The candidate will assess, integrate and evaluate the available data fit to quantify human impact on vegetation and landscape change based on environmental proxies on a long-term perspective throughout the Holocene period in a number of selected, well-researched micro-regions with suitable archives. These should be drawn, for reasons of comparison, from several of the following regions: the Northern European Lowlands, the Middle Range Mountain area of Central Europe, the Alpine region, the Aegean, and the Iberian Pensinsula. The candidate will correlate those impact patterns with the introduction and quantified impact of key technological innovations such as agriculture, animal traction, plough and wagon, metallurgy, etc. as well as forms of social organization as derived from settlement patterns, burial rites, and depositions. The candidate will finally develop and implement indicator data for transgenerational knowledge transmission patterns through long-term studies of material culture change and stability. The candidate should hold an MA or MSc from Prehistoric, Classical or Geoarchaeology, and it would be favourable to have Experience in Palynological, Archaeobotanical and Geographical approaches, Modelling and programming, as well as an interest in Historical, Social and Anthropological questions.
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