David Wright
Professor at University of Oslo 🇳🇴: Geoarchaeology | Human ecology | Climate change | Evolution | Stable isotopes | Biomarkers | Biodiversity 🌍
- Reposted by David WrightEcoArch seeks proposals from colleagues based in Africa or Arabia interested in conducting research on human-climate-landscape interactions over the last 6000 years. We will fund up to €10,000 for projects that articulate with our core interests. Deadline 15 March 2026. nettskjema.no/a/587630
- My lab has a PhD position open! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
- This study demonstrates that Early Paleolithic hominins of Central Asia preferentially occupied ecologically stable, pedogenically developed zones during interglacial phases, contributing to localized fire regimes and shaping their landscapes. 🇹🇯🔥🌱
- Project manager position to be filled by March 1 at the Culture History Museum of the University of Oslo. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
- Friends, please consider contributing to this initiative to give African scholars opportunities to date archaeological sites they work on. This is organised by the Society of Africanist Archaeologists. gofund.me/2324ee20a
- Article alert! I analysed sediments using d13C and d15N stable isotopes excavated in 1991 by Susan and Rod McIntosh to better understand early agropastoral settlement dynamics and ecologies in the Middle Senegal River Valley. Open access publication. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by David WrightEcoArch is officially up and running. Over the next 6 years, we will investigate and model landscape change in the Afrotropics thanks to an ERC Synergy Grant. Follow us for exciting developments to come! @erc.europa.eu @sanneboessenkool.bsky.social @davidkwright.bsky.social
- Reposted by David Wright📣 Meet the new ERC Synergy Grant awardees! Sixty-six research teams have been selected for funding, bringing together 239 scientists. Congratulations to all! ➡️ buff.ly/PSn3bi9 #EUfunded #HorizonEurope #ERCSyG
- Reposted by David WrightAre you going to be our new colleague at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social? Full professorship in #archaeology, deadline November 9. international.au.dk/about/profil...
- Two new postdoctoral positions are now open at WIVA. The positions will focus on the material culture of trade (500-1100 CE).
- Reposted by David WrightI have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st) The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations). Please share! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
- Postdoc position opening to undertake interdisciplinary research using modern and sediment-hosted ancient DNA, funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project at Adelaide University.
- Reposted by David WrightPosition open! Feel free to circulate! 📢 Applications are open until September 10th! ⬇️
- 📢Position open:Independent junior research group leader:genotype-phenotype interactions🧬🔎 The #HumanOrigins Cluster at Uni Tübingen seeks an expert in genotype-phenotype interactions. 📝Start: Jan 1, 2026 🗓 Apply by Sept 10, 2025 🔗 share.google/OVbg1ZLG19yI... Apply now! #AcademicJobs Please share!
- Azykh Cave fieldwork (second trip of the year) is my contribution to Fieldwork Friday.
- Happy to announce that a book I co-edited with @a-beyin.bsky.social won the best book award at the 2025 Society of Africanist Archaeologists conference in Faro, Portugal. Thanks to all of the contributors to the project. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by David WrightVery happy to announce that a new postdoctoral position on the New ERC funded Western Rift Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment Project is open - if you're a geologist or geochronologist come and join us at @icarehb.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358068 Feel free to share it around.
- Fieldwork in Mnaraeka and Kiuleule, Tanzania. Chasing the Early and Middle Stone Ages in alluvial fans dating to >240 to 20 ka.
- Fieldwork at Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. The CAUCUS project will be providing absolute ages and environmental context for the occupations there (probably >1 million years).
- Gearing up for fieldwork in Ayzkh Cave, Azerbaijan. We are going to focus on geochronology and environmental reconstruction at this amazing site. @loopdlupien.bsky.social
- Cuts to Newcastle's outstanding archaeology program? No way. Please sign this petition to resist the defunding.
- Reposted by David WrightCe webinaire commence dans une heure! 👇
- Pit without finds = worthless pit? Investigating a Roman military camp from Caesar's Gallic Wars (58 – 51 BC) near Hermeskeil (Germany). This is one of the rare instances of published non-results for biomarkers. Not all good data validate your hypothesis! authors.elsevier.com/c/1kx~c,rVDB...
- 3-year postdoc on a great project.
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- Reposted by David WrightWant to come and work at York? 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p... #archaeology 🏺🧪
- Job alert for osteoarchaeologists.
- Reposted by David WrightPalaeo-environmental post-doc alert! 2 years, University of Reading: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI153/p...
- This is from one of my students looking to expand his world. Please contact him at oscarsv@student.iakh.uio.no if you have an opening on one of your projects this year. I would definitely take him if I had any open slots.
- Reposted by David Wright(1/9) I’m hiring! Join my ‘Terraform’ ERC project at the University of Malta, looking at the origin, evolution, and impacts of agricultural terracing in the Maltese Islands. Please circulate to anyone you think could be interested. Starting in the summer.
- Reposted by David WrightMy first post on here and it's for a JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 The University of Tübingen is seeking to find a post-doctoral researcher for a 3-year position, funded through the DFG (13 TV-L, 39,5 h/week). More info here: tinyurl.com/4xbdya5t #archaeology #palaeoproteomics #job #ZooMS
- MSCA post-doc opportunity offered. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/307984#...
- Reposted by David WrightPetition · Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree - United Kingdom · Change.org search.app/mhvkW7kfKfNX...
- Paper alert! We use polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (🔥) biomarkers at staggered scales relative to Palaeolithic archaeological sites to argue for deep antiquity (600 to 400 ka) to land management practices in 🇹🇯 Central Asia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by David WrightPublication alert- We synthesize the contributions of lithic analysis in African archaeology, theoretical advances, and key research themes. doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
- Reposted by David WrightRoughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
- Reposted by David WrightI am ✨BEYOND✨ excited to share my “Classification Framework for Assessing #Anthropogenic #Sedimentary Facies”! It covers composition, bed- and grain-scale descriptors, structures, and nomenclature. Now we can describe the developing #sedimentology of #Anthropocene #Earth 🌍 bit.ly/4hLbd2X 🧪 ⚒️
- Reposted by David WrightMajor JOB ALERT! I and close colleagues have 4 (!) positions open. So if you're looking for a postdoc or PhD, do read on:
- Reposted by David WrightWe’re hiring TWO Senior Geoarchaeologists! Strong geoarchaeological, prehistoric, or palaeoenvironmental background? Deposit modelling skills? Apply for these full time, permanent positions on our Sussex team! Full job description & apply: direc.to/m4iy Closes 5 Jan 2025
- Reposted by David WrightOnce again, I had great fun putting together this @plos.org SciComm blog post on the top stories in human evolution this year with my colleague Ryan McRae! scicomm.plos.org/2024/12/16/t...
- A PhD position in Archaeology at the University of Oslo. It is an open call for proposals, so we are considering applications from a wide array of subjects. The deadline is March 16.
- This is the first of four papers building the case that hominins practiced landscape fire management in Central Asia (dating to 600 ka). This paper establishes the preservation context for biomarkers at the sites. Later papers will evaluate the broader ecological and evolutionary implications.
- The call for contributions to the 27th #SAfA2025 in Faro, Portugal (21-26 July 2025) has opened! Join us in Session #46: Bridging Intergenerational Research on African Pleistocene Archaeology: Advances and remaining gaps. Submit your abstracts here: safa2025.icarehb.com @a-beyin.bsky.social
- We had a nice little workshop in Uppsala for #THOCA on Thursday December 5. We’re going to be re-writing the Paleolithic history of Central Asia with papers coming very soon. Visit www.thoca.org for more project details and project updates. @zandraselina.bsky.social
- Reposted by David WrightVery excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
- Reposted by David WrightIn this animation we took our new interpretation of the La Cotte site, led by @beccyscottuk.bsky.social, & worked with @jerseyheritage.bsky.social to share it! 🦣 No game drives 🦣 Ambush hunting 🦣 La Cotte as home base 🦣 Enigmatic bone structures Read the paper free here: shorturl.at/Orr7a 🦣🧪🏺
- Reposted by David WrightPaper alert! Mid-Pleistocene aridity and landscape shifts promoted Palearctic hominin dispersals @naturecomms.bsky.social Thanks to Jinbo Zan and colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
