Support Technician: Research (Human Osteology)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Support Technician to identify, organise, and deposit digital archaeological data sets and associated metadata with the Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS) as a part of a project funded by HSDS.

This project seeks to tackle the challenge of facilitating continued access to existing archived datasets derived from the archaeological human remains of c. 2,000 individuals from more than c. 50 archaeological sites historically curated by the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. This project aims to bring together these existing datasets into a publicly accessible resource hosted by the HSDS to both safeguard and extend their current accessibility and ensure they remain accessible to the wider heritage sector in the future, thus facilitating research and innovation and advancing our understanding of past human populations. The project has five objectives:

1. identify the sharable data curated by the University;
2. design and populate an accessible database;
3. create relevant metadata and additional documentation;
4. record the current curating institution for each population to facilitate future research; and
5. deposit the dataset with HSDS.

Applicants must have experience equivalent to minimum qualifying GCSE grade in English and Biology or History, or equivalent Level 2 qualification, and knowledge of data produced from human osteoarchaeological analysis. Foundational knowledge of data generated during destructive and non-destructive analysis of archaeological human remains (e.g., stable-isotope analysis, radiology) is also essential.

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