The CNRS annual recruitment drive for Postdoctoral Research positions is designed to offer young researchers an opportunity to spend time either in CNRS Laboratories or those it runs with other organizations or higher educational institutions. This recruitment drive offering post doctororal contracts is aimed at the most brilliant researchers, either from France or abroad to enable them to move from the laboratory where they did their Ph.D. to acquire additional high-level research (...)

The McDonald Institute supports archaeological research at Cambridge through the provision of facilities and funding. It now invites applications for an innovative new project in any branch of archaeology that will enhance and strengthen Cambridge archaeology’s existing world-class portfolio of research activity. The McDonald Institute will provide core funding for a three-year post-doctoral research salary (at Research Associate or Senior Research Associate level, £20,044-30,002 or (...)

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 (...)

Project directed by P.M.M.G. Akkermans, Prof. University of Leiden and conservateur in Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden de Leiden. Two job vacancies for PhD positions in archaeology in Leiden, the Netherlands : Ph.D candidate settlement archaeology: http://www.archeovacatures.nl/vacat... Ph.D candidate zooarchaeology: http://www.archeovacatures.nl/vacat...

The UC Davis Department of Anthropology - Evolutionary Wing is soliciting applications for graduate students interested in East African archaeology. A combined research team from the University of California-Davis and California State University-Chico has been conducting archaeological excavations in northern Rukwa Valley, western Tanzania, since 2002. Current emphasis is on late (historic) period sites that are enclosed by ditches, walls or other apparently defensive structures. (...)

Please find details below for one of the forthcoming Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) sessions taking place at Cambridge University on the 24th to the 25th of March 2006. (http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/trac06/sessions/sessions.html). If you are interested in presenting a paper within the session please contact James Morris, morrisj@bmth.ac.uk and Krish Seetah ks354@hermes.cam.ac.uk Title: A Zooarchaeological Approach to Romanisation: Cross-cultural Synthesis or One-Way (...)