You will be part of a Marie Curie Doctoral Network project, PacificPeopleForest, entitled History, Archaeology, and Botany of Pacific Islands: assessing the Long-Term Impacts of Early European colonialism on Peoples and Forests. Current definitions of native forests for the Mariana Islands tend to neglect the fact that they often consist of introduced species. There is a general lack of understanding of historic plant introduction and plant use on these Pacific islands, as well as a dismissal of the intimate intertwining of people and plants. Can we trace how wild and domesticated plant use changed with European colonialism and the influx of non-native species? You will be responsible for tracing the change of wild and cultivated food plants of the Mariana islands over time through ancient and modern herbarium collections, historical documents and interviews with island peoples.
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