A postdoctoral appointment o is available to contribute to the ERC-funded MENTICA project, Middle East Neolithic Transition – Integrated Community Approaches. The successful applicant will work with Prof Roger Matthews, Dr Wendy Matthews and colleagues at the University of Reading to investigate changing environments, animal management, and community food-ways during the transition from mobile hunting-gathering to sedentary agriculture. The primary roles of the PDRA in Zooarchaeology will be to analyse the faunal assemblages from excavation sites in order to investigate distinctive food-way strategies and preferences at the scales of communities associated with buildings, neighbourhoods, sites, caves and regions; to integrate this food-ways analysis with the archaeobotanical evidence recovered; to articulate the trajectories and sustainability of food procurement and consumption; and to investigate the role of seasonality and environmental change in the transition from mobile hunting-gathering to more sedentary agricultural food-ways.
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