You will be part of a Marie Curie Doctoral Network project entitled History, Archaeology, and Botany of Pacific Islands: assessing the Long-Term Impacts of Early European colonialism on Peoples and Forests (short name, PacificPeopleForest). Currently, knowledge on the ‘native’ forest in the Pacific is an understudied topic, and its anthropogenic character is undervalued. You will be responsible for developing non-invasive, holistic tools to understand the structure of current landscape in Rota Island (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), especially in forested areas -through high resolution and self-generated data in the field-, and to explore the potential of remote sensing to unlock the relationship between vegetation history and the distribution of ancient economic and settlement remains. Given the complexity of field work due to rugged topography and dense vegetation even in small islands, your work will contribute to the development of archaeology in inland areas as well as to explore new ways to describe the forest.
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