We are advertising for 3 new posts working on the ERC-funded MENTICA project:
Post-doc in Archaeology
Duration: 16 months
Closing date: 2nd May 2023
The primary roles of the PDRA in Archaeology will be to analyse the stratigraphic sequences, architectural materials and traces of activities from excavation sites in order to investigate: how innovations in built environment design and materials were configured to accommodate the fundamental changes in human life-ways during the transition from mobile hunting-gathering to sedentary agricultural communities; changing human, animal, plant and material inter-relations; and development of theoretical and methodological frameworks in the study of sustainable communities.
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Post-doc in zooarchaeology
Duration: 6 months
Closing date: 5th May 2023
The primary roles of the PDRA in Zooarchaeology will be to analyse the faunal assemblages from excavation sites in order to investigate distinctive food-way strategies and preferences at the scales of communities associated with buildings, neighbourhoods, sites, caves and regions; to integrate this food-ways analysis with the archaeobotanical evidence recovered; to articulate the trajectories and sustainability of food procurement and consumption; and to investigate the role of seasonality and environmental change in the transition from mobile hunting-gathering to more sedentary agricultural food-ways.
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Post-doc in archaeobotany
Duration: 6 months
Closing date: 5th May 2023
The primary roles of the PDRA in Archaeobotany will be to analyse the diverse plant remains from excavation sites in order to investigate distinctive food-way strategies and preferences at the multiple scales of communities associated with buildings, neighbourhoods, sites, caves and regions; to integrate this food-ways analysis with the archaeozoological evidence recovered; to articulate the trajectories and sustainability of food procurement and consumption; and to investigate the role of seasonality and environmental change in the transition from mobile hunting-gathering to more sedentary agricultural food-ways.
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