Scotland’s elusive Late Pleistocene and early Holocene past is now the subject of a major research project, PALaEoScot, based at the University of Aberdeen. The project brings together material culture studies and site-based archaeological investigations, with cutting edge archaeological science and biomolecular approaches, with the aim of better understanding the human and animal communities that recolonised this extreme north-west edge of Europe after the end of the Last Glacial Maximum. Using a combination of radiocarbon dating, ZooMS and ancient DNA, this project will focus on studying and extending the palaeontological record in Scotland in this key period. This work will centre on the use of biomolecular techniques, complementing zooarchaeological and isotopic research that are ongoing as part of the main project. Through a series of case studies based at archaeological and palaeontological sites in Scotland, the student will be tasked with finding alternative (molecular) evidence of animals at Late Pleistocene/palaeontological and early Holocene/Mesolithic sites.
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