Actualités du GMPCA et de l'archéométrie

Cette offre d'emploi s'inscrit au sein d'un projet d'exploration de l'oasis d'Al Ula en Arabie saoudite, le projet ArcAgr-Au, dirigé par Louise Purdue. Ce projet vise à comprendre l'histoire de cette oasis, et notamment le lien entre les populations humaines et la gestion des ressources en eau et en sol. Le projet repose sur une approche géoarchéologique et géomorphologique notamment et s'appuie sur des études de terrain et de laboratoire. Le chercheur assurera la prospection, l'observation et l'échantillonnage des archives paléoenvironnementales alluviales et dunaires avec un focus sur les dynamiques hydro-sédimentaires et climatiques au cours du Pleistocène et de la transition avec l'Holocène.

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We seek an enthusiastic, creative individual with a strong background in evolutionary biology, palaeoanthropology, the archaeological sciences, or associated disciplines. You will join our research group in the context of PROSPER, an ERC Starting Grant project aimed at developing new analytical approaches to unravel the phyloproteomic relationships between several Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin populations, including the emergence and dispersal of our own species. The project involves collaboration with a range of international partners from various continents and scientific backgrounds. We are in the process of generating a range of skeletal proteomes from hominin fossils distributed across the last 1 million years, as well as associated proteomes from animal fossils. In addition, PROSPER aims to generate comparative datasets dedicated to proteomic and phylogenetic method development for a range of palaeoanthropological research questions. The ideal candidate has an interest in contributing to the data analysis components of our research, including the phylogenetic analysis of ancient skeletal proteomes, or further development of our laboratory-based proteomic data generation. Based on mutual agreement, there is the opportunity for exploring individual research interests and initiatives within the PROSPER project.

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[Website University of Copenhagen]

L'ingénieur sera chargé, sous la direction de la responsable de la Plateforme datation par le C14, de la mise en œuvre de la méthode de datation par le carbone 14 et de son application, dans le cadre de l'archéologie nationale et internationale.

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Recent research by the National Trust has used Machine Learning to map changes in 20th century configurations of UK habitats such as orchards, linear features and trees across landscapes. This PhD project will extend these approaches to a wider set of habitats & landscape elements for these and earlier periods i.e. prior to systematic national mapping. It will also explore augmentation with a heterogeneous range of other datasets (such as lidar, land cover mapping) and/or combining the results with existing spatial data (such as biological survey records or Historic Landscape Characterisation maps (HLC)). Understanding the evolution of landscape features is important to help guide current and future biodiversity renovation and contextualise this with historic and cultural knowledge. Research challenges include use of computer vision to identify symbols on historic mapping, referencing map features against geospatial features, and combining disparate datasets to foster a clearer picture of past landscapes. The student will acquire advanced data science and AI skills in the context of environmental change and ecology. Within the broad area of the project, there is scope for the student to direct their research in different directions, depending on their interests and the results of early explorations.

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[Website University of Exeter]

Horse Power will examine the complex interactions between the eastern steppe and China from the second millennium BCE to the formation of the Xiongnu empire in Mongolia and the Qin state in China after 300 BCE. To examine the connections between the steppe, Mongolia and China’s Central Plains we will combine the latest scientific techniques in genetics and metallurgical analysis with theory concerning politics and power within and between China and its northern neighbours. Three principal empirical elements underpin the project: ancient DNA from horses; the characterization of bronzes to throw light on their movement and recycling; the structure and contents of archaeological sites (mainly graves) in China, Mongolia and the steppe. The doctoral student will examine the technology of chariots and horse gear in China from the Shang to the Qin from a metallurgical and typological perspective. The student should have a background in the relevant archaeology of China and the steppe. They should possess some knowledge of Chinese and have a background in archaeological science and an understanding of the formal qualities of objects.

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[Website University of Oxford]

This position is part of the UKRI-funded project RATTUS: Rats and the Archaeology of Trade, Urbanism, and Disease in Past European Societies, led by David Orton at the University of York. As one member in a network of collaborators, the Research Associate in Stable Isotopes will help investigate the history of black and brown rats in Europe. This position will focus on analysis of stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur from bone collagen in order to understand rats’ diet and commensal ecology through time. The Research Associate will help to select suitable archaeological samples of rats and comparative taxa from historic-period sites across Europe, will analyse these at the BioArCh facility in York, and will interpret them in collaboration with RATTUS team members including Eric Guiry at Trent University and Michelle Alexander at York.

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[Website University of York]

We seek to appoint a two-year postdoctoral research fellow (PDR) responsible for the archaeological study of North Atlantic marine fisheries over the last two millennia, with a particular emphasis on cod and herring. More specifically, the successful applicant will expand our understanding of North Atlantic fisheries by synthesis of published and public domain zooarchaeological data, especially from eastern North America. Focused comparison with existing research regarding European and Pacific Ocean fisheries will also be conducted. The successful applicant will: join a growing interdisciplinary team studying human impacts on key marine taxa globally over the last two millennia; lead their own study of especially zooarchaeological data, within the overall goals of the 4-OCEANS project; collaborate with project team members specializing in ancient DNA, data science, stable isotope analysis, geometric and traditional morphometrics, zooarchaeology and environmental history.

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[Website Norwegian University of Science & Technology]

Interaction between organic matter and mineral surfaces is critical to the preservation of biomolecules associated with artefacts yet this process is poorly understood. This is particularly relevant to more polar compounds such as organic acids and proteins that are notoriously difficult to extract and characterise. For example, proteins are known to persist when adsorbed to archaeological mineral artefacts, but their low concentration and difficulty of removal has meant that they have been largely overlooked. As part of a team, you will work on optimising methods for the combined extraction of a diverse range of biomolecules (DNA, proteins, lipids) from ceramics and evaluate the potential of other mineral artefacts for binding organic molecules. As part of the project, you will carry out a series of experiments testing the capacity of different biomolecules to bind to mineral surfaces and to explore the effects of different adhesives and sealants (e.g. resin and birch tar) on molecular preservation. As well as evaluating conventional approaches, you will explore novel extraction methods for combined DNA-protein-lipid extraction. You will receive training in ancient genomics and protein analysis at UCPH and GC-MS for lipid characterisation in York.

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[Website University of Copenhagen]

The preferred candidate should have carried out long-term research in human Plio-Pleistocene evolution. Well documented expertise in the analysis of the human and primate fossil record and quantitative analyt-ical skills (including, but not limited to virtual anthropology, histological or modelling approaches) are expected. Long-term participation and / or leadership in fieldwork is desired. Potential research directions to be considered include ontogenetic and life history perspectives on human evolution; locomotor adaptations; and / or environmental influences on human evolution. The position will be responsible for the Paleoanthropology curriculum in Human Evolution at the bachelor and master levels, including teaching of lecture and laboratory courses (e.g. Introduction to the Human Fossil Record, Evolution of Human Biolo-gy and Behavior, Research Design, Evolutionary Theory). The position has a teaching load of nine hours per week during the semester. The successful candidate will be expected to complement existing strengths in the Paleoanthropology working group and to develop new collaborative research avenues.

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[Website Tübingen University]

The University of Copenhagen seeks to appoint four senior researchers to the Globe Institute at the Department of Health and Medical Sciences within our ArchaeoScience core facility. The positions include working as zooarchaeologist, biological anthropologist (human osteology), geoarchaeologist or geophysicist for the ArchaeoScience Unit, which advises and carries out scientific analysis for the archaeological museums. Furthermore, the positions include a research component on Near Eastern, Danish and Greenlandic zoo-, geo-archaeology, geo-chemistry or biological and forensic anthropology. The right applicants therefore have a strong track-record in the analysis and publication of human or faunal remains, or characterization of deposits including macrofossils and element scanning. Applicants also must carry out research and contribute to published and unpublished reports on materials from Denmark and Greenland. Persons appointed to the position will partly analyse various human and faunal remains from excavations connected with contract archaeology as well as analysis for various research projects. The successful candidate must demonstrate a commitment to continue the work of the ArchaeoScience Unit, as well as develop a personal research profile.

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The main purpose of this position is to develop and implement statistical models of maritime contact and trade networks in the 3rd millennium BCE Mediterranean, such as contact network models, or continuous diffusion models. Using a variety of cultural data, calibrated radiocarbon dates and patterns of environment and subsistence, the successful candidate will establish which model best explains the data, in order to infer routes of trade cultural dissemination.

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[Website University College London]