Research Associate needed. Social and environmental transitions: Simulating the past to understand human.

Duration of contract: September 2011- August 2015 Duration of field work: January 2012 - December 2012 How and why hunter-gatherer groups persist in arid margins, in spite of available farming technology and proximity of an urban society? In other words, what are the key elements that characterise the differential adaptive performance in arid margin between hunter-gatherer and agriculturist societies? To answer the questions a group of archaeologists, computer scientists, and anthropologists will work together to collect archaeological and ethnographic data that will be used to calibrate potential scenarios through computer modelling. To carry out the ethnographic part of the study, a research associate is needed to work at the Ethnoecology Laboratory.