The European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant project: The Wall: People and Ecology in Medieval Mongolia and China, is offering Doctoral scholarships beginning in October 2021. The program is located at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Successful candidates will be part of a unique ...
La disparité phénotypique et la diversité spécifique sont les marqueurs de biodiversité. Il est attendu que des traits morphologiques qui favorisent l'invasion de nouvelles zones d'adaptatives soient plus communs au sein de l'arbre du vivant. Ces traits ont été reconnus comme des « innovations ...
Having experimentally constructed a house from the Late Neolithic Vlaardingen culture near Rotterdam, in collaboration with local volunteers of the open-air educational centre of Masamuda, we now intend to explore how people lived in these houses and the surrounding wetland environment. What kind ...
La variabilité climatique à court terme et les changements climatiques à long terme n'ont pas les mêmes répercussions sur la gestion hydraulique et l'économie. L'augmentation de la variabilité pluviométrique diminue la sécurité fournie par l'irrigation aujourd'hui (GIEC, 2001), comme dans les ...
Understanding diet and spawning behaviour is critical for developing ecosystem-orientated conservation strategies for saving vulnerable fish species because it allows authorities to target key times and locations for protection, thus helping to balance the economic needs of fisheries with those ...
The Yamnaya Impact is an international, interdisciplinary effort to understand the massive changes taking place in Europe some 5000 years ago - its reverberations are still visible today in terms of genetic ancestry, social organisation, and European languages. The project focuses on the Yamnaya ...
The Norse settled Iceland from the mid-late 9th century AD, and they established farms across all inhabitable parts of Iceland. Many of these farms endured, often through to the present day. Others were not so successful and farm sites were abandoned. It is not clear why some farms continued to ...
Ancient DNA extracted from sediments and other environmental sources is an emerging and fast-moving field that has the potential to revolutionize our ability to reconstruct past communities at unprecedented temporal resolution. However, computational methods for processing, identifying, and ...
