Philip Riris

Philip Riris is a Lecturer in Archaeological & Palaeoenvironmental Modelling at the Institute for Modelling Socio-Environmental Transitions, Bournemouth University, UK. He earned his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2015. Between 2015 and 2019 he held postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, latterly a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, as well as a Visiting Fellowship at the Sainsburys Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia. His research focuses on socio-environmental relationships in the ancient past, in particular population history, food production systems, and landscape archaeology in tropical South America. He has also contributed toward rock art studies in the Amazonian and Orinocan lowlands.