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.

My profile on CPG: http://palaeogenetics.com/erika-rosengren/