Neumark-Nord is amongst the largest sites from the Middle Palaeolithic with an extensive research record from the mid-1980s onward. Fine-grained basin deposits build up a high resolution palaeoenvironmental archive including lithic scatters in lake margin deposits and excellently preserved remains of hundreds of large mammals throughout the ~ 11,000 years of the Eemian. Recently our research at Neumark-Nord provided the earliest evidence for landscape modification in the Palaeolithic. The AlterEco project moves on to study and to model human hunting pressure as a potential contributor to alterations in the biocoenosis and food web structure during the Eemian. The interdisciplinary and international research team is composed of leading researchers in the field of Palaeolithic (Zoo-)Archaeology (Roebroeks, Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Kindler), Isotope Analyses (Tütken) and Palaeogenetics (Hofreiter), and highly motivated young PhD candidates and Post-docs, promoting and encouraging teamwork key elements, such as communication, innovation and creativity. For the modelling of the population dynamics and Neanderthal impact on the large mammal fauna from Neumark-Nord we want to combine the zooarchaeological, isotope and genetic data collected by the research team. The work is exclusively computational and focuses on the simulation and modelling of the changes in the faunal community, i.e. species abundance, presence and absence of taxa, age and sex, feeding habits and genetic data during Eemian at Neumark-Nord against the background of environmental development and Neanderthal hunting. The position involves data handling, programming and custom-tailored statistical analyses as well as population viability analyses.
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