Resumen
The University of Cantabria-Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria invites applications for a 3-year PhD scholarship in studies about human-environment relationship during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in northern Iberia, with a combination of well-established multidisciplinary disciplines including archaeozoology, taphonomy, stable isotopes and modelling under the supervision of Dr. Ana B. Marín-Arroyo.
About SUBSILIENCE PROJECT
SUBSILIENCE is an ERC Consolidator Grant project (ref 818299) funded by the ERC Executive Agency (ERCEA) based at the IIIPC-University of Cantabria (Spain). Principal Investigator is Assistant Professor, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, University of Cantabria, marinab@unican.es
The PhD scholarship is advertised within an ERC-Consolidator Grant (ref. 818299) funded by the ERC Executive Agency (ERCEA) on “Subsistence and human resilience to sudden climatic events in Europe during MIS3” undertaken by the supervisor. The main objective of this project is to evaluate the subsistence and human resilience of Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans to MIS3 climatic events, in different archaeological sites located in the southern European Peninsulas, dating from Mousterian to Gravettian periods. The PhD project will involve the analysis of the unpublished faunal assemblages from several sites in the Cantabrian region and its comparison with other contemporaneous European sites. The PhD scholarship will be financed annually for three years, up to a maximum of 4 years and, your key tasks as a PhD student are:
- To manage and carry through research project
- Attend PhD courses
- Write scientific articles and your PhD thesis
- Teach and disseminate your research
- To conduct secondments at the partner institutes
- Work for the department