The successful candidate will join the project “V2C: Viking To Christian Landscapes Across The Norweigain Sea: Agricultural Trajectories And Resilience Using SedaDNA and Fecal Lipids”. The project is led at Durham by Dr Helen Mackay and is funded by the Research Council of Norway. As a Research Assistant (RA) on this project, the successful applicant will be required to develop reconstructions of human and animal activity from lakes and wetlands close to Viking-Medieval archaeological sites in northern Norway and Scotland using faecal steroid lipid biomarkers. Faecal steroid reconstrutions for the last 1500 years will be compared to other proxies of environmental change (such as sedaDNA, pollen and pXRF) and archaeological evidence developed by collaborators at the The Arctic University of Norway, University of Bergen and Universities of the Highlands and Islands. The wider project will provide a new comprenshive understanding of the balance of cultural and environmental factors in landscape history from the Viking to Christian periods in northern Norway and the Northern Isles, UK. The main responsibilities of the RA will be to develop faecal steroid datasets from lake sediments by processing sediment samples for gas chromatography analysis in a containment level 2 (CL2) laboratory, following established laboratory protocols, assisting with quality control, troubleshooting, and running of GC-FID and GC-MS.
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