Applications are invited from enthusiastic and talented bioarchaeologists for a Postdoctoral Research Associate role as part of the Welcome Trust funded project “Bodies of Water: Health Trade-offs and Climate Change in British Wetlands during the First Millennium AD”. The project uses a range of interdisciplinary osteological and biomolecular methods to explore the role of climate in altering the balance of benefit and risk for people living and working in British wetlands during the first millennium AD. The successful applicant will apply knowledge of historic British wetlands and postdepositional preservation factors to assist the PI in selection of samples for, and execution of, multi-method analysis of human and animal remains, in cooperation with academic partners. Some travel, including the potential for international travel, will be required for this position. Finally, the Research Associate will play a key role in helping the PI to develop cutting-edge methods to identify disease markers in human remains. The “Bodies of Water” project will explore trade-offs in human health in British wetlands during the Roman and medieval periods in times of climatic stability and crisis. Specific lines of investigation include (i) human osteometric, demographic, and palaeopathological analyses; (ii) amelogenin proteomic analysis; (iii) bulk and compound-specific stable isotope analyses of human collagen; (iv) histological analysis of human teeth, (v) metabolomic analysis and high-resolution microscopy, (vi) stable isotope analyses of animal bone for biosphere and palaeodietary reconstruction, and (vii) use of historical and environmental sources and spatial analysis to understand and contextualise wetland skeletal data.
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