ArchSci2020 supports 15 PhD students working at four leading research institutes addressing the complex interactions between the  peoples, cultures and environments of Northern Europe situated within the broader east-west interaction zones of the Circumpolar World.

• Manon Bondetti
• Özge Demirci
• Alison Harris
• Mariana Muñoz-Rodriguez
• Jonas Niemann
• Anne Katharine Runge
• Eden Slidel

• Anita Radini

This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust, grant agreement No. 209869/Z/17/Z.

• Nathan Wales

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 842577.

The transition from hunting and foraging to farming had far reaching consequences for our economic, social and ideological development and is a major theme in prehistoric research. In the circum-Baltic, the reasons for this change at circa 4000 cal BCE are unclear since much of the region was occupied with highly successful hunter-fisher-gatherers who were well adapted to the resource rich coastal and inland ecosystems. The project will question the value of wild and domesticated foods in the region through the novel lens of changing
culinary practices. Find out more about the project here. 

• Harry Robson

Project supported by: The British Academy

The ‘EQuaTe’ project will apply two independent but complementary dating techniques, AAR (York) and TL (Aberystwyth), to commonly-occurring Pleistocene fossils with the aim of providing a secure chronological framework for the first appearance of human populations at sites across Europe and their repeated expansions and contractions in response to climate and environmental change over the last two million years. Find out more on the project website, here. 

• Kirsty Penkman
• Dustin White
• Marc Dickinson
• Sam Presslee
• Sheila Taylor

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 865222).

The Innovation, Dispersal and Use of Ceramics in NE Europe

• Manon Bondetti
• Oliver Craig
• Carl Heron (Honorary Professor)
• Alexandre Lucquin
• Harry Robson

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 695539.

In collaboration with the University of Reading, read more about the project here

• Dr Michelle Alexander, 
• Dr Marcos Garcia-Garcia

Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. The Arts and Humanities investigate the values and beliefs which underpin both who we are as individuals and how we undertake our responsibilities to our society and to humanity globally.

NEOMEDIS: NEOlithic MEDiterranean Diet Through stable ISotope Analysis. Find out more about the project here.

• Maria Fontanals-Coll
• Andre Carlo Colonese
• Oliver Craig

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 792130.

PATHWAY aims to study the development of long-distance pastoral transhumance (the management and movement of animals between lowland to high altitude pasture) in the Western Alps, from the Iron Age to the Medieval Period. Read more about the project here. 

• Katharine Dulias
• Juliette Knockaert
• Kevin Walsh
• David Orton 

Project supported by: AHRC

• Virginia Harvey
• Jessica Hendy
• Miranda Evans
• Richard Hagan 

This project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust through a Philip Leverhulme Prize. 

SeaChanges is an international doctoral training network spanning archaeology and marine biology, Led from York, the network supports 15 PhD students across 7 institutions, with 29 partner organisations in a toal of 15 countries.

SeaChanges website  

• David Orton
• Michelle Alexander
• Eleanor Booker
• Liz Quinlan
• Katrien Dierickx

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 813383

Sicily In Transition: Exploring the Archaeology of Regime Change

• Martin Carver
• Oliver Craig
• Jane Thomas-Oates (Chemistry)
• Léa Drieu
• Jasmine Lundy
• Michelle Alexander
• Alice Ughi
• Nathan Wales
• Aurore Monnereau
• Veronica Aniceti
• Malin Holst
• Helen Goodchild
• Madeleine Hummler 

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 693600.

An archaeological investigation of the landscapes, economy, and resource use of urban sites on the Swahili Coast (7th-15th centuries CE). Find out more about the project here.

• Stephanie Wynne-Jones
• Michelle Alexander
• Tom Fitton
• Mik Lisowski

This work was funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant.

Demography, Cultural Change, And The Diffusion Of Rice And Millet During The Jomon-Yayoi Transition In Prehistoric Japan

• Oliver Craig
• Shinya Shoda 

Lead Institution: University of Cambridge

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 801953. 

Must Farm: A Bronze Age settlement site in Flag Fen, Cambridgeshire

• Oliver Craig
• Miriam Cubas 

Lead Institution: Cambridge Archaeological Unit and Historic England.

PlantCult: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Plant Ingredients, Culinary Transformation and Evolution Through Time

• Oliver Craig
• Edward Standall (British Museum)
• Jessica Hendy

Lead Institution: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 682529.

TEMPERA is a Marie Skłodowska Curie European Training Network (ETN) aiming at providing international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary state-of-the-art doctoral training to prepare the next generation of specialists in mass spectrometry-based ancient protein residues analysis for biomolecular diagnostics and conservation of cultural heritage material.

• Carla Soto Quintera
• Miranda Evans
• Jessica Hendy

Lead Institution: University of Copenhagen

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 722606.

TRADITION will explore the origin and development of small-scale fisheries in the south and southeastern rainforest coast of Brazil, from pre-Columbian to present day. It will investigate how human interacted with coastal resources during the i) transition from foraging to farming, the ii) European colonisation and iii) during major environmental changes in coastal areas of Atlantic rainforest. With this knowledge we TRADITION will assess the legacy of small-scale subsistence fisheries in the tropics, particularly with regards to shaping the socio-economic and cultural profile of contemporary coastal society. Find out more on the project website. 

• Andre Colonese

Host institution: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 817911.

• Harry Robson

An ERC Synergy project lead by University of Exeter and collaborating with the University of Copenhagen, Johannes-Gutenburg University Mainz and University of York.

The York side of the project will be lead by Pro. Oliver Craig and the team includes:

Dr Harry Robson

Dr Jen Harland

Dr David Orton

Prof Geoff Bailey

Prof Kirsty Penkman

Prof Nicky Milner

Dr Sam Presslee