This UKRI-funded Doctoral Fellowship is part of the European Commission funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Doctoral Network within the project “Dryland Agriculture and Land Use; Past, Present and Future Resilience (AGRI-DRY)”. The candidate (DC4) will work on the topic “Changing Land Use over the Holocene: southern Africa”. Using the Land-Use classification system and methods developed by network beneficiaries and associated partners), the candidate will examine and summarise spatially and temporally broad scale patterns of land use change for selected time slices from 8000 BCE to 1500 CE over southern Africa. Data will be collated from published/unpublished excavation reports and predictive model algorithms. Land usage for each period will be quantified using GIS, Kernel Density Approaches (KDE) and expert knowledge. Results will be compared with modelled land cover reconstructions (HYDE, ArchaeoGLOBE) and carbon loss from historical land use change quantified; implications for climate change in the past will be evaluated. Deliverables: (i) an assessment of prehistorical and historical land use change over time and comparison with HYDE for southern Africa; (ii) estimate of CO2 loss from prehistoric & historic land use change for southern Africa.
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