Topographic features, such as rivers and low mountain ranges, have shaped migration between neighbouring regions and allowed an exchange of material and non-material goods. The following paper presents morphometric analyses of Late Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic projectile points made …
The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe
Blue pigments are absent in Palaeolithic art. This has been ascribed to a lack of naturally occurring blue pigments or low visual salience of these hues. Using a suite of archaeometric approaches, the authors identify traces of azurite on a concave stone artefact from the Final Palaeolithic site of Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Germany. This represents the earliest use of blue pigment in Europe. The scarcity of blue in Palaeolithic art, along with later p…
Paleolithic occupations in the Lahn Valley of Central Germany
There is limited evidence of repeated occupations by Neanderthals or modern humans in the part of Central Germany that roughly corresponds to the present-day Federal State of Hesse. The Lahn Valley located in the southwestern sector of this region is an exception. Based on early excavations of a series of now destroyed sites, the Lahn Valley has yielded sparse evidence of Neanderthal occupation from the Middle Paleolithic and has produced a more …
Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets
Compared to what is found in many other scientific disciplines, archaeological data are typically scarce, biased and fragmented. This, coupled with the fact that archaeologists can rarely test their hypotheses using experimental design, makes archaeological inference and our ability to assess the robustness of quantitative methods used to make such inferences challenging. Archaeoriddle is a project that was born as an attempt to compare archaeolo…
The Ties That Bind
Integral to the fabric of human technology, knots have shaped survival strategies since their first invention. As the ties that bind, their evolution and diversity have afforded human cultural change and expression. This study examines knotting traditions over time and space. We analyse a sample of 338 knots from 86 ethnographically or archaeologically documented societies over 12 millennia. Utilizing a novel approach that combines knot theory wi…
Reconstructing situated learning in a community of practice using cognigrams
Artefacts are the primary resources of archaeological research, and they provide us with evidence about the evolution of hominin sensory-motor and cognitive capacities. Extended childhood is an evolutionary hallmark of Homo sapiens and developmental psychology provides rich insights on how specifically human cognition emerges from infancy to adulthood. Yet, attempts to analyse the cognitive abilities of past children as reflected in their tool be…
Children as playful artists
Children's agential behaviours in the archaeological record have often been overlooked. Despite efforts to centre children in the past through 'an archaeology of childhood', there remains a fundamental challenge of rigorously distinguishing children's behaviours from those of adults. In Upper Palaeolithic art, this has been addressed through the analysis of anatomical measurements of traces produced by hands and figures, demonstrating that childr…
The “Beast Within” – Querying the (Cultural Evolutionary) Status of Types in Archaeology
is a welcome contribution to our upcoming edited volume on type-thinking and the uses and misuses of archaeological typologies.Questions of type-delineation and classification of archaeological materials have recently re-emerged as key arenas of scholarly attention and interrogation (2-4), as many researchers have turned to a matured field of cultural evolutionary studies (5-7) and as fine-grained archaeological data and novel computational-quant…
Abstract and Concrete – Querying the Metaphysics and Geometry of Pottery Classification
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Humans, machines, and the classification of Celtic coinage – the ClaReNet project
A recommendation of: Chrisowalandis Deligio, Caroline von Nicolai, Markus Möller, Katja Rösler, Julia Tietz, Robin Krause, Kerstin P. Hofmann, Karsten Tolle, David Wigg-Wolf IT- and machine learning-based methods of classification: The cooperative project ClaReNet – Classification and Representation for Networks https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7341342
Using insights from psychology and primatology to reconsider function in lithic typologies
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Taking the Reverend Bayes to the seaside
A recommendation of: Isak Roalkvam, Steinar Solheim Comparing summed probability distributions of shoreline and radiocarbon dates from the Mesolithic Skagerrak coast of Norway https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/2f8ph
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The Postmodern Predicament of Type-Thinking in Archaeology
Hypercultural types: archaeological objects in fast times
Roster and Lexicon – A Radical Digital-Dialogical Approach to Questions of Typology and Categorization in Archaeology
A recommendation of: Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati The Density of Types and the Dignity of the Fragment. A Website Approach to Archaeological Typology. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7743834
Splendid Isolation
Towards an archaeology of pedagogy
In this article we seek to build on efforts to apply the insights of social learning theory to interpret patterns of continuity and change in the archaeological record. This literature suggests that stable and often highly arbitrary material culture traditions are likely to be founded on our biologically-evolved capacity for imitation. However, it has recently been argued that the latter may be insufficient to explain the long-term maintenance of…
Climate and Demography in Early Prehistory
Although difficult to estimate for prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations, demographic variables-population size, density, and the connectedness of demes-are critical for a better understanding of the processes of material culture change, especially in deep prehistory. Demography is the middle-range link between climatic changes and both biological and cultural evolutionary trajectories of human populations. Much of human material culture functi…
House of cards
The Loss and Re-Introduction of Bow-and-Arrow Technology
On the Northern European Plain, the Late Palaeolithic cultural sequence is characterised by a series of changes in the shape and size of lithic armatures. Especially remarkable is the appearance of the regionally restricted large tanged points of the Bromme and Perstunian techno-complexes. Their function as arrowheads, dart- or spear-points has been much debated and this paper aims to contribute to this discussion. Based on the analysis of a subs…
The Laacher See-eruption (12,920 BP) and material culture change at the end of the Allerød in Northern Europe
Design Space Constraints and the Cultural Taxonomy of European Final Palaeolithic Large Tanged Points
The identification of material culture variability remains an important goal in archaeology, as such variability is commonly coupled with interpretations of cultural transmission and adaptation. While most archaeological cultures are defined on the basis of typology and research tradition, cultural evolutionary reasoning combined with computer-aided methods such as geometric morphometrics (GMM) can shed new light on the validity of many such entr…
Bayesian radiocarbon models for the cultural transition during the Allerød in southern Scandinavia
All these Fantastic Cultures? Research History and Regionalization in the Late Palaeolithic Tanged Point Cultures of Eastern Europe
The Late Glacial, that is the period from the first pronounced warming after the Last Glacial Maximum to the beginning of the Holocene (c. 16,000–11,700 cal bp ), is traditionally viewed as a time when northern Europe was being recolonized and Late Palaeolithic cultures diversified. These cultures are characterized by particular artefact types, or the co-occurrence or specific relative frequencies of these. In north-eastern Europe, numerous cultu…
Rediscovering lessons of adaptation from the past
Children and innovation
D geometric morphometric analysis casts doubt on the validity of large tanged points as cultural markers in the European Final Palaeolithic
Large tanged points are known from several Final Palaeolithic technocomplexes in Europe. In different regions, they are known by different labels (e.g. Bromme points, Lyngby points, and Teyjat points) and are often given culturally and hence chronologically diagnostic status as important fossiles directeurs, especially in northern Europe. The vast majority of these finds are from the surface or derive from less-than-secure contexts. Several recen…
Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic-Old questions, novel perspectives
The bond mechanism between steel and concrete can be compromised during a fire and is one of the least investigated phenomena in concrete research. In this work we present a thorough review of the experimental data available on this topic. The results from the tests reported by a number of researchers have been systematically collected in a database. This work also reports the results obtained in the bond strength tests carried out on four batche…
A Critical Reassessment of Cultural Taxonomies in the Central European Late Palaeolithic
In the analysis of archaeological relationships and processes, a uniform classification of the dataset is a fundamental requirement. To achieve this, a standardised taxonomic system, as well as consistent and valid criteria for the grouping of sites and assemblages, must be used. The Central European Late Palaeolithic (ca. 12,000–9700 cal BC) has a long research history and many regionally and temporally specific units—groups and cultures—are rec…
Does environmental archaeology need an ethical promise
Environmental catastrophes represent profound challenges faced by societies today. Numerous scholars in the climate sciences and the humanities have argued for a greater ethical engagement with these pressing issues. At the same time, several disciplines concerned with hazards are moving towards formalized ethical codes or promises that not only guide the dissemination of data but oblige scientists to relate to fundamentally political issues. Thi…
Late Glacial Human Dispersals in Northern Europe and Disequilibrium Dynamics
There is mounting evidence for the non-analogue nature of Late Glacial (18,000–11,700 years BP) ecosystems. Several dispersal episodes of human forager groups moving into previously uninhabitable glacial or periglacial landscapes also occurred during this period. In palaearctic northern Europe, these dispersals are associated with a succession of archaeological technocomplexes that are traditionally thought to reflect changing adaptation strategi…
Testing the ‘Laacher See hypothesis’
Cultural heritage and climate adaptation
Terms such as resilience, vulnerability and adaptation are heterogeneously defined in the contemporary climate-change adaptation literature and, hence, remain difficult to operationalize. In this paper, the authors offer a cultural evolutionary perspective, where these terms are mapped onto the terminology of triple-inheritance theory, which clarifies how risks arise through the complex interplay of social and ecological feedbacks. Studies of pas…
Using Radiocarbon Dates and Tool Design Principles to Assess the Role of Composite Slotted Bone Tool Technology at the Intersection of Adaptation and Culture-History
Slotted bone tools are an iconic example of composite tool technology in which change in one of the components does not require changing the design of the other parts. Commonly, slotted bone tools are seen through the lens of lithic technology, highlighting organizational aspects related to serial production of insets, reliability and maintainability. In this framework, slotted bone tool technology is associated with risk aversion in demanding en…
Eight New Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene AMS Dates from the Southeastern Baltic
Only a limited number of radiometric dates for the Final Palaeolithic and the first half of the Mesolithic are available from the southeastern Baltic. This paper presents eight new Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry ( 14 C AMS) ages of osseous artifacts housed at the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art. These artifacts include one piece of worked reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus ) antler, three axes o…
Investigating Neanderthal dispersal above 55°N in Europe during the Last Interglacial Complex
Possible Wild Boar Management during the Ertebølle Period. A Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Mesolithic Wild Boar from Fannerup F, Denmark
This paper presents a stable isotope and radiocarbon study on a total of 85 samples of wild boar (Sus scrofa), humans (Homo sapiens), dogs (Canis familiaris), red deer (Cervus elaphus) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) from four Late Mesolithic sites in Jutland, Denmark. Four of the eight Sus scrofa samples from one site, the shell midden of Fannerup F, show markedly enriched carbon and nitrogen isotope values, indicating a dietary intake of a s…
Climate and Demography in Early Prehistory
Although difficult to estimate for prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations, demographic variables—population size, density, and the connectedness of demes—are critical for a better understanding of the processes of material culture change, especially in deep prehistory. Demography is the middle-range link between climatic changes and both biological and cultural evolutionary trajectories of human populations. Much of human material culture functi…
The use of lithic raw materials at the Early Mesolithic open‐air site Feuersteinacker (Vogelsbergkreis, Germany)
The open-air site Feuersteinacker near Stumpertenrod has yielded one of the largest lithic assemblages in Central Germany. It repeatedly served as a workshop for the production of stone tools during an early phase of the Mesolithic. The range of lithic raw materials is extremely diverse, but until today, there is only a limited number of archaeological studies on the occurrence of lithic resources in the area. The following study presents the fir…
Testing the ‘Laacher See hypothesis’
Toys as Teachers
Studies of cultural transmission—whether approached by archaeological or ethnographic means—have made great strides in identifying formal teaching and learning arrangements, which in turn can be closely aligned with models of social learning. While novices and apprentices are often in focus in such studies, younger children and their engagement with material culture have received less attention. Against the backdrop of a cross-cultural database o…
The Scandinavian Connection
‘Evolution’ is without doubt one of archaeology’s favourite, most used and perhaps most overused words. However, ‘evolution’ comes in many guises and it is only really in the last ten years that an explicitly Darwinian approach to the archaeological record has begun to emerge. Today, the number of papers using Darwinian Theory grows almost exponentially, reflecting perhaps the current popularity of applying Darwinian Theory to human behaviour, in…
The Scandinavian Connection
‘Evolution’ is without doubt one of archaeology’s favourite, most used and perhaps most overused words. However, ‘evolution’ comes in many guises and it is only really in the last ten years that an explicitly Darwinian approach to the archaeological record has begun to emerge. Today, the number of papers using Darwinian Theory grows almost exponentially, reflecting perhaps the current popularity of applying Darwinian Theory to human behaviour, in…
The Laacher See-eruption (12,920 BP) and material culture change at the end of the Allerød in Northern Europe
Testing the ‘Laacher See hypothesis’
Towards an archaeology of pedagogy
In this article we seek to build on efforts to apply the insights of social learning theory to interpret patterns of continuity and change in the archaeological record. This literature suggests that stable and often highly arbitrary material culture traditions are likely to be founded on our biologically-evolved capacity for imitation. However, it has recently been argued that the latter may be insufficient to explain the long-term maintenance of…
Testing the ‘Laacher See hypothesis’
The Loss and Re-Introduction of Bow-and-Arrow Technology
On the Northern European Plain, the Late Palaeolithic cultural sequence is characterised by a series of changes in the shape and size of lithic armatures. Especially remarkable is the appearance of the regionally restricted large tanged points of the Bromme and Perstunian techno-complexes. Their function as arrowheads, dart- or spear-points has been much debated and this paper aims to contribute to this discussion. Based on the analysis of a subs…
Climate and Demography in Early Prehistory
Although difficult to estimate for prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations, demographic variables—population size, density, and the connectedness of demes—are critical for a better understanding of the processes of material culture change, especially in deep prehistory. Demography is the middle-range link between climatic changes and both biological and cultural evolutionary trajectories of human populations. Much of human material culture functi…
Climate and Demography in Early Prehistory
Although difficult to estimate for prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations, demographic variables-population size, density, and the connectedness of demes-are critical for a better understanding of the processes of material culture change, especially in deep prehistory. Demography is the middle-range link between climatic changes and both biological and cultural evolutionary trajectories of human populations. Much of human material culture functi…
Why isn't archaeology (more) Darwinian? A historical perspective
At the time when archaeology emerged as a distinct academic discipline, references to Darwin's notions of descent with modification and natural selection were relatively common, especially amongst Scandinavian scholars. These references were, at times, remarkably explicit and became more regular following the publication of Darwin's key works in translation. Drawing on biographical and archival sources as well as on an analysis of the contemporan…
Hamburgian weapon delivery technology
The pioneer human re-colonisation of southern Scandinavia after the Last Ice Age began some time around 12,700 calendar years BC and is associated with the Hamburgian techno-complex. These groups were reindeer hunters whose hunting weapons were tipped with the eponymous shouldered points (pointes a cran). Numerous studies have addressed the question of whether these points tipped arrows fired from bows, darts launched with the help of spear-throw…
A Laacher See-eruption supplement to Tephrabase
Bayesian radiocarbon models for the cultural transition during the Allerød in southern Scandinavia
Icelandic volcanic ash from the Late-glacial open-air archaeological site of Ahrenshöft LA 58 D, North Germany
Cryptotephra of Icelandic origin from the open-air archaeological site of Ahrenshöft LA 58 D (Kr. Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein), northern Germany overlies a Late-glacial Havelte lithic assemblage, hitherto dated by 14C and biostratigraphy to the earliest part of the Late-glacial interstadial (GI-1e to GI-1c3). Peaks in ash shards are observed in two profiles. Major and minor element geochemistry indicates volcanic ash originating in the Katl…
The Laacher See-eruption (c. 13ky BP) and societal change amongst peripheral Late Glacial hunter-gatherers in southern Scandinavia
A Laacher See-eruption supplement to Tephrabase. A revised tephra fallout map and new geochemical data
Tephra, tephrochronology and archaeology – a (re-)view from Northern Europe
Volcanic eruptions are often, although by no means always, associated with a profuse output of fine pyroclastic material, tephra. While residence time in the atmosphere of the very finest of these particles can be substantial, the deposition of the bulk of volcanic ejecta can be considered instantaneous from a geological, archaeological, and evolutionary perspective. Often these volcanic products can be identified by various chemical and non-chem…
The taphonomy of fallow deer (Dama dama) skeletons from Denmark and its bearing on the pre-Weichselian occupation of northern Europe by humans
‘Dominant’ and ‘radical’ perspectives on material culture change in the wake of the catastrophic Laacher See volcanic eruption (c. 13,000 cal BP) in Northern Europe
Volcanic activity and human society
In Ecuador, a country with numerous potentially active volcanoes, recurrent large earthquakes, and regular climate-related events, it is surmised that phenomena such as debris flows have affected pre-Hispanic populations since their settlement in ∼5000 cal BC. Here, using a multidisciplinary approach, we studied the most recent debris flow events that affected the Cayambe city area, located 15 km west of the active glacier-clad Cayambe volcano. B…
Changes in mid- and far-field human landscape use following the Laacher See eruption (c. 13,000 BP)
Around 13,000 years ago, the Laacher See volcano (East Eifel volcanic field, Rhenish Shield) erupted cataclysmically. The thick tephra blanket in the eruption's near field covered and thereby preserved a large number of archaeological sites, ranging from very small to some of the largest and richest sites known from the Late Glacial. In this proximal region, there is a striking contrast in the number of sites prior to the eruption and the almost …
Investigating Neanderthal dispersal above 55°N in Europe during the Last Interglacial Complex
D geometric morphometric analysis casts doubt on the validity of large tanged points as cultural markers in the European Final Palaeolithic
Large tanged points are known from several Final Palaeolithic technocomplexes in Europe. In different regions, they are known by different labels (e.g. Bromme points, Lyngby points, and Teyjat points) and are often given culturally and hence chronologically diagnostic status as important fossiles directeurs, especially in northern Europe. The vast majority of these finds are from the surface or derive from less-than-secure contexts. Several recen…
Does environmental archaeology need an ethical promise
Environmental catastrophes represent profound challenges faced by societies today. Numerous scholars in the climate sciences and the humanities have argued for a greater ethical engagement with these pressing issues. At the same time, several disciplines concerned with hazards are moving towards formalized ethical codes or promises that not only guide the dissemination of data but oblige scientists to relate to fundamentally political issues. Thi…
A field archaeological perspective on the Anthropocene
In a recent Antiquity debate, Todd Braje and respondents discuss the merits or otherwise of the recently proposed and hotly contested geological 'Age of Man'-the Anthropocene. These papers make a useful contribution to the rapidly growing literature on this epoch-in-the-making (cf. Swanson et al.2015). Recent publications by members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG; http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/workinggroups/anthropocene/) suggest a s…
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