Mattias Sjölander

Postdoc in environmental archaeology with interest in interdisciplinary approaches to prehistoric cultural development and mobility.

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.