As part of a new research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), we seek one PhD candidate for our Project "The wheel of time". The aim of the project is to establish OSL rock surface dating on firm grounds as a novel way of constraining the age of archaeological and geological rock ...
Within the framework of the WEAVE project "Welcome to the Dark Side – disclosing the invisible stages of medieval urbanization through the integrated study of European Dark Earths" (host institutions: MARI-VUB and IPAS-University of Basel), MARI is opening a call for a 4 year fully funded ...
The main aim of this project is to explore past biodiversity in North-eastern Scotland using metabarcode (e.g., 12S) and metagenomic sequencing of ancient DNA extracted from lake sediments and peat bogs, with special emphasis on the period spanning the 5th to 11th centuries AD (also known as the ...
Farming in Europe originated in the Levant around 12,000 years ago, reaching Europe several millennia later. Northern climates and environments, thin soils, and limited growing seasons represent significant challenges, and in the past required unique adaptations (e.g., soil improvement ...
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany seeks to fill Ph.D and Post-Doctoral positions in the areas of primate behavior and evolution; human adaptation, ecology, and culture; human evolutionary genomics (including modern humans and archaic hominins); and genetic ...
