A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available at the Arctic University Museum of Norway, The Arctic University Museum of Norway and Academy of Fine Arts. The position is on the project “V2C - Viking to Christian Landscapes across the Norwegian Sea”. The successful candidate will be part of a team that will core lakes in Central and Northern Norway, Orkney and Shetland Isles, UK and do metabarcoding and lithological analyses of lake-sediment cores to obtain information on past vascular plant species including crops, and herbivores. These data, together with similar data from southern Norway will be used together with the V2C team (UiT, University of Bergen, University of Durham UK, Highlands and Islands University UK) to 1) investigate landscape change, crop use and farming from c. 500-1500 CE, 2) Examine the causes of these changes and relate to archaeological and textual data, 3) trial new techniques in environmental archaeology from cores including pOSL and pathogens.

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