The University of Cantabria is one of the three universities that has been in the Top 10 list of the main Spanish rankings both in education as well as in research quality.
It is a modern public institution whose main purpose is to contribute to social progress through a firm commitment to teaching and scientific excellence.
EvoAdapta is a research group based at the University of Cantabria devoted to unravelling Prehistory, from a multidisciplinary perspective. In the last decade, the group has attracted an ERC Consolidator Grant (currently ongoing), five Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows (CIG, IF, GF), seven Juan de la Cierva, Margarita Salas, Fyssen and Leakey Foundation-funded postdoctoral researchers, as well as four projects of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, together with other private funding agencies. EvoAdapta has extensive facilities EvoAdapta and holds various reference collections – in continuous expansion – dedicated to the study of plants, animals (mammals, birds, molluscs) and human populations. We have a clean laboratory where we undertake different protocols for the analysis of organic and inorganic materials. A microscopy room and photogrammetry area are also available. We actively participate in science dissemination activities, aimed at children and adults. We collaborate with different museums and national and international institutions. Currently, we lecture in the Degree of History, the Master in Prehistory and Archaeology and the Senior Program at the University of Cantabria.
Project description
EvoAdapta has three main research lines:
- Physical Anthropology
- Past human diet
- Paleoclimate and paleoenviroment
To do so, we apply different methodological approaches such as anthropology, archaeozoology, geochemistry, biomolecular archaeology and animal and human dental wear.
We are open to achieving research projects related to Eurasian archaeological contexts during the Paleolithic and Recent Prehistory. Especially interested in developing projects with stable isotopes applied to macromammal prehistoric bone and teeth remains and physical anthropological studies of recent prehistoric humans.
Applications: documents to be submitted and deadlines
Those researchers interested in applied with EvoAdapta to the MSCA programme will need to contact by July 1st via email to evoadapta@unican.es attaching their CV, a cover letter and project interests to work on. Check more info: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting/msca-postdoctoral-fellowship-2023-evoadapta-research-group-university-cantabria
