Ariane Burke | Geotop

Paleoclimate and
paleoanthropology

Université de Montréal

Département d'anthropologie

a.burke [at] umontreal.ca (a[dot]burke[at]umontreal[dot]ca)

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My research activities are varied but focus on human/environment interactions during Prehistory. I am interested in interdisciplinary approaches and modelling techniques as a means of exploring the impact of climate change on human systems and the influence of landscape structure on human population dynamics, gene flow and patterns of cultural evolution. I am also interested in spatial analyses, archaeological survey in Europe and Africa, spatial cognition and wayfinding.

Open access Boisard, S., Wren, C. D., Timbrell, L., Burke, A., 2025. Climate frameworks for the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa. Quaternary International 716, 109593. Données / Data

Albouy, B., Paquin, S., Riel-Salvatore, J., Kageyama, M., Vrac, M., Burke, A., 2024. Evaluating the impact of climate change and millennial variability on the last Neanderthal populations in Europe (Marine Isotope Stage 3). Quaternary Science Reviews 338, 108812.

Open access Allen, B. J., Hill, D. J., Burke, A. M., Clark, M., Marchant, R., Stringer, L. C., Williams, D. R., Lyon, C., 2024. Projected future climatic forcing on the global distribution of vegetation types. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 379(1902), 20230011.

Open access Bisson, M. S., Burke, A., Schilt, F., Aleman, J., Peros, M. C., Drapeau, M. et al., 2024. Sitwe 23, a Complex ESA/MSA Locality in the Northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia. African Archaeological Review 41, 163-203. Données / Data

Open access Davis, B. A., Fasel, M., Kaplan, J. O., Russo, E., Burke, A., 2024. The climate and vegetation of Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East during the Last Glacial Maximum (21 000 yr BP) based on pollen data. Climate of the Past 20(9), 1939-1988.

Paquin, S., Albouy, B., Kageyama, M., Vrac, M., Burke, A., 2024. Anatomically modern human dispersals into Europe during MIS 3: Climate stability, paleogeography and habitat suitability. Quaternary Science Reviews 330, 108596.

Pothier-Bouchard, G., Burke, A., Buckley, M., Negrino, F., Vallerand, A., Marín-Arroyo, A. B., Riel-Salvatore, J., 2024. Comparing Neanderthal and Modern Human Subsistence at Riparo Bombrini: An Integrated Archaeozoological, Multivariate Taphonomic, and ZooMS Analysis. Special Issue: Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology: Methodological Challenges and Interpretive Potentials. PaleoAnthropology 2024(2), 298-334.

Open access Seuru, S., Burke, A., Perez, L., 2024. Evidence of an age and/or gender-based division of labor during the Last Glacial Maximum in Iberia through rabbit hunting. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 56, 104560.

Albouy, B., Paquin, S., Hinz, M., Wren, C. D., Burke, A., 2023. The Last of Them: Investigating the Palaeogeography of the Last Neanderthals in Europe (Marine Isotopic Stage 3). In Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe, 27-45. Springer International Publishing.

Open access Burke, A., Bisson, M., Schilt, F., Tolan, S., Museba, J., Drapeau, M. S. M., Aleman, J.C., Peros, M. C., 2023. The archaeological potential of the northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia: The Luwumbu basin. Plos one 18(3), e0269209.

Open access Pausata, F. S., Alain, D., Ingrosso, R., Winger, K., Drapeau, M. S., Burke, A., 2023. Changes in climate extremes in Zambia during green and dry Sahara periods and their potential impacts on hominid dispersal. Quaternary Science Reviews 321, 108367.

Open access López, A.G., Costamagno, S., Burke, A., 2022. Osteometric Study of Metapodial Bones and Phalanges as Indicators of the Behavioural Ecology of Modern Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and Implications for Reconstruction of Paleo Mobility. Open Quaternary 8(1), 8.

Open access Lyon, C., Saupe, E.E., Smith, C.J., Hill, D.J., Beckerman, A.P., Stringer, L.C., Marchant, R., McKay, J., Burke, A., O’Higgins, P., Dunhill, A.M., 2022. Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100. Global Change Biology 28(2), 349-361.

Reynolds, T., Hunt, C., Hill, E., Tilby, E., Pomeroy, E., Burke, A., Barker, G., 2022. Le Moustérien du Zagros: une vision synthétique à partir de la grotte de Shanidar. L'Anthropologie 126(3), 103045.

Bourgeon, L., Burke, A., 2021. Horse exploitation by Beringian hunters during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 269, 107140.

Open access Burke, A., Drapeau, M.S., 2021. The Histology of Skeletal Tissues as a Tool in Paleoanthropological and Archaeological Investigations. In Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology, pp. 781-792. CRC Press.

Burke, A., 2021. Integrating anthropological theory and computational archaeology. In: S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser & O. Jöris (Eds.), The Beef behind all Possible Pasts. The Tandem-Festschrift in Honour of Elaine Turner and Martin Street. Monographien des RGZM 157 (Mainz 2021). DOI: 10.11588/propylaeum.868.c11319

Burke, A., Alcaraz-Castaño, M., Cardineau, C.A., Bisson, M., Cuartero, F., Maillo-Fernández, J.M., Fuertes-Prieto, N., Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros, J., 2021. Archaeological Survey in Guadalajara: Human Occupation in Central Spain during the Late Pleistocene. Journal of Field Archaeology 46(1), 1-20.

Open access Galan López, A.B., Costamagno, S., Burke, A., 2021. Évaluer le degré de mobilité des rennes paléolithiques à partir de l’étude ostéométrique de métacarpiens intérêt de l’approche actualiste et des algorithmes d’apprentissage automatique. In 41emes Rencontres Internationales d’Archéologie et d’Histoire. APDCA.

Lécuyer, C., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Burke, A., Julien, M.A., Hélie, J.F., 2021. Temperature and precipitation regime in LGM human refugia of southwestern Europe inferred from δ13C and δ18O of large mammal remains. Quaternary Science Reviews 255, 106796.

Open access Luret, M., Burke, A., de Quiros, F.B., Besse, M., 2020. El Castillo cave (Cantabria, Spain): Archeozoological comparison between the Mousterian occupation level (unit 20) and the “Aurignacien de transition de type El Castillo”(unit 18). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31, 102339.

Open access Pomeroy, E., Hunt, C.O., Reynolds, T., Abdulmutalb, D., Asouti, E., Bennett, P., Bosch, M., Burke, A., Farr, L., Foley, R., French, C., 2020. Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: a view from Shanidar Cave. Evolutionary Anthropology 29(5), 263-279.

Haywood, A.M., Valdes, P.J., Aze, T., Barlow, N., Burke, A., Dolan, A.M., Von Der Heydt, A.S., Hill, D.J., Jamieson, S.S.R., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Salzmann, U., 2019. What can Palaeoclimate Modelling do for you? Earth Systems and Environment 3(1), 1-18.

Wren, C.D., Burke, A., 2019. Habitat suitability and the genetic structure of human populations during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Western Europe. PloS one 14(6), e0217996.

Burke, A., Riel‐Salvatore, J. and Barton, C.M., 2018. Human response to habitat suitability during the Late Glacial Maximum in Western Europe. Journal of Quaternary Science 33 (3), 335-345.

Latombe, G., Burke, A., Vrac, M., Levavasseur, G., Dumas, C., Kageyama, M., Ramstein, G., 2018. Comparison of spatial downscaling methods of general circulation model results to study climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum. Geoscientific Model Development 11 (7), 2563-2579. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-2563-2018

Bourgeon, L., Burke, A., Higham, T., 2017. Earliest human presence in North America dated to the last glacial maximum: New radiocarbon dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada. PLoS ONE 12 (1), art. no. e0169486.

Burke, A., Kageyama, M., Latombe, G., Fasel, M., Vrac, M., Ramstein, G., James, P.M.A., 2017. Risky business: The impact of climate and climate variability on human population dynamics in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 164, 217-229.

Guiducci, D., Burke, A., 2016. Reading the landscape: Legible environments and hominin dispersals. Evolutionary Anthropology 25 (3), 133-141.

Yravedra, J., Julien, M.-A., Alcaraz-Castaño, M., Estaca-Gómez, V., Alcolea-González, J., de Balbín-Behrmann, R., Lécuyer, C., Hillaire-Marcel, C.H., Burke, A., 2016. Not so deserted...paleoecology and human subsistence in Central Iberia (Guadalajara, Spain) around the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 140, 21-38.

Burke, A., 2015. Visuo-spatial integration and spatial cognition: A comment on Bruner & Lozano (2014). Journal of Anthropological Sciences 93, 177-180.

Grove, M., Burke, A., 2015. Environmental variability and hominin dispersal. Journal of Human Evolution 87, 1-4.

Burke, A., Levavasseur, G., James, P.M.A., Guiducci, D., Izquierdo, M.A., Bourgeon, L., Kageyama, M., Ramstein, G., Vrac, M. 2014, Exploring the impact of climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum on the pattern of human occupation of Iberia, Journal of human evolution, vol. 73, pp. 35-46.

Burke, A., Maillo-Fernández, J.M., Fuertes-Prieto, N., Bisson, M., James, P., Levavasseur, G., 2014, Archaeological survey in Guadalajara province, Spain: exploratory research in a little-known region of the Spanish Meseta. Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 37, pp. 48-69.

Wren, C.D., Xue, J.Z., Costopoulos, A., Burke, A., 2014, The role of spatial foresight in models of hominin dispersal. Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 69, pp. 70-78.

Burke, A. 2012. Spatial abilities, cognition and the pattern of Neanderthal and modern human dispersals, Quaternary International, vol. 247, no. 1, pp. 230-235.

Julien, M.-., Bocherens, H., Burke, A., Drucker, D.G., Patou-Mathis, M., Krotova, O. Péan, S. 2012. Were European steppe bison migratory? 18O, 13C and Sr intra-tooth isotopic variations applied to a palaeoethological reconstruction, Quaternary International, vol. 271, pp. 106-119.

Burke, A., Kandler, A. Good, D. 2012. Women Who Know Their Place: Sex-Based Differences in Spatial Abilities and Their Evolutionary Significance, Human Nature, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 133-148.

Burke, A., Meignen, L., Bisson, M., Pimentel, N., Henriques, V., Andrade, C., da Conceição Freitas, M., Kageyama, M., Fletcher, W., Parslow, C. Guiducci, D. 2011. The palaeolithic occupation of southern Alentejo: The Sado River Drainage Survey, Trabajos de Prehistoria, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 25-49.

Burke, A., Ebert, D., Cardille, J. Dauth, D. 2008. Paleoethology as a tool for the development of archaeological models of land-use: the Crimean Middle Palaeolithic, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 894-904.

Burke, A. d'Errico, F. 2008. A middle palaeolithic bone tool from Crimea (Ukraine), Antiquity, vol. 82, no. 318, pp. 843-852.

Anderson, K.L. Burke, A. 2008. Refining the definition of cultural levels at Karabi Tamchin: a quantitative approach to vertical intra-site spatial analysis, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 2274-2285.

Orlando, L., Mashkour, M., Burke, A., Douady, C.J., Eisenmann, V. Hänni, C. 2006. Geographic distribution of an extinct equid (Equus hydruntinus: Mammalia, Equidae) revealed by morphological and genetical analyses of fossils, Molecular ecology, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 2083-2093.

Burke, A. 2006. Introduction to the special issue: Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of site function and settlement dynamics in prehistory, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 403-407.

Burke, A. 2006. Neanderthal settlement patterns in Crimea: A landscape approach, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 510-523.

Burke, A. 2004. The ecology of Neanderthals: Preface, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 14, no. 3-4, pp. 155-161.

Yevtushenko, A., Burke, A., Ferring, C.R., Chabai, V. Monigal, K. 2003. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Karabi Tamchin (Crimea, Ukraine): 1999-2001 excavation seasons, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 69, pp. 137-159.

Burke, A., Eisenmann, V. Ambler, G.K. 2003. The systematic position of Equus hydruntinus, an extinct species of Pleistocene equid, Quaternary Research, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 459-469.

Burke, A. 2000. The view from Starosele: Faunal exploitation at a Middle Palaeolithic site in Western Crimea, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 325-335.

Burke, A. Cinq-Mars, J. 1998. Paleoethological reconstruction and taphonomy of Equus lambei from the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory, Canada, Arctic, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 105-115.

Burke, A. Cinq-Mars, J. 1996. Dental characteristics of Late Pleistocene Equus lambei from the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory, and their comparison with Eurasian horses, Geographie Physique et Quaternaire, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 81-93.

Burke, A. Castanet, J. 1995. Histological Observations of Cementum Growth in Horse Teeth and their Application to Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 479-493.

Albouy, Benjamin : Doctorat en anthropologie
Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal

Boisard, Solène : Doctorat en anthropologie
Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal

Jayawickrema, Marissa : Maîtrise en anthropologie
Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal

Nantel, Patrick : Doctorat en anthropologie
Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal