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The Institute for Environmental Sciences (University of Koblenz-Landau)
The Institute for the Environment (Brunel University, West London)
Employer: The STUDIUM
Pay: Negotiable
Closing date: December 2005
The STUDIUM is offering a research associate position for the following project :
Evaluation of the importance of archaeological remains within the context of sustainable development : a comparative study
Summary of the project
The accuracy of approaches to evaluate the importance of archaeological remains is a critical issue for both economic planning and scientific research.
The objectives of the programme proposed by the research network are
- To compare and integrate the archaeological, geophysical and geochemical survey techniques developed in different countries
- To compare different theoretical approaches to interpretation, currently fashionable in the partner countries, relating to the transformation of settlement patterns and the landscape. And to determine to what extent the differences reflect the heterogeneous nature of archaeological remains as opposed to the idiosyncrasies of national traditions. The harmonisation of interpretations of our archaeological heritage is an extremely important issue for the process of European integration.
The programme was started in 2002 with the support of the ACI TTT of the French Ministry of Research and the British Academy. It is run through research units in France, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Poland. The LAT (UMR 6173 in Tours) is the coordinator of this programme known as EvArch (acronym)
1 PhD Position: Long Term Soil Erosion / Geoarchaeology
The Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) invites applications for a PhD position (Dr. rer. nat.) which will start on October 1, 2005.
For a recently funded project entitled "Long Term Soil Erosion and Gullying in North-Mississippi, USA: Interaction between Human Impact and Landscape" we invite applications for One PhD position (Dr. of Natural Sciences) in the field of Soil Erosion / Geoarchaeology (Geomorphology, Geoecology, Geography, Archaeology, Soil Sciences, Environmental Sciences.
For more information visit the following link:
http://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/dokumente/05-36.pdf (english)
or:
http://www.uni-landau.de/umwelt/institut/public/staff/dotterweich/soilmiss_en.shtml (sorry, at the moment only in German)
Three PhD Studentships Available!
The Institute for the Environment (Brunel University, West London, UK) will be offering 3 PhD studentships for the coming academic year.
Topic for one of them:
"Reconstruction of past environments from palynological study of lacustrine sediment in the Kenya rift, focussing on the impact of the mega-Toba (Western Sumatra) eruption on human evolution 71,000 years ago"
The overall aim of this project is to evaluate the global environmental consequences of a major volcanic eruption. The eruption was that of Toba volcano in northern Sumatra ~71 000 years ago. This eruption is widely regarded as the largest in the last two million years, and would have had significant effects upon the global climate. It took place at a critical time in human cultural evolution, and a prolonged period of global cooling triggered by the eruption may have caused widespread extinctions of the biota, and a severe reduction in the human population. The ensuing social and economic adaptations by human societies to this extreme event may have paved the way for subsequent migrations out of Africa into Europe and Asia and facilitated the transition from Middle to Later Stone Age culture and technology. A growing body of genetic evidence, notably from mitochondrial DNA, has revealed a human population bottleneck between ~100 and ~50 ka. During this interval the total world population was reduced to possibly 10,000-20,000 young males and females. Ambrose hypothesised that: ³Six years of volcanic winter followed by 1000 years of the coldest, driest climate of the late Quaternary, may have caused low primary productivity and famine, and thus may have had a substantial impact on human populations². The East African Rift is an ideal natural laboratory where to search for any trace of the Youngest Toba Tephra, especially in the lake basins of the Kenya Rift where we have located many scores of archaeological occurrences (task of partner). The shallow lakes of the southern and central Kenya Rift are highly sensitive to even quite minor climatic fluctuations. The lake sediments, often diatomites, contain a detailed record of past volcanic eruptions in the form of interstratified ash bands. The ashes can be fingerprinted using geochemical methods and dated very precisely using argon/argon dating techniques (task of our partners). The diatomites also contain pollen grains and other organic-walled microfossils (e.g., green algae, cyanobacteria) indicative of local (aquatic and terrestrial) and regional vegetation. The key aim of his studentship is to test the hypothesis of volcanic winter by high resolution sampling of diatomites in Kenya for pollen analysis.
Combined studies of palynomorphs and diatoms (the latter is the role of our partners) are still relatively rare and offer a fruitful avenue for reconstructing local and regional environmental changes, including climate. This project uses this approach to provide primary palaeo-environmental data against which to compare the archaeological record and to seek evidence of any correlative ecological, demographic and cultural changes.
Fieldwork funded by the Australian Research Council, a grant obtained by Prof. Martin Williams, University of Adelaide, a geomorphologist of international standard with African experience. The other partners in this project are Prof. Stan Ambrose, archaeologist from Ilinois, Professor Alan Deino, a geochronologist in the Berkeley Geochronology Center, and Dr John Tibby works in the Adelaide University Diatom Laboratory.
Starting date: between Sept and Dec 05.
Fieldwork six weeks in June 2006.
Duration: 3 yrs
Preference given to a student who has a master in palynology.
Supervisors for the palynology: Professor Suzanne Leroy and Professor John
Dodson
The studentships will be available to home/EU students and will cover the cost of fees and living (final figure to be confirmed shortly). Please visit our research pages ( www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/ife/ ) to view the research areas we specialise in and contact the lead researcher in that area for more details.
Institute for the Environment , Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1895 266515 - Fax: +44 (0)1895 269761
Head of Institute: Professor John Dodson
For all enquiries, please contact Shona Beesley
Or alternatively directly the main supervisor:
Prof. Suzanne A. G. Leroy
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences
Brunel University, Uxbridge
Middlesex UB8 3PH, (West London), UK.
suzanne.leroy@brunel.ac.uk
NEW: direct: +44-1895-266087; fax: +44-1895-269736, secr: +44-1895-266543
homepage: www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/ges/staff/suzanne_leroy/
ICSU Dark Nature: www.mun.ca/canqua/ICSU-DN/
IGCP 490: www.mun.ca/canqua/igcp490/
EU-RELIEF project: http://eost.u-strasbg.fr/recherche/projet/RELIEF.html