Dans de nombreuses îles des Caraïbes, les vestiges de crabes terrestres sont fréquemment observés lors des premières occupations de la période céramique (de 400 av. J.-C. à 1500 apr. J.-C.). Cependant, ces ressources alimentaires sont rapidement remplacées dans la diète par des mollusques marins ...
Papyri preserved by the dry climate of Egypt are an unparalleled source of information about the Ancient World. However, their large number, diversity and current dispersion have impeded a comprehensive grasp of their nature and content. In particular, palaeography, the study of handwritings that ...
Wetlands play a disproportionate role across almost all categories of ecosystem services, from flood attenuation to carbon sequestration and are thus seen as the ‘low-hanging-fruit’ for many restoration programmes. They are also among the most sensitive and highly anthropogenically altered ...
The project involves the investigation of ancient DNA of small mammals with the aim of reconstructing their evolutionary histories and identifying their responses to climate change during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Genomic analyses of small mammals are supplemented with metagenomic ...
The project forms one strand of the Leverhulme Funded Research Leadership Award, A New History of Bronze. This project explores how the emergence and use of copper and bronze metalworking in this period created new possibilities for crafting, leadership and violence. The emergence of metal casts ...
The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the Protrusion Project, led by principal investigator Dr. Joen Hermans. This project falls within a larger research line aiming for an improved understanding of the mechanisms of ...
A PhD position is to be filled in the project: Genomic Investigation of Inhabitants of the Ancient City Thessaloniki in Greece. Within the framework of a project funded by the European Union, the genetic history of the ancient Greek city of Thessaloniki is being investigated. The main aim of this ...
En contexte archéologique, les restes organiques s’ils sont encore présents constituent un accès à l’univers matériel des sociétés anciennes. Les sépultures de l’âge du Fer et de l’époque mérovingienne contiennent de manière répétée des matériaux organiques (textiles, fourrures, plumes, cuirs) ...
