Posted on March 8, 2019
by mickbonnen
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The second of our discussion papers for the “Amsterdam Palaeoecology Club”: Detecting the European arrival in the Caribbean By Mick Bönnen (currently studying for MSc Biological Sciences, Ecology & Evolution track at the University of Amsterdam) The paper we discussed was “Columbus’ footprint in…
Category: ReadingTags: archaeology, Botany, Caribbean, chronology, Cibao Valley, Columbus, crops, deforestation, Dominican Republic, ecology, Geology, Hispaniola, history, Landscape, livestock, monoculture, multi-proxy, palaeoecology, paleoecology, pollen, Radiocarbon, Spanish, Taino
Posted on November 6, 2018
by WDG
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The 2018 edition of the University of Amsterdam masters course “Environments Through Time” is now up and running. The course sits at the interface between ecology, physical geography and archaeology and seeks to provide students with a better understanding of how long-term (>100’s years)…
Category: Reports, Teaching, William GoslingTags: archaeology, chronology, climate, ecology, Environments through time, Global Charcoal Database, land use, land-use change, MSc Biological Sciences, MSc Earth Sciences, multi-proxy, Neotoma, NOAA, Pangea, past environmental change, physical geography, time-series analysis, vegetation
Posted on November 19, 2017
by WDG
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The second and third weeks of the Environments Through Time course at the University of Amsterdam has focused on obtaining practical experience of developing chronologies, analyzing multi-variate data-sets, and conducting time series analysis. The focus of the course has been on Quaternary environmental change,…
Category: Reports, Teaching, William GoslingTags: archaeology, Bayesian, calibration, chronology, Earth Sciences, Ecology and evolution, Environments through time, Geoecological dynamics, Geology, IBED, Masters, MSc Biological Sciences, MSc Earth Sciences, ordination, palaeoecology, physical geography, Radiocarbon, time series, University of Amsterdam, UvA, wavelete
