PhD opportunities in archaeology

Closing date not specified (ordered by post date)

[posted 5 July 2023]
University of Oxford
PhD Studentship in the Horse Power project
Horse Power will examine the complex interactions between the eastern steppe and China from the second millennium BCE to the formation of the Xiongnu empire in Mongolia and the Qin state in China after 300 BCE. The doctoral student will examine the technology of chariots and horse gear in China from the Shang to the Qin from a metallurgical and typological perspective.
primary: https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/funded-dphil-position-horse-power-project-apply-now
Closing date: open until filled (posted 3 July 2023)

[posted 22 June 2023]
Southern Cross University
PhD Scholarship in Archaeo-geochemistry: ISOTOPES AND TRACE ELEMENT IN HUMAN REMAINS = “How to better understand early human expansion in Southeast Asia and Australasia”
in particular improving our understanding of hominid exposomes using LA-ICPMS/LA-MC-ICPMS on fossil remains.
https://www.scu.edu.au/graduate-school/scholarships/#headingarchaeo
Closing date: open until filled (posted June 2023?)

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Closing date (in descending order)

NEXT [re-posted 1 May 2024]
Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt Stiftungsfonds der Gesellschaft der Freunde des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts – Theodor Wiegand Gesellschaft – e.V.
Promotionsabschlussstipendien
aus dem Bereich der historischen Bauforschung. Gefördert wird der Abschluss von Arbeiten, deren empirischer Kern mit den Methoden der archäologischen Bauforschung (Bauaufnahme, detaillierte Bauuntersuchung) erarbeitet wurde.
primary: https://www.twges.de/uwr-stiftungsfonds/
Closing date: 30 October 2024 (next closing date: 30 April 2025)

NEXT [re-posted 2 October 2023]
PaleoWest Foundation
PaleoWest Foundation Graduate Scholarship
https://www.paleowestfoundation.org/scholarship
Closing date (annual): 1 October 2024?

[posted 29 April 2024]
Newcastle University & Historic England
PhD studentship – “Historic landscape character and climate change adaptation: modelling impacts and opportunities”
The project will examine how cutting-edge methods could help us use relevant historic landscape characteristics to address risks associated with increasingly intense rainfall, focussing on soil erosion and flood risk.
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2024/04/29/newcastle-phd/
primary: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding/search-funding/?code=H0000036
Closing date: 21 June 2024

[posted 29 March 2024]
University of Leicester
project “A New History of Bronze”
“Symbols of power, prestige goods or vibrant materials? Rethinking gold, jet and amber grave goods in Early Bronze Age Britain”
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/symbols-of-power-prestige-goods-or-vibrant-materials-rethinking-gold-jet-and-amber-grave-goods-in-early-bronze-age-britain/?p170612
primary: https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/funded-opportunities/saah-crellin-symbols-of-power
“Ground stone in a metallic world”
This PhD project will develop this by focusing on the use of groundstone, with the successful applicant exploring the different ways that this material formed a key part of Bronze Age life in Britain and Ireland.
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/ground-stone-in-a-metallic-world/?p159745
primary: https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/funded-opportunities/saah-crellin-ground-stone
Closing date: 21 June 2024

[posted 24 April 2024]
Cranfield University
“Advanced techniques for the detection of chemical hazards in Archive Repositories through Heritage Science”
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/advanced-techniques-for-the-detection-of-chemical-hazards-in-archive-repositories-through-heritage-science/?p171404
Closing date: 19 June 2024

EXTENDED [posted 19 March 2024; re-posted 5 April 2024]
CNRS-ST AUBIN
Ph.D (M/F) – “MuseoXR: Archaeological Exhibits in Museography with Collaborative Extended Reality”
The successful candidate will be involved in the design, modelling and development of a collaborative V&AR system for scenography and museography to dynamically create archaeological exhibits.
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/205556
primary: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR9015-HUYNGU-005/Default.aspx?lang=EN
Closing date: 13 June 2024 (i.e. extended from 5 April 2024)

NEW [posted 9 May 2024]
University of Antwerp
Department of Heritage and Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES)
‘Modelling Space-Time Uncertainty in Archaeological Excavation Information’
Doctoral scholarship holder digital heritage
in Archaeology, Heritage Studies, Digital Humanities, or a related discipline
https://academicpositions.com/ad/university-of-antwerp/2024/doctoral-scholarship-holder-digital-heritage/217542
primary: https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vacatures/ap/?q=3421&descr=Doctoral-scholarship-holder-digital-heritage
Closing date: 12 June 2024

[posted 2 May 2024]
University of Reading
PhD Studentship “Navigating Networks and Developing Practice: People and Biography in the British Museum Collection Database”
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHL789/phd-studentship-navigating-networks-and-developing-practice-people-and-biography-in-the-british-museum-collection-database
primary: https://www.reading.ac.uk/doctoral-researcher-college/-/media/project/uor-main/schools-departments/graduate-school/documents/ahrc-bm-uor-studentship-ad-jl-final.pdf
Closing date: 10 June 2024

[posted 19 April 2024]
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
project “Flanders in Florence: Architectural Exchanges from North to South, 1400-1600”
PhD Researcher in the field of Early Modern Art and Architecture
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/226762
primary: https://jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-PhD-Researcher-in-the-field-of-Early-Modern-Art-and-Architecture/1062139301/
Closing date: 7 June 2024

[posted 28 April 2024]
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI)
Redaktion der Zentralen Wissenschaftlichen Dienste in Berlin
wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft
im Bereich der Altertumswissenschaften
https://www.dainst.org/karriere/bewerben-am-dai/noslug/39
Closing date: 3 June 2024

NEW [posted 4 May 2024]
Comenius University in Bratislava
Faculty of Natural Sciences
PhD positions in MINERALOGY, PETROLOGY, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY and partly in ARCHAEOLOGY
including “Mineralogical and Petrological Analysis of Late Prehistory Ceramics from Rimavská kotlina Basin”
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/231435
Closing date: 31 May 2024

[posted 20 April 2024]
University of Reading
project COEXIST
two PhD students
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ZOOARCH;1ba49830.2404
https://research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/we-are-recruiting/
“Unravelling the subsistence and diet of late Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in Central and Southeast Europe”
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/unravelling-the-subsistence-and-diet-of-late-neanderthals-and-early-homo-sapiens-in-central-and-southeast-europe/?p171319
“Maximising the potential of fragmented bone to gain new insights into the coexistence of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in Central and Southeast Europe”
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/maximising-the-potential-of-fragmented-bone-to-gain-new-insights-into-the-coexistence-of-neanderthals-and-homo-sapiens-in-central-and-southeast-europe/?p171304
Closing date: 31 May 2024

[posted 27 April 2024]
University of York & English Heritage
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – “‘Curating Armageddon’: Revealing the Heritage Significance of Dover Castle’s Cold War Collections”
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=CONTEMP-HIST-ARCH;cd962232.2404
primary: https://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/study/funding/ahrc-cdp-studentship/
Closing date: 30 May 2024

[posted 14 March 2024]
Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
PhD Thesis: “Prehistoric tool wear analysis and classification of tool use using topography multiscale analysis”
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/204827
Closing date: 30 May 2024

READVERTISED AGAIN [re-posted 22 April 2024]
Doctoral Network ArCHe “Archaeological Coastal Heritage: Past, present and future of a hidden prehistoric legacy”
10 PhD fellows
for increasing the scientific and public value of Europe’s archaeological coastal heritage, focusing on the legacy of Stone Age hunter-fisher-gatherers (c. 12.000-2.000 calBC)
primary: https://www.arche.uio.no/vacancies/index.html
DC8: Stone Age heritage as shared landscapes: Mapping concerns, actors and perspectives [Beneficiary:
University of Gothenburg, Sweden: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/179045 = https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/193613 = https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/227567]
https://www.myscience.org/jobs/id2877340-phd_position_stone_age_heritage_as_shared_landscapes_in_the_horizon_marie_sklodowska-curie_action_doctoral_network_archaeological_coastal_heritage_pa-goeteborg_university
primary: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=34052
Closing date: 24 May 2024 (originally 6 March 2024, 4 February 2024)
READVERTISED AGAIN [re-posted 24 April 2024]
DC5: For a history of maritime techniques in Europe: Norms and uses of techniques in prehistoric coastal communities [Beneficiary: The French National Centre for Scientific Research, University of Rennes, France: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/179160 = https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/228333]
Closing date: 24 May 2024 (originally 27 February 2024, 4 February 2024)

NEW [posted 3 May 2024]
University of Innsbruck
Archäologien, Standort Innsbruck
University Assistant (PhD position)
Dissertation im Bereich des Innsbrucker Monte-Iato-Projektes unter methodisch-theoretischer Bezugnahme zum DK Entangled Antiquities
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/231062
primary: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=14171
University Assistant (PhD position)
Dissertation im Bereich Ur- und Frühgeschichte (Schwerpunkt Paläoökologie); auf dem Gebiet der Bronze- oder Eisenzeit im alpinen Raum oder Mitteleuropa
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/231064
primary: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=14093
Closing date: 23 May 2024

[posted 27 April 2024]
University of Edinburgh & Victoria and Albert Museum
“The Extractive Museum: The formation, evolution and dispersal of the Museum of Practical Geology collections, 1835-c.1901”
The diverse collection comprised raw materials, moulds, kiln furniture, fragments and complete ceramic objects; from models of kilns to Wedgwood’s copy of the Portland Vase to sherds from excavations of British ceramic factory sites.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHI071/ahrc-phd-studentship-the-extractive-museum-the-formation-evolution-and-dispersal-of-the-museum-of-practical-geology-collections-1835-c1901
primary: https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/ahrc-phd-studentship-extractive-museum-formation-evolution-and-dispersal-museum
Closing date: 23 May 2024

[posted 27 April 2024]
CNRS-TOULOUSE
“The invention of microblade pressure debitage: new methodological approaches and archaeological implications for Homo sapiens ‘adaptation to the Northern Latitude of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene”
PhD (M/F) in lithic technology specialized on the invention of pressure micro-blade in North-East Asia
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/229702
primary: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR5608-JOSRAT-009/Default.aspx?lang=EN
Closing date: 20 May 2024

[posted 14 April 2024]
University College London (UCL) & Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship – ‘The Provenance of Asian Collections (PAC)’
By employing digital humanities methods to the V&A’s registers and archives, the project seeks to address gaps in provenance data and contextualise the collection within the wider frameworks of imperialism, trade, and collecting practices.
https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2024/04/art-crime-research-opportunities-12-april-2024.html
primary: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=22111&jobTitle=AHRC+Collaborative+Doctoral+Partnership+%28CDP%29+PhD+Studentship+-+%27The+Provenance+of+Asian+Collections+%28PAC%29%27
Closing date: 19 May 2024

[posted 1 April 2024]
University of Warsaw
Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics
Project title: Paleogenomic analysis of small mammals in the reconstruction of species responses to climate change
PhD student
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/203730
Closing date: 19 May 2024

[posted 19 April 2024]
UHI North, West & Hebrides
“Home, Hearth And Heritage – Exploring inter-disciplinary approaches for engaging with fragile, living heritage”
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2024/04/19/phd-opportunity/
primary: https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/grad-school/studentships/ahrc-studentships/home-hearth-and-heritage–exploring-inter-disciplinary-approaches-for-engaging-with-fragile-living-heritage/
Closing date: 17 May 2024

EXTENDED [posted 4 April 2024; re-posted 23 April 2024]
University of Basel
project ‘Egrapsa: Retracing the evolutions of handwritings in Greco-Roman Egypt thanks to digital palaeography’
PhD student position in Computer Vision
The PhD dissertation project will focus on how to experimentally capture hypothetical ductus (stroke order and direction of writing) reconstructed by experts and to design deep learning pipelines as well as experimental protocols to acquire and compare ductus reconstitutions.
primary: https://jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/phd-student-position-in-computer-vision/29006b61-ba9d-49ae-8e0e-ae842617f683
Closing date: 15 May 2024 (i.e. extended from 23 April 2024)

[posted 19 April 2024]
University of Augsburg
PhD position
in Classical Archaeology. Knowledge of the Latin language and at least one focus on Digital Archaeology, archaeological urbanism research or ancient human-environment relationships is desirable.
https://www.myscience.org/jobs/id2876233-wissenschaftliche_mitarbeiterin-wissenschaftlicher_mitarbeiter_m-w-d_philologisch-historische_fakultaet-universitaet_augsburg
primary: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/jobs-und-karriere/stellenangebote/2024/04/19/phd-position-faculty-of-philology-and-history_35/
Closing date: 15 May 2024

[posted 18 April 2024]
Universität Basel
Assistenz Doktorand*in
in Alter Geschichte
primary: https://jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/assistenz-doktorand-in-60/f3edc5ba-3cad-49b0-bb45-0c2a3c7898f5 = https://jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/assistenz-doktorand-in/f3edc5ba-3cad-49b0-bb45-0c2a3c7898f5
Closing date: 15 May 2024

[posted 13 April 2024]
Universität Zürich
Historisches Seminar, Fachbereich Alte Geschichte
Assistenz
Promotionsprojekt am Lehrstuhl im Bereich der griechischen Geschichte. Erwünscht ist Interesse an der griechischen Epigraphik.
https://www.mommsen-gesellschaft.de/stellenangebote/2561-assistenz-stelle
Closing date: 15 May 2024

[posted 23 April 2024]
CNRS-ST MARTIN D HERES
“Hominin evolution in the changing landscapes of the East African Rift”
PhD at the crossroads of geology and paleoanthropology
https://www.myscience.org/jobs/id2878196-these_a_la_croisee_de_la_geologie_et_de_la_paleoanthropologie_h-f-cnrs-paris
primary: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR5275-FABCAR-094/Default.aspx?lang=EN
Closing date: 14 May 2024

[posted 21 April 2024]
Université de Lausanne
Assistant·e diplômé·e en archéologie classique
de préférence sur un sujet lié à la sculpture grecque. Expérience dans la photographie, la photogrammétrie et la modélisation 3D souhaitée.
https://www.mommsen-gesellschaft.de/stellenangebote/2574-1-poste-dassistant-diplome-doctorant-e-en-archeologie-classique
primary: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=fr%5fFR&career_job_req_id=21629&selected_lang=fr_FR&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&browserTimeZone=Europe/Zurich&_s.crb=Bqg3IUovjMHyEO4M4SNhQP6G8uBcoJgZCDA1310%2blOM%3d
Closing date: 14 May 2024

NEXT [posted 15 May 2023]
University of Southampton
Centre for Maritime Archaeology
HFF Scholarship
supporting nationals of Cyprus, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria
primary: https://honorfrostfoundation.org/grants-offered/scholarships/
Closing date (annual): 14 May 2024

NEXT [posted 15 May 2023]
Honor Frost Foundation
PhD scholarship to enable students from the region (Lebanon, Cyprus, Syria and Egypt) to undertake doctoral research in maritime archaeology at a university of their choice.
primary: https://honorfrostfoundation.org/grants-offered/scholarships/
Closing date (annual): 14 May 2024

[posted 6 April 2024]
University of Aberdeen
“The Human Past in Wetland Conservation and Restoration”
Interdisciplinary PhD Studentship
Using landscape archaeology methods, the student will articulate a history of wetland environmental change built from a variety of datasets (documentary records, archaeological records, palaeoecological records, GIS mapping/modeling).
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-human-past-in-wetland-conservation-and-restoration/?p170777
Closing date: 13 May 2024

[posted 29 March 2024]
Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge & Norfolk Museums Service
“Material Life in the Workhouse: Gressenhall Workhouse, Norfolk, 1777-1948”
in a relevant subject (suitable disciplines are flexible, but might include History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Art History, or Museum Studies), the successful PhD student will analyse the lives, living conditions and institutionalisation of the people who resided and worked in Gressenhall workhouse between c. 1777-1948.
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/material-life-in-the-workhouse-gressenhall-workhouse-norfolk-1777-1948/?p170648
primary: https://www.aru.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-partnerships-phd-studentships
& Peterborough Museum
“The Bones of Subsistence at Norman Cross Prisoner of War Camp, 1797-1816”
Suitable disciplines are flexible, but might include History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Art History, or Museum Studies.
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-bones-of-subsistence-at-norman-cross-prisoner-of-war-camp-1797-1816/?p170647
primary: https://www.aru.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-partnerships-phd-studentships
Closing date: 12 May 2024

Archives:

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/phd-opportunities-in-archaeology-archives-2020/ [2020-2024]

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/phd-opportunities-in-archaeology-archives-2019/

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/phd-opportunities-in-archaeology-archives-2018/

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/phd-opportunities-in-archaeology-archives-2017/

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/phd-opportunities-in-archaeology-archives-2016/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/phd-opportunities-in-archaeology-archives-2015/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/phd-opportunities-in-archaeology-archives-2014/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/phd-opportunities-in-archaeology-archives-2013/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/phd-opportunities-in-archaeology-archives/ [2011-2012]

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Open after start of review (in descending order)

[posted 22 January 2024]
University of Liège
2 PhD positions in TraceoLab
primary: https://www.traceolab.uliege.be/cms/c_11466434/en/2-fully-funded-phd-scholarships-in-traceolab
PhD Position 1: Functional analysis of Middle Palaeolithic assemblages focussing on edge damage mainly, including methodological developments
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/187888
PhD Position 2: Projectiles in the Middle Palaeolithic (Western Europe) and Middle Stone Age (South Africa)
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/187890
Closing date: 31 January 2024 (or open until filled)