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A crossdisciplinary project on opium poppy

The project aims to define a chrono-cultural framework for the early domestication of the Opium Poppy and its dispersal from Prehistory to the end of the Iron Age (6000-50 cal BC) in Europe and Southwest Asia. This project began in 2018 with the obtaining of funding from the Fyssen Foundation (coord. A. Salavert, MNHN, France) and the Agrichange project (coord. F. Antolin, univ. Basel, Switzerland) has laid the foundation for a long-term collaborative project. Two grants have been obtained in 2022, ANR JCJC Poppy (France) and FTC DOPE (Portugal) to pursue this research. The project is based on archaeological material, as well as on a sampling of modern and historical biodiversity conserved in seed banks and herbaria. It uses multidisciplinary analyses – archaeobotany, dating techniques, genomics, geometric morphometrics (GMM), spatial analyses.

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Administrateur de base de données (développeur d’application) (F/H)

During this project, an information system (web interface and database) will be set up. It will include the interfaces of input and consultation of the database. The aim is to built the database structure allowing the storage, the follow-up, the perpetuation and the re-use of the information relating to the dispersal of the opium poppy in the past, by exploiting the data in a GIS software like QGIS.

Deadline of the application: 30/06/2022.

Location: MNHN, Paris (France).

Description: https://recrutement.mnhn.fr/offre-emploi-134.html-o=6

Update: the job is now filled. We look forward to working with Linda Angulo Lopez as of October 1, 2022 !