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Bone and antler became important raw materials for Upper Palaeolithic people. Osseous materials were used to make tools such as harpoons, projectile points, needles, and portable art. It is generally assumed that archaeological osseous artefacts were made from animal skeletal remains. However ...

Slash-and-burn is the dominant strategy for plant cultivation in rural Amazonia yet its antiquity in pre-Colonial times is unclear. Ascertaining both its antiquity and differences compared to modern swidden cultivation can significantly expand current understandings of the extent to which ...

Candidates are invited to apply for a PhD fellowship focused on geochronology and reconstruction of environmental change in the southern Caucasus during key periods of early human evolution and dispersal. The southern Caucasus, located north of the Levantine corridor, hosts a suite of ...

The successful candidate will be part of a newly established research group working to address the unanswered questions regarding early agro-diversity. The successful candidate will use and develop well-established soil science, innovative bio-geoarchaeological profiling, and novel dating ...

Newcastle University  announces a call for a PhD scholarship on a project titled Technological choice and variability in prehistoric metalworking: a transdisciplinary investigation, funded by the AHRC Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership as a Collaborative Doctoral Award. The ...

During the late Pleistocene and Early Holocene, Northern Europe was populated by mobile hunter gatherers. Due to their non-sedentary lifestyle, traces of these societies are difficult to find, which hampers our understanding of how they lived and developed. Some parts of the SW Baltic Sea ...

The wealth of well-preserved submerged archaeological sites of Holocene hunter-gatherer-fisher communities in the SW Baltic Sea is an outstanding characteristic of the region. Detailed geophysical surveys of such areas have the potential to reconstruct landscapes on a microregional scale and ...

Two Ph.D. candidates positions are part of the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded project "From Ornaments to Ecosystems: Exploring Hominin-Mammoth Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of the Swabian Jura (Southern Germany)". The goal of this project is to analyse changes in hominin-mammoth ...