The Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, School of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University invites applications for postdoctoral position in the NeanderEDGE research project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark Sapere Aude scheme. We are looking for an innovative scholar with a background in Prehistoric Archaeology preferably with a background in Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) research with a specialization geared towards questions of dispersal, mobility, culture, ecology and/or adaptive behaviour. The NeanderEDGE project aims to explore how Neanderthals responded and adapted to the extreme climatic instability of the late Eemian and early Weichselian at the northern edge of their distribution. The crucial focus is on establishing the northern Neanderthal distribution boundary and on understanding human biogeographical-, adaptive- and local extinction dynamics in times of extreme climate change. The project focuses primarily on the timeframe from 130 – 60 kya, corresponding to the Eemian Interglacial and early part of the last glaciation. This period represents a critical episode between a preceding and ensuing warm phase during which Neanderthals had established a presence in northern Eurasia. Spatial focus is on the subarctic-boreal climate zones transition (~55°N) across Eurasia as a potential dispersal boundary and southern Scandinavia serves as a detailed regional case study to investigate the distributional edge of the Neanderthal range.
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[Website Aarhus University]
The Heritage Laboratory at the Swedish National Heritage Board, situated in Visby on the island of Gotland, is hiring a two year heritage scientist position. As a heritage scientist, you will participate in the development of heritage science as a research area in Sweden. You will lead or participate in R&D projects with, among others, museums and research institutions, both nationally and internationally. You will work with communication and dissemination to varied target audiences. You will also have tasks in the development of the Heritage Laboratory as well as developing the field of heritage science in Sweden. Preferably you have a PhD, experience within interdisciplinary and cultural heritage fields, experience in organic chemistry and working with SEM-EDS, µXRF, FTIR, Raman or mass spectrometry.
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[Website Swedish National Heritage Board]
The hire will lead a new project to develop a rapid stable isotope test to differentiate ivories sourced from modern elephants and prehistoric mammoths – in an effort to identify mislabeling fraud within the world’s largest ivory market. There is sufficient scope for the hire to explore other research in the area of conservation forensics (e.g. differentiating captive vs. wild caught species of conservation concern) marine ecology, or other areas of mutual interest. In addition to their research duties, the hire will be expected to supervise graduate and undergraduate research, assist with SIRMS operations including methods development and promotions, and publish their work.
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[Website University of Hong Kong]
We are looking for a postdoc to analyse ancient metagenomic datasets generated from two different aDNA sample types. A first large dataset includes sedaDNA samples collected from Roman archaeological contexts (latrines and other organic-rich remains). These samples will be used to reconstruct past human consumption practices and economic contacts along and across the frontier of the Roman Empire. The second dataset comprises a limited number of aDNA samples from human remains. These aDNA data need to be analysed (taxonomic diversity, phylogeny, genetic ancestry, kinship, etc.) and contextualised.
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[Website Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]
Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland opens a position of a research assistant in the Cultural Heritage Research Group of the Institute. The research assistant reporting to the head of the Cultural Heritage Research group will work on the development of a comprehensive mechanical and numerical model of historical, aged paint layers in paintings – innovative at a global scale. The paint layer is a complex assembly of humidity-sensitive materials which have – over centuries – aged, cracked, and delaminated. Cracks join up forming the network – the craquelure pattern (CP) – which is a distinctive characteristic of materials and physical structure of the artwork, an outcome of the construction and painting techniques employed by the workshop and the artist, but there is no knowledge on how CPs have developed and what is the effect of CPs on painting vulnerability to environmental variations.
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[Website Polish Academy of Sciences]
The Conservation Department at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, is delighted to offer the post of Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Assistant – Conservation on the Research Project Grant “Ruskin's painting materials: what he used, what he chose, what he taught”. The project, aims to understand the impact of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution on Ruskin's artworks and pedagogical approach and to expand our knowledge of industrially produced painting materials and their deterioration processes. The successful candidate will work closely with Conservation Manager (Preventive, Science and Technical) the project PI, Head of Conservation (Co-PI), paper conservators, Western Art Department curators as well as other specialists and researchers relating to the subject. The role will focus primarily on using non-destructive analytical techniques such as MA-XRF, XRD and FORS. You will manage and carry out academic research and analytical activities relating to the Ruskin Project. You will prepare working theories and analyse qualitative and quantitative data from a variety of non-destructive analytical techniques. You will develop ideas and proposals for research that will further the aims of the project. You will collaborate in the preparation of research publications, write for academic and non-academic audiences, and disseminate research through conferences, seminars, exhibitions, social media and museum events.
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[Website University of Oxford]
We seek a postdoctoral research fellow specializing in stable isotope analysis applied to bone collagen and archaeological osteological remains of humans and other key taxa, focusing on the introduction and prehistoric development of agriculture in Norway. the successful applicant will design sample-collection strategies to build an isotopic baseline for Norwegian prehistory that outlines core human food webs. The human skeletal material has already been sampled for aDNA analysis and is available for stable isotope measurements. The postdoctoral fellow will analyze these human bones to follow the adaptation to changing environments, mobility, and variability in economic strategies employed by different groups of the population. Animal bones and other food sources will be sampled from museum collections. The successful candidate will establish protocols for data collection, extract collagen, carry out stable isotope measurements using state-of- the-art in house IRMS equipment, write research manuscripts for international journals, and be co-author of other interdisciplinary papers with collaborating partners. Compulsory work for the University Museum can include teaching, but also archaeozoology, human osteology, or stable isotope analyses for other projects, instrument maintenance or outreach activities, depending on the qualification and interests of the applicant.
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[Website NTNU]
We seek a postdoctoral research fellow specializing in stable isotope analysis applied to bone collagen and archaeological osteological remains of humans and other key taxa, focusing on the introduction and prehistoric development of agriculture in Norway. More specifically, the successful applicant will design sample-collection strategies to build an isotopic baseline for Norwegian prehistory that outlines core human food webs. The human skeletal material has already been sampled for aDNA analysis and is available for stable isotope measurements. The postdoctoral fellow will analyze these human bones to follow the adaptation to changing environments, mobility, and variability in economic strategies employed by different groups of the population. Animal bones and other food sources will be sampled from museum collections. The successful candidate will establish protocols for data collection, extract collagen, carry out stable isotope measurements using state-of- the-art in house IRMS equipment, write research manuscripts for international journals, and be co-author of other interdisciplinary papers with collaborating partners. Compulsory work for the University Museum can include teaching, but also archaeozoology, human osteology, or stable isotope analyses for other projects, instrument maintenance or outreach activities, depending on the qualification and interests of the applicant.
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[Website Norwegian University of Science and Technology]