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 ...
Candidates are invited to apply for a PhD fellowship focused on geochronology and reconstruction of environmental change in the southern Caucasus during key periods of early human evolution and dispersal. The southern Caucasus, located north of the Levantine corridor, hosts a suite of ...
The successful candidate will be part of a newly established research group working to address the unanswered questions regarding early agro-diversity. The successful candidate will use and develop well-established soil science, innovative bio-geoarchaeological profiling, and novel dating ...
