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
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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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