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Postdoctoral Research Associate

Employer
Durham University
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Date posted
Oct 28, 2022

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Position Type
Faculty Positions, Education, Education Administration & Leadership
Employment Level
Post-Doc
Employment Type
Part Time
The Research Project

The new Riksbankens Jubileumsfond funded research program (2022-2027), Maritime encounters: a counterpoint to the dominant terrestrial narrative of European prehistory (short title Maritime Encounters), is led by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The multi-disciplinary research program aims to shed new light on maritime connectivity across Atlantic Europe from the late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age through four subprojects. Subproject 4, The Atlantic North and the Iberian Peninsula: Contacts ~1400/1300-600 BC, led by Durham University, United Kingdom, investigates maritime connections between Iberia and Scandinavia during the Late Bronze Age through archaeological, anthropological, linguistic and genetic data. We will characterize and date prehistoric mining in southern Iberia through fieldwork at key mining sites. We will model the circulation of metals through 'fingerprinting' chemically and isotopically copper ores collected from fieldwork across southern Iberia and metal artefacts from museums. Comparative analyses will also be performed on samples obtained from other regions of Atlantic Europe. We will reconstruct Post-Proto-Indo-European vocabulary through the study of words and Late Bronze Age rock art. We will use aDNA and stable isotope analysis of human samples, jointly with state-of-the-art ocean modelling techniques, to reconstruct human mobility patterns from Iberia to the Atlantic north.

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