The University of Iceland, in collaboration with Exeter University, welcomes applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in zooarchaeology. The fellowship is funded by a Grant of Excellence from the Icelandic Research Fund: Between man and nature: The Making of Benedictine Communities in Medieval Iceland. Between Man and Nature is a multi-disciplinary project that aims to study the Benedictine communities run in Iceland during the medieval time. The overarching aim is to elucidate the ways in which the Benedictine houses and their natural environments concurrently shaped each other. The post-doctoral position is intended for a scholar in the field of zooarchaeology, aimed to study diet and animal husbandry in two Benedictine settlements in Iceland, Þingeyrar and Kirkjubæjarklaustur. The post-doctoral scholar needs to participate in fieldwork planned inside the frame of the project on both sites, Þingeyrar and Kirkjubæjarklaustur, for to gather data for the analysis. The work also includes analysing of data gathered during previous excavations on these sites.
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