In the project “From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory (COREX)” geneticists and archaeologists from University College London (led by Mark Thomas and Stephen Shennan) have joined forces with archaeologists from Gothenburg University (led by Kristian Kristiansen and Karl-Göran Sjögren), geneticists and archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen (led by Kurt Kjær, Eske Willerslev and Fernando Racimo) and the Danish National Museum, together with pollen analysts from the University of Plymouth. The project is combining prehistoric human genomic, archaeological, environmental, stable isotope and climate data to better understand the processes that shaped our biological and cultural past from the time of the first farmers to the Iron Age (6000 to 500 BC). The successful candidate will combine prehistoric human genomic, archaeological, environmental, stable isotope, pollen and climate data in a computational modelling framework to better understand the processes that shaped our biological and cultural past from the time of the first farmers to the Iron Age (between 6000 to 500 BCE). They will take advantage of the “Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database” (BIAD) – created as part of the COREX project – to explore patterns of co-variation in archaeological, environmental and genetic data using a range of statistical methods. They will also take a ‘bottom up’ approach through agent-based and related modelling approaches to better understand how large-scale processes such as mass migration emerge from small-scale / more local processes and interactions, and the extent to which we would expect patterns of genetic and cultural variation to be linked in space and through time.
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