PhD positions biological anthropology
01/Feb/2011
The Department of Archaeology, University College Cork, invites applications for two four year PhD studentships in biological anthropology as part of a new European Research Council funded project (directed by Dr R Pinhasi): "From the earliest modern humans to the onset of farming (45,000-4,500 BP): the role of climate, life-style, health, migration and selection in shaping European population history". The research will involve the study of cranial and postcranial morphological variation, activity patterns, behaviour, mobility, diet, demography and health in approx. 700 European Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic skeletons.
Students will be supervised by Dr Ron Pinhasi at UCC with co-supervision by Dr Jay Stock (Cambridge) and Dr Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel (Kent University) as part of the ERC funded programme. The work will also involve collaboration with leading geneticists, simulation specialists and anthropologists engaged in building an interdisciplinary view of the major events in European human prehistory. Candidates will gain experience in a broad range of osteological and quantitative methods as well as in the study of stable isotopes.
Source and full details: Jobs.ac.uk
(Tags: anthropology, archaeology, isotopes, osteology, PhD)