Prof. Dr. Felix Riede

Felix Riede is professor of archaeology at Aarhus University in Denmark. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has been visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Department of Anthropology, the Department of Geography in Cambridge, and the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research at Bern University.

Felix works within an extended evolutionary synthesis framework to understand human biocultural evolution, its cognitive, social, climatic and environmental correlates, causes, and consequences. Felix is an astute interdisciplinarian and his work integrates across scales from individual artefacts to global patterns, across methods from qualitative to quantitative, from the laboratory to the field, from the archive to abstract models, and across scientific fields. In addition to many scientific and popular journal articles and book chapters,

Felix is the author of “Splendid isolation. The eruption of the Laacher See volcano and southern Scandinavian Late Glacial hunter-gatherers” (AUP, 2017) and co-editor, with Payson Sheets, of “Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse” (Berhahn, 2020).