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Second on differentiating different types of Job's tears from Han Dynasty tombs, led by Jingwen Liao, in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

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They'll additionally be responsible for data management of the entire project, permitting for plant collection and human research, and public engagement activities. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

The post-doc / project manager will use the data collected by the PhD projects (and other sources) to run Agent Based Models exploring how plant properties and distributions may have influenced Homo erectus migration patterns, and compare these to other potential explanations for the migration.

For both PhDs, I'm looking for candidates who have their master degree in Anthropology, Archaeology, or related field, and some degree of lab experience. I'm particularly interested in those who are familiar with Optimal Foraging models, habitat reconstruction, and paleoecology.

The second PhD position will explore the costs and benefits of plant foods, through the nutritional analysis of wild plants and energetics experiments designed to measure the caloric costs of food collection and processing. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

The first PhD position will explore whether it's possible to find evidence of smoke, bee products, and fermentation in dental calculus, using a model system developed in my lab. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

The project explores how plants and other "sessile" foods may have structured how Homo erectus first migrated into western Eurasia.