Predoctoral research in Prehistoric Rock art

LArcHer is an interdisciplinary research project led by ICREA Research Professor Inés Domingo. LArcHer project aims at pioneering a new and more comprehensive way of understanding one of Europe’s most extraordinary bodies of prehistoric art, awarded Unesco World Heritage status in 1998: Levantine rock art (LRA). The ground-breaking nature of the project relies on combining a multidisciplinary (Archaeology, Heritage Science and IT) and multiscale approach (from microanalysis to landscape perspectives) to gain a holistic view ofthis art. It also aims at closing existing gaps between science and heritage mainstreams, to better understand the values and threats affecting this tradition and bring about a change in the way we understand, care, use and manage this millenary legacy.

One of the key aims of this project, is to explore major changes in global rock art using Levantine rock art as a proxy. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of rock art from different parts of the world will be conducted to answer questions of interest to this project. This research will be developed in collaboration and in parallel to other members of the project.

Responsibilities and tasks within the project.

The successful applicant will be expected to:

• Develop a PhD thesis on rock art within the framework of the project and addressing the themes of interest to the project.
• Participation in field and laboratory work related to the project and the research topic (database maintenance, documentation of rock art, data analysis, and others as required)
• Data preparation for GIS as needed
• Management tasks for the project (max. 10% of time) including writing reports, when needed

Collaboration in the preparation of results to be presented in projects and publications.

Acronym

LArcHer

FBG project number

402130

Project title

Breaking barriers between Science and Heritage approaches to Levantine Rock Art through Archaeology, Heritage Science and IT

IP

Inés Domingo Sanz

Department

History and Archaeology

Gross salary per year

23.900,57 €

Required documents

As per in the UB call:

• application according to the standard application form Annex II of the call for proposals (https://seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublicaCategoriaPublic/listPublicacionsAmbCategoria?categoria.id=280249 )
• Application letter explaining how the candidate fulfils the requirements requested in the call for applications, and a declaration of responsibility that each and every one of the details stated in the application and in the attached documentation are true (curriculum vitae and a copy of the academic transcript of the bachelor's and master's degree). At any time, the University may require any applicant to provide documentation accrediting the aspects declared as responsible).
• Curriculum vitae
• Copy of academic transcripts

Send your application to:

email

The application and declaration of responsibility, together with the other required documents, must be submitted, within the period stipulated in base III.1 (up until January 28th 2022), to the registry of the University of Barcelona, using a generic application procedure available at https://www.ub.edu/eadministracio/ig.html .

For further information contact : ines.domingo@ub.edu

Name

Inés Domingo

email subject

Predoctoral research in Prehistoric Rock art

Job Starting Date

15 days after the selection process