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From: Asouti, Eleni <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 1 October 2012 15:18
Subject: 2 Postdoctoral Research Associates@Liverpool - The Unfamiliar
Landscapes Project
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Dear all,



We are advertising 2 PDRA positions here in Liverpool (one in the
Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology department, the other in the
School of Environmental Sciences) for two post-docs to join our
interdisciplinary team (consisting of myself, Doug Baird, Richard
Chiverrell and Matt Grove) on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project
“Unfamiliar Landscapes: from foraging to farming in central Anatolia,
Turkey”. The project investigates hunter-gatherer and
cultivator-forager subsistence strategies, landscape practices, and
environmental/landscape impacts in the Konya plain during the 9th-8th
millennia cal BC and what was the nature and pace of the transition to
the integrated agro-pastoral economy that exemplified the later
substantial community of Çatalhöyük



More specifically, the Unfamiliar Landscapes Project addresses the
following research questions:



• What was the environmental context of early Holocene hunter-gatherer
and cultivator-forager subsistence economies in the Konya plain, and
how did environments and economic practices co-develop through time?



• What was the ecological distinctiveness of, and environmental
challenges for, early Holocene crop cultivation in the Konya plain?



• Can we improve existing methodologies for researching the
foraging-farming transition, and enhance current theoretical
frameworks for understanding past people-environment interactions and
economic decision-making, through predictive modelling approaches?



Building on previous pilot work funded by the British Academy the
University of Liverpool Interdisciplinary Research Fund, we will
reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental context and ecological impacts of
aceramic Neolithic foraging and crop cultivation. Palaeoenvironmental
reconstructions, tied to a C-14/OSL dating framework, will contribute
baseline data for modelling the distribution and availability of food
resources, economic decision-making (including risk-sensitive
behaviours) and their co-variation with environmental and landscape
changes. The validity of model predictions will be tested against
extant subsistence archaeology datasets.



PDRA1 will undertake computational modelling and GIS-assisted Site
Catchment Analysis, PDRA2 field sampling and laboratory
palaeoenvironmental analyses. Candidates must have or be about to
complete  PhDs in archaeology and palaeoenvironmental research, or
related fields, respectively. Salary is at £31,020 per annum (more
details about benefits etc. can be found in the job description file)



Both positions are full-time, for a period of 24 months, starting from
1 May 2013.



I have attached here the application form, job description and further
particulars (including details of the tasks involved and person
specifications) – The same documents can also be obtained from the
University website
(http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/research/R-580897.htm).
The advertisement will go live in the next day or so in the jobs.ac.uk
website as well, and the same information will be available there too.
Please feel free to email me if you have further questions or would
like to know more about the project. Qualified individuals from
overseas are encouraged to apply (i.e. the position is not limited to
people of British or EU origin).



Deadline for applications is Wednesday 31 October 2012



Please return the completed application form (attached) together with
a copy of your full CV including a list of publications and a cover
letter indicating the reasons for applying for this post, and how your
training and experience are relevant to [log in to unmask] (indicating
reference number: R-580897/WWW)



Please forward as widely as possible to your institutions, eligible
post-docs and professional contact networks.



Best wishes,



Eleni

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Dr. Eleni Asouti

Director of Research Events & Research Projects Officer

Director of Studies (Geography and Archaeology)



Associate Editor, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Editorial Board, Journal of Archaeological Science





Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology

University of Liverpool

Hartley Building, Brownlow Street
Liverpool L69 3GS, UK

Tel: (+44) 151 79 45284
Fax: (+44) 151 79 45057

E-mail: [log in to unmask]





Personal website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/organisation/people/asouti.htm

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