The postholder will contribute to the development and testing of operational definitions of damage for a diversity of collection typologies. The main methodology will consist of interviews and surveys to stakeholders (such as museum curators, conservators and the public) in order to identify how ...
We study human history from the Quaternary period to modern times, taking into account material archaeological sources and the written tradition. The research group „Environment and Human Impact in Historical Societies” focuses on the relations between humans and their environment – mainly in ...
This position is funded by a recent EU Synergy grant awarded to UCL, Gothenburg and Copenhagen Universities. The person appointed will be a member of an international team developing interdisciplinary approaches to achieve the project’s aims. To be an active member of the research project ...
This position is funded by a recent EU Synergy grant awarded to UCL, Gothenburg and Copenhagen Universities. The person appointed will be a member of an international team developing interdisciplinary approaches to achieve the project’s aims. The successful candidate will also work closely with ...
We are looking to appoint an analytical chemist / geochemist to be responsible for conducting amino acid research from modern and ancient marine shells and corals under the direction of Professor Kirsty Penkman. The role is funded by the European Research Council under the project “SEACHANGE ...
The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research invites applications for a fixed-term, full-time Research Assistant to work within the Fenscapes project. The project focuses on Fens region of eastern England, and aims to generate innovative and engaging perspectives on the long-term ...
The proposed position is to develop an integrated procedure by using innovative smart adsorbents materials produced by UNIFI (Group of Prof. Dei) for entrapping and releasing biogenic residues from the stone tools. The new adsorbent materials will be tested prior on proxies obtained by means of ...
This research fellowship offers an exciting opportunity to develop a programme of independent research with the University of Reading (UoR) and the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London. We are looking for a researcher with skills and experience in ancient DNA and/or ancient environmental DNA ...
The research fellow will dedicate entirely her/his activity to set up some elastic gels and macro-porous sponge/foams with the appropriate composition and viscoelastic properties able to selectively adsorb and detach the starch grains from the surface of hard porous materials such as stones ...
Dans le cadre du projet scientifique IsotOk, Bois d’architecture néo-Inuit dans l’ouest de l’Alaska : cernes, isotopes, climat et développements chronométriques, le ou la candidate s’attachera à mener une approche interdisciplinaire afin de poursuivre dans le temps les premières chronologies ...
The post-holder will join an international, interdisciplinary team on the ERC-funded project, Animals and Society in Bronze Age Europe, a collaboration between University College Dublin, University of Bristol and Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The project as a whole will explore the ...
The position is funded by the A. G. Leventis Foundation and implemented jointly by The Cyprus Institute (Cyprus) and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (UK). It aims to develop science-based archaeology in sub-Saharan West Africa, broadly defined as the ...
