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PDRA positions at Liverpool University There are 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 Eleni Asouti, 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. (contact Eleni Asouti for further information [log in to unmask]<ailto:[log in to unmask]>) PDRA2 field sampling and laboratory palaeoenvironmental analyses - field stratigraphy of fluvial, wetland and soil environments, environmental magnetism, organic and inorganic geochemistry (contact Richard Chiverrell for further information [log in to unmask]<ailto:[log in to unmask]>) Candidates must have or be about to complete PhDs in archaeology, Holocene/Quaternary 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. The application form, job description and further particulars (including details of the tasks involved and person specifications) can be obtained from the University website (http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/research/R-580897.htm<ttp://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/research/R-580897.htm%22>). The advertisement will go live in the next day or so in the jobs.ac.uk<ttp://jobs.ac.uk%22> website as well, and the same information will be available there too. Please feel free to email 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 The early recruitment cycle is to allow the PDRAs to participate in the fieldwork in Turkey whilst meeting Archaeology Visa requirements to work in the country. Please return a completed application form 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]<ailto:[log in to unmask]> (indicating reference number: R-580897/WWW) Dr Richard C Chiverrell Reader in Physical Geography School of Environmental Sciences Roxby Building, University of Liverpool Liverpool. L69 7ZT Tel. +44 (0)151 7942834<el:%2B44%20%280%29151%207942834%22> Fax. +44 (0)151 7942866<el:%2B44%20%280%29151%207942866%22> email. 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