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 a PhD position in geoarchaeology within the Archaeology Department. The PhD project aims to ...
The interdisciplinary ERC-Synergy project “EcoArch: Ecological archaeologies of the Afrotropics”, funded by the European Research Council H2020 scheme, seeks to understand the drivers of landscape change across the Afrotropics over the last 6000 years. The project will collect and analyse diverse ...
The appointed candidate will work within the overarching goal of the project Ecological Archaeologies of the Afrotropics (EcoArch) to disentangle the drivers of landscape and climate change in the Afrotropics since the introduction of domesticated food economies. Candidates should propose a ...
In Britain, domesticated animals and plants were introduced from mainland Europe around 6,000 years ago, at the start of the Neolithic period, with cereal agriculture as one of the main food production strategies. Extensive archaeobotanical research has shown, however, that the cereal cultivation ...
Palaeolithic sites with evidence for early H. sapiens in Britain are few. Recent excavations at Wogan Cavern, located under Pembroke Castle, Wales, have recovered evidence of Mesolithic hunter-gatherer occupation dating to c.11,000 years, as well as older Palaeolithic occupations during the last ...
