The environment clearly has a huge impact on human health both now and in the past. A knowledge of the effects of environmental conditions, and change, on the health of early historic communities in Scotland and Ireland has the potential to inform critical components of modern human health in the ...
There is an increasing interest in understanding wildfires in Britain – how they occur, and how frequently they happen. This has, in part, been driven by climate change predictions, particularly how this might alter the expression of fire where their impact is currently limited, such as in ...
The aim of this project is to shed new light on pastoralism at the periphery of Europe in the late Iron Age and Early Medieval period (AD 500—1100), and to provide novel direct evidence for historical animal husbandry and management practices. The focus will be on determining grazing and ...
Using state-of-the-art intra-tooth laser ablation strontium isotope analysis, and targeting the preserved remains of cave bears (and brown bears) from selected Late Pleistocene European sites, this project will undertake the first targeted investigation of cave bear spatial ecology. Strontium ...
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 ...
This is an open PhD position within the Desert to the Sea project: Managing Rock Art, Country and Culture. Aboriginal Australians are custodians of the oldest continuous living culture in the world. The successful candidate will work with Aboriginal knowledge holders to understand the hydrology ...
Today Homo sapiens is a phenomenally successful, global species and the sole survivor of the human family tree, yet the adaptations that enabled this success are still poorly understood. Hybridisation with extinct human species during our expansion may have been one way of rapidly adapting to new ...
The project will assess climate changes that affected the people of the Dorset Culture, Norse and Thule Inuit in Greenland between the 6th and 15th centuries (500-1500CE). This period encompasses centuries of successful peopling of Greenland, peoples’ options in the face of notable climate ...
