This PhD project is attached to the Norwegian Research Council and UiT funded ‘Viking to Christian Landscapes across the Norwegian Sea (V2C)’ project (PI Tony Brown). The successful candidate will join a team coring lakes and mires in Central and Northern Norway, Orkney and Shetland Isles, UK and undertake metabarcoding and lithological analyses of lake-sediment cores to obtain information on past vascular plant species including crops, and herbivores in a region at the edge of agriculture in Europe. These data, together with similar data from southern Norway will be used together with the V2C team (UiT, University of Bergen, University of Durham UK, Highlands and Islands University UK) to: investigate landscape change, crop use and farming from c. 500-1500 CE; examine the causes of these changes and relate to archaeological and textual data; trial new techniques in environmental archaeology from cores including pOSL and pathogens.
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