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The impact of Quaternary environmental changes on human societies

THESIS TOPIC PROPOSAL

Institute: University of Miskolc
earth sciences
Mikoviny Sámuel Doctoral School of Earth Sciences

Thesis supervisor: György Lengyel
Location of studies (in Hungarian): University of Miskolc
Abbreviation of location of studies: UM


Description of the research topic:

The first humans are as old as the beginning of the Quaternary, thus the sever climatological changes that characterized the entire Pleistocene and the transition to the Holocene profoundly affected the biological and cultural evolution of Homo genus. In Central Europe, the expansion-shrinking cycles of the Fennoscandian ice sheet were the major sources of environmental changes including climate, flora and fauna. Since Pleistocene humans were mobile hunter-gatherers subsisting on vegetal and animal resources, any change in the environment forces humans to change their subsistence, which results in a variability of the archaeological record that is the materialized imprint of a human culture. The aim of the research is to find significant correlation between paleo-environmental changes and cultural variability during glacial-interglacial or stadial-interstadial transitional periods of the Pleistocene.

Required language skills: english
Number of students who can be accepted: 1

Deadline for application: 2021-12-31


2024. IV. 17.
ODT ülés
Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).

 
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