PhD Student
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Lund University
P.O. Box 192
SE-22100 Lund
SWEDEN
Email: Erika.Rosengren@ark.lu.se
Organisation: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University
Research Description
It has proven notoriously difficult to morphologically distinguishing between the postcranial bones of European bison and aurochs limiting our interpretive potential of palaeozoological assemblages. In my PhD project I will use palaeogenomics to i) genetically distinguish bones of these two species, and ii) investigate the demographics and dynamics between them, in addition to wild horse, in order to understand the patterns and causes (climatic and/or anthropogenic) to their demise and subsequent disappearance from Southern Scandinavia in the early Holocene.
Brief CV
Sept 2018 - PhD student in Historical Osteology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University
June 2012 - Osteological Collections Curator, Lund University Historical Museum