Landscapes of Catastrophe: archaeology, social-ecological and biological contexts for the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52 is an interdisciplinary project investigating the ecological, biological and social contexts, of the most profound demographic and diasporic event in Ireland over the last millennium during which more than two million people died or emigrated. The project develops new approached to constraining environmental and landscape chronologies for the period 1650-1960 CE and uses these to reconstruct demographic and agricultural change through palaeoenvironmental evidence. Six case study landscapes across Ireland form the core analytical framework, each illuminating different demographic, environmental, social, and religious impacts of the Famine. The successful candidate will contribute a broad, multi-proxy palaeoecological skillset to the project. They will carry out field sampling and laboratory analysis of peat and soil sequences from case-study landscapes across Ireland, and will work closely with the project Co-Leads to deliver integrated palaeoenvironmental work packages. Core analytical responsibilities include pollen, non pollen palynomorph, plant macrofossil, XRF, isotopic, and tephra analysis, alongside the construction of Bayesian age-depth models.
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