Today Homo sapiens is a phenomenally successful, global species and the sole survivor of the human family tree, yet the adaptations that enabled this success are still poorly understood. Hybridisation with extinct human species during our expansion may have been one way of rapidly adapting to new ...
The project will assess climate changes that affected the people of the Dorset Culture, Norse and Thule Inuit in Greenland between the 6th and 15th centuries (500-1500CE). This period encompasses centuries of successful peopling of Greenland, peoples’ options in the face of notable climate ...
The Department of Physical Geography is looking for a PhD candidate on Paleo-ecological data science for the project “Looking back to plan ahead – unfolding the natural heritage of Dutch landscapes”. In order to plan future landscapes and forest composition we need to gain a better understanding ...
The proposed research project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, as part of the interdisciplinary Ambizione project, entitled “The when and the where of colour: tailored radiocarbon and stable isotope analysis of natural organic dyes and pigments in cultural heritage objects” ...
Global climate models driven with reconstructions of solar variations, volcanic aerosols and land use change can simulate climate variations over past centuries, but only on spatial scales far coarser than the scales on which communities will have experienced climate change impacts. This project ...
