Rachael Hall is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

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Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

Research

Rachael is a PhD candidate in the project “Embodied Inequality: Transforming Archaeological Knowledge of State Formation, Social Disparity, and Health Inequality”. She will investigate the emergence and development of biological inequalities in ancient populations by combining novel exploratory biochemical techniques with the direct skeletal evidence of stress, disease and survivorship. 

Rachael is a member of the Leiden Open Science Community.

Curriculum vitae

Rachael received an interdisciplinary BSc from Maastricht University in 2015 focusing on physics, math and conservation science for cultural heritage. She began her career in archaeology at Leiden University, where she graduated in 2019 with an MSc specialising in Human Osteoarchaeology. Prior to starting her PhD, Rachael worked as a contract osteoarchaeologist, and as both a researcher and temporary laboratory assistant at the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology, Leiden University.

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