A Research Assistant is required for twenty four months to join the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond funded subproject “The Atlantic North and the Iberian Peninsula: Contacts ~1400/1300–600 BC”. The successful applicant will have the following main tasks: To compile and analyse a comprehensive archaeological relational database for Atlantic Iberia. The data to be identified and entered will include all known Bronze Age sites (monuments, funerary sites, settlements, metalwork finds, mining sites, etc.). This data would be integrated within GIS with other layers (e.g. topography, rivers and geology) and then subjected to spatial and network analysis. Data gathering and inputting would involve extensive use of a wide variety of published and unpublished archaeological sources to a tight timescale. This work will underpin the sampling strategy and the interpretation of the relationship between Bronze Age sites, ore deposits and landing sites; To support fieldwork seasons at mining sites and warrior-stelae find-spot sites in south-western Iberia. Fieldwork will involve excavation and survey work for about two months annually. Fieldwork activity will be undertaken in all weathers, often in hot temperatures, and involve moving survey equipment, often walking through rough terrain; To sample artefacts at different museums in Spain and Portugal and support sample preparation procedures for accurate and precise isotopic analysis of Pb and elemental work based Q-ICP-MS at the laboratory Ibercron (University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain). Sample preparation will involve work for a total of about two months.
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