We are looking for a PhD candidate to be part of the Research team of the ERC Consolidator DEMODRIVERS. The selected candidate will carry out research on pre-Columbian Amazonia. DEMODRIVERS will investigate archaeological sites known as forest islands (FIs). The research goals include: 1) To estimate how many of the total of 6500 FIs in the region are archaeological sites 2) identify patterns that help classify as natural or artificial each FI and 3) estimate the total weight of P, Zn, Cu and other "human derived" elements stored in the FIs. The PhD student will be responsible for one of the work packages of DEMODRIVERS. You will be required to carry out fieldwork in the Bolivian Amazon and travel there for a period of 2 to 3 months during the dry seasons (July - October) of 2023 and 2024. The field work will involve flying a drone with a LIDAR over approx. 75 archaeological sites each field season, as well as surveying and sampling, with an auger, another 100 sites per season. Back in Barcelona your work will focus on building a database of the archaeological sites, calculating the volume of each site and analysing their patterns and properties.
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