The successful applicant will play an active role in developing a vibrant research program and laboratory facilities dedicated to compositional and characterization techniques (X-Ray Fluorescence, X-Ray Diffraction, Fourier transform Infrared Spectroscopy), microscopy (Stereo, scanning electron and/or transmission), collagen mass fingerprinting (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry- ZooMS) and multi element stable isotope applications to modern and archaeological faunal remains and datasets. The applicant must be highly self-motivated, independent, and interested in working within interdisciplinary teams consisting of archaeologists and diverse scientists to investigate and reconstruct past human-animal interactions.
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[Website Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar]
The Institute of Human Origins (IHO) at Arizona State University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in early hominin postcranial anatomy and functional morphology under the supervision of Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie. The postdoctoral research scholar will be contributing to a collaborative project studying mid-Pliocene hominin postcrania from Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia), with particular emphasis on their anatomy and functional morphology.
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[Website Arizona State University]
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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[Site web CNRS]
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]
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]
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]