The successful candidate will support the ECOLITHIC project (“A Radical Ecosystems View of Lithic Macro-Evolution”) which has recently received funding by the VolkswagenStiftung. The candidate will work together with the PI to develop new conceptual, empirical and computational models on long-term evolutionary dynamics of integrated technological worlds of the Late Pleistocene (c. 120-15k BP) in Western and Central Europe. The position crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries, combing complexity science with archaeology, and will re-situate research on early stone artefact technologies within the emerging Anthropocene and Earth system sciences, notably assessing the transferability of the technosphere concept into deep-time contexts. The candidate will contribute to the academic life of the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology and will be affiliated with the environmental humanities research hub MESH.
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