Prof. Dr. Florent Rivals

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPrehistory and World Archaeology,Palaeontology
KeywordsPaleoecology, Paleodiet, Ungulates, Dental wear, Neanderthal

Current contact address

CountrySpain
CityTarragona
InstitutionInstitut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social (IPHES)
InstituteCampus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Thomas M. KaiserBiozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2005

Programme(s)

2005Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2011Matthew C Mihlbachler, Florent Rivals, Nikos Solounias, Gina M Semprebon: Dietary change and evolution of horses in North America. In: Science, 2011, 1178-1181
2011Marie-Hélène Moncel, Florent Rivals: On the question of short-term Neanderthal site occupations: Payre, France (MIS 8-7), and Taubach/Weimar, Germany (MIS 5). In: Journal of Anthropological Research, 2011, 47-75
2011Maria Cristina Fernández-Laso, Maria Gema Chacón, Maria Dolores García-Antón, Florent Rivals: Territorial mobility Neanderthals groups: A case study from level M of Abric Romaní (Capellades, Barcelona, Spain). In: N.J. Conard, J. Richter, Neanderthal lifeways, subsistence and technology. Springer, 2011. 187-202
2010María-Cristina Fernández-Laso, Florent Rivals, Jordi Rosell: Intra-site changes in seasonality and their consequences on the faunal assemblages from Abric Romaní (Middle Palaeolithic, Spain). In: Quaternaire, 2010, 155-163
2010Florent Rivals, Matthew C Mihlbachler, Nikos Solounias, Dick Mol, Gina M Semprebon, John de Vos, Daniela C Kalthoff: Palaeoecology of the mammoth steppe fauna from the late Pleistocene of the North Sea and Alaska: separating species preferences from geographic influence in paleoecological dental wear analysis. In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2010, 42-54
2009Florent Rivals, Ellen Schulz, Thomas M Kaiser: A new application of dental wear analyses: estimation of duration of hominid occupations in archaeological localities. In: Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009, 3388-3400
2009Florent Rivals, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Marylène Patou-Mathis: Seasonality and intra-site variation of Neanderthal occupations in the Middle Palaeolithic locality of Payre (Ardeche, France) using dental wear analyses. In: Journal of Archaeological Science, 2009, 1070-1078
2008Florent Rivals, Ellen Schulz, Thomas M. Kaiser: Climate-related dietary diversity of the ungulate faunas from the middle Pleistocene succession (OIS 14-12) at the Caune de l'Arago (France). In: Paleobiology, 2008, 117-127
2007Florent Rivals, Nikos Solounias: Differences in tooth microwear of populations of caribou (Rangifer tarandus, Ruminantia, Mammalia) and implications to ecology, migration, glaciations and dental evolution. In: Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2007, 182-192
2006Florent Rivals, Nikos Solounias, George B. Schaller: Similarities in the diets of Mongolian gazelles, Tibetan antelopes and ungulates from arctic/subartic habitats using mesowear and microwear analyses. In: Mammalian Biology, 2006, 24-24