The focus of this project is to investigate the use of plants in recent and ancient non-agricultural communities and explore how plant biochemical spectra and functional traits might have affected the capacity of early human groups to obtain nutritious food and plant-based medications across ...
Dental calculus is a biofilm that adheres to teeth during life. Material passing through the mouth as food, medicines, airborne environmental materials and when the mouth is used as a third hand, can become embedded. This PhD will focus on the structure of dental calculus and extraction and ...
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 ...
In collaboration with the AXIS research group (University of Antwerp, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics), the research group Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) (University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences, Conservation-Restoration) is looking for a doctoral candidate in the ...
We are looking for a PhD candidate to be part of the Research team of the ERC Consolidator DEMODRIVERS. The selected candidate will carry out research on pre-Columbian Amazonia. DEMODRIVERS will investigate archaeological sites known as forest islands (FIs). The research goals include: 1) To ...
