The National Geographic Society has recently announced they are opening applications to the Meridian Projects and National Geographic Society Grants Program. Please find more details here: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/
Meridian Projects
Salary: £25,050 - £27,238
Location: National Museum Of Scotland, Chambers Street
Level: Collections Care/Conservation
Deadline: 26/03/2019
Hours: 37
Benefits: Membership of the civil service pension scheme
Job Type: Temporary
"A Paleolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China"
Authors: Zhanyang Li, Luc Doyon , Hui Fang , Ronan Ledevin , Alain Queffelec , Emeline Raguin , and Francesco d’Errico
Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago
Authors: Jinqi Daiab, Xipeng Cai, Jianhui Jin, Wei Ge, Yunming Huang, Wei Wu, Taoqin Xia, Fusheng Li, Xinxin Zuo
"Innovation, imitation, and identity: Mayeon Black ware and social complexity in Southwestern Korea" now in press in Archaeological Research in Asia.
Authors: Sangwon Nam, Rory Walsh, Gyoung-Ah Lee
"Palaeolithic voyage for invisible islands beyond the horizon"
Authors: Yosuke Kaifu, Tien-Hsia Kuo, Yoshimi Kubota and Sen Jan
Population dynamics in the Japanese Archipelago since the Pleistocene revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome sequences
Authors: Fuzuki Mizuno, Jun Gojobori, Masahiko Kumagai, Hisao Baba, Yasuhiro Taniguchi, Osamu Kondo, Masami Matsushita, Takayuki Matsushita, Fumihiko Matsuda, Koichiro Higasa, Michiko Hayashi, Li Wang, Kunihiko Kurosaki and Shintaroh Ueda
“Rethinking pig domestication in China: regional trajectories in central China and the Lower Yangtze Valley” now in press in Antiquity.
Authors: Ningning Dong and Jing Yuan
Sika deer in Bronze Age Guanzhong: sustainable wildlife exploitation in ancient China?
Authors: Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Honghai Chen, Zhen Wang and Yaopeng Qian