Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeolithic Archaeology (1.0 FTE) Leiden University in Netherlands

The PhD project is based in the Department of Archaeological Heritage and Society at Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology and forms part of the NWO-funded VICI project Making History in Indigenous South America (1500–2025): A Multi-Method Approach . The position focuses on Mapuche histories within the broader project, which brings together historical research, museum collections, material culture analysis, and collaboration with Indigenous communities in Brazil and Chile. The doctoral rese...

University of Edinburgh is advertising a PhD in Archaeology for 2027 entry, with full-time and part-time study options and a PhD by Distance route available. The programme sits in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and welcomes research proposals across a wide range of archaeological themes. Research areas highlighted on the page include science-based archaeology , bioarchaeology , osteoarchaeology , coastal and marine heritage , megalithic monuments , Near Eastern archaeology and E...

The Department of Anthropology at William & Mary is offering a 12-month, non-tenure-track post-doctoral fellowship centered on historical archaeology and the study of North American material culture from the 18th and 19th centuries. The fellow will work with archaeological collections and associated archival materials from Yorktown, including the 18th- and 19th-century village and Revolutionary War battlefields. This position is closely tied to an active research program based on William & Mary’...

This postdoctoral project is part of COLFIN: Colonial Financial Infrastructures , a research project led by Marieke de Goede at the University of Amsterdam . The postdoc will join a team examining how colonial histories shaped modern financial infrastructures, with a specific focus on the development of credit and securitization . The successful candidate will develop an independent line of research on an aspect of early modern colonial finance and relate it to postcolonial political economies. ...

PhD and MPhil research opportunities are available in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol. The programme takes an international four-field approach, combining archaeology with evolutionary, social, and linguistic anthropology. Research themes include Ecologies, Liveable Futures, Turbulence and Transition, and Connections and Creativity. The department highlights strengths in fieldwork, excavation, radiocarbon dating, organic residue analysis, and collabora...