The Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, invites applications for two fully-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie PhD studentship/Early Stage Researcher (MSC-ESR) Fellowship positions starting in October 2021 as part of the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network ...
This PhD scholarship is part of an exciting cross-disciplinary project, involving scientists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia and Tajikistan, that will answer questions such as when humans arrived in Central Asia and what environmental and climatic conditions were at the time. The PhD ...
The conservation of historic ships is a constant challenge, and ships like the Royal Navy’s flagship HMS Victory present a unique combination of issues that are not otherwise found in museum environments. The Deathwatch beetle (DWB) population on HMS Victory is so well-established that it is ...
In this interdisciplinary project, the successful candidates will investigate the physico-chemical mechanisms by which minerals capture and preserve aDNA. They will develop methods by which aDNA can be retrieved from such mineral assemblages, and they will use these methods to analyse aDNA from ...
The ERC Advanced Grant Biogeographic and Cultural Adaptations of Early Humans during the First Intercontinental Dispersals (BICAEHFID) Project aims to produce a global synthesis of earliest human occupation dynamics by comparing the world’s longest sequences of early archaeological sites, namely ...
