The project TRADITION (Long-term coastal adaptation, food security and poverty alleviation in Latin America) funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme is appointing a motivated PhD to conduct zooarchaeological, stable ...
The Museum of Archaeology at University of Stavanger houses a unique collection of modified and ornated bone and stone artefacts dated to the Mesolithic and Neolithic period (c. 8000-2000 BC). The main objective of this PhD-project is to conduct a study of these portable art(efacts) and their ...
The Neolithic is associated with the movement of farmers, forest clearance and the introduction of crops and domestic animals from the Near East to Europe, a process which led to intensification of human impact and subsequently to societal change. Much of the discussion centres around the reasons ...
The ERC Advanced Grant project “ZODIAC – Ancient Astral Science in Transformation” investigates ancient astronomical and astrological practices in the wake of the introduction of the zodiac (ca. 400 BCE – 300 CE) through textual, tabular, iconographic and other sources from Babylonia, Egypt, the ...
Vitrified hillforts, whose walls have been destroyed by the melting and fusing of outer rock walls through fire, are found throughout Europe, with a significant concentration occurring across Scotland. Those specific to Scotland have been dated from the Bronze age to early Medieval period ...
