The ERC-funded project FROST “Frozen in time – Unravelling Younger Dryas climate variability, environmental dynamics and their impact on human recolonization in Western Europe” is seeking to appoint PhD position in geoarchaeology within the Archaeology Department. The PhD project aims to investigate human and environmental responses to climate fluctuations during the Younger Dryas (ca. 12,850 to 11,650 cal BP) in Western Europe. The successful candidate will be expected to: 1. Refine the chronological framework for Younger Dryas archaeological sites, both cave and open-air contexts, through the application of various dating methods (14C, OSL, cryptotephra analysis). This work will improve our understanding of the timing of human occupation, mobility and adaptation during this period, while also advancing dating methods for buried open-air sites. 2. Reconstruct landscape dynamics and post-depositional processes at archaeological sites, based on field observations and sedimentological and soil-based laboratory analyses (such as grain-size analysis, magnetic susceptibility, loss-on-ignition, micromorphology). This will help clarify the environmental context associated with site use and abandonment, and provide the basis for well-founded sampling strategies for chronological analyses.
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