Seeking a highly motivated candidate with interdisciplinary interests in climate modelling and archaeology to conduct an innovative PhD, researching coastal morphodynamic and drift modelling within the Dampier Archipelago. The project will involve reconstructed/modelled wind, wave and tidal ...
The Arctic is one of Earth’s most fragile ecosystems, and the scale of change taking place in the Arctic marine environment due to rises in temperature and loss of sea ice cover is overwhelming. The PhD fellowship will integrate palaeogenomics, palaeoecology, and palaeoclimatology to elucidate ...
Central Asia is a key route for ancient human expansion out of Africa with early human migrants leaving behind stone tools in thick wind-blown dust (loess) deposits in Tajikistan, deposited over the last 2-3 million years. However, much remains unknown about the timing and environmental context ...
The PhD will document the local traditions of ceramic and plaster manufacture and use at a single large well-polished occupation site in a poorly studied corner of the Aegean, assessing of the relative influences from neighboring Anatolia and the Balkans. The successful candidates will be based ...
Materials from cultural heritage contain organic substances which have polymerized, which may have suffered from degradation over time, and which are difficult to analyze and understand. Time of- Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) imaging and pyrolysis comprehensive twodimensional ...
La tempera à l’oeuf est une technique de peinture utilisée depuis l’Antiquité. Au XVe siècle, Cennino Cennini offre un panorama complet des techniques employées en Italie juste avant l’avènement de la Renaissance et avec elle, de la peinture à l’huile. Il décrit ainsi différentes formulations ...
La question des pots acoustiques dans les bâtiments religieux du haut Moyen-Age à l’époque moderne reste en de nombreux point de vue toujours une question ouverte surtout en ce qui concerne les intentions initiales des bâtisseurs. Des études pluridisciplinaires conduites depuis plus de 15 ans en ...
The candidate is expected to conduct research on plasters and mortars, primarily from the archaeological sites Palaepaphos and Nea Paphos in Cyprus. The study includes fieldwork, collection of samples, characterisation of mortars and precursor raw materials including microscopic and chemical ...
