The Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel invites applications for a postdoctoral position in Environmental / Landscape Archaeology, tenablefrom September 2026 (negotiable) , within the SNSF-funded project “The Roman Villa as Ecosystem: Climate, Production, and Society in the Sabina Tiberina” (PI: Prof. Dr. Sabine Huebner).

The position is specifically directed at candidates with expertise in the environmental archaeology of central Italy, and ideally with prior field or research experience in the Sabina Tiberina or adjacent regions.

Project

The project situates Roman villa sites within their broader environmental and landscape context between ca. 300 BCE and 600 CE. It investigates how changing land‑use regimes, subsistence strategies, and rural production systems responded to climatic variability and long‑term environmental change. The successful candidate will play a central role in linking site‑based evidence from vi...