The position will be located in the Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology and Neotaphonomy (LEArN), led by Dr. E. Grace Veatch, and will investigate one of the central questions in human evolution: How did environmental and/or anthropogenic changes impact the most significant transition in subsistence strategies (i.e., farming) observed in the genus Homo, and what does this tell us about the evolution of the human ecological niche? In this project, we will combine innovative stone tool functional analysis, experimental archaeology, and spatial analyses to understand how changes in resource availability and human migration impacted the adaptation of agriculture and domestication within an insular ecosystem in Indonesia. The aim is to utilize the abundant material culture (stone and shell) from the Holocene deposits at Liang Bua and develop innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to investigating human behavior in Island Southeast Asia.
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