Study Cats in Italy; Ph.D. Required
Curious about cats? Completed your Ph.D? Competent in either aDNA or stable isotope analysis? Two postdoctoral positions are available at the Centre of Molecular Anthropology, University of Rome Tor Vergata…
Sheffield Archaeology Under Threat
University of Sheffield’s archaeology team argue vital work will be lost if threatened closure goes ahead University of Sheffield Archaeology department threat ‘blow to UK’
Academic Publishers Make Resources Available to Cope with COVID-19
The Penn Libraries have assembled a list of academic publishers who are making educational resources more readily available for researchers and teachers who are dealing with teaching or working remotely…
A Career in Classics and Anthropology, in and out of Academia
One person’s experience in and advice on combining classics, anthropology, and human osteology in a career: The Skeleton in My Closet by Kristina Killgrove. There’s some weird-sounding situations, like the…
Scholarship for New York Archaeology Undergraduates
For New York state undergraduates interested in a career in archaeology, the Daniel H. Weiskotten Scholarship Fund 2018 awards $750 and a 1 year membership in the New York State…
Archaeology Images from Peterson Farm, Minnesota
The University of Minnesota is conducting a field school at a historic site in Carver County first occupied in 1855 by Swedish-American farmer Andrew Peterson. Local newspaper the Chaska Herald…
Nominate a Female Zooarchaeologist for the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship
Open to female zooarchaeologists currently enrolled in graduate school, the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship includes a $1,000 award and a plaque. Nominations for the award are due December 15, 2015.…
What Colleges Do NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Winners Come From, and Where Do They Go?
The National Science Foundation has just announced the winners of the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study in science and engineering…
Managing Your Online Identity
Kelli Marshall over at the Chronicle has a clear, succinct guide to managing your professional identity. It’s aimed at academics and seems pretty up to date (Strikingly? Never heard of…
Archaeology Journals and Impact Factors
Those in tenure-track positions care a lot about impact factors; other people, not so much. Elsevier, which coincidentally also publishes academic journals, makes freely available “three alternative, transparent and accurate…