Postdoctoral research projects

Mattias Sjölander (photo: Per Melander, Umeå University)

Tracing human and natural change in big interdisciplinary data

Project summary

My research interests includes interdisciplinary apporaches in the study of how human – environment relationships have developed over time. In my research I have studied the use of bifacial points, and its relation to the exploitation of quartzite, among hunter-gatherers in Västerbotten County during the Bronze Age period.

In my current project I am using exploratory techniques for interrogating large environmental datasets, including fossil insect and pollen data, from the European region. The aim is to integrate the information from the two proxies for environmental change in order to reconstruct the Holocene European landscape and study human mobility over time.

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