Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida (Florida Museum of Natural History)
The Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida (UF) seeks qualified applicants for a 12-month tenure-track Assistant Curator of Environmental Archaeology. This position will be filled at the Assistant faculty level in the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History.
For over 40 years, the faculty, and staff of the Environmental Archaeology Program (FM-EAP) at the Florida Museum of Natural History have played a foundational role in the development of zooarchaeology, with secondary emphases in archaeobotany and archaeopedology. We curate archaeological animal, plant, and soil assemblages from across the Americas, including the southeastern United States, insular Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and South America. Several of the collections from sites are co-curated and managed across other archaeological museum collections (e.g., Florida Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Caribbean Archaeology).
The collections represent more than 1.7 million specimens from over 800 sites, including the largest zooarchaeological comparative collection in the southeastern USA. Through museum research, student mentorship, and collaboration, the FM-EAP is an international leader in zooarchaeological methods of identification and analysis. The zooarchaeological collections are complemented by macrobotanical resources, including comparative wood and seed collections from the southeastern United States. The FM-EAP faculty, staff, and collections support research on a wide range of questions related to human-environment interactions, including subsistence, domestication, coastal adaptations, migration, trade and exchange, resource management, landscape use, and cultural and environmental change. The program also supports interdisciplinary research and training that incorporates geochemical and biochemical analyses as complementary approaches to these questions.
The FM-EAP provides an exceptional opportunity for a curator to build on a strong tradition of collections-based research, especially in the circum-Caribbean region, while developing innovative approaches to environmental archaeology that will continue to advance our anthropological understanding of human-environment relationships through time and across the globe.
Learn more and apply here: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/careers/assistant-curator-of-environmental-archaeology/
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