Postdoctoral Assistant in Modern Archaeology at the University of Vienna University of Vienna in Austria

University of Vienna is advertising a pre-doctoral university assistant (Praedoc) position at the Institute of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology , Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies. The role is embedded in research on settlement and landscape archaeology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period , and is closely connected to the research program Dynamics in Rural Areas and the Chair of Historical Archaeology. The successful candidate will develop a dissertation on settlement dy...

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany is advertising PhD Researcher positions in Quantitative Past Urban Studies within the Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization. The project focuses on quantitative, historical, and archaeological urban research, with particular emphasis on analyzing urban patterns and processes across large past datasets through the URBank initiative. The successful candidate will work on multidisciplinary research spanning archaeology, histo...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Urban Metabolisms, Supply Chains, and Land Use at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany . This 3-year research fellowship sits in the Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization and focuses on urban metabolism , urban energy and material flows , supply chains , land use , and the changing relationships between cities, hinterlands, and the Earth system across decades to centuries. The project is especially interested in how urb...

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) is advertising a postdoctoral researcher position in the Department of Urban and Rural Development for the ERC-funded project TransRein . The project examines the historical transition across northern Eurasia from hunting, fishing, and small reindeer herds to large-scale reindeer pastoralism . The research is comparative and places Sámi society in relation to similar transformations among other pastoralist groups, with a special focus on the soci...

Postdoctoral Researcher in TransRein: transition to reindeer pastoralism at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) , Sweden. This postdoctoral position is part of the ERC-funded TransRein project, which studies the profound historical transformation across northern Eurasia from hunting and fishing societies and small reindeer herds to large-scale reindeer herding (reindeer pastoralism) in the early modern period. The project examines this transition through a comparative historica...