Contrats doctoraux

The Roman Empire was one of the principal globalised political entities in history. In its constituent regions, globalisation induced profound, complex and variable societal changes, emerging from the interplay between local conditions (environment, demography, subsistence economy) and ‘global’ ...

North Yorkshire’s moorlands are shaped by their history of human use and associated social-ecological systems. Demand for medieval wool sustained rough grazing for moor sheep, whilst recently, grazing and heather burning for grouse shooting were preferred to woodland regeneration. Now, many ...

The focus on this doctoral project is to combine zooarchaeological research with isotope analyses on animal remains from post-medieval Madeira (under the supervision of Dr. Ben Gruwier and Prof. Christophe Snoeck). The aim is to understand how and to what extent, Portuguese settlers were able ...

The migration of Polynesians to the central and eastern Pacific around 1500 BCE to 1000 CE is supported by a combination of linguistic, archaeological, anthropological, and genetic evidence. Recent studies suggest that this movement may be related to environmental stressors, like drought, which ...

Palaeogenomics has revolutionised our understanding of human population history by analysing thousands of human genomes from skeletal remains. Unfortunately, this requires destructive sampling of such remains and can conflict with descendant communities' values and heritage conservation ...