The history of Renaissance art is often told as a story of triumph, of technical problems solved, perhaps laboriously, but successfully. But could Renaissance artists ever afford to fail? The proposed project will analyse ceramic workshops that operated in different parts of Central Europe during ...
Animal domestication was one of the most important transitions in human history, beginning with the long-term association between hunter–gatherers and wolves more than 15,000 years. This long term association with people resulted in new selective pressures which led to substantial biological ...
This multidisciplinary PhD studentship (ADeCHAR) will investigate the historic application of pesticides to paper-based collections through the development of a novel, simple and effective colourimetric method for their detection in archive collections. ADeCHAR will study the mechanisms used to ...
The aim of the PhD project is to consider the role and importance of different plant food and fuel resources in hunter-gatherer subsistence in Mesolithic Scotland. The project will specifically focus on the plant remains from Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Islay. This is a key site for understanding ...
This PhD project aims to characterise Australian archaeological ochres and identify the origins and movements of these around the arid zone by developing novel minimally destructive and non-destructive techniques. These approaches will help answer significant questions about past human behaviour ...
