The SEASCAPES team investigates connectivity, mobility, and cultural exchange among prehistoric communities in the Central and Western Mediterranean during the third millennium BCE. Building on this foundation, we are seeking a PhD researcher to contribute to a new project on Bell Beaker ...
Our understanding of plague, past and present, will contribute directly to our ongoing struggle with epidemic diseases, present and future. Previous research that has focused on questions such as why/how did plague reemerge in 14th century Asia and how/why did it disappear from Europe in the 18th ...
There is a vacancy for a PhD researcher in the Geomatics research group of the Department of Civil Engineering of KU Leuven. The candidate will be active in the CHAI project (Cracking Built Heritage with AI) in collaboration with the Materials and Constructions section of the department. In this ...
Heritage management bodies and scientists are only just beginning to develop the tools and quantitative methods to monitor the risks posed to such sites through techniques such as coastal zone assessment and aerial and ground surveys, but these are rarely combined and have never been applied to a ...
This interdisciplinary project will enhance birth/death age estimates based on radiocarbon-dated bones. Radiocarbon (C-14) is often used to date archaeological/forensic human bones. The amount of radiocarbon that remains present in a bone informs us of the length of time passed since it had been ...
For over a quarter of a century the late Neanderthal record of Britain has been considered to relate entirely to a short period between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago. This episode of reoccupation is thought to have followed almost 120,000 years of absence of any human species in Britain and ended ...
Bone and antler became important raw materials for Upper Palaeolithic people. Osseous materials were used to make tools such as harpoons, projectile points, needles, and portable art. It is generally assumed that archaeological osseous artefacts were made from animal skeletal remains. However ...
Slash-and-burn is the dominant strategy for plant cultivation in rural Amazonia yet its antiquity in pre-Colonial times is unclear. Ascertaining both its antiquity and differences compared to modern swidden cultivation can significantly expand current understandings of the extent to which ...
