This PhD project is attached to the ERC funded ‘Molecular Archaeology of Medieval European Landscapes (MEMELAND)’ project. The successful candidate will join a team coring lakes and mires throughout northern Europe and undertake sedaDNA metabarcoding and lithological analyses of lake-sediment cores. This to obtain distribution and presence information on past vascular plant species including crops, and animals at the given locations. These data, together with similar data from the rest of the team will be used to model the temporal and spatial biodiversity and landscape changes on northern Europe over the last two thousand years. The full project team includes UiT (host and sedaDNA), Paris-Loudon University Salzburg (chronology), University of Oxford (archaeobotany and palynology), eawag, Zurich (biomarkers) and Charles University Prague (spatial modelling). The successful PhD candidate will have considerable flexibility in which areas, either thematically and/or geographically they will focus on allowing a tailored PhD. The research outcomes will include a new ecological history of the last two millennia in Europe. Travel and work at the contributing institutions will be encouraged.
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