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University of Oslo, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and HistoryA post-doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) in the project "Using the Past in the Past. Viking Age Scandinavia as a Renaissance?" is available at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH), University of Oslo.The project explores how and why the past was used in Viking Age Scandinavia, the 9th to mid-11th century AD: how past monuments and artefacts were recycled materially and referentially in this period; the different strategies of constructing places for commemoration; and the choice of objects to be preserved through the centuries to enhance new interpretational frames of utilizing the past in the past. This was a central, active element in the mentality and world-view, and took shape in political and social processes in diverging scales and forms.Applicants are to submit a research proposal concerning recycling of material culture of the past in the Viking Age, using for example the reiteration of grave monuments at settlements; the reuse of burial grounds; landscape analyses of central places; the raising of rune stones as a means of creating places for commemoration; or the utilisation of antique artefacts and objects that stylistically referred to previous centuries in the Viking Age as a means of examining social and cultural changes in the Viking Age. The research proposal must outline plans for dissemination in international, academically recognised journals.Application deadline: 23 January 2017For more information and how to apply: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1734361/62039?iso=no