The successful applicant will join the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies (School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University) and will conduct sclerochronological and isotopic analyses on mollusc shells recovered from the shell-matrix deposits of the Ginnerup site. This strand of the project is managed by Marcello A. Mannino, Associate Professor in archaeological science at Aarhus University, and will be conducted in collaboration with Prof. Bernd Schöne at the Institute of Geosciences of the University of Mainz, Germany. The sclerochronological and isotopic (carbon, oxygen and nitrogen) analyses on the main mollusc taxa from the shell-matrix deposits in Ginnerup are aimed at reconstructing the nature and variation of the marine environment of Kolindsund (e.g. sea surface temperatures, salinity, productivity) and the seasonality of shellfish exploitation at Ginnerup during the Neolithic. The analyses will be conducted on shells from an assemblage that is being studied zooarchaeologically and that (in part) has been micro-excavated at the Moesgaard Archaeo-Science Laboratory. This is where the sample selection, as well as the initial and final stages of the laboratory work will take place, whilst sample preparation for sclerochronology and the isotope analyses will be conducted in Germany at the University of Mainz.
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