A hands-on online training session introducing ADS and HSDS users to Ingest, the new deposit system for archaeological and heritage data.

Access the four integrated E-RIHS ERIC platforms via the Catalogue of Services and foster innovation in heritage science.

A study has revealed that despite centuries of violent regime changes, medieval Sicily was a genetic ‘melting pot’, where Christians and Muslims thrived together.

Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old grape seeds from ancient wells in Tuscany have mapped the most extensive genetic history of ancient grapevines recovered from a single site.

The bond between humans and dogs is one of nature’s most enduring partnerships, but exactly when it began has long been a mystery. Now, a new study has turned back the clock.

Carbonised food deposits preserved in pottery vessels, often termed ‘foodcrusts,’ are frequently encountered on hunter-gatherer-fisher (HGF) pottery throughout Northern and Eastern Europe. While lipid...

Departmental team demonstrates that pottery from Viking-Age England was very rarely used to cook fish

Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538

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We are seeking a highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to join our research team at Reading, focusing on sedimentary DNA (sedaDNA / environmental DNA) from soils and sediments from the project’s case study regions in Spain and North Africa. You will contribute to the reconstruction of past landscapes and human-environment interactions through the analysis of sedimentary DNA. This includes analysing samples from terraces, irrigated fields and archaeological sites, and using eDNA metagenomics and metabarcoding approaches for multi-species detection, with the aim of characterising changing plant and animal species diversity and richness over time. The position will involve fieldwork, laboratory work, data analysis, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, palaeoecologists and historians.

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