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.
This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust, grant agreement No. 209869/Z/17/Z.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Project supported by: AHRC
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.
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
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.
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
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
Lead Institution: Cambridge Archaeological Unit and Historic England.
PlantCult: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Plant Ingredients, Culinary Transformation and Evolution Through Time
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.
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.
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.
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