This position is part of the UKRI-funded project RATTUS: Rats and the Archaeology of Trade, Urbanism, and Disease in Past European Societies, led by David Orton at the University of York. As one member in a network of collaborators, the Research Associate in Stable Isotopes will help investigate the history of black and brown rats in Europe. This position will focus on analysis of stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur from bone collagen in order to understand rats’ diet and commensal ecology through time. The Research Associate will help to select suitable archaeological samples of rats and comparative taxa from historic-period sites across Europe, will analyse these at the BioArCh facility in York, and will interpret them in collaboration with RATTUS team members including Eric Guiry at Trent University and Michelle Alexander at York.
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