[ING] The UPV-EHU Prehistory Research Group eligible for Marie Curie contracts

The UPV/EHU is a teaching and research institution officially founded in 1985. It is the leading research institution in the Basque country, placing it among the world’s 500 top universities, according to Shanghai Ranking. The university employs over 7.000 people throughout 20 centers distributed in its three campuses with over 45,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The UPV/EHU gathers 290 research groups with a scientific output of over 35 articles per week in journals in the first quartile and 45% of the publications in competitive journals (WoS and Scopus) are the result of international collaboration.

The Research Group in Prehistory at the University of the Basque Country is a very well rated group in the research of Arts in Spain. It is a group involved in very relevant research projects (about 70% of the total regional field projects and almost 90% of laboratory projects and academic publications) in the most important sites of a key area of the Iberian Peninsula. We work with an interdisciplinary approach, including Geoarchaeological (Micromorphology, Sedimentology), Bioarchaeological (Palynology, Carpology, Anthracology, Micro and Macromammal analysis, etc.), Palaeoanthropological analysis and both, Material Cultural and Symbolic expressions of Human Behaviour during Prehistory, from Middle Palaeolithic to Chalcolithic times. We work as well on transversal topics, as Spatial Archaeology, Lithic Raw Material tracking, Megalithic expressions or the Origin of Art. The Team includes more than twenty senior and junior researchers, and a group of twenty-five Ph.D. candidates (almost all of them with public funded Grants), in very different archaeological specialities. Besides, we have been hosting a Gerda Henkel/Marie Curie German fellow during 2014 and 2015.

We are interested in Junior Researchers, with a previous experience in the areas above and the issues provided by Iberian and Pyrenean casuistic, that would like to integrate into a dynamic group to publish the results of the research in impact journals. The main topics we are currently working in are Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition, Gravettian, Origin of the Rock Art, Late Glacial and Early Holocene Archaeobotany, Megalithism, Experimental Archaeology and Neolithic. All researchers with the mentioned methodological, epistemological or analytical approaches will be welcomed. Relationship with the group can be in Spanish, English or French.

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http://eshorizonte2020.es/expressions-of-interests/alvaro-arrizabalaga