University of York Department of Archaeology

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Maritime Zooarchaeology

Fishlab, the University’s maritime zooarchaeology laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral research fellow for a three-year post from 1 April 2006. You will contribute to the Medieval Origins of Commercial Sea Fishing Project funded by the Leverhulme Trust and endorsed by the Census of Marine Life through its historical branch, the History of Marine Animal Populations. Your responsibilities will be to coordinate the day to day running of the project, to liaise with museum curators, to extract, identify and measure appropriate bones from archaeological fish bone assemblages housed in collections across Britain and Europe, to analyse zooarchaeological and isotopic data using statistical methods, to maintain accurate and up-to-date project archives and to assist with disseminating the project’s results by maintaining a project website, presenting at international conferences and writing journal articles. You will have a PhD (in hand or submitted by April 2006), practical experience in zooarchaeology (preferably regarding fish bone) and proficiency with multivariate statistics. Knowledge of medieval archaeology and/or stable isotope analysis is desirable, as is experience working in an international European research team.

You will be responsible to Dr. James Barrett, the project’s principal investigator, but will also work closely with other members of the research team in York and internationally, particularly Professor Callum Roberts, Dr.Wim Van Neer, Professor Mike Richards, Dr. Andrew Jones, Dr. Inge Enghoff and Dr. Anton Ervynck.

Informal enquiries can be addressed to Dr. James Barrett (jhb5@york.ac.uk).

Salary will start at £21,156 per annum. Job-share applications are welcome.

For further particulars and details of how to apply, please see our website at: http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/persnl/jobs/ or write to the Personnel Office, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, quoting reference number BR0618.

Closing date: 17th February 2006