The postdoctoral researcher will join the IslandLives project led by Professor Konrad Antczak at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). Funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant, 2024), Islandlives: Alternative Modernities and Everyday Life in the Pre-emancipation Southern Caribbean (c. 1634–1863) aims to uncover the unknown everyday lives of peoples on Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire (ABC islands) and reveal how they selectively navigated the modernity thrust upon them during Dutch colonization in contested and contingent ways. The postdoctoral researcher will undertake Work Package 5 of the project which involves the provenancing of European tin-glazed earthenwares and Southern Caribbean coarse earthenwares (17th to 19th century) to trace their production and trade and create new protocols for more precise identifications and dating of these ceramics in historical archaeology. For this role, the researcher will perform archaeometric analyses (XRF, XRD, pXRF, and petrography) of samples excavated during the project and samples obtained from museum collections. The researcher will not only participate actively in yearly fieldwork on Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire and perform archaeometric analyses in Barcelona, but will also undertake British and Dutch tin-glazed earthenware collection studies using a portable XRF spectrometer in the USA, the Caribbean, and The Netherlands.
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