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Professor Paul Lane awarded European Research Council Advanced Grant

Magdalene Fellow awarded European Research Council Advanced Grant.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the names of 255 outstanding research leaders in Europe set to be awarded ERC Advanced Grants.

Professor Paul LaneMagdalene Fellow, Professor Paul Lane (2018), is the Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa. He has been awarded a ERC Advanced Grant for his project Landscape Historical Ecology and Archaeology of Ancient Pastoral Societies in Kenya (LHEAAPS).

LHEAAPS aims to reconstruct the past adaptive strategies of East African pastoralists, and their relative resilience to environmental shocks under different systems of land management, rangeland access, and population and livestock densities across Kenya.

The research is designed to generate knowledge that has applied value geared toward enhancing the socio-ecological and cultural resilience and sustainable livelihood strategies of contemporary pastoral societies in the face of current global challenges.

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Wording from this article first appeared on the Department of Archaeology website, Professor Paul Lane awarded ERC Advanced Grant by Lydia Clough and has been shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.